Goliath National Products Rover Contract will not complete

[Graknils]

Hello fellow Kerbonaut's, hopefully you can help out.

I took a contract for Goliath National Products to repair one of their rovers on Minmus. I got it working and drove it to the coordinates, but the contract will not complete.

In re-reading the contract, I'm GUESSING that it's not enough just to get it operational, but that I ALSO need to install a very specific part?

How do I "Evaluate the missing parts..." in the tracking station? What does that even mean??

Thanks.

[king of nowhere]

go there, look at the rover, see what it needs. it may lack wheels, or perhaps solar panels.

i have no idea if the needed parts would be scattered around the rover, or if you'd need to cannibalize your own lander to provide them

[Graknils]

2 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

go there, look at the rover, see what it needs. it may lack wheels, or perhaps solar panels.

i have no idea if the needed parts would be scattered around the rover, or if you'd need to cannibalize your own lander to provide them

I've been there. I've run that mission twice. All that's needed to get the rover operational is a battery to allow Bill to extend the solar panels so that they can charge the on-board batteries. Then I've driven the rover remotely to the coordinates but the contract does not complete. So I ran it again. This time with a Command Seat so that Bill could drive the rover, thereby having a Kerbal on board the craft. Still no contract completion. The rover is not broken, it is incomplete. There are no scattered parts and everything the rover should need can be brought from Kerbin in the cargo storage container. This is what led me to the supposition that it might need a SPECIFIC part. However, outside of bringing every part in the VAB, how do I find the correct part?

[Spricigo]

1 hour ago, Graknils said:

This is what led me to the supposition that it might need a SPECIFIC part.

Well, that is not listed in the contracts objectives. Most likely you encountered the same bug other have reported: the target waypoint is underground.

 

 

 

[Graknils]

1 minute ago, Spricigo said:

Well, that is not listed in the contracts objectives. Most likely you encountered the same bug other have reported: the target waypoint is underground.

 

 

 

Well, shoot! THAT'S going to be difficult to get to!!!  (Maybe SN9 could do it? LOL)

Anyway, thanks for the help. If I happen to find out anything else I'll post it, but it looks like I'll have to move on. Cheers!

[Graknils]

For anyone coming here for a solution, I found this:  https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/27222

It appears to be a known bug.  I followed Dunbaratu's instructions, and found my (similar) contract in my persistent file. It turned out that my roverVslId was correct, however, I noticed that the Way Point Name was listed as endWPName = Zone 9F34-S which is supposedly coordinates on Minmus. While searching for this contract I noticed that another rover contract ALSO had a Way Point Name listed as endWPName = Zone 9F34-S but THIS location was on the Mun. I figure these might possibly be related to the way contracts are being written, but the Devs will need to track that down. Bottom line, is that this is a known bug and we will have to wait for Squad to fix. In the interim, the only way to resolve is Cheat Menu, or edit your Persistent file.

(SUGGESTION - If you choose to edit the file, make a backup first!! You can probably guess how I learned THAT lesson!! LOL)