Beta 5 - Offworld Launch wasn't working in quickmatch

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Played a 1v1 quickmatch last night. While playing I noticed I hadn't gotten any revenue from the several offworld launches I had queued for awhile. When I looked at the screen I noticed that the progress bar for the launch would move very quickly and then reset while never actually launching. I tried to cancel the launches and restart them but it didn't help. I just kept getting an estimated time for launch and then it would say "Retrying." See below:

 

Ever see this error before? It almost cost me the game! Fortunately the other player tanked in debt but I had to tear down my offworlds after 5 minutes of them not working at all.

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Offworld Forums Top

This happens when you don't have the money to actually buy enough resources to launch. Are you sure you had enough? You needed about $10000 inorder to launch in this situation. I see 2 big issues in this screenshot: 1. your funds is at 2K and you have no real buildings producing money so it looks like you didn't have enough money to launch for quite a while, 2: your sending oxygen when food is strictly better

Reply #2 from Offworld Forums Top

These launches had been queued for awhile. This was at the tail end of a string of 6 launches (the other 4 went through fine and then the offworlds just stopped). This screen shot is also after about 5 minutes of waiting with no launches so I had run out of cash because of it. At the time I queued it up food was over $200 and oxygen was a lot cheaper.

I thought that if you queue it up it automatically purchases the fuel when you put it in the queue. Is that not the case? If so then forget my question. I'm having trouble figuring out what is indeed a bug and what's supposed to happen in the game without any guidance out there.

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Reply #3 from Offworld Forums Top

It should just work. Do you have a replay of it saved?

Reply #4 from Offworld Forums Top

Unfortunately I do not. I don't know how to save replays.


This was the first time it's happened to me. From what you're saying it sounds like a bug.

Reply #5 from Offworld Forums Top

The replay is supposed to be in the C:\Users\Your Username\Documents\My Games\Offworld. It's the single Replay.bin file there. Unfortunately, only the last one is saved, but you can back them up manually if you need. Hopefully that won't be always the case.

It does look though, you just didn't have enough cash to launch. Are you sure 4 launches made it through? Even if at 30k profit each, it's about 120k and you don't lose nearly enough per second to run out. Did you spend the revenues to build the second offworld? Perhaps only one of them had technically failed to launch, but the game thought both of them had. 

Reply #6 from Offworld Forums Top

To the right of the oxygen you can see the two shipments that are failing to launch that were already queued. AFAIK you pay for the fuel when you queue it up to launch...not when it finally blasts off so this looks like it might be a bug. I'm sure the other 4 launches happened because i frequently use the "set it and forget it" method with offworld launches and i queued 6 up. 4 took off before it stopped working altogether.

I'll have to check to see if the replay file is available but I've played other games since then. I have, however, not played any quickmatch games since then so maybe it's still there.

Reply #7 from Offworld Forums Top

Please download and run this tool:

http://sd.stardock.com/Support/supportToolTest/SDSupportTool.exe 

This is a tool that we use to gather relevant log files and basic information about your computer.

Attach the above requested files to a ticket placed here:

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