Contracts are Disappearing

[Shadow Delta]

So when I get to a new month, I've noticed that the contracts all progressively disappear as though there are a number of other contractors taking those jobs. (I'm playing on career mode, not a multiplayer game) This is odd behavior as I've gone the whole year and haven't seen this up until now. Now, what gives? It seems like a bug, but I'm not experienced enough to know any better.

[ShutEye_DK]

What's the "bug"?.
You don't take the contract, time passes and the needs are filled by other parties. As IRL.

[Tankfriend]

It's always been that way in FS22, too.
Contracts rotate through the various tasks that would happen on the respective field at any one time.

[Shadow Delta]

Originally posted by ShutEye_DK:

What's the "bug"?.
You don't take the contract, time passes and the needs are filled by other parties. As IRL.

Sorry, I'm pretty brand new to this game. When I first started contracts would appear and stay in the screen. Now, when I start a new month I go to the contracts menu, and I will literally watch them disappear within seconds, before I even have a chance to grab one. It's quite annoying.
So, that's the point of my post. Is this an intentional design? As in, there's competition from "other" contractors snagging up those jobs even though I never see them or their vehicles operating. Or is it a bug? When I searched the web I found a number of people complaining about this as if it were a bug.

[ShutEye_DK]

Oh ok, no that does not sound intentional.
What happens next month?

[Tankfriend]

Contracts can update by the hour, iirc.

[Duke Dudeston]

The obvious question is are you running any mods? As there are mods that can cause this behaviour. Also is it a default map or a mod map? If its a mod the creator might have put in that behaviour (I don't know if it is possible, but I am sure it is) but if its one of the Giants map it should pretty much be a valid contract until the end of the day/month.

normally yes when you start a new day/month the contracts will rotate throughout, I don't recall them changing during the day though, unless you have a mod that does this...

If you are playing with seasons then yes the contracts will change more often as the farmers get the fields ready for the next season so to speak, it isn't "competition" just the contract is no longer available, you can see it as the farmer decided to do it themselves in the end, however you see it really.

I don't know if there is an internal clock of how long they stay "active" for it might be a hidden timer that the game uses? I think if you are not running seasons the contracts stay regardless.

but this still seems pretty normal to me.

[Shadow Delta]

Originally posted by Duke Dudeston:

The obvious question is are you running any mods? As there are mods that can cause this behaviour. Also is it a default map or a mod map? If its a mod the creator might have put in that behaviour (I don't know if it is possible, but I am sure it is) but if its one of the Giants map it should pretty much be a valid contract until the end of the day/month.

I'm playing this straight vanilla, absolutely no mods in the equation, nor downloaded maps. (I'm currently playing the first map.)

Originally posted by If you are playing with seasons then yes the contracts will change more often as the farmers get the fields ready for the next season so to speak, it isn't "competition" just the contract is no longer available, you can see it as the farmer decided to do it themselves in the end, however you see it really.[/quote:

I wonder if this might be it? I'm not sure though. I'm also not experienced enough to know what's normal. I have yet to complete one whole year.

[VFX]

Just gonna update this topic instead of posting a new one because I'm having the exact same issue.

I'm playing on Haut Beyleron on Hard, no mods, Real Time, Seasonal Growth: Yes, and Days per month set to 1 day (so every day is a new month). When I first started the game, everything was normal, contracts would appear, I'd take and complete them and then sleep until 8 AM the next day. Things went smooth until November when I had zero contracts posted. No biggie, I thought, it's autumn, winter is coming, there's probably no work to be done. Then December comes, and January, and February. Zero contracts posted.

Then came March. My character wakes up at 8 AM as usual, I go over to the Contracts tab and there are 5 contracts waiting for me. Great, I think to myself, I'll just jump into my tractor real quick and move my honey pallet that was generated overnight to make room for a new one. I go back to the Contracts tab and lo and behold, there are no contracts. I look at the clock - 08:00 sharp.

Okay, no problem, they'll probably reappear throughout the day. So I go about my business and check for new contracts every half hour in-game. Nothing. I speed up the time. Nothing. It gets to 8 PM, still nothing, so I go to sleep and make the character wake up at 7 AM the next morning.

So now it's April, 7 AM, and I have 9 contracts waiting for me. As soon as I click on one to see what the task is, 4 contracts instantly disappear. Then the 5th. Then the 6th. In panic I click Borrow equipment on the contract I had selected, and as soon as I do that, the remaining contracts disappear. I do the contract I had accepted and no other contracts are posted throughout the day.

