'A Local Investor' : i can not buy planks.

[Jan zonder vrees]

When i go to the store to buy planks there are 2 pallets with planks. when i get closer there is a pop-up saying it costs 500 Euro to buy a pallet of planks. when i hit E nothing happens. no pallet outside or on loading dock or on the truck which i can use to finish this quests. what can i do to debug this?

[Kaeru Gaman]

you can use planks you have made yourself.

[NoahBlueRidge]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kaeru Gaman:

you can use planks you have made yourself.

Exactly, and so far you can use 'wet planks' presently, the quest doesn't check 'yet' on if you've fully dried the planks you use. This will make this quest far more profitable.

Before accepting this quest, I went and collected all of the logs I had stacked or cut down from doing Oliver's, Isaac's, and Sasha's quests and processed them in the mill within days of each other and took a few days off to get them fully dry before going and talking to James. If you do this, make sure you leave a few pallets of planks 'in storage', don't put them in your driers. These non-dried planks are the ones you will use for 'A Local Investor'.

After being loaned James' flatbed truck, first thing I did with it was use it to make several trips of taking my previously dried pallets of planks and plywood to market and get my first big payday of the game. Fully processed into dried planks and plywood, the logs from Oliver's, Isaac's, and Sasha's quest will get you very, very close to affording your own flatbed truck as long you still have 25,000+ social points, and you should have over 100,000 social points if you've been doing everything right when James' first quest comes along.

If you've done everything right prior to this point, James' payment to you should put you over the threshold you need to get a flatbed truck of your own, with some working money leftover, after borrowing his truck just this one time.

[Jan zonder vrees]

@noahBlueRidge
Thanks for the fast reply and the good advice.
Great that i can solve it with my planks i've got.

Still the Devs gt a lot of bugs to fix.
i accept early access
but these are game breaking bugs to my opinion and the Devs should pay a little more attention to that.
i saw this mission done on youtube and there the mission worked
the planks only costed 200 euro, but you could buy them
now they cost 500 and you can not get them
Odd that after an update a mission breaks in the game.

Love the game though and will be playing more
thanks for the advice

To the Devs
Its a lot of work and i hope you keep giving this game the love it deserves

[Capuzzi09]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jan zonder vrees:

[...]
Still the Devs gt a lot of bugs to fix.
i accept early access
but these are game breaking bugs to my opinion and the Devs should pay a little more attention to that.
i saw this mission done on youtube and there the mission worked
the planks only costed 200 euro, but you could buy them
now they cost 500 and you can not get them
Odd that after an update a mission breaks in the game.
[...]

1. the cost of the planks had to be adjusted to avoid possible exploitation. With only 200€ to buy planks and 300€ to sell the same planks on the timber market, one would make a lot of money out of nothing.
2. you can still buy the planks. I would bet that you were just short of money, so you didn't have enough cash to buy them.

Oh, and one more thing:
You first need to get the quest from James for building his sommer cottages. You'll not be able to buy planks without getting this quest first. Sorry, I almost forgot this.

[Jan zonder vrees]

thanks for the reply.
problem i got was that i had another BUG eating my money.
so i could not buy planks because i had no money
apparently i was -2135euro in debt.
i don't know where i lost the money but hey, early acccess, ♥♥♥♥ happens.

I started a new game
until now al is going well
i check before every mission if i still gave my money and then go on to finish it.
i also save inbetween missions and i rotate my savefiles so i do not lose to much progress in case of another BUG infestation.

have fun

[Kaeru Gaman]

besides it is early access and bugs can appear unexpectedly...
sometimes it's easy to overlook things when you just say "early access" and carry on without investigating.

are you aware that you are charged money if you cut a tree that is not on ground you own or you're adviced to?

looking with "engineers sight", you can see the cut tree interactioon point. if it is green, the tree is on ground you currently have access to, because it's part of the quest or because you own it.
if it is red, it is not allowed to cut the tree and you will be charged a high fee for it.
also, the notification that this happens is just a small, quick message like all ingame messages, like "mushroom+1", so it's easy to overlook.

so it can happen you cut two or three trees in the heat of the moment, and sit there afterwards and ask "where's my money gone"...

[Capuzzi09]

Regarding to how you lose your money:
I'd bet my a-ss that you cut down trees which you didn't own. Only cut trees in forest areas which you bought before!
So it wasn't a bug eating your money. It was just you, not paying attention to what you are doing.

You really should be a littlle more attentive while playing.
When cutting down a "forbidden" tree, you always get a message in the upper left corner on your screen which informs you that you'd be fined with 1200€ for cutting down a tree you weren't allowed to cut. Keep your eyes open! Read the messages. Use engineers sight often, this also helps a lot to avoid those mistakes. Trees always have an icon at their lower end. If it's green: go, cut the tree. If it's red: don't do it. ;)



Edit:
lol, Kaeru Gaman was a little faster than me. :)
But you see - we both tell you nearly the same, so consider us being right. ;)

[bagracer]

The way money gets lost is, if you decide to try and take the wood chips in the trailer to try and sell them. The first time you do this, it it puts a bugged version of "bark" in trailer and when sold will have a value with a dash (-) in the amount that seems to give a minus cash amount. Always save your game before selling anything at the sell point mill.