Lost Epic Freighter Base when buying new Freighter

[MechWarden]

So, here's the details.
I'm doing a Permadeath run and wanting to focus on just having a Freighter base. I spent several days getting an income source on my starting freighter and finished the last of the tedious grind last night. Today I get warped around by the Nexus, I run into a capital ship that needs help, I help, it is a C Class freighter with 27 slots (no big deal, I'll upgrade as I go).

I buy the freighter, the game auto saves upon sale, being Permadeath there is only one save slot, and I look to the door, expecting to see my epic base... and it is the starting crap the thing had from the start. I lost 2 freebie rooms I didn't have the schematic for, I lost a 160 room farm, and all the time and resources invested into it (no, base cache has nothing). The game did not transfer my base over!

Before I send a restrained rant to Zen Desk, has anyone else had this issue, where the game does not transfer your base. Or maybe it does but I need to like reboot or something.

[Dirak2012]

Yes, currently the base is not transferring.

[SaD-82]

If you have a manual save from before this happening (with your old base intact), you can call yourself lucky and save your time spend.

Other than that:
There are people who state that if you leave at least one thing in your freighter inventory upon trading in for a new one, you will receive the message box in which you're asked if you want to have your base taken to the new freighter.
Might be worth a try.

[wkitty42]

if you still have the save before you got the freighter, reload it and this time, when you get the freighter, leave something behind in its inventory... 1x carbon works... then the "transfer your base" dialog will come up... i've reported this bug and ""work around"" to the zendesk after numerous others have confirmed it works... i suggest everyone running into it report it, too... https://hellogames.zendesk.com/

[Wizard of Woz]

Do you guys not know how to read? He only has one save.

[MechWarden]

Permadeath: Only one save slot, and the game auto saves upon sale.
There was no reverting back unless I did some sketchy Steam Cloud manipulation at the time or I was prepared to backup save files (which defeats the point of Permadeath).

Otherwise I would have reverted back well before ranting here.

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

Yes, currently the base is not transferring.

Why the hell haven't I heard anyone pitch a fit about this by the NMS YTers I watch?! That is a big deal, especially for an update that is focused on freighters.

Originally posted by SaD-82:

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There are people who state that if you leave at least one thing in your freighter inventory upon trading in for a new one, you will receive the message box in which you're asked if you want to have your base taken to the new freighter.
Might be worth a try.

I'll give it a try, maybe, but I doubt it will work. There are different pre-existing parts on the ship, which is how I got two things (a scanner and a character customizer) right off the bat without needing to spend for the schematics.

I'll post on the ZenDesk when I'm less ticked off and hurt. That was 20 hours worth of hard grinding, gone; made worse by the fact that some stations either didn't have the stuff I wanted, ships glitched by not showing up, or that high economy places don't have the thousands of pooled resources they used to have. At least I got a couple harvests in and the freighter I bought didn't break the bank.

I feel like I died and lost most of my Permadeath progress.

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Do you guys not know how to read?

Do you not know how to think?
I did permadeath runs - and I had more than one save.
Why?
Because you have to be weird/masochistic to not make backups in NMS-permadeath runs.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by SaD-82:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Do you guys not know how to read?

Do you not know how to think?
I did permadeath runs - and I had more than one save.
Why?
Because you have to be weird/masochistic to not make backups in NMS-permadeath runs.

He meant in game, which they are correct on. You are talking about file backups, which one should not have to do for a game that has been out for 6 years. Early on, yeah, buggy mess, and you're asking for pain otherwise; and wouldn't have dreamed of doing one.

After hundreds of hours on Survival, doing Expedition #7 with the minimum required deaths, and seeing a fairly stable game, I thought it was safe... Only to get gut punched and curb-stomped in one swift action.

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Look, I'm continuing on and reporting this after awhile. But let's not argue over terms. I want to know how common this is so I can better report this.

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

I thought it was safe... Only to get gut punched and curb-stomped in one swift action.

Yeah, NMS is good on that.

As of how common that is: Judging by some threads there are quite many people with the same problem. And up until now I didn't see anyone who didn't had this problem (besides solving it by this 1-thing-in-inventory-workaround). Which makes it fairly safe to assume that it's a general problem for all.

[Vin]

rofl it just happened to me. moved to Korvax Venator S Class and base didnt transfer.........
all those reloads for nothing......

Edit: confirmed. you need to leave atleast 1 non tech item in so you get the transfer items dialog which will also give you the transfer base.

wow HG fix that please.

[MechWarden]

I used my Ep #8 save file and can confirm that leaving items in the old freighter inventory does trigger a warning message about left behind items (asking if you want to transfer), and then (upon saying Yes, like most people) it will ask if you want to move the freighter base.

So, being a tad careful cost me my base.

To be fair, I can see how this bug slipped through the gap, even for people that have regularly played.

Time to write up my report.

Originally posted by wkitty42:

if you still have the save before you got the freighter, reload it and this time, when you get the freighter, leave something behind in its inventory... 1x carbon works... then the "transfer your base" dialog will come up... i've reported this bug and ""work around"" to the zendesk after numerous others have confirmed it works... i suggest everyone running into it report it, too... https://hellogames.zendesk.com/

Btw, thanks for the link.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Do you guys not know how to read? He only has one save.

NO you have two saves.. You have an auto save and a manual save. Permadeath does not change this.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Do you guys not know how to read? He only has one save.

NO you have two saves.. You have an auto save and a manual save. Permadeath does not change this.

You want to argue about something I've been looking at regularly for the past few days?
Do you need a screenshot?

Permadeath currently does not have two accessible slots. I only have one save, and that is the more recent of the Auto Save or Manual Save.

I don't know if or when it changed, but it is acutely evident right now that it is one slot.

Edit: (And no, I'm not going to save scum the manual back somehow, if it is possible; which has already been overwritten by now. I'm moving on from here.)

[Redlegoguy1]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Do you guys not know how to read? He only has one save.

NO you have two saves.. You have an auto save and a manual save. Permadeath does not change this.

Permadeath explicitly changes this, it switches from auto and manual to auto OR manual. Only the most recent will be an option, there is no second save to pick from.

[Lailantie]

Just want to add that I reported this too at zendesk. I was in a relatively new survival game and spent my last resources to build some rooms in my freighter. After getting a new freighter everything was lost and I was quite frustrated and needed a break from the game. I wrote about it here in the forum but my post got lost, as so many other posts were coming in. I'm glad to hear about the workaround, but I don't think I'll give it a try. I'll keep my freighter, until HG declares this bug officially fixed and others here confirm it.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by SaD-82:

Other than that:
There are people who state that if you leave at least one thing in your freighter inventory upon trading in for a new one, you will receive the message box in which you're asked if you want to have your base taken to the new freighter.
Might be worth a try.

This trick worked for me, thanks for the heads up SaD!