Surviving Mars - Rockets and Landers vanishing.

[Mazdek]

Description
Rockets and Landers vanishing.


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1010784

What DLC do you have installed?
Space Race, Green Planet, Below and Beyond, Marsvision Song Contest, Colony Design Set, Project Laika, In-Dome Buildings Pack

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
First to go missing: The free asteroid lander for being a Space Miner. I didn't land it in the early game, since there were no passengers aboard I thought I could leave it in orbit until I was ready for it. I am pretty sure I've done that before and it stayed up there 'til called for. I included a screenshot of the Transportation control room page. It doesn't show my regular rockets, but it does show the missing lander (unnamed) and the one I had to buy.

Second and third: Passenger rockets. I fill them up with people and hit launch... but no rocket shows up pinned on the surface map. I'm pretty sure part of the game acknowledges the launch because the people are missing... both rockets were mostly scientists and now the applicant pool has only a couple available now under the same filters.

Can you replicate the issue?
Unfortunately yes, thats what prompted the bug report instead of just thinking I was losing my mind.


File(s) attached

 

[Mazdek]

Aha, I think I figured part of the problem out. The rockets page says I have 4 rockets, but I don't know why I have that many. I should have only 2. Maybe it is counting the two asteroid landers (one of which is still lost in space), so if I have the two that work on the map doing something, whenever it tries to allocate a new rocket to take passengers, it fails out but still takes the people out of the list.

 

[AG_MarkPittam]

@Mazdek

Thank you for your report, I am investigating this issue, from what I can tell is that another Asteroid Lander (AL) doesn't have a name but is present on the map somewhere.

All attempts to reproduce it in a game not using mods have not been successful.

There is a mod that is attempting to use an undefined global and that might be causing an issue.

[LUA ERROR] Attempt to use an undefined global 'g_UEAImodEnabled'
CommonLua/Classes/Mod.lua(904): metamethod __index
PackedMods/2638186073/Code/UEAI_1Init.lua(254):  <>
        --- end of stack

 

[Mazdek]

Thank you for looking into it! That unnamed lander is the one that you get free for being a Space Miner as a commander profile. It disappeared from orbit at some point, I thought because I didn't land it soon enough. I'll try to see what mod it is, sorry to have made a report about a mod issue.

Slightly related, you might want to look at the code that names that free lander. So far I've chosen Space Miner a few times (trying to get the Job's Done achievement) and the free lander is always named "table #1". Lowercase t. Not only is that a silly name for a rocket, but I think its a typo in the code when it is trying to choose a name from a table.

 

[AG_MarkPittam]

Thanks for the update and there is no need to apologise about the mod issue. Looking at your save-game, I see there are a couple of mods for AI, Career AI and Underground Elevator AI. If I hazard a guess from the codename UEAI is the underground AI mod.

I'll take a good look at the Space Miner profile, I don't recall ever seeing it being named "table #1" though

 

[AG_MarkPittam]

@Mazdek Do you know at which point you landed the AL? I have left it up in orbit for over 50 sols with no issues.

Regarding the name, the rockets are randomly named from a predefined list, it is possible the name "table" is present in that list

 

[Mazdek]

Thats the thing, I never landed it. I left the starting AL in orbit until I was ready to start working on asteroids, had a pad for it, etc. Thats when I noticed that it was missing. It was still showing up on that control room Transportation page, with no name. I suspect it was the phantom rocket that was stealing my new recruits.