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Djayc85

Mar 16, 2018 @ 11:11am

Rockets not launching.

Full of fuel and they're not taking off

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Djayc85

Mar 16, 2018 @ 12:00pm

Anyone able to help?

One is unclickable but door still open, one is sat at exporting but nothing to export and one is sat at preparing take off

RustyFlipper has Surviving Mars

Mar 16, 2018 @ 12:06pm

I had that tooks a good few clicks to get it to launch.

Djayc85

Mar 16, 2018 @ 12:28pm

Problem is I've run out of advance resources and I can't get more because the rockets won't launch. They're all stuck

Los

Mar 16, 2018 @ 5:04pm

I got the same prolem one of my rockets i had set to automated and it was going back and forth taking rare metals but i now noticed that it hadnt moved for a while and its stuck on "Take off in progress" and wont do anything i cant even scrap it

Holyvision has Surviving Mars

Mar 16, 2018 @ 10:54pm

Originally posted by wanyfer:
I got the same prolem one of my rockets i had set to automated and it was going back and forth taking rare metals but i now noticed that it hadnt moved for a while and its stuck on "Take off in progress" and wont do anything i cant even scrap it

+1 same issue, it's like the Rare Metals business tanked and I can't sell anymore. Any ships waiting to load any exports just get stuck.

Also, another ship on auto got stuck at 0/30 exports and never got service to load, even with multiple full piles around it, it's own drones...etc.... 2 rockets stuck now!

Last edited by Holyvision; Mar 16, 2018 @ 10:55pm

Shamrock2211 has Surviving Mars

Mar 16, 2018 @ 10:56pm

take it off automatic. It won't leave unitl it cargo hold is full and if you have no rare metals to export it will never leave. If you don't have a fuel refinery yet then it takes a long time to fill up the gas tanks.

Holyvision has Surviving Mars

Mar 16, 2018 @ 11:02pm

Originally posted by Shamrock:
take it off automatic. It won't leave unitl it cargo hold is full and if you have no rare metals to export it will never leave. If you don't have a fuel refinery yet then it takes a long time to fill up the gas tanks.

No no, I have over 2000 fuel excess and 200 rare metals. It's not an issue of range, drones, fuel, etc.

There's one litterlly stuck that says "Take off in progress" 100% filled with exports and fuel, emptied of else, just sitting there.

Another is sitting there full of fuel, no exports, tons avaliable, won't load and also will not launch regardless of settings (for both so far, going to try a third I guess through money through research....)

flw

Mar 17, 2018 @ 3:20am

same here
edit: for what it's worth: the rocket was supposed to launch during an electromagnetic dust storm. afterwards, the rocket became unresponsive, won't get launched despite being full of fuel and metals. i can't either launch, nor unload the rocket, it just... sits there. drones are able to use it to recharge, though.
also, my colonists still had the "dust storm is raging" debuff a few good days after the storm. maybe the rocket never got unflagged with the "storm in progress" modifier. why i can't unload it is beyond me.

Last edited by flw; Mar 17, 2018 @ 3:25am

Cerbo

Mar 17, 2018 @ 3:24am

Same here

SteelRodent has Surviving Mars

Mar 17, 2018 @ 3:35am

If you shipped in drones with the rockets, those drones will be assigned to the rocket. It needs to be able to reassign those drones to another drone controller in its range or it can't take off. The controllers can only have so many drones assigned to them and you also have a maximum drone limit for your whole colony. As far as I can tell the game never tells you if there's a problem reassigning the drones.

You also need to make sure the rocket is completely emptied (remember, passenger rockets come with food that you need to offload).

These are just the two issues I've come across that kept the rockets grounded.

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Los

Mar 17, 2018 @ 5:32am

Originally posted by SteelRodent:
If you shipped in drones with the rockets, those drones will be assigned to the rocket. It needs to be able to reassign those drones to another drone controller in its range or it can't take off. The controllers can only have so many drones assigned to them and you also have a maximum drone limit for your whole colony. As far as I can tell the game never tells you if there's a problem reassigning the drones.

You also need to make sure the rocket is completely emptied (remember, passenger rockets come with food that you need to offload).

These are just the two issues I've come across that kept the rockets grounded.

Its none of that my 3 rockets that got grounded were all on auto mode so they were not bringing anything from earth at all i sadly did not notice till a couple of sols passed and they werent moving so i didnt even have the option to reload a save

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reiryc7

Mar 17, 2018 @ 9:12am

I'm having the same issue... no drones assigned (it was an automatic rocket), full fuel, full rare and it's stuck in 'take off progress' no matter what I do. I have removed it from automatic, clicked on the take off button, changed it priority, nothing helps.

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