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Juts

Bug/PSA - Do not use stolen ships, Cargo will reset

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Just a heads up. I stole a pirate ship, registered it, and then upgraded it to class C. I used it for a good while without having an issue.

I then did some in game waiting to sell some things and after a few days of that my cargo reset, my ship renamed and unregistered itself, and I lost everything without realizing for several hours of gameplay after.

Ownership is not being set correctly by the game. I just reloaded an old save, renamed the ship, swapped back and forth, and then waited 5 or 6 in game days. The cargo deleted itself again.

Stolen ships are not usable/safe and will delete your cargo.

Posted Sep 8, 2023, 7:47 PM UTC

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HighSpeedLowDragAss•

That's a weird bug.

I've only used stolen ships in my ~50 hours of gameplay and have not lost my cargo.

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JutsOP•

Try to test it out? Could just be random or only with some ships.

Leave the ship, go into a city, find a chair and sit for 5 or 6 days. See if your cargo poofs.

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Justin-Stutzman•

I boarded and took a Spacer Vulture 3. Had a huge reactor so I turned it into my battleship. Few in game days go by. It's now called UC Cargo A and has 0 cargo. I did modify the cargo modules so maybe that is why??

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JutsOP•

Selling it and buying it back fixed the ownership/flags on the cargo for me to make it not reset ever few in game days. I quit playing though, I kept running into too many extremely frustrating bugs like this. I'll just play it in a year when the community can more effectively finish the game.

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FlyingDragoon•

Has nothing to do with modifying cargo in ship buolder. I'm finding that it only occurs after I make a manual save.

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JutsOP•

For added detail, the ship I had was initially a "Crimson Fleet Reaper"

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HighSpeedLowDragAss•

I'll have a go when I get the chance.

I've been using a big, ugly ship that I stole from the Ecliptics very early on in the game as my main ship. Don't recall what it was called originally.

It's kept its 'Amalgam' name for like ~40 hours of gameplay.

I did have a ship that I was not using change its name randomly though.
That one was a bit of a weird one.

I captured a Crimson Fleet Wight and kept it in my collection for a while (did not fly it or change anything about it).

At some point, it changed names to 'UC Hauler' or something to that effect.

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truditu•

For added detail, the ship I had was initially a "Crimson Fleet Reaper" and when it renamed itself, it changed to a "UC Navy A Cargo"

Pretty much exactly what happened to me... Even the same name. Right before it happened the ship was acting weird. I docked at a station and when i tried to get back to it it was just gone. I was stuck floating in space. I reloaded and changed my home ship. When i changed back to it the name was changed and cargo was gone.

I think you're right about ownership. The ship seems to go back to it's initial faction and leaves without you. What you get is probably a copy.

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webbedgiant•

OP you figure this out? My whole cargos gone

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JutsOP•

I had to lose a day of progress and load an old save. Then I tested it by waiting 6 days and saw my cargo disappare.

Selling and re-buying my ship fixed the bug.

If you dont care about achievements or use the mod to re-enable them you can run this in console to make it so you can sell your ship at full value.

SetGS fVendorSellPriceMult 1.0

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webbedgiant•

Sold mine and it didn't help unfortunately

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mrmikedude100•

How do I un-do this command?

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JutsOP•

its not permanent so you can just restart the game. Or you can set it back to the default

SetGS fVendorSellPriceMult 0.125

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jaybird210•

some thing happened to me

i took over a pirate ship that had attacked me, after disabling it and clearing the occupants. set it as new home ship, paid to have it registered, then after a few hours of game play, got renamed to "US Navy A Cargo" and then eventually the cargo disappeared.

i loaded back to a previous save, where the name had changed but still had cargo, so i took everything, stored it in the lodge. after i get some outpost built out, i'll swap back to this ship and see if it happens again.

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sleeper_agents•

So I have this same experience. My ship was renamed as well (Varunn's Hymn to Eclipse Combat 01).

It may have also bugged out all my other ships. Any change I make to any ship from that point on makes my ships inaccessible, and all my other ships, except for the "Eclipse Combat 01" ship, nobody else can board (I can assign crew in the ship menu, but my crew never actually goes to the ship and just stay where they are).

Staying away from stealing ships for now on my NG+.

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NegimaSonic•

Yeah I think I'm another victim of this. Although it seems slightly different for everyone.

My symptoms:

  • ship has been unregistered and renamed "Pirate Ship"
  • cargo has vanished entirely
  • if I attempt to modify the ship again there is a chance that it goes invisible. Currently landed at Neon but I have gone to New Atlantis and my outpost on Tau Ceti VIII-B to similar results.
  • most times if it does go invisible I can no longer fast travel to it, and if I do manage to do so, the interior of the ship is invisible. Reaching the pilot chair did not allow takeoff.
  • I cannot assign existing crew. I tested buying someone new and could assign them but I can't move Vasco, Sarah, or Andreja. I have Sam Coe but he's just a passenger as I had yet to continue his quest.
  • There was no significant storyline progress made. The quests that have been completed between my level 28 and 39 save is only "The Boot". Also "Sickbed" and "Equipment Malfunction" but I do feel they are both likely radiant quests (sickbed does not actually contain flavor text).

I was willing to let the cargo stuff go but I worry that the crew stuff will bite me later. I'd wonder if progressing the story to make Sam official could be a resolution but I don't want to spend more time on this for a "maybe".

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Natpro24•

I have this same bug I had all my resources on my ship. I'm livid.

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NegimaSonic•

I was incredibly frustrated myself. But I've tried to make peace with my options. I hope they are able to come out with a bugfix for these issues but I imagine I'll be leveled up again before they do. It'll just be nice to spare others from the pain.

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Natpro24•

I just loaded my save before the ship changed and have to be careful with my ship. I just make sure the name doesn't change and I try to save frequently. It's the 4th time I had to lose progress due to a game breaking bug. I'll just work on saving enough credits to buy a ship instead of using a stolen ship.

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NegimaSonic•

Sounds like a similar plan. May we both never be caught off guard by this bug again.

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Intelligent_Visit492•

My cargo isn’t resetting but the same name change happened. Every 3 days every single item in my ship will duplicate into my cargo. Not the cargo itself, the misc stuff laying around the ship that comes with the hab modules. If I don’t jettison or sell my ship gets loaded to over 3000kg after a week.

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AscendedAncient•

The misc stuff happens when you go into ship builder and change something.

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