Stuck on starter mission - Selling energy cells

Deleted User · Post by **Deleted User** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 19:46

After arriving at the HDA Lonely Giant and selecting the "Sell Energy Cells" drop down that appears after getting close to the station i waited for over 30 mins, then I looked at the map and saw my 2nd ship just sitting 1 sector away.

I few to it, removed from squad and added it back to squad then flew back to the station - same issue - the 2nd ship stayed where it was. I reopened the map and then talked to the pilot (who was still 1 sector away) and removed and re-added it to the squad. Then it finally started travelling to me... Yay!!

Unfortunately now its just sitting next to me and not trading with the station - and i cannot tell it to trade as it says: "There are to ,many trips planned for this ship" so I cannot attempt a trade. I have no idea how to remove planed trips for the 2nd trip despite looking through all the menus I could find.

So now im stuck again

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 21:13

I have exact the same problem...

HowDoYouPurr · Post by **HowDoYouPurr** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 21:14

I have the same problem but its because the trade menu when it moves between you and the co-pilot just does not pop up at all. If if did no problem but that is where EVERYONE is getting stuck or damn close to it. Make it so that menu actually pops up and we can get past that mission. I'm not even at the sell the energy cells I cant even buy them

caleb · Post by **caleb** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 21:14

I have a similar problem, but in the 1st part of the mission, to buy the energy. I purchased the 100 energy, and the ship stays still... I did it 3 times, so it has 3 orders now, I cannot give it any more orders. The ship will simply not dock with the base to pick up the energy. I tried adding to squad, removing from squad, and the ship will still follow me wherever I go, even if not in a squad with me.

Tried quitting and reloading, docking on the ship, talking to the captain, etc. Any way to reset, or cancel the orders? I do not mind losing the 400 creds and buying again. If there is anyway to cancel orders, that may help me and the OP as well... Help?

caleb · Post by **caleb** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 21:16

HowDoYouPurr wrote:I have the same problem but its because the trade menu when it moves between you and the co-pilot just does not pop up at all. If if did no problem but that is where EVERYONE is getting stuck or damn close to it. Make it so that menu actually pops up and we can get past that mission. I'm not even at the sell the energy cells I cant even buy them

I had that problem with the screen not coming up from the console. Reloading does not fix it, but docking into a station, and launching again will fix that specific problem. At least it did for me.

rambo99 · Post by **rambo99** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 21:16

I have the same problem, already completed a bunch of side missions such as escort ships, and this with the sale of 100 containers of energy can `t, does not sell and that's it, says too many routes for the second ship.

biohazard15 · Post by **biohazard15** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 21:16

Same problem here.

HowDoYouPurr wrote:I have the same problem but its because the trade menu when it moves between you and the co-pilot just does not pop up at all. If if did no problem but that is where EVERYONE is getting stuck or damn close to it. Make it so that menu actually pops up and we can get past that mission. I'm not even at the sell the energy cells I cant even buy them

Try to exit from cockpit (Enter-5) and return via menu (again Enter-5). It could help bring menu back online, but it wouldn't fix "Too many orders" problem.

Aesran · Post by **Aesran** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 21:18

I have same issus, i try to time to sell energy cell, and the first time, it's was too trip ( but ship dont want to move ) and then here, the ship is in the sector, i say him to sell energy cell ... And he just stay here.

Exy · Post by **Exy** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 22:37

I'm also stuck on the story mission where I must deliver 100 energy cells to a station.

My transporter arrives but I cannot get it to deliver the energy cells. Also, the transporter follows me around instead of flying straight to its destination. I think that might be the cause of the problem.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 23:20

Yeah I had the same issues, but managed to get past it by reloading to an earlier save, then when

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I got to the sector where you're supposed to buy the 100 energy cells and were offered to take a generic mission while the freighter is loading, I did not accept that offer.

And then I jumped to the destination, ordered the freighter to sell those 100 cells and then just waited in that location.

It's a workaround that worked for me.

pigeonpigeon · Post by **pigeonpigeon** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 23:24

I told my freighter to buy energy cells and then went to do an escort mission, like Yisha suggested, but then I noticed that my freighter followed me to the new system instead of picking up energy cells... So I went back, told it to buy the cells, watched it finish, then flew to the next destination. I clicked on the place I'm supposed to sell to, told it to sell all its energy cells, but the freighter didn't move and the energy cells are gone....

I honestly have no idea what's going on; I expected a buggy release, but I did not expect to encounter several game breaking bugs in the tutorial (I had to start over once for something else, even earlier). Not impressed.

aegisx · Post by **aegisx** » Fri, 15. Nov 13, 23:51

Same issue here. Freighter is just sitting outside the destination system. The Captain looks like she is still set to follow me, not deliver the energy sells.

Insanitywelcome · Post by **Insanitywelcome** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 01:13

Same issue. My freighter is hanging out where it picked up the cells and won't leave. But all is good, all games have bugs, this game still is awesome!

xwolfi · Post by **xwolfi** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 01:33

My freighter can't even buy them apparently, is there anything we can do ?

swlloyd3 · Post by **swlloyd3** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 01:48

Same for me when trying to buy the energy cells..... Create the order, my freighter moves close to the station but the cells never get loaded onto the ship. Now I have 3 duplicate orders and there doesn't seem to be a way to cancel

now just stuck in space and can't continue the game!

Theodorik · Post by **Theodorik** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 01:54

swlloyd3 wrote:Same for me when trying to buy the energy cells..... Create the order, my freighter moves close to the station but the cells never get loaded onto the ship. Now I have 3 duplicate orders and there doesn't seem to be a way to cancel now just stuck in space and can't continue the game!

This happened to me now also.. I accepted the courier mission, before realising I forgot to remove my ship from my fleet.
Went back and noticed the carrier had not moved, so placed a second order and the ship moved over to the bay, but nothing loaded.
Did it a third time and it swung around 180 degrees (great clipping, but at least it didn't explode when hitting the station), and still no joy.

Having exited out, I noticed steam update the game, so will try again and hopefully it is fixed!

iliaarpad · Post by **iliaarpad** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 02:03

Same here as well. The freighter pilot is adamantly following me even tough he has 3 trade orders queued up already.

TheRealBix · Post by **TheRealBix** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 02:14

This could help some of you

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A quicksave made just before the TS comes to dock and sell his E-cells.
This is not a fix, but if you want to continue the story..

edit : sorry the syntax doesn't work properly.

SyberSmoke · Post by **SyberSmoke** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 02:15

It appears that the ship has a bad case of ADD. If you leave the area and Yisha says "Sending new Rallypoint" it interrupts things...badly. So much so that the freighter no longer registers proper cargo amounts. My freighetr has a -334k units of energy cells.

SO...the fix is, DO NOT do the extra mission. Sit there, let the freighter do it's thing, then go to the next location.

Maziou · Post by **Maziou** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 02:15

Ditto. I can buy the energy cells, but my freighter doesn't move an inch.

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