Why can't I find a base scientist?

[Josh]

I have the "Expanding the Base" mission active, went to a Korvax system, talked to everyone in the space station, and none of them were a scientist. How do I find a base scientist?

FOR PEOPLE STILL HAVING THE ISSUE:
I was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and forgot to build a science terminal. After I built it, it showed me who to talk to.

[ciullotse]

i have same problem but with vykeen terminal: do you think that i should talk with random vykeen until i get one?

[ciullotse]

for who has the same problem: i just entered a vykeen system and start talking randomly. Eventually, i found the right one

[soulguard]

Open you logs. Click on rhe quest so it is yellow check box. The icon marker should show you where it is. Usuallyit will spawn in the same system as your base.

[Yekkusu]

Well, I had the mission of artemis, need to make the thing with the scientist, I put the terminal on my base, the mission log doesn't show, and I don't know how to unlock that "Advanced Scientific Research". On version 1.3 it was easier, since you only needed to find a scientist after you get the base planner instructor or something else.
What I'm gonna try is: I'm gonna find lots of burried tech and try to unlock the terminal by the base computer, maybe I need to unlock the missions in order, but I have to say: Spent like 100 chips already. Anyway, if I find something I will explain here.

[Luriam]

Long story short: I had the same problem mainly because I kept teleporting from station to station using the actual teleporter. After about 5 different stations I decided it was time to head back home. So I teleported directly to my home base and this time, instead of heading to the space station I simply pressed M and opened the galaxy map. That's when I saw a mission marker telling me exactly where my scientist was located. All I had to do was warp there and there he was.

TLDR: don't use the station teleporter, just press M and travel to a Korvax system manually, that was the fix for me. Hope this helps :>

[Seaman]

Same issue here, i need the scientist to make glass for the mind arc, but i can’t recruit one to my terminal

[Tactical Goldfish]

Luriam님이 먼저 게시:

Long story short: I had the same problem mainly because I kept teleporting from station to station using the actual teleporter. After about 5 different stations I decided it was time to head back home. So I teleported directly to my home base and this time, instead of heading to the space station I simply pressed M and opened the galaxy map. That's when I saw a mission marker telling me exactly where my scientist was located. All I had to do was warp there and there he was.

TLDR: don't use the station teleporter, just press M and travel to a Korvax system manually, that was the fix for me. Hope this helps :>

Thank you, this did it for me. I was jumping around using the station teleporter and couldn't find him. Went back to my home base, went out into space, hit M and there was the science icon over a neighbouring system. Kudos to you.

[Luriam]

Thank you for confirming it works :>

[Zaf9670]

Adding another confirmation that it worked... I literally had 3 options for finding the base scientist. It's just like the base computer and the Space Anomoly forcing you to set it as the active quest.

[clannagh]

With most missions you have to go into the logs and make that mission active before the game will tag the correct target.

If "Scientific research - advanced scientific research" is not your active quest the scientist will sapwn but finding him will be a matter of stumbling upon him by dumb luck.

[Emissary Vex]

I went to like six korvax systems and couldn't recruit a scientist anywhere, then i finally found one. I was able to recruit someone at a trading post, not at a space station.

[odhan]

The cause of the issue is that you can build the science terminal before getting the blueprint from the overseer. I had this problem with the mind arc mission, I placed the science terminal before the construction terminal and couldn't locate the scientist.

The Fix

Place the construction terminal first, this should start the "Expanding Your Base" quest, get yourself an overseer by following this mission and start to complete the overseer missions. This will lead to the scientist mission and solve the problem with the mind arc mission.

Yet another bug to add to the already massive list. I almost think there's no QA department at Hello Games...

[Delta]

No need for the long explenations.

tl;dr
Flew to Korvax system, got a marker for trading station. First guy there offered to join my base as a scientist.

[Farflame]

Mine is in a neighbouring system (according to the quest pointer) but I don't have the ability to launch there. I don't have any quests or anything to tell me how to upgrade my ship. I'm wandering around looking for buried technology or something to help me go to warp. Am I missing something obvious?

[Gremmy]

Typically the scientist for your base is found in those rooms on the space station. Not out in the open but the tiny rooms which occasionally have npc's that give you broken multitools or send you on quests.

Doesn't matter which type of star or system you are in, the korvax will still exist in any of the space stations, just gotta look in those tiny rooms on board. You might get unlucky once or twice, but It's never taken me 3 tries to find a scientist.