Contractee not satisfied, kerban lawyer needed!

[jamarino]

Lately I've been burning a lot of fuel trying to complete a mission. I was contracted to build an 11-kerbal capacity space station, and place it in solar orbit along a class E asteroid.

I went ahead and build my biggest space station yet, put it in the sky, did a low-orbit refuel and finally broke free from Kerbin.

Once I had synced up with my chosen asteroid, I realized something was off. All requirements for the contract were fulfilled, except for one. I needed to stick the station onto the asteroid, and I hadn't brought a claw..

When I finally regained motivation, I build an unmanned claw capable of docking the station and sticking it to the asteroid. It went better than I had hoped for!

However.. My contractee seems dissatisfied. They agree that I have now fulfilled the missing requirement, but at the same time they have revoked satisfaction on another requirement..

See for yourself:

I've tried undocking the second half of the claw (the white tank + engine facing the camera), thus leaving an open docking port. But still, they won't pay up

Any tips or similar experiences?

Regards,

Jonathan

Edited May 10, 2015 by jamarino
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[vicwarrior]

The station has to be built after the contract has been accepted, an already existing station will not fullfill the contract requierements.

[windows_x_seven]

The station has to be built after the contract has been accepted, an already existing station will not fullfill the contract requierements.

That ^

Or just open the debug menu (ALT+F12) and manually complete the contract.

[StrandedonEarth]

I dunno. When it states a docking port, does it have to be an available, unoccupied docking port?

[jamarino]

The station has to be built after the contract has been accepted, an already existing station will not fullfill the contract requierements.

The station was build after the fact. When I first arrived at the asteroid, the requirement was fulfilled. It went back to being unfulfilled after I attached the claw module and connected with the asteroid :/

... just open the debug menu (ALT+F12) and manually complete the contract.

Thanks for the tip

[falloutaddict]

I have been having the same issue with some contracts not wanting to complete... Just like windows says, i just alt-f12 and complete through the debug menu.

[Kerbart]

If the asteroid existed before the contract, and after docking (clawing, same thing) with the asteroid, could the contract interpret it as "it already existed before the contract was created?"

[Kryxal]

It's either needing a FREE port, or the asteroid ... if it's the latter, you MIGHT be able to fix it by undocking the claw+asteroid, then docking again with control on the claw side of things at the moment of contact.

[Callmedave]

You sure that's a class E asteroid?