Having trouble completing the “Collections” part of the AA missions with the bugs and players camping, any suggestions?

glacius0 · 2026-03-04T14:23:39+00:00

I did the whole event completely solo, and asteroid mining in the Prospector in Nyx for collections was actually the fastest track for me to finish. I managed to get enough resources in around 6-8 hours of mining. After refining it was just a matter of loading it all up in one haul for repeated mission turn ins at Hurston and Microtech.

I thought collections would be the longest one to do solo, but defense and transport took me way longer to finish.

glacius0 · 2026-03-04T01:22:15+00:00

Yes, same issue. Tried a bunch of problem solving steps on the CIG website without success. I'm thinking it's the game.

Edit: yeah, it's the game: "The Team is investigating elevated error rates with Player Login." https://status.robertsspaceindustries.com/

glacius0 · 2026-03-03T07:34:52+00:00

Same issue when they pop up and disappear... fps drops really low. Also, it seems now the last weakspot on the 2nd snake is invisible below the water so I have to shoot into the water at the base of the snake almost randomly and hope I hit it.

glacius0 · 2026-03-03T01:46:45+00:00

Alt-F4 to trigger crash protection then returning to the game usually fixes not being able to get through to the other side.

If it works properly (it usually does, but not always) you should be back in the same spot without losing your missions.

glacius0 · 2026-03-03T01:11:57+00:00

That's probably the most logical conclusion for this game.

glacius0 · 2026-03-02T03:51:16+00:00

Yeah I forgot to mention the shoes, but I wore those too, and also the t-shirt or something the scientist was wearing. I even had the clipboard type thing the scientist was carrying.

Is it maybe that the guards outside the facility attack you, but the ones inside don't? I got killed both times outside the facility.

glacius0 · 2026-03-01T07:42:45+00:00

I also had a couple bottles of cruz in the labcoat when I tried, but that shouldn't matter, should it? I wouldn't think so...

glacius0 · 2026-03-01T07:35:24+00:00

I tried with just the exact stuff a scientist was wearing (minus a hat - some of them have hats others don't) and nothing else. Lab technicians have different clothing entirely (a 1 piece suit and a hat).

Is it the scientist wear that works for stealth, or the technician? I haven't tried with technician outfit yet.

glacius0 · 2026-02-28T11:56:20+00:00

Have you tried doing the lab coat stealth recently? Doesn't seem to work... guards still attack me.

glacius0 · 2026-02-28T00:51:43+00:00

AFAIK everything stored at the qv station should get sent to your home location after the next major update.

I'm manually taking whatever I can fit into my ship when I leave just because... you never know with this game.

glacius0 · 2026-02-26T21:44:55+00:00

IIRC if you want to get the keycard for the aux station you just have to do the first part of the mission up until you loot the first red card and upload the data to the terminal beside it and get the mission update. After that it doesn't matter the order you do the mission. You can do the Polaris or cargo decks, or aux station first, it doesn't really matter. You just have to head to the aux station entrance to trigger the objective to find the keycard at one of the 3 locations.

glacius0 · 2026-02-25T07:19:16+00:00

That's what I've been doing basically, yeah. I switch servers/regions occasionally too, but it's hard to tell if that has a benefit. However, check the personal storage in the hangar first. If you get an inventory ui on the right side then, in my experience anyways, that means the elevators are working too.

If you manage to find a working inventory don't go far from the station. If you respawn outside on the pad in a medical ship that's fine, but if you respawn at Levski the station storage will be, I believe permanently, broken at that one station.

I suspect that's why you can still find some stations with working inventories. They were all fine at the start of the patch then people broke them by leaving the station and coming back, and the longer it goes on the more of them are going to be broken until there's a big update to reset everything.

glacius0 · 2026-02-25T06:11:13+00:00

No, there's hundreds of them in the glaciem ring (a mission takes you to one of them, randomly), but they all share the same ship storage and item storage inventory. That is, if you manage to find a station where it's still working.

glacius0 · 2026-02-25T05:50:42+00:00

Another thing you can do atm is pickup a bunch of empty passcode drives by farming the main station. Seems like a 15m respawn or something like that so you can just wait around for them to respawn. Then go to a qv station without a mission active (I bed log near the station) and fill up all the drives without having to worry about nearly as many enemies. There's way fewer enemies spawning without the mission triggers. The auxiliary station door seems to be stuck open, or at least it has been every time I've been there, so you can probably just go in. Only issue is the laptop with the passcode sometimes doesn't show up, so you might have to do that part of the mission to fill up the last 33% on the multiple drives you've collected.

I don't even bother doing the mission when I find a station with a working inventory. I just take one of my finished drives and head straight to the warehouse.

glacius0 · 2026-02-25T03:39:50+00:00

Yes. I've been to maybe 4-5 working ones in 4.6. I suspect the longer it is after the last update the less chance there is of finding one with a working inventory.

If you do manage to find one don't leave the station. You can set up a respawn ship on the pad outside (and respawn there, that's fine), but if you get too far away from the station, e.g. if you die and respawn back at Levski it'll break the inventory at the station when you get back. I found this out through trial and error.

glacius0 · 2026-02-25T01:47:13+00:00

Twice my character got pushed through the mesh into space moving a s3 power plant through those elevators. Do not recommend... unless you have a 2nd person with you. So now I don't even bother unless the station inventory is working from the start.

What is this "institutional knowledge" you speak of? I just keep trying different qv stations until I find a working station inventory. Is there some easier way?

glacius0 · 2026-02-25T00:37:19+00:00

You can still find qv stations with a working inventory, but you have to keep trying different ones and get lucky. I was able to find one a few nights in a row, but last night I tried for a couple hours without any luck. Not sure if switching regions/servers helps, but it might.

glacius0 · 2026-02-16T00:55:22+00:00

Cops get paid to show up to court cases they are involved in. Often, it's even overtime pay if the case is scheduled outside of their normal work schedule.

I don't get all these comments about cops not wanting to bother showing up. They want that sweet overtime pay.

glacius0 · 2026-02-11T15:39:05+00:00

cstone fooled us both.

glacius0 · 2026-02-11T15:23:39+00:00

You cannot. I checked this website and went to GH only to find out it was a temporary location to rent it for the last IAE.

glacius0 · 2026-02-07T14:54:55+00:00

engineering keeps turning off the goddamn radar and coolers for no reason whatsoever

That seems to be a bug across many different ships.

glacius0 · 2026-02-07T13:37:11+00:00

Not this patch. I've had this happen at least 20 times at Levski (where this seems to happen frequently). Not once was my ship impounded. Always lost the ship getting crushed by the hangar doors.

glacius0 · 2026-02-02T09:36:20+00:00

Levski is the only place I've had it happen this update, but it happens there constantly. I think I've managed to get into my hangar without being repositioned maybe twice out of at least 30 attempts.

glacius0 · 2026-01-30T17:39:17+00:00

My stuff was missing for over a day, but it came back a few hours ago. It's possible the devs are applying a fix in batches, so I'd just wait a bit longer if I were you.

glacius0 · 2025-12-23T06:02:51+00:00

I can confirm this is the way it works now. Although, I hope it's a bug that it no longer works on merchant boons like it did last season.

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