No events happening, No Alerts on Anything, Cant Force Events

[7 inches]

Currently playing cassandra on losing is fun the first 60 days were normal then i got a quest called Wanderer Joins (Traitor) an event from vanilla events expanded.

after that event i never got any events, nothing happened for a really long time, no raids no infections, no quests, no sprouts, nothing

after a while i noticed some of my traps broken then i noticed manhunter rats roaming outside my walls (didnt get notification for that)

then i tried to force events via dev menu, all of them are failed, didnt happen and i didnt get notification for the failed event.

[Astasia]

What Map Is It Anyway is probably breaking the event/letter system because it doesn't know how to handle the VEE event letter. Seems like very few people are using that mod so it's hard to say what it is compatible with it or not. One of the 3 comments mention it can cause gamebreaking issues related to caravans though.

[UncreativelyNamed]

I use "What Map Is It Anyway." I find it useful because I sometimes have a number of camps made with the "Set Up Camp" mod. I also use Vanilla Events Expanded. I occasionally have something like this issue. In my case, it isn't that no events happen at all, it's that I just don't get notifications. Like, I'll get a psychic drone, and the effect happens, but I won't get the letter about it, though the condition will show in the list on the right edge of the screen. I also won't get notifications of manhunter packs. (Though honestly sometimes I like that because it's more challenge. LOL ) The other affect I've noticed seems to be wild predators on the main map being frozen instead of hunting. The UI will say they're hunting something if I click on the animal, but it just stands there. If I shoot the frozen animal, it'll move, but then it goes back to just standing there. And if I shoot it and it decides to revenge, it will come after me, but I won't get the letter about revenge. When this is happening in my game, the only notifications I'll get is for raids and for trade caravans.

I'm not sure if it's "What Map Is It" alone that causes this issue or something else that I have or a combination of things. I have several different mods that add events/letters (Like "Dynamic Diplomacy, for instance) that might generate conflicts, though nothing shows in my debug log thingy. But, I haven't been too bothered to investigate further because:

1) It seems to happen only if I reload a save when I'm away from my main settlement, like if I'm in different camp or on an encounter map. After the reload, this effect starts. So now, if I have to reload for some reason, I save, exit to the OS, and reload the game entirely. Because:

2) Saving, exiting to OS, and then reloading the game fixes the issue if I have it.

Overall, having the "What Map" function is, to me, valuable enough to offset the minor annoyance of occasionally having to restart the game under certain circumstances. So, even if it is the culprit, I'm not going to get rid of it because sometimes I have a lot of camps, especially if I'm playing a nomad or semi-nomad run.

That said, I don't know if the OP is having exactly the same issue as I occasionally have because their issue seems more extensive in that events aren't happening at all rather than just not getting notifications. So, exiting to the OS and restarting the game might not fix things for them, but it's worth a shot.

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Lollri:

We are probably having the same issue. Yes i dont get notifications but also walk by raids doesnt happen (and my raid points were too low for mech clusters or drop pod raids on my recent save) i didnt get quests too or any event rathen than some maddened rats, when i force a event to happen it happens without letting me know

<2) Saving, exiting to OS, and then reloading the game fixes the issue if I have it.

Apparently it fixes but i made that threat because it happened again later

And i agree it adds unique challange to the game, i was like "what the ♥♥♥♥ why those rats screaming like crazy" then i clicked on them they are manhunter rats, and it was the only event i got after months lol

walk by raids are failing on execute, but if i force a drop pod pirate raid, the drop pod lands but raiders are leaving the map without attacking anything

I'm going to guess we're having similar but not exactly the same issues. I figured out that in my case loading a save without completely exiting the game triggered the issues. I don't do that anymore, so I don't have the problem anymore. I don't know if that's what is triggering the issues in your game, though.

I did still get raids and trade caravans, at least, and I'd get other non-storyteller-related events, both vanilla and mod-added, but just no notifications of them or for other things except for the raids and caravans. Which is kind of weird because I think raids and manhunter packs are both storyteller-generated events, so I don't know why I'd get notifications for one but not the other. Heavily modded games (which mine definitely is!) can be weird, though.

If it is the "What Map" mod that's ultimately causing these issues for us, perhaps it's interacting differently with other mods that we don't have in common so that you don't get any events at all where I do. Or maybe it's a load order difference? I have the "What Map" mod at the very bottom of my list. I honestly don't know why. Maybe I read in the mod description or comments or a discussion that that was where it needed to go. Or maybe I just decided to do that, I don't remember!

But yeah, I do like not being notified about manhunters! I kind of wish that was available as an actual mod. :)