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Patient Zero problem
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voetius
Grundrisse
#1 - 2015-07-24 11:12:03 UTC  |  Edited by: voetius
Edit : issue resolved. This was due to re-installing Eve and having to reset all my UI including Overview, and user error as well :)
After changing the overview to show everything I could see Patient Zero 40km away, and not placed at the beacon as I originally thought.

I just accepted this storyline but I have a problem with it. I have read the mission survival guide and all the comments, tried google, forum search and eve-search as well to see if this is a known issue.

When I land in the deadspace at the beacon/patient zero, there is a spawn of 4 cruