Prototech Parts don't always claim properly and/or change owner as they should.

FranticcQA shared this bug 15 hours ago
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Hi Keen People,

I am experiencing some trouble with Prototech loot that is starting to drive me nuts.

I have read up everything there is about claiming, hacking and ultimately owning intact prototech blocks from encounter grids but it just doesn't work consistently. At least not on a dedicated server.

In Short:

Half of the time, i arrive at my base with the blocks attached to my ship (usually via mag plate) and my Base defense starts firing on the prototech despite me having claimed the factorum grids before extracting the blocks and hacking all the blocks that are hackable. (everything except the thruster, i believe. Didn't find the drill yet...)

My Process:

- Attack and defeat the Factorum encounter.

- Claim the main Grid and all other relevant grids that contain prototech, e.g. Dual Small grid Battery packages by slapping on an access panel to reach the terminal or right away hacking a cargo large floating container to use its interface and claim it, etc...

- Then i hack what isn't hacked yet, usually before i cut it out of the factorum grid but on occasion after. Not sure if that makes a difference and if so, should it?

- Then move it via tug-ship and attach it to a mag plate on my large ship

- Fly home...


First small grid thruster went through without issues but i had my own panel slapped on it.

Second thruster, this time large grid, got attacked by my station at arrival right away. After flying out of range, tried various pointless things like "hacking" until below functional line and fixing missing parts up again via admin mode. Slapping on my own panel suddenly kept my guns from shooting it.

I have multiple batteries, 3 thrusters, 2 Reactors, Refinery, Assembler and a couple of gyros successfully stored in my base already. So most of the time me and the game seem to get it right but too often not for some reason.


Arrived again yesterday with a Dual small battery package still with its armor panel frame but grid claimed, both batteries hacked, my own panel on the grid: Station Guns turn my ship into rubble trying to shoot the batteries..

Hacking the batteries again, transferring ownership of the whole small grid to me AGAIN via admin even though they already stated me as the owner...nothing made a difference. Had to grind them down in the end to land my wreck.

Guns also attacked a large grid Gyro on the same ship, hacked before extracting from claimed grid but this one didnt have my access panel on it....Not that it should matter and it didn't for the batteries.


In this particular last case with the gyro and the batteries, my Faction mate claimed the High profile Transport but i claimed the battery grid myself. The Gyro, extracted from the Transport and the Battery Grid were attacked all the same. The Large thruster, extracted the same way and attached to my Faction mate's ship was not attacked. But the same unpredictable situations happened in cases when i was raiding alone and claiming everything.


Sorry for the long text. Just trying to relay as much information as possible, since i can't share any particular reproducable save for this. The affected blocks are of course destroyed in one way or another.

Please enlighten me if i still misunderstand any detail about extracting these blocks safely or if there is some sort of issue with the grid-claim mechanic. The observed behaviour seems identical to what happens if the factorum grid isn't claimed before extracting the blocks, which i experienced at my first encounter when i didn't know how it works yet.


Thanks and Best

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