1.32 BUG - Ministry of Finance Licences - Fixed in 1.50

[Albibak]

Hello,

"minrelation" attributes are switched for "ceremonyally" and "ceremonyfriend" of Ministry of Finance in factions.xml (line 287 and 288).

It means nothing unlocks at 10 rep with them because every licence is blocked by the "minrelation" or the "precursor" attribute.

Best regards.

Albibak

[Zirial]

Just to lend my voice to this.

I just finally got to relation 10 with the ministry which wasn't easy, since they only had three stations.
After I went to the guy for the rank up I was Ministry Profiteer, which is the tier 2 rank. The problem is that I didn't get any licenses, be that military equipment or military ships and so I can't buy the police license either.

To replicate just start a new save in 1.32 and get the rank up for the ministry of finance.

[krapht]

Just adding that Egosoft is aware of the issue. Quoting from a thread regarding specifically police licence in the beta forum back from beta 1.21 But paragraph 3 suggest they are aware of it (Not sure if linking to that forum is ok, but I hope that quoting is fine)

TLDR: Teladi police licence obtainable from Ministry of Finance, currently requires +20 reputation.

For the Teladi Company the law enforcement is actually handled by the Ministry of Finance. So it is correct that the Teladi Company does not offer a police licence but Ministry does. The fact that the name of the licence is "Company Police Licence" instead of the correct "Ministry Police Licence" is an oversight that could not be corrected in time due to localisation deadlines.

Additionally there's been a mixup with the requirements for that faction - at +10 you get the Ally ceremony and at +20 you get the Friend ceremony - but of course it should have been the other way around (+10 = Friend, +20 = Ally). We're looking into fixing this soon, but need to be careful with patching.
The police licence requires you to have gone through the friend ceremony which means you need to have reached +20 reputation with Ministry to purchase it.

[rboerdijk]

fixed in 1.50 by Burnit

[Albibak]

Hello,

As for the current beta, it is only half fixed.
New saves wont experience the problem.
Old saves can now buy the police licence but are still locked out of the free licences (military ships and equipment, intermediate station modules and illegal modules).
I did a mission for them to see if a change in reputation would unlock anything but it did not.

Best regards.

Albibak

[Alan Phipps]

Passed back to the devs.