The same happens in May. And June. And July. And August. Contracts instantly disappear and never re-appear again, and it doesn't matter if I wake up at 5 AM, 6 AM, 7 AM, 8 AM, 9 AM.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

[VFX]

Oh, and I should mention that if I save and quit the game, then reload (even without completely closing the game), the Contracts tab will get populated with new tasks for a couple of seconds before all of the contracts disappear again. This isn't normal.

[Lord Nighthawk]

It´s not a bug. Contracts are bound to seasons and the field states, when you wake up the whole map gets updated in the first minutes of this day (you see that if it snows for example that it takes a short time to populate the map with snow) and if a field state changes a contract appears or disappears. As you have chosen 1 day per month the "window" for contracts gets limited for the engine - if a contract would have created on the 15th of a month (a day you will never see as you have chosen 1 day per month) it might already be solved on the 1st of the next month.

There is a mod out there called better contracts, you can manually update the contracts with this mod so it also shows you contracts you would have never seen with 1 day per month.

[Yomi]

I havn't played in quite some time. This issue is still not fixed? After all this time.

Contracts started disappearing after one of the earlier updates after game launch. You could sit on contract window after 00:00 and watch them disappear one by one till you had none or just few harwest. Vanila, no mods, base game map, 3 day season and time 1x during and after 00:00.

There were few updates over time but none of them worked. Even clean install with wiping all the local user data and fresh game start didn't help.

[grandkodiak]

same issue... i was doign just contracts as my 3 begginer fields grew, doing 2 days a month real time speed, contracts where always there and stayed as i took them, finish 3 take 3 more, built up to have 3 tractors so i do 1 and have ai do the other 2 and starting making good money. once i got to january, i noticed as soon as i "woke up" in the new day, the contract list would have lots of contracts and within a second or 2, every top dollar one dissipeared, then trickled down within 5-10 seconds to nothing over 2 or 3 thousand. completely killed the start from scratch vibe. tried saving and resetting, contracts are now useless. if you immediately pause when the day starts and go to the contracts there are tons, as soon as u unpause and go back in the already start going away pronto can barely snag 1 or 2 good ones until they are all gone and left w only a hand full of very low dollar work. even after finishing some, very few new contracts appear. very frustrating. im now in april and this new contract killing thing is still going strong. at some point im just going to have to cheat to get money... i guess most players dont care but i loved building up from scratch, now its going to suck all the accomplishment out of it. and i understand that maybe the contracts get squeezed because of the days per month option, but id say it worked fine for hte first almost 10-15 hours of the game play and almost half a year until all of the sudden the behavior completely changed despite all the same settings.

running no mods* except the dlc's platinum pack and agi pack which i thought where both from the game producder and not really 3rd party "mods"?

[VFX]

Originally posted by Lord Nighthawk:

It´s not a bug. Contracts are bound to seasons and the field states, when you wake up the whole map gets updated in the first minutes of this day (you see that if it snows for example that it takes a short time to populate the map with snow) and if a field state changes a contract appears or disappears. As you have chosen 1 day per month the "window" for contracts gets limited for the engine - if a contract would have created on the 15th of a month (a day you will never see as you have chosen 1 day per month) it might already be solved on the 1st of the next month.

There is a mod out there called better contracts, you can manually update the contracts with this mod so it also shows you contracts you would have never seen with 1 day per month.

Was hoping to play without mods, but I guess this is unavoidable. Shame, really.

[cheiften98]

Originally posted by Lord Nighthawk:

It´s not a bug. Contracts are bound to seasons and the field states, when you wake up the whole map gets updated in the first minutes of this day (you see that if it snows for example that it takes a short time to populate the map with snow) and if a field state changes a contract appears or disappears. As you have chosen 1 day per month the "window" for contracts gets limited for the engine - if a contract would have created on the 15th of a month (a day you will never see as you have chosen 1 day per month) it might already be solved on the 1st of the next month.

There is a mod out there called better contracts, you can manually update the contracts with this mod so it also shows you contracts you would have never seen with 1 day per month.

I just installed better contracts and its just gone into the next month and the contracts appear for a split second then disappear. I mash x for new contracts and contracts will flash up but nothing stays. Is this a bug with the mod? i really dont get why its doing that. I check the see how much seeds are and by the time i check the contract its gone.

It is January going in to February. possibly thats it?

[Randy]

Originally posted by cheiften98:

I just installed better contracts and its just gone into the next month and the contracts appear for a split second then disappear. I mash x for new contracts and contracts will flash up but nothing stays. Is this a bug with the mod? i really dont get why its doing that. I check the see how much seeds are and by the time i check the contract its gone.

It is January going in to February. possibly thats it?

Use better contracts with no issues. Make sure you have the latest version tho.
You CAN get it where some contracts with vanish when you accept it, but from what ive seen on our server its mostly because its an "old" contract and the field state has changed to something else than what the contract offer.