Cannot use Chart-Location Interference

[Jaggid Edje]

I've been to 3 different corrupted sentinel planets and gotten 5 Echo Locators, but the game will not let me actually use them. I get the error "Cannot use chart - Location interfrence" when I try. It happens when on the corrupted planets, when in space, both in and not in dissonant systems. No matter where I go, I get that error message and the chart does not function.

This is without any mods enabled, just as an fyi.

Anyone know a solution?

Edit 2: After further testing, I think the issue is that Outlaw systems are the same as uninhabited systems when it comes to the echo-locators. They do not function in either type of system.

[Smoking Flowerpot]

I got that when clicking one in an empty system with no space station. Try another dissonant system, but one that's populated.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Opal Cruder:

I got that when clicking one in an empty system with no space station. Try another dissonant system, but one that's populated.

I've been to multiple dissonant systems, 1 uncharted, all of the rest inhabited. It's been the same error message in all locations.

[Jaggid Edje]

I think I found my own solution.

I dropped the on-foot combat setting down to "normal" and found a system that was dissonant in normal difficulty, and it worked there.
It seems, perhaps, that planets/systems that are corrupted/dissonant on higher difficulty which are NOT also dissonant on normal difficulty don't work properly for the Echo Locator.

[Azure Fang]

There's also one possible cause in Normal. If your corrupted planet is an exotic biome and it's the only corrupted planet in the system, it will not generate camps. Using a scanner in this case will also result in "location interference" regardless of difficulty.

[Salix Alba]

I encountered this problem on a dead corrupted world once I went to a system with a corrupted planet that was habitable it worked

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Azure Fang:

There's also one possible cause in Normal. If your corrupted planet is an exotic biome and it's the only corrupted planet in the system, it will not generate camps. Using a scanner in this case will also result in "location interference" regardless of difficulty.

Thanks for that.

So after further testing, I also think they don't work in Outlaw systems. My initial attempts, all of which gave me the location interference were 1 Uncharted system, 3 outlaw systems, and 1 Exotic planet.

The 6th system I tried in was just a regular inhabited system. Worked fine. Got a ship and a multi-tool. Then I went to another Dissonant outlaw system. Same problem; location interference. And I tried yet another Outlaw system. Same problem....again. Then I went to two normal (non-outlaw) inhabited systems and it worked in both.

So it seems that there are quite a few different scenarios which cause the issue. Exotic planets, Outlaw systems, or uninhabited systems all cause the issue, apparantly.

[Smoking Flowerpot]

The latest experimental notes say:

The error message displayed when using an Echo Locator in a system without any Harmonic Camps has been improved.

[ohiorice]

Originally posted by Opal Cruder:

The latest experimental notes say:

The error message displayed when using an Echo Locator in a system without any Harmonic Camps has been improved.

So not only does the system need to be corrupt, of course, but not all corrupted planets have a Harmonic Camp?

Seems it would have made more sense to limit the number of corrupt planets/systems just to ensure each would have a camp, wouldn't it?