Stuck forever on waiting for drones while transferring wares

[kelmenwong]

The few times I got the issue, I cancel the trip, then I add to squad and if the "following Skunk" is not displayed, I take out of squad, use com and give him a new task or order, then clear orders and add to squad again. You could always temporary assign the ship to one of your station managers, then add to squad and clear orders as well.

the problem is, the 1st time cancel the trip, it will just come back
so, is the "cancel the trip" really worked in the 1st place?

[kelmenwong]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B79qo ... DNNeDE4SDA

DeVries » Glaring Truth » Darned Hot Air

order Titurel - Refitter transfer 9 construction drones -> Fulmekron 01
transfer seems done
but both now stuck as "waiting for drones"
their position also not aligned

all these been issued and executed remotely/ooz

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Are any mods in use in that save, or have some mods been used and are currently deactivated? Have any save game edits been done?

[XenonSurf]

What's the state of all this trouble, is there a solution for v.3.53?

After 4 monthes of play, it's the 1st time that my game is completly stucked because of this.

I did a cargo drone transfer between several ships, one being the same each time and it was a success. At all times the ships had the 'Join my Squad' and 'Follow me' command before I ordered the transfer.
Now, with the last transfer of 8 cargo drones between my Titurel and a Sahanar Container (that had 0 drones, but that's because I transfer), nothing goes anymore: In the details of the ships I see the planed trip but as said above, it cannot be canceled , if I chose Clear All nothing happens, the trip remains.
Worse, the 2 ships are useless now, they don't follow any orders and try to complete the trip, but they can't .

Because of this bug, I ask: how to edit my savegame to unstuck the ships?

[EDIT]
I think editing my savegame will not be necessary. What I did as a remedy was:

I unsquad both ships, then squad and tell to follow me the ware-sending ship. I move manually to the Highway and go out 2 zones away. I then receive the message: "I cannot complete the operation". I move back to the transfer zone. I check the details of both ships: the transfer has occured but the ware-sending ship is still stucked and you can only order him to Transfer wares. I did so with some other wares that he had onboard.

Situation solved . Can I move on now? Yes


Thanks,
XenonS

[ttheobald]

I've got a little bit to contribute - first off, one of the correlated elements: I use the 5-trip trade software, and this problem almost never happens unless I have a full 5-trip queue loaded up on a ship.

I *have* had two cases where it refused to clear on my command, no matter how many "cancel" orders I gave. Both cases were delivering silicon to the mining station in Postern Gate. These orders *eventually* cleared on their own, and I figured the drones just had to take some weird circuitous route to accomplish the job. I never trade there any more.

T

[XenonSurf]

ttheobald,
as you can see there was a hot debate about this problem. My solution just here above may not be the last word, but: in the meantime I noticed that it happens if you send ALL your drones from one ship to another; with normal wares I never saw this problem.

If you ever come in this trouble, just do what I did above, it takes a bit of time and is for sure cumbersome, but it should solve it.

XenonS

[Deleted User]

I have done some quick checks on this and the cause of this bug like behavior is this.

You issued the trade between two ships who are not visible to you.

While they are still trading, you fly over to their zone and they become visible to you. but they are already running a script designed to run when they are not visible to the player. so they stare at each other thinking when is this player going to change zone get away already.

just change zone and wait a while. you will receive a notification that they have finished trading.

i have noticed this before and it saddens me when i do trade between ships i dont see the cargolifters flying anymore.

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

There have been 3 updates to the game since this thread was last posted in 19 months ago so this necro isn't appropriate.

Please feel free to start a new Public Patch Beta or Technical Support thread containing all the info requested by the respective forum's stickies.

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