Comms: Notifications of traders entering range?

[aquaricorn]

I've noticed I'm getting the text for when a trader leaves comm range, but not getting (or I haven't noticed anyway) traders entering range, either as a dropping colored envelope or as the text at the top of the screen.

Has anyone else experienced this? Maybe it's a mod interaction (but I don't have running any mods that affect the comms/space traders).

[ambi]

It happens when trade ships enter comms range, but your communication console doesn't have power, so you never get a notice that the trade ship has arrived.

[AquaX]

Those are trade space ships I think. To trade with them you need an orbital beacon and a comm console.

The console will allow you to communicate with the ship and the beacon will be used as the exchange site. This becomes a bit of a hassle in that the beacon reqs no roof to work properly but most of the things you would normally trade would decay w/o one now.

[Monoxide]

Originally posted by AquaX:

Those are trade space ships I think. To trade with them you need an orbital beacon and a comm console.

He is asking about how/why the alerts pop up.

Though, I can confirm I do get notifications of them arriving in B19. My assumption is either 1) you arent noticing them, 2) you are lacking power at convenient times as stated above [though this seems too coincidental to be the case], or 3) as with everything else, there is a mod donking things up.

Just to confirm, since I know you have a comms console, do you have any beacons? Things may get wonky if you have the table but no beacon.

Also, are you playing on large map size? The AI gets broken/buggy on the bigger sizes.

[aquaricorn]

Good feedback, thanks. Actually, I generally power-down the Comms UNLESS a ship enters range (because it's a waste of joules otherwise), and in B18 that was okay. BUT if I'm not getting notifications of ships in range maybe that's the issue.

Makes more sense to have the thing on of course.

I do have a beacon up and powered, and I don't know actually re: map size; it's whatever default is.

So I guess 1) power on comms, and 2) try to pay attention more. I think in B18 you'd get an envelope drop so unless that changed I doubt it's a noticing issue, but thanks for the ideas folks!

[Azrak]

What comes to my mind is that the notification of them arriving is a letter in the bottom right corner as with normal caravans, whereas them leaving comm range is a popup in the top left message box. Maybe you don't pay as much attention to the former as the latter (letter. heh, puns.)?

[aquaricorn]

One thing that's been happening (to me alone? others?) is I'll get a blank letter. It'll come down grey, but there's no content in it. Might be a mod as I run one or two that add events and faction interactions, but maybe it's not limited to that.

[Azrak]

Never happened to me and I run quite a few mods as well. So probably a mod issue

[Mongo-lloyd]

Blank letter issue is happening to me also, dont know whats causing it and isnt really impacting no my game in any way but id still like to know what mods are causing it if anyone ends up finding out