[1.0.0 9b5a] Sublight Exploration Probe event chain can't be completed

[Daddl]

I got the event to search for five Sublight Exploration Probes and recover at least 4 of them. The initial five events all showed up and pointed me to the systems I had to search in. However, in two of these systems, upon arrival an event text-occured, but the sub-event vanished and there was nothing inside the systems. I recovered the 3 probes (two by simply picking them up, one bought from the "pirates"). After doing that, these two sub-events you see in the screenshot showed up. If you activate tracking, it blinks in the middle of the galactic core.

There is no way to know what I have to do for the last two ones, if I even can do anything.

 

[kelindel]

I had the same thing happen to me. unfortunate

 

[Onisuzume]

Same problem here, with two probes pointing to galactic centre.
Don't see a console command to fix it either.

 

[Turmoil]

Mine got stuck too.

I had to get 4 probes and the first 3 weren't a problem.

The last one was "towed" from the system I was told to go to. I followed it and there were the space salvagers that had it and wanted 100 credits for it and the only option I had was to demand they give it to me. That lead to a fight. I was in my science ship, so I retreated and sent my fleet in to battle them and after I beat them there was a message about the probe, but I never got it and there was no way to finish that quest.

 

[Tenumen]

I had a similar issue too. One of my probes was grabbed by a Void Cloud so I left that a while before going back to kill the cloud. When I did kill the cloud, the probe ended up just sitting there there but it wouldn't activate anything. I tried sending a science ship to it but nothing I can do will kick off that last event.

 

[Duraphugo]

I had a similar issue too. One of my probes was grabbed by a Void Cloud so I left that a while before going back to kill the cloud. When I did kill the cloud, the probe ended up just sitting there there but it wouldn't activate anything. I tried sending a science ship to it but nothing I can do will kick off that last event.

Exact same thing happened to me. Probe, void cloud, weak fleet, returned later, probe broken.

 

[alphasam]

Amusingly in mine I didn't have to wait as an amoeba attacked the void cloud and did enough damage so I could kill it with my fleet. Still hung for a long while though with no completion. Not sure what happened but eventually the completion event fired.

 

[Gyumaou]

Same issue here. Unable to complete after recovering 2/4. First one was the crazed AI which got destroyed by passing Space Amoeba when I entered the system, and the second one was towed by the scrappers. I defeated them but am unable to interact with the probe object. The tracker shows it's location as in the middle of the galaxy, however the probe is actually in the system it was supposed to be in but cannot be interacted with. See second screenshot

 

[+Celador+]

Bumping to let the dev's know that the issue still exists in 1.0.2

Just got this even chain. Recovered 2 probes, the other 2 probes disappeared from list due to being destroyed or something. Now the last point appears in the centre of the galaxy.

 

[Obidobi]

Hello everyone!

Thanks for the reports, I have done some internal testing on this event chain. And I have experienced the problem you all seem to be having, but more often than not the event chain works as intended. But I have reported that it doesn't always work and hopefully the scripters find the issue

Thanks!

 

[Nikolaz72]

;_;

That's all I can say. Its so sad that the last probe can't be recovered, I didn't even leave the Void Cloud for later I came as soon as I saw it and it still wouldn't recover it.

 

[SolarGuy]

I only experienced two issues with this (1.0.2., no mods):
1.) The probe that got caught by the Void Cloud stayed there after I killed the cloud. The event for retrieving it fired, so I had no problems. But for some reason, the graphics of the probe + its name stayed at that place forever.
2.) One of the probes (the last one) sat inside the territory of a neighbouring empire, so I couldn't get to it. But for some reason, after I retrieved the Void Cloud Probe (which was the next-to-last probe) the completion event for the neighbour-probe started as well, completing the event chain without having me do anything about the last probe. Maybe it's just an error with my neighbour having destroyed whatever as caught that last probe, making it count as completed.

 

[mulrich]

I can't complete it either. I got the subspace anomaly, but it was too strong for my fleet so I retreated. The anomaly wound up in another empire's space, and before I could ally myself with them, they apparently destroyed it, leaving me at 3/4 probes recovered. (Note that this game was started after 1.0.3 [48f6] was released and installed.)

 

[EPAstor]

I can confirm that the problem with retrieving the Void Cloud probe is still present in v1.0.3 - immediately after killing the Void Cloud, the below items appeared (the labeled Probe and the unlabeled debris) with no interaction available. See screenshot below, and I can also post a save file if it would help!

 

[Kepheren]

Yup. I had the same problem. Killed the cloud and the last probe just sort of sits there taunting me. Guess I don't have to post a new thread for this after all.

 

[nikagra]

I have same problem (1.0.3). Another strange thing with this probe is that you can select it (left click) and information window is shown describing it. But I can't close this window (like you normally close windows by clicking close button on the top right corner). The window can be closed by selecting some another object

Edit: attaching screenshot