[#5822] HQ asteroid disappeared in unmodded game, research is blocked.

[Oikio]

Good day,

I've stumbled upon a problem that after my 1st teleportation research I could not use it and could not choose another research. When I jumped into Heretic's end I've found out that there is no asteroid/research station in my HQ anymore. Neither in game, nor in build planner.

Game is unmodded v9.00 Linux native through Steam with all DLCs.

Link to save file: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oya9xy5m ... jpi63&dl=0


My situation looks like similar to older reports I've found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/X4Foundations/ ... _asteroid/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/392160/d ... 9483290402
viewtopic.php?t=465052

[Alan Phipps]

A lot of PHQ functions and rooms are closely linked to the S/M dock that originally came with the otherwise bare PHQ. You haven't removed, moved or had that dock somehow damaged have you?

[Oikio]

I don't think so, starter dock is still there at the same place as it was. I have only added storage on the other side of asteroid and second detached dock. But I can remember asteroid still being there when second dock was in construction.

So there are three modules in the save in HQ - original dock, second dock and storage.

[Nanook]

A lot of PHQ functions and rooms are closely linked to the S/M dock that originally came with the otherwise bare PHQ. You haven't removed, moved or had that dock somehow damaged have you?

There's nothing sacred about that dock. I usually replace it with a better one when I start building up the HQ. It's important to build a new one before removing the old one, though, since any ships docked internally or externally will disappear if you don't. With the caveat that this is for pre-9.0 games. Haven't done it in v9.0 yet.

[fennyfox]

Same issue found.
9.0
Vanilla
Terran start
Upon Saving the squid, Research is locked. Station does not appear in world.

[LightII]

A lot of PHQ functions and rooms are closely linked to the S/M dock that originally came with the otherwise bare PHQ. You haven't removed, moved or had that dock somehow damaged have you?

oh, I have replaced the dock. fortunatly I don't get any strange so far.

[Scoob]

One of the first things I do at the HQ - I usually "discover" it a little later by design - is to replace the 1M6S dock with at least one 3M6S. Never had the asteroid vanish as a result.

[Alan Phipps]

No, but if you remove/move/rotate the original S/M dock before there is another one in place then you might have no access to rooms and research whilst there is no operational one. The rock vanishing is a different matter.