preamble
1. What did you do?Playing the game regularly, I know shocker haha, but for most parts I'm playing almost daily and when I'm not home I leave it running inside a VM (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Game in English) and therefor have to sync it each time I switch between the two. While it's running on the Ubuntu VM it's just idling in the background to make some progress and usually during my lunchbreak I check on things to see if something is blocking or clogged up. While I'm at home (Windows 11 Pro, Game in German) I work on expanding my territory and factory until I either conquer enough area or this massiv island.
2. What happened?
When I continue my game everything looks fine but when I go to my drills or other machines, I notice that some of the modules I added are missing. As of right now I am not sure if it's only queued upgrades / replacements or also the actual item. Further investigation is needed. After a quick test on my Windows PC I noticed that one drill was missing the modules that were supposed to be upgraded once the item is available. For the test I put some orders in, saved the game, closed, reopened and after some failed attempts, I loaded the previous auto save and then loaded my actuall save. First time that the game crashed while loading. Of course I took screenshots from before and after.
3. What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
I expected the modules to either remain in the drills or at least keep the ghost object for the replacement.
4. Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
Could be always and going unnoticed. But it's hard to tell because I don't do a full check on all the modules installed.
Other details:
I have unlocked the first 3 planets (Vulcanus, Gleba, Fulgora) and only landed and started to build on Fulgora so far.
When I write I closed the game I mean by doing the following steps.
Press Esc (until game menu) > Click save game > Save game as Temp 1 (names might change to keep some versions between days) > Click save > Click Quit
My random speculations and thoughts.
This might be an issue linked to the fact that I play on windows, sync to the steam cloud, then continue on the Ubuntu VM and then the other way around again, however the issue is reproducible on my Windows PC as well. So might be a bug with map loading.
About the attachments
I added 3 pictures. The first is when I started the game when I got back to my Windows PC. There I noticed it once I investigated why there was no coal and started to document the bug.
Second picture is after I closed the game and while writting this.
Third picture is after I closed the game again and it crashed while closing after I clicked on quit.
Fourth picture is the same as third just during ingame day time.
Not sure where to get the world file but I can include it if it helps with the investigation. I can also record a quick video to show you all the steps that I would take to reproduce the issue but it seems that just closing and reopening already does the trick to reproduce.
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