Surviving Mars - Asteriod lander can't take off due payload request

[aleksp]

Description
Asteriod lander can't take off due payload request


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1007783

Do you have Space Race installed?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Asteroid lander remains stuck on asteroid if there is not enough resources to fill request.
I got 4 exotic minerals and because increment is at 5 rocket can't take off. If I unload them then trip was for naught because they are lost on takeoff.
Is there way to manually force launch? Or to set increment from 5 to 1 to accurately set payload request?

Can you replicate the issue?
Attached save game file.

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[Mauer]

IMO the return to Mars button should simply launch the rocket with whatever it has inside plus drones, I hate having to leave 4 minerals/rare metals behind because of this design, specially in the early game.

EDIT: after some testing, it seems if you leave the higher request number you get as many resources as are loaded, e.g. 17/20 when the asteroid timer runs out as your rocket auto-launches with all it has inside if it has enough fuel, but you have to wait for the asteroid to pass.

 

[aleksp]

IMO the return to Mars button should simply launch the rocket with whatever it has inside plus drones, I hate having to leave 4 minerals/rare metals behind because of this design, specially in the early game.

EDIT: after some testing, it seems if you leave the higher request number you get as many resources as are loaded, e.g. 17/20 when the asteroid timer runs out as your rocket auto-launches with all it has inside if it has enough fuel, but you have to wait for the asteroid to pass.

What settings did you set on lander? It had more than enough fuel. Because no matter what I did it was lost when asteroid flew away. If I use auto load it throws out all resources I mined or salvaged making trip loss. It accepted 5 polymers but ex. crystal, rare metal and others it tried constantly to unload . If I manually set payload it waits and waits until it flys away forewer.

 

[xamdam]

Same here. With auto, even if I select (thumbs up) everything, it only takes excess fuel as far as I have seen, and leaves everything else on the asteroid and leaves, so I loose valuable stuff. With manual, I can only select in increments of 5, so I loose valuable stuff: if I mine less than 5 exotic materials, I have to leave them behind. Also, my asteroid landers never auto-launch when the asteroid time passes. I just loose them.

 

[Mauer]

Also, my asteroid landers never auto-launch when the asteroid time passes. I just loose them.

Yeah, they were auto-launching for me before, but now they don't and I lost a lander, not sure if I did something different. Thankfully they've confirmed they're changing the request counter to 1 resource increments in the hotfix.

 

[DashLikeman]

Description
Asteriod lander can't take off due payload request


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1007783

Do you have Space Race installed?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Asteroid lander remains stuck on asteroid if there is not enough resources to fill request.
I got 4 exotic minerals and because increment is at 5 rocket can't take off. If I unload them then trip was for naught because they are lost on takeoff.
Is there way to manually force launch? Or to set increment from 5 to 1 to accurately set payload request?

Can you replicate the issue?
Attached save game file.

Attachments
File(s) attached

I encountered this problem when I have Rovers. They load, but the rocket thinks they are loading. If I try to unload them, they don't reappear. To salvage my rocket, I had to abandon everything.

 

[amunkelw]

I've even had this happen to me when I've wanted to lift a rocket up with no payload and there haven't been goods to unload - asteroid landers are weird right now.

I've got a save game if it'll be of any help.

 

[Marak55]

Description
Asteriod lander can't take off due payload request


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1007783

Do you have Space Race installed?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Asteroid lander remains stuck on asteroid if there is not enough resources to fill request.
I got 4 exotic minerals and because increment is at 5 rocket can't take off. If I unload them then trip was for naught because they are lost on takeoff.
Is there way to manually force launch? Or to set increment from 5 to 1 to accurately set payload request?

Can you replicate the issue?
Attached save game file.

Attachments
File(s) attached

I am having the EXACT same issue!! Also after a few attempts to get the payload off the rocket with the drones it stops unloading or loading all together? As you mentioned it does resources at 5, so if you have 1, 2, 3 or 4 items you can never leave the asteroid... The first one I ever went to had only 3 exotic minerals and that was the end of the mission, nothing I could do would allow me to leave because once you set the pre-launch requirements (even though it says you can change it at any time) it is set in stone. It is either waiting to load or unload the amount less than 5... mission over!

 

[Rocketman7771]

Just hit the little rocket symbol in the top right. Everything is in there and ready. You just have to manually launch it and the colonist and everything else will load. Its bugged and wont take off on its own. Works for Rockets and Asteroid landers. Hope that helps...

 

[aleksp]

Just hit the little rocket symbol in the top right. Everything is in there and ready. You just have to manually launch it and the colonist and everything else will load. Its bugged and wont take off on its own. Works for Rockets and Asteroid landers. Hope that helps...

Buddy check dates when messages were posted.
Since September they patched and resolved this issue long ago.

 

[Rocketman7771]

Patched lol. It still does the same thing. Doesn't mater how much they patch. a lot of people still have issues even with the patch my self included. Mine is not patched and i figure it out on my own. Kind of sad you don't know how without patch.

 

[Rocketman7771]

Buddy check dates when messages were posted.
Since September they patched and resolved this issue long a

They never fixed anything. I have latest version and it does the same thing until i fixed myself. Even with passengers trying to board the lander. So many bugs that's why i borrow game from friend instead of waist my money buying a game that's broken know mater what fix they release. I fixed all the crashing on my own. Even the resources on asteroid you cant get. Programing is fun... Next time you figure it out on your own. My game works great now even with nod and all the dlc hahaha.