2.4: Are modules disappearing from storage? Or it is just me?? Anyone else???

OK, here's the thing.

I used to have two, very high-end g5 RNGineered size 3 heavy duty HRP's.

I'd used them both extensively, including in PvP duelling, in a build with 2 x size 3 slots. I'm not hallucinating. I definitely had them and I even think I may have them both on video in outfitting. Last used both at same time in 2.3. They were basically both essential to a build I moved away from.

Now I have one.

I have checked my ship (under the seat cushions, everywhere). I have checked stored modules in outfitting. I have transferred every single stored module at another station to my home station.

I have not stopped there. I have checked every single ship that I possess, stored at every other station that I store ships at.

(Yes, it was a fun night.)

And at the end of it - having checked both station storage and ship storage, everywhere - yes I definitely now have only one such HRP, when in 2.3 I had two.

The missing module would almost certainly have been in outfitting storage (not on a ship) when 2.3 became 2.4.

Hence, I'm left with two uncomfortable possibilities. Firstly, I may have sold my module unwittingly. Of course it's possible. But it's not actually very easy to do nowadays (the game defaults to storage) and I really, really would be surprised.

Secondly, the game may have lost my module. I have heard of such things happening before - but it hasn't happened to me before.

Hence, my question: is it just me? Or anyone else??

EDIT: Since typing the above I had the stroke of genius to check the bug reports (who would have thought it?) I've found this one, which is consistent with a 2.4 problem but appears to be PS4 only...

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/382489-Engineered-modules-disappearing-from-storage

I play on PC. It might well be worth checking your own stored modules because ofc like me you might not actually realise otherwise, perhaps for months.

Anyway - anyone else???
 
No I am pretty sure I've lost modules (pre 2.4).

But again I couldn't 100% rule out the possibility of not having sold it (them). But also like OP said on reflection it seem highly unlikely.

The problem is that the GUI for modules is so clunky that in situations like this you have no confidence in ever understanding what really happened.


On a final note I dread getting back from my exploration phase because it'll have been so long since I've seen any of these modules how will I know what I really ever had, will I just be imagining that modules are gone or what?
 
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I thought I lost a very well rolled Efficient size 3 beam. I know because it was my only beam with G5 engineering (the other 2 had G4 efficient, and the trio were on my python). I assumed I had sold it by accident either WITH the python, or simply by mistake when outfitting, but that would be unlike me (I don't make those kinds of mistakes, even when drunk and half asleep, seriously), and now you make me wonder...
 
Maybe they got removed during the godroll rollback event?

Not a bad suggestion of course but, whilst I would firstly like to emphasise that none of my ships have ever used an exploited module against one single Cmdr or NPC, the roll-back would have removed all modifications carried out in respect of a given blueprint - not just one. And would have removed the modification ... not the module.

I thought I lost a very well rolled Efficient size 3 beam. I know because it was my only beam with G5 engineering (the other 2 had G4 efficient, and the trio were on my python). I assumed I had sold it by accident either WITH the python, or simply by mistake when outfitting, but that would be unlike me (I don't make those kinds of mistakes, even when drunk and half asleep, seriously), and now you make me wonder...

Yeah, likewise. I play this game with faults but lack of obsessive meticulousness is not one of them.
 
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Not so far. And I've doing a bit of swapping between Thargoids and engineering. But now that I've said that I expect it'll happen.
 
Maybe they got removed during the godroll rollback event?

Not a bad suggestion of course but, whilst I would firstly like to emphasise that none of my ships have ever used an exploited module against one single Cmdr or NPC...

Yeah but did you utilise the mechanic to get glitched god-rolls?

Even if you "never used them" it may be a second database clean to purge cheated modules. We can't really comment further until we know if you actually did the god-roll glitch, and how many times you did it.


But no, i've not seen modules disappearing personally (only ever done legit engineering), so it may just be you, or a bug, or said DB clean-up?
 
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Funny you should say that but I'm sure I've lost a huge efficient beam.

I'm certain I didn't chuck it and it's no longer in my inventory.
 
I contacted support when I misplaced 13 mill or so down the back of my flight seat.
Turns out I had bought some very expensive armour for my Annie.
:eek:
 
I track all of my modules in a spreadsheet (yep, one of *those* guys, I have 416 engineered modules if you're curious). I move modules and ships around a lot and have not noticed anything go missing. I have THOUGHT I had modules go missing, but when I look at my journal I can usually figure out what I did with them (sold when I didn't mean to).

When module storage/transfer was introduced I definitely had about 6 modules get lost over the course of a few days. But it hasn't happened since then.
 
I track all of my modules in a spreadsheet (yep, one of *those* guys, I have 416 engineered modules if you're curious). I move modules and ships around a lot and have not noticed anything go missing. I have THOUGHT I had modules go missing, but when I look at my journal I can usually figure out what I did with them (sold when I didn't mean to).

When module storage/transfer was introduced I definitely had about 6 modules get lost over the course of a few days. But it hasn't happened since then.

Thanks for this. Having considered the other posts in this thread, looked again at the bug forum, and made some enquiries, I'm strongly suspecting that the earlier module storage bug you mention has been revived by the 2.4 patch.

I've learned that a lot of other older bugs from about the same time are observed to be back in game, including some I've seen myself, such as NPC's crashing drunkenly into objects.

Bug reversion has been an ongoing problem in ED, so it's possible that it's happened again and this is part of a wider issue.

(Incidentally, concerning another post in this thread, I must repeat that disappearing modules have nothing to do with exploits. Frontier afaik haven't made any modules vanish due to exploits, they leave them in game but wipe the mods back to vanilla. And as I understand it, they wipe all modules - legit or illegit - affected by the exploited blueprint, not just one. I have a stack of g5 heavy duty HRP's all rolled at the same time. One c3 g5 only has disappeared. The others are still in game and still with their mods, including the 'twin' c3 g5 to the one that has vanished.)

I think what I'm going to have to do is spend an hour or two going through such records and vids as I keep to see whether I can identify any other missing modules ... then email support ... meh ...
 
You could always check your journal, it will list module module storage, purchase and those sold - could take some time searching it though.
 
I'll check later! I'm flying with my G5 FSD and that is fine; I have some engineered weapons and a high-powered PP that I'm very happy with, but they are all in storage! :eek:
 
You could always check your journal, it will list module module storage, purchase and those sold - could take some time searching it though.

Galloping galaxies ... yes, I will!

Um ... OK ... dumb pew-pew here ... could you possibly link me to a thread with a step-by-step? Honestly not on my radar, just seen it mentioned once or twice.

Thank you and +1
 
Im loosing modules too...do Not swap them during buy,first store your module then buy the new one!
 
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