Contract Bug - Engineering - Manufacturing Facility

Engineering - Manufacturing Facility

Location: Verdure

We are looking to build an manufacturing facility on Verdure. Finish construction on the site.

Rewards

Sector Progress 20%

Fuel-Based Energy Tier 2

The above mission had me fly to the surface of verdure to complete the cargo container, smelter and assembler.

Then it wanted 12 heavy-duty plates crafted and taken to the inventory.

This is where the bug occurs. Upon grabbing the plates it says "Objective completed" and removes the todo item

"12 heavy-duty plates"

but never repopulates the todo list and continues to say

"Use the Smelter and Assembler to manufacture the following components and move them to your inventory."

I have tried adding more heavy-plates, taking via double click and taking via drag and drop. These do not solve the problem. The only solution was to go repair the batteries in the facility, even though there was no indication to do so, I had to interpolate that it might want that done since they were partially unassembled. This completes the contract and solves as a workaround.

I surmise the batteries were supposed to be constructed at the same time as the cargo container, smelter and assembler and were not listed as todos but were listed as final requirements for contract completion.

I recommend that the contract completion system be looked at as a whole, because this seems like a very likely place for many "softlocked" contracts in the future. Perhaps the final completion requirements should be built from the actual todo items instead of being created on their own?

Maybe I'm wrong about how you're building the contracts in the code, but this is my suspicion.

For what its worth I reloaded the time shortly after receiving the contract, after arriving at the location, and after gathering resources just before assembling the machines. The same bug occurred in all instances.