Unable to Beam up from Earth Spacedock (probably just an amateur error)

gothamsguardian

Hey all,

I'm getting back into the Foundry after having had nothing to do with it for the last four years. I'm simultaneously re-working some of my old missions and creating a new one.
But having been away so long, I'm re-learning how the UI works and everything, and I suspect I've just made some simple mistake.
I'm testing my mission, where my character is on Earth Spacedock talking to someone, and then I want them to leave and go to a specific system. But when I play through the mission in the Foundry, the beam up button is grayed out the instant I'm on Earth Spacedock. I don't have the ability to beam up and go anywhere, much less the system where my mission is going to take place.
Is this something that will change when the mission is published? Or is there some weird thing I need to do about the transition from one map to another?

guljarol

I think you need to make a way of map transition to the next one. A beam-up button in a regular mission would abort it, not beam you up to your ship to continue the mission. Hence no such option in the preview.​​

markhawkman

Is your test character level 1? If so, the game thinks you haven't finished the tutorial yet and thus has everything disabled that is disabled in the tutorial. This is fixable, but time consuming.

minababe

gothamsguardian wrote: »

But when I play through the mission in the Foundry, the beam up button is grayed out the instant I'm on Earth Spacedock. I don't have the ability to beam up and go anywhere, much less the system where my mission is going to take place.
Is this something that will change when the mission is published? Or is there some weird thing I need to do about the transition from one map to another?

When you're at ESD and need to go out into space, you don't beam out to your ship. You use a "door" at ESD to transition to the next map. This can be an actual door on the map or an object (like a console).