Unable to complete contact

[ScruffyBamboo]

Am I missing something? I'm trying to do my first contract... I'm asked to pick up a container and bring it to the construction site. Easy enough. Then I have to do some excavation. Again, no problem. Then I have to pick up the container and bring it to the "marked spot" at the gravel plant.

So I grab the container, and go to the gravel plant... there's no cones to mark a spot. So I drop it off where I did in the tutorial mission (yellow square on the right), but nothing happens. So I tried the other small yellow spot at the gravel plant, and nothing happens there either.

Was I supposed to load the dirt I excavated into the container? I didn't have to in the tutorial, and nothing about that was mentioned in the contract.

So now I don't know what to do. I can't move forward with the contract (or can I??). Do I have to cancel it??

This game is pretty neat, but it still has some very rough edges. A bit more indication of what needs to be done (and where) for the contracts would really help.

[Dosedmonkey]

Sometimes when you dig with the excavator it says 100% but you need to dig a couple more times, leave the container in the yellow square right of the gravel pit entrance. Once enough excavated it will finish the stage that contains them both.

[ScruffyBamboo]

Originally posted by Dosesmonkey:

Sometimes when you dig with the excavator it says 100% but you need to dig a couple more times, leave the container in the yellow square right of the gravel pit entrance. Once enough excavated it will finish the stage that contains them both.

I'm pretty sure the job was done - I got to the point where it told me I had dug enough, and did I want to continue (I said no). The digging job was marked 100%.

Again though, was I supposed to dump the dirt into the container? In a way it makes sense (why else would I bring a container), but on the other hand, I'm planting trees - won't I need soil for backfill? The game doesn't explain either way :(

[Kevin_J_Barton]

Hello ScruffyBamboo,
the submission should be completed as you described at first. The container has to be dropped off in the yellow sqare on the right side when you enter the gravel pit. It doesn't matter if you had loaded anything. Once you clear the construction side, the submission should be done.
Please tell me the name of the mission so I can try it myself.

[ScruffyBamboo]

Originally posted by Kevin_J_Barton:

Hello ScruffyBamboo,
the submission should be completed as you described at first. The container has to be dropped off in the yellow sqare on the right side when you enter the gravel pit. It doesn't matter if you had loaded anything. Once you clear the construction side, the submission should be done.
Please tell me the name of the mission so I can try it myself.

Interesting... so i DID do it right lol! ;)

Currently at work, so I'll have to check out the actual name of the mission... but it was one of the first 3 that were available - the one that paid the most (26,000 I think). It's where you have to work on the garden of the house right up the hill from your home base.

[ScruffyBamboo]

Originally posted by Kevin_J_Barton:

Hello ScruffyBamboo,
the submission should be completed as you described at first. The container has to be dropped off in the yellow sqare on the right side when you enter the gravel pit. It doesn't matter if you had loaded anything. Once you clear the construction side, the submission should be done.
Please tell me the name of the mission so I can try it myself.

Well, it (strangely) worked itself out.

I got back into the game, and it still said I needed to unload the container at the concrete plant. So I jumped back to my green truck, that I'd left there previously. The blue container was lying on the ground, in the yellow zone, where I left it. I figured I'd lug it back to the construction site, and then take it back to the plant to see if it'd reset the trigger or something.

I was about to pick up the container, but as soon as the arms got near, I got the message that the mission was complete. It seems it got triggered by the arms moving into range of the container... again, I never picked it up - just moved the arms near. Weird.

Then again, I noticed you guys released a patch since I last played, so maybe that was it. I noticed that the view controls seem to work properly now with my 360 controller, so that's awesome too!

Anyway, just wanted to let you know how it turned out. Really enjoying the game so far (although the physics ca get a bit wonky sometimes lol!)

[manofmann]

I am struggling with the same problem - unfortunately, I can't find the 'magic solution' suggested above. It is driving me nuts!

The contract i am trying to complete is 'Mansion with cobbled gateway'

There seems to be a lot in the game that is not obvious - I know that new features make the game more interesting, but the learning curve is so steep that I am thinking is it worth persisting

[Chacal]

What exactly is the problem, dropping the container at the gravel plant?
As for the learning curve, you could see it this way: in the game as in real life, there are usually several ways to achieve a goal. When the obvious way isn't working for some reason, it becomes a challenge to find an alternate way.

[MadManX7979]

Originally posted by manofmann:

I am struggling with the same problem - unfortunately, I can't find the 'magic solution' suggested above. It is driving me nuts!

The contract i am trying to complete is 'Mansion with cobbled gateway'

There seems to be a lot in the game that is not obvious - I know that new features make the game more interesting, but the learning curve is so steep that I am thinking is it worth persisting

You're not alone. I've come across this a couple of times with the container, and even when excavating in other missions that don't have the container in it. It'll say 100% done in the list, but it never comes up saying "Clear Construction Area". I've even dug a buckets width over the marked lines without it moving on. If that happens I just assign an A.I. to finish it for me.

[manofmann]

The problem with the container is that when I unload it in the unloading area at the gravel plant is that nothing happens. I have watched YouTube videos where a message tells you that the phase is completed - but for me it just sits there

[Chacal]

I've heard there are two work-arounds for this problem:
- Madman's solution above in post # 8, which is to assign a worker to complete the task;
- quitting the game and starting again, and putting the container on the ground again in the delivery zone, which triggers the task completion logic.

[MadManX7979]

Originally posted by Chacal:

- quitting the game and starting again, and putting the container on the ground again in the delivery zone, which triggers the task completion logic.

I'll have to try that when/if it happens again. I had the container issue happen once in multiplayer, tried resetting the task twice with no success, ended up just canceling the contract.