Cheaty Contract didn't pay :-(

[Acolyte]

Yikes, They didn't pay for the contract - call the lawyers... ;-)

I had a contract to send a satellite to Duna, I put in the correct place, then noticed the standard blurb "Must be new, have power and antenna" was not ticked - I thought it was at the start of the mission and it certainly was a satellite built after I took the contract.

The satellite was delivered by a mothership that did not launch with the satellite - the two units were rendezvous'ed in LKO. Did this break the contract check ? Its the only thing I can think of that did, since I have used one-vehicle-multiple-satellites before for contracts and gotten paid.

I did get paid for an Ike-base on the same ship.

 

[bewing]

All vessels have a timestamp associated with when they were first launched. When you dock two vessels together, the game sticks the older timestamp onto both vessels. So yes, when you docked to the mothership, that probably made your satellite not "new" anymore (older than the acceptance time for the contract). You have to be very careful about what you dock with, when the contract says it wants a new vessel. ALL the docked vessels have to be new.

[Acolyte]

Ouch there goes my re-usable mothership concept then.

It got me farther than I had ever gone before... boo hoo  

 

Edit:

Loaded up the game later, and went to activate that satellite for a science contract, and the placement mission suddenly registered complete - I've no idea whats going on, I guess the original contract customer was temporarily short of cash 

Edited February 18, 2017 by Acolyte