Build: 1.7.1.1 3639 Mode: Survival Mode: Singleplayer SEED-ID: 591343 MODIFIED PLAYFIELDS: no Reproducibility: Always Severity: Major Type: Solo Missions Summary: Can't progress in Story(0) if you sell the Space Anomalies Report Description: In Solo Missions -> Story(0) -> Story Chapter 2: Crashed Birds -> The Assistant If you sell the Space Anomalies Report to an Info Hoarder before giving it to Kezzel in the Polaris Sanctuary you cannot proceed in the mission, and if you don't catch your mistake soon enough the Info Hoarder will lose the Space Anomalies Report from it's inventory so you cannot buy it back, making it impossible to proceed in the main quest until you acquire a new Space Anomalies Report somewhere else in the galaxy. Granted, it is my own fault, but I find it very frustrating as a new player on the first Solo Mission I attempted. I suggest either making the mission item something unsellable, like "Special Space Anomalies Report" or making info sold to an info hoarder never leave his inventory (since he is a hoarder, and that's what a hoarder would do! Steps to Reproduce: 1) Complete Solo Missions -> Story(0) -> Story Chapter 2: Crashed Birds -> The Appointment 2) Sell your Space Anomalies Report to an Info Hoarder 3) Leave and return later, and the report will be gone from the Info Hoarder's inventory
Thanks for reporting - although currently I cannot do a lot about it. The issue you described is basically an issue with any quest item given to the player .. when this is a "normal" item at least. Hard to circumvent that without having to introduce a "parallel" line of the same items. Will think about it, though
Maybe add a tooltip to that specific report that it is also used for this mission and if you are on this mission don't sell your last copy?
Isn't it possible to make a one-off unique item and call it something like "Kezzel's Anomalies Report"? Or name it for the doctor guy you save at the Heidelberg since it's actually him filing the report?
I remember this thought ocuring to me when I first played the missions. (I ignored the story missions until I had played about 300 hours so I wasn't new any more, but as a new player I may or may not have fallen into this trap.) But is there really a need for an info horder buyer in the starter systems? Removing the buyer might solve this problem in 99% of cases. I understand that the same kind of problem exists with later missions, but by then most players understand the game mechanics better.
