[1.82.10] Caught Racing drone at >90m/s. No reward, drone stuck in cargo bay.

[flat nova]

After accepting the race I slammed into the drone very hard and squeezed it into the cargo bay but I did not get any reward for winning the race, could no longer speak with the opponent and could not get the drone out of the cargo bay. The opponent then tried to fly away very fast.

The log shows me starting the race and carrying the drone back to the station but the race is neither won nor lost.

[undone solstice]

please see #1067385553261166602 ; it's quite likely I need cross-reference files.

[flat nova]

Here is the full data

I did do another dive after the problem one

[undone solstice]

Okay, let's take a peek what's going on in here

[1.82.10] Caught Racing drone at >90m/s. No reward, drone stuck in cargo bay.

hm, that's not actually the issue I thought it was

[undone solstice]

another dive would not be a problem, but it seems you restarted the game, and that overwrote the first log

which is a problem, because the event you are describing seems happened just before log 1 starts

so, I can see that the race is not concluded, but I don't see why race is not concluded.

[flat nova]

yeah, I usually close the game after every long dive. will make sure to save the data before restarting next time.

like I said the race started normally, the npc was chasing the drone, I had to make a dodge around a rock and then pushed the autopilot to 100m/s to circle back and catch the drone before the npc

once the drone slammed into the cargo bay (the expandable cargo bay on contracted mode) the npc continued flying away and the race would not finish

tried getting the drone out but the most I could do was have 1 thruster stick out as the cargo shoot is too small for it.

my best guess is that because I had just used my time slowdown the drone reached the cargo back door at a speed high enough to slip past it between frames which broke the npc and made finishing impossible.
but I don't know the games architecture or where the race end trigger is placed so all I can do is guess.

you might want to try out throttling the framerate and catching the drone at increased velocities if the race end trigger is an area infront of the cargo bay door.
if that is the problem a solution could be to check periodically if the drone is inside a cargo bay and then spit it out/end the race

[undone solstice]

It's not; the trigger should be from the drone being in the cargo bay.

What I wanted to see is if there was an attempt of comms from the drone that failed for some reason.

[flat nova]

can the drone get damaged? maybe it was partly destroyed on impact.

[flat nova]

is it the cargo bay being off then?
the bay was fully retracted during the race

all I can do is try to reproduce the scenario, next time I have a race

[undone solstice]

one thing seems clear, drone did not communicate with you

[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:30:54]: Reply option RacerConversation: DIALOG_RACE_REMATCH|curious
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:30:54]: * speficic tests for MRS-8983
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:30:54]: ** story test for ringrace.fee=1(-1;0)
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:30:54]: ** Requies story ringrace.fee <= 0, have 1

It looks like you lost contact with the drone entirely? I don't see it on your list.

[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:30:52]: Identified ships: {895704437:[BLT-3195, , EIME:[RigidBody2D:918795], False, 1], 950180757:[MRS-8983, Jumping Storm, BaldEagle:[RigidBody2D:798405], True, 3]}

It looks like it's not in the simulation range at all.
Unfortunately, with the first log lost, I don't really have anything else to work with here.

If the drone was indeed destroyed during the race, this is kind of expected result.

I'd just need to account for that with the racer dialogue so you are not left hanging: https://git.kodera.pl/games/delta-v/-/issues/6158

[flat nova]

[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:35:09]: Claiming cargo for player-owned ship RacingDrone/JG4-3651
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:35:09]: Exiting ship disposition towards player: {curiosity:0, fear:-0.4, greed:0, hostility:-1.109568, support:1.109568}
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:35:09]: Exiting ship disposition towards player: {curiosity:0.3, fear:-1.376458, greed:0, hostility:-1, support:0.576328}
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:35:09]: ReactorPhysics:[RigidBody2D:780935] re-entered observer DespawnObserver:[Area2D:779286] (at (7752551, 11290956)) at (7752595, 11290956) (43.947773) mask: a0080002 & 80000000
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:35:09]: JG4-3651 Clear of all ships, turning AI on
[1.82.10]: [2025/11/13 20:35:09]: RacingDrone/JG4-3651 exited tree```
at the end of the dive the racingdrone is in the cargo

I don't know if the drone can be destroyed but stay in one piece to be picked up

[flat nova]

that might be the dive before, where I choose "I am not set up to race" then come back in my racing ship and that is where the problem happened