Kite Station going missing issue

[justkevin]

A few players have reported Kite Station disappearing from its home. Hopefully the patch that's being tested now will prevent Kite from leaving its station in the future. In the meantime, if this issue happens in your game, please report it here so I can get more data.

Workaround for the missing Kite Station bug is to edit your save:

Under Windows saves are in:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Wx3 Labs, LLC\Starcom Nexus\saves

Make a backup copy of your latest save! It will have a name like QUICKSAVE_12345.json, I recommend copying it and the corresponding _info.json to another folder.

With a text editor, open the *.json save. Search for "KITE_STATION" with quotes. (There is also a KITE_STATION_ALPHA, you don't want that one) There should be a line that says:

"persistentId": "KITE_STATION",

Five lines below that there will be three lines that start x, y and z. Change them to be:

"x": 414,
"y": 0,
"z": -24,

Keep the same punctuation and you don't need to change anything else, the game should fix Kite's position when you next load.

If that doesn't work or causes other problems, please email your save to [e-mail] and I'll take a look. Please include both the .json and _info.json.

Sorry about the inconvenience!

[KERA_AK]

Hello Kevin!

I Believe my StarCom home base vanished a few minutes ago :-s

BR AN.

[KERA_AK]

Hey again Kevin, no worries I shorted it out.
whent back to the main menu & loaded up an older quick save there.

BR AN.

[Aether42]

That's a big bug...
FYI, just happened to me today. 3/6/21 so whatever patch you talked about in December isn't working.

[KERA_AK]

LoL Oh boy then u are deffo LAST IN SPACE now! ^_^

BR AN.

[justkevin]

Originally posted by Aether42:

That's a big bug...
FYI, just happened to me today. 3/6/21 so whatever patch you talked about in December isn't working.

Send your save to [e-mail] and I'll take a look.

Under Windows saves are in:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Wx3 Labs, LLC\Starcom Nexus\saves

Please include the most recent *.json and *_info.json files.

[Keromor]

Yes, My station had moved to the Nexus Jump point and eventually vanished, no idea where it went... am going to do that edit thing now.

Thanks

[Fibulator]

4 years later and it's still not fixed.

I read somewhere that "bumping" the station with your ship causes this bug. And the last time I saw it, I'd done exactly that. So, start there. ^_^

[Exgene]

I had my station move a screen's worth or two - it happened after I increased my ship size. On exiting the station, my (now bigger) ship impacted the station and propelled it somewhat. Conveniently, it ended up closer to the gateway in this case.

[BorfStyle]

I ran into my station as well and the next time I tried to go back it was gone.

[Aether42]

Originally posted by justkevin:

Originally posted by Aether42:

That's a big bug...
FYI, just happened to me today. 3/6/21 so whatever patch you talked about in December isn't working.

Send your save to [e-mail] and I'll take a look.

Under Windows saves are in:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Wx3 Labs, LLC\Starcom Nexus\saves

Please include the most recent *.json and *_info.json files.

Sorry, I just noticed this like a year later. I haven't played in awhile. I'll see about fireing it up and seeing where things got left at. If the save still has this issue, I'll send you a copy.

[Daniel_Tdr]

Happend to me just now

[Manas]

Happened to me. I bumped into the station a bit before pressing X. When I exited the station, it was missing...

[Manas]

FYI, the json with KITE_STATION part is like this:
"isWandering": false,
"persistentId": "KITE_STATION",
"name": "Kite Station Upgrade Shields(Clone)",
"prefabName": "Kite Station Upgrade Shields",
"baseVisibility": 0.0,
"lastVisibility": 0.6000002,
"x": 7175.83252,
"y": -6.79793873E-15,
"z": 3193.69116,
"rotation": 305.133636,
"coordinates": {
"universe": "xeno",
"uX": 0,
"uZ": 0,
"localX": 7175.83252,
"localZ": 3193.69116
},
"playerDiscovered": false,
"permanent": false,
"isLandmark": true,
"firstUpdate": true,
"flags": null,

[justkevin]

Originally posted by Manas:

FYI, the json with KITE_STATION part is like this:
"isWandering": false,
"persistentId": "KITE_STATION",
"name": "Kite Station Upgrade Shields(Clone)",
"prefabName": "Kite Station Upgrade Shields",
"baseVisibility": 0.0,
"lastVisibility": 0.6000002,
"x": 7175.83252,
"y": -6.79793873E-15,
"z": 3193.69116,
"rotation": 305.133636,
"coordinates": {
"universe": "xeno",
"uX": 0,
"uZ": 0,
"localX": 7175.83252,
"localZ": 3193.69116
},
"playerDiscovered": false,
"permanent": false,
"isLandmark": true,
"firstUpdate": true,
"flags": null,

I think you need to change the x & z values to 433 and 336, respectively. (Also change the x & z within the coordinates variable, although I'm not 100% sure that's necessary)