Expanding the base - can't complete?

[IronRod]

[NOTE: I searched and didn't find anything that seemed to address this.]

I have Secondary Mission of "Expanding the base" in the log but cannot find a way to complete it. Despite being told to "Return to the Overseer" and going to them, I get the same dialog each time with no option that moves me forward. Below, I've included the dialog; I have screen shots of all of this.

• Once the game loads, I get the "Return to the Overseer" message.
  
• Checking the log, it displays the Secondary Mission "Expanding the Base" with completed entries of "Return to Overseer" and "Gather Mordite." followed by another uncompleted "Return to Overseer"
  
• As I approach the Overseer, I see the gear icon over his head. When I talk to them, it produces this dialogue:
  
  • -{{ I asked you, friend, but you complied. Does that make yout guilty? Does that mark your hands with sin? Friend! Interloper! Traveller! What are you }}-
    
  • -{{ Don't you see it? Everything in these worlds is built for you. The history of blood, of malice; all of it happened so that you might find out about it one day, a backdrop for your journey! }}-
    
  • And there's that strange scent in the air again, a pheromone issuing forth... This time I live the memories of the Overseer as if they are my own. I see their life swept away upon our first meeting, approaching them in a strange building with my weapon raised...
    
  • I am filled with a terrible certainty that for this Gek, millennia have passed since this event. But that is not possible. I never went to such a building. These things never happened.

The presented options are:

• [1] Touch the Overseer gently
  
• [2] Leave the Overseer be

Taking either option simply presents a line of text and ends the conversation.

[Studdza]

Happened to me. I waited and was recalled to the overseer and things progressed.

[Happy Monkey]

Do you still have at least 100 mordite in your inventory when talking to him? And do you have that mission selected in the log when talking to him?

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Read your log carefully. There are a couple of points in the base building mission where you have to build an item..even if you would prefer not to. Until it is completed, everything is stuck.

There are some workarounds for the AG tasks. You do have to build a four plant container and you do have to start a plant as required. If you gathered enough, you don't have to wait for it to grow, just turn in what is in your inventory. Saves a lot of idle time.

[IronRod]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

Do you still have at least 100 mordite in your inventory when talking to him? And do you have that mission selected in the log when talking to him?

Yes: Have the mission selected (that's the only way the icon appears over his head) and have 3k Mordite in my ExoSuit.

[IronRod]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Read your log carefully. There are a couple of points in the base building mission where you have to build an item..even if you would prefer not to. Until it is completed, everything is stuck.

Taking your suggestion, I noticed the secondary mission "Base Computer Archives" (maybe this is related?) shows a status of "Construct an Oxygen Harvester". I did that and it now shows "Wait for additional data to be restored." So maybe when I complete this one? But the "Expanding the Base" status hasn't changed nor does going to the Overseer move things forward; it does the same as I previously described.

(NOTE: I think I confused it because I created one base originally and thought I'd done everything but then I created a new base (well, several other bases) and the "Base Computer Archive" mission is making me go back through several things I've already done; e.g., Create Roamer pad, etc.)

I've completed all the tasks for the weapons tech: He now just periodically makes a new weapon for me to consider.

I've completed all the tasks for the scientist. He now only asks for data to trade for nannites.

The farmer still periodically asks me to gather some plant items for him to work on some new plant about once a day.

[IronRod]

UPDATE: I found that there is a slight difference if I put the Mordite in my main ExoSuit area. But it still doesn't allow me to complete the mission. He ends up telling me his contract is complete but the mission remains in the list with a "Return to Overseer" status.

The Overseer's dialog is now as below:

• -{{ Leave me. You'll never understand. That day I stared into the world of glass and saw the space between things, the dark heart of reality. }}-
  
• -{{ I will wait out my days here, until I am reborn again. Until we repeat all this, in a world beyond these worlds... As I repeat myself, even now! }}-
  
• The Overseer asks me to leave. They tell me they have nothing more to say. They are clearly addled, clearly confused. This base is a happy place. This world is mine. Of that I am certain.
  
• The ravings of a single Gek won't change that.
  
• The Overseer tells me that their contract is complete.

I've pretty much built everything. As noted in the previous update, the "Base Computer Archives" mission had me building some base pieces that I'd already built before -- but, whatever. But now I think I've completed the basic "Base Computer Archives" mission as it is now only giving me "remote" tasks and these always just reward a technology upgrade rather than direction to build something at the base.

So, now I have no idea what to do next to complete the "Expanding the Base" mission; i.e., remove this mission from my list. Guess I just have to ignore it and move on. Just kind of annoying.

[G.Y.X.K 老王]

Teleport to planets in other galaxies and back to continue the conversation

[Holeypaladin]

Could this be related to the fact that the current expedition has a quest of the same name?

[G.Y.X.K 老王]

Originally posted by Holeypaladin:

Could this be related to the fact that the current expedition has a quest of the same name?

I tested it, and now the dialogue will only be triggered after completing the supervisor task, It seems that the bug has been fixed.