Special Project "Trade mission to Gamma Quad" problem?

boglejam73

The starbase special project "Trade Mission to the Gamma Quadrant" requires you to pay in a certain amount of Green Traders. I have a ton of green traders spread between 3 alts, but the mission won't accept all of them, only some of them.

At first, I thought it might be because some are bound, some aren't. Nope. The mission will take some of either, but not all.

mikewendell

Can you tell if those greens that you can;t do anything with are specific in some way? Gotten from Lt. Ferra? Holograms? Do they have a lock icon on their info panel?

I know we can;t send some specific doffs to the grinder. I wonder if this is more of the same.

captainoblivous

It seems to display all of your applicable doffs as available whether they are actually available or not.

The ones you are having problems with might just be on assignment.

boglejam73

captainoblivous wrote: »

It seems to display all of your applicable doffs as available whether they are actually available or not.

The ones you are having problems with might just be on assignment.

I thought that too so I double checked. ( Traders, 7 of which are green, 5 of which are not on assignemnt...won't let me contribute.

I think maybe some of the green traders didn't get marked properly as traders to be contributed to the special project.

boglejam73

mikewendell wrote: »

Can you tell if those greens that you can;t do anything with are specific in some way? Gotten from Lt. Ferra? Holograms? Do they have a lock icon on their info panel?

I know we can;t send some specific doffs to the grinder. I wonder if this is more of the same.

The lock on them indicates they are bound, right? Some of the ones I contributed had locks, some didn't.

captainoblivous

boglejam73 wrote: »

I thought that too so I double checked. ( Traders, 7 of which are green, 5 of which are not on assignemnt...won't let me contribute.

I think maybe some of the green traders didn't get marked properly as traders to be contributed to the special project.

Oh. I thought it was only white doffs that could be contributed. It will only show white doffs for me

awolfe59

captainoblivous wrote: »

Oh. I thought it was only white doffs that could be contributed. It will only show white doffs for me

The Special Project mentioned in this thread's subject requires green traders specifically.

captainoblivous

awolfe59 wrote: »

The Special Project mentioned in this thread's subject requires green traders specifically.

How odd, because it's not allowing me to contribute green doffs, only white quality.

boglejam73

captainoblivous wrote: »

How odd, because it's not allowing me to contribute green doffs, only white quality.

It may be a different version of the same mission. When you hover over the contribute button, it should say either common or uncommon. Also, the icon used to represent the DOFF category in the fleet screens will be white for common or green for uncommon.

mikewendell

boglejam73 wrote: »

Also, the icon used to represent the DOFF category in the fleet screens will be white for common or green for uncommon.

Hmmm, strange. I'm looking at the Trade mission project and while the icon is green and it;s for uncommon traders, in the Engineering Construction projects project, while the icon is blue, it;s for white engineering commons.

And both have white backgrounds.

I don't think the icon color in this case applies.

boglejam73

mikewendell wrote: »

Hmmm, strange. I'm looking at the Trade mission project and while the icon is green and it;s for uncommon traders, in the Engineering Construction projects project, while the icon is blue, it;s for white engineering commons.

And both have white backgrounds.

I don't think the icon color in this case applies.

OK, so maybe the icons aren't correctly color coded. But the project text is for uncommon (green) traders, and I have contributed 5 out of the 6 required. None of the 7 other green traders will go, thou.

crypticarmsman

boglejam73 wrote: »

I thought that too so I double checked. ( Traders, 7 of which are green, 5 of which are not on assignemnt...won't let me contribute.

I think maybe some of the green traders didn't get marked properly as traders to be contributed to the special project.

^^^
This is the exact issue - the selection screen doesn't exclude Doffs on assignment or on ship or ground duty (although it should); so if you select one in that state, the transfering donation screen will just sit there until you cancel it. /Bugged it a couple of times.

boglejam73

crypticarmsman wrote: »

^^^
This is the exact issue - the selection screen doesn't exclude Doffs on assignment or on ship or ground duty (although it should); so if you select one in that state, the transfering donation screen will just sit there until you cancel it. /Bugged it a couple of times.

Yeah, except that isn't my problem. I can't contribute any of the 7 green traders. After I contributed the first 5, the contribute button doesn't light up. Its like the project looks at my DOFF roster, sees 7 available green traders (none of which are on assignment or on the ground roster) and just refuses to let me contribute any of them.

If I got to the point where I could contribute one of them and the window just hanged because the DOFF was otherwise engaged, that would be an improvement.

awolfe59

You cannot contribute DOFFs obtained via dilithium purchase at the academy. Perhaps this is your problem?

boglejam73

awolfe59 wrote: »

You cannot contribute DOFFs obtained via dilithium purchase at the academy. Perhaps this is your problem?

Could be. Thanks.

But really, that makes no sense in terms of in-game logic. Nothing prevents me from dismissing those DOFFs or trading them in with the racial DOFF dealers for someone else. Why would they not prevent me from using those there but then prevent me from using them on a fleet project?

darkjeff

boglejam73 wrote: »

Nothing prevents me from dismissing those DOFFs or trading them in with the racial DOFF dealers for someone else.

They can't be traded in with the Officer Reassignment at the Personnel Officer, are you saying the racial-specific ones bypass that restriction?

boglejam73

I'm not 100% sure (at work) but I don't remember not being able to trade in/out any doff, bound or otherwise, by either outright dismissing them or trading a bunch in for one of higher quality. Racial DOFF swaps not sure on.

Either way thou, why can I dismiss them for varying dilithium payoffs but not contribute bound doffs or doffs bought with dilithium to a fleet project? Seems like it would be in PWE/Cryptics financial best interest to have me burn them on something that doesn't have a chance to be converted to zen on the exchange.

darkjeff

Without putting too much thought into it, I suppose it would devalue the DOff packs in the cashshop.

kaiserkacto

I get a similar problem two days ago, but with a project asking for common security doffs.
I had 5 unbounded available security doffs but i couldn't contribute with any of them, the button just was disabled.
Somebody else could contribute since that project was finished before i logged out.
I haven't had the same problem again

krayuskorianis

I'm having this problem... It states, "5 Traders", no uncommon, rare, very rare or common traders, just Traders.

What the fack?

blackjackwidow

boglejam73 wrote: »

Could be. Thanks.

But really, that makes no sense in terms of in-game logic. Nothing prevents me from dismissing those DOFFs or trading them in with the racial DOFF dealers for someone else. Why would they not prevent me from using those there but then prevent me from using them on a fleet project?

You cannot contribute any DOffs obtained from Lt. Ferra's shop. This includes the 'free' commendation tier ones, as well as the ones you've purchased with dilithium. I can't speak to the "logic", other than to agree that it is probably because they want you to buy DOff packs from the c-store, and therefore don't want you to be able to go buy what you need from Lt. Ferra's shop, and instantly turn around and contribute it to the starbase.

It's very frustrating, particularly in the green category, where I went a little crazy the first time and bought almost all of them to help my leveling.

The only ways of which I'm aware to get rid of them is to dismiss them for dilithium, or by doing the Officer Exchange missions in the Gamma Quadrant. I personally use the officers in the Officer Exchange missions even if they have no matching traits, since the duty officer you receive is unbound.

This only works with non-civilians, though. You can only dismiss the civilians, because you can't trade IN anything but officers, but you CAN get civilians back. Another frustrating aspect of the system, imo.