Retreive body mission not completing

[Ikit Claw]

I accepted the mission from the droid ship and I have to retrieve their dead from the derelict ship. My crew grabbed both bodies and delivered them to the droid ship but the mission isn't completing.
What am I supposed to be doing?

Edit: The mission failed even though they got the bodies.
I just got scammed.

[mala]

happened to me too, moved the bodies myself and got a failed mission, maybe we are supposed to clear the derelict and let them get their bodies.

[Ikit Claw]

Originally posted by mala:

happened to me too, moved the bodies myself and got a failed mission, maybe we are supposed to clear the derelict and let them get their bodies.

My crew did it on their own, I didn't have a say in it.
I sent my crew to the derelict and undrafted them. That's when they automatically got the bodies and brought it to the droid ship.

[Alex_D]

Yes, sometimes it's odd. I learned that if the mission is to retrieve something from a derelict, once completed, the trick for a rapid action is to undraft everyone and let them carry the items to the shuttle automatically. The shuttle will deliver the items and collect the reward as applicable.

If the requested item is scrap, I had some odd behaviours a few times. Normally it's the same. Don't pick up or scrap anything else. Expedite the scrapping of what they want. Usually the crew will demolish what's marked up, collect the items and deliver them via shuttle to the destination.

But sometimes, they don't deliver it, keep doing something else, and the mission time just runs out. In those cases, I even stop my recyclers so they don't accidentally recycle what they were supposedly to deliver.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Alex_D:

Yes, sometimes it's odd. I learned that if the mission is to retrieve something from a derelict, once completed, the trick for a rapid action is to undraft everyone and let them carry the items to the shuttle automatically. The shuttle will deliver the items and collect the reward as applicable.

If the requested item is scrap, I had some odd behaviours a few times. Normally it's the same. Don't pick up or scrap anything else. Expedite the scrapping of what they want. Usually the crew will demolish what's marked up, collect the items and deliver them via shuttle to the destination.

But sometimes, they don't deliver it, keep doing something else, and the mission time just runs out. In those cases, I even stop my recyclers so they don't accidentally recycle what they were supposedly to deliver.

With bodies it is different. If you have body retrieval you should actually not do anything.
Because if there are other bodies or items present, and you select to transport them, it can mess up priorities. So what likely happened to the above players (not necessarily but a more likely option) is that they loaded one body on the shuttle, and a number of other things, shuttle got full transported that single body, and the other one remained there. And instead of taking the body, the shuttle kept taking other things.
Which is very easy to achieve, as in order for the shuttle to take a body, a crew member needs to hand it into the whatever that thingie is on the side of the airlock, where they place the other stuff. Body can only be manually inserted, whereas blocks and other stuff can be inserted and then just left there, so easy to get it filled up before the shuttle returns . And thus the second body only arrives via shuttle once everything else is taken, because nobody loaded the body manually into the shuttle. ->mission fails.

[usurpine]

I have same problem. I undrafted everything, deselected anything else and waited to let the AI do, but nothing happens. After 11 hours it timed out.
I tried lots of variants. I was bringing the dead bodies inside shuttle, docked on the target ship and tried to move them out, didnt work.
This is very stupid if you cannot do anything an the AI is too stupid to do it. I dont want a game played only by AI. At least I always want the option to do it myself if AI is messing up. And its messing it up.
I had more then enough time (11 hours) to full fill the job, but its not working.

So here i quit the game. Dont want to play an AI driven game which is not working.

[Stardustfire]

I tried lots of variants. I was bringing the dead bodies inside shuttle, docked on the target ship and tried to move them out, didnt work.

grats for doing anything to fail that mission. you pilled anything together that makes the quest fail.
dont touch the bodys in drafted mode, and for heavens sake dont put them in a shuttle and try to deliver it yourself.
your crew must do the task itself undrafted, what they will do, as long you allow anyone to do it, and dont swamp them with other tasks that delay the job.

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

I tried lots of variants. I was bringing the dead bodies inside shuttle, docked on the target ship and tried to move them out, didnt work.

grats for doing anything to fail that mission. you pilled anything together that makes the quest fail.
dont touch the bodys in drafted mode, and for heavens sake dont put them in a shuttle and try to deliver it yourself.
your crew must do the task itself undrafted, what they will do, as long you allow anyone to do it, and dont swamp them with other tasks that delay the job.

Why would drafting and picking up the bodies fail the mission ?
I think, if after docking at the missiongiver ship, he would have undrafted the shuttle it would have finished the mission as the shuttle would then unload the bodies.

[Stardustfire]

there are a few threads that say it failed that way. has something toi do how the questscripts track things i guess. in undrafted the pickups seems to be a special kind of scriptjob, as soon you manipulate the corpses manual it fails, same for the delivery. guess it looses its questitem status.
the only thing i seen that survives such handling are special records some groups sometimes want. but take in mind they dont need to be delivered and instead must be in your possession to trigger (so you are forced to pick them up in draftmode) .
someone reported that he got problems with questcorpses that stuck in his shuttle after such a failed quest.

[usurpine]

I have a save game and restarted again and again, never the KI did its job. And how should i know what i have to do or not to do, when there is no info coming what to do and what not and waiting and doing nothing just failes?

[Flin Fredstone]

When you cleared the ship and get to the looting stage, the bodies are marked for transfer already. If you don't mark all the other stuff and wait with salvaging, the bodies will be the only thing picked up and transported. Mission finished. Then you can safely give the command to loot and salvage the rest. If you want to play it safe that is.

[Alex_D]

In Station Mode on away missions where the objective is to retrieve bodies, it seems that when multiple shuttles are present, crew will take them to the nearest shuttle, resulting in one shuttle with some bodies and another with the rest.

This requires the Player to manually send each shuttle to the NPC ship airlock for transfer. Fortunately the game marks said bodies (names) with the correct destination.

Of course these ships are at times unarmed and the other derelict has rogue bots, so the mission is on a crunch and the shuttles are flying under fire from bots.