Research module?

[techstepman]

So I got bored of rebuilding my PHQ everything, the last one I liked a lot and I saved it so I can apply it when I start a new game. But I can't do that. Says I'm missing a research module.
How do we get this research module?
Also I was interacted by a xenon attacking me when I was planning the PHQ build and I saved my progress and exited to fight and when I cam back in the buildplanner I could not apply the build I had saved before.

[conrado.lacerda]

Maybe your plan will only work when you've finished the HQ missions and you have access to the whole station and the research menu?

[techstepman]

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

Maybe your plan will only work when you've finished the HQ missions and you have access to the whole station and the research menu?

Nah...I got most of the research done and still nothing. It says "unavailable research module"

[SirProsik]

Try to load your plan into the station designer and re-save it out as a different name.

[Doom]

Originally posted by techstepman:

So I got bored of rebuilding my PHQ everything, the last one I liked a lot and I saved it so I can apply it when I start a new game. But I can't do that. Says I'm missing a research module.
How do we get this research module?
Also I was interacted by a xenon attacking me when I was planning the PHQ build and I saved my progress and exited to fight and when I cam back in the buildplanner I could not apply the build I had saved before.

Research module is the rock. You can't build it, you can't get its blueprint. Basically PHQ blueprints must be designed in station designer using HQ plot, and can only be applied to HQ plot.

[techstepman]

Originally posted by Doom:

Originally posted by techstepman:

So I got bored of rebuilding my

Research module is the rock. You can't build it, you can't get its blueprint. Basically PHQ blueprints must be designed in station designer using HQ plot, and can only be applied to HQ plot.

Dang it ... wish I knew that before. Thanks

[Doom]

Originally posted by techstepman:

Originally posted by Doom:

Research module is the rock. You can't build it, you can't get its blueprint. Basically PHQ blueprints must be designed in station designer using HQ plot, and can only be applied to HQ plot.

Dang it ... wish I knew that before. Thanks

Most likely the restriction exists because non-PHQ blueprint, when applied to PHQ would destroy the rock (and Boso Ta with it). Blueprints remove all modules that are not part of the blueprint when applied. You can't load them "additively", and can't unmark module for removal (which is something that could be improved), etc. If you manage to delete the rock, you wouldn't be able to rebuild it, because there is no schematic. So PHQ specifically checks if the rock is part of the blueprint, and non-PHQ plots can't load PHQ blueprints, because the player does not have schematic for "research module".

Thankfully, station designer at least provides a PHQ to play with.

[techstepman]

My problem is that I wanna build the same phq. I don't wanna lose hours and making calculations to build one and it's support and production modules every time I start a new game

[SirProsik]

Yes that is what you can accomplish with the station designer which is in the game list as a new game but is really a separate instance for building reproducible stations.

If you have a game already established with the PHQ you want then edit the PHQ and export the plan. Try and import it into the new game. If that does not work run the station designer (note new game menu) and import/edit the PHQ as desired and export (maybe as a new name) and try to import it into the new game PHQ.

[techstepman]

it doesnt want to work for me. I'll start a new playthrough and go straight for the PHQ to check if i can build a blueprint if i do it before building the first dock that the quest asks. Cant make it work on the current one.
Should have been much simpler....still this game is way more simple than the older ones.

[Cythal]

You are able to save blueprint of the HQ and load it. It works for me. I always remove the dock that it comes with first. And as soon as I aquire the HQ in a new game, I am able to load the blueprint and it will automatically delete the dock it comes with.

This is also in creative start where I already have the necessary blueprints. My blueprint of course is not that complex so maybe that helps too. And no modules overlap. so be sure to disable module overlap if you blueprint contains modules that overlap.

[techstepman]

it could probably be a mod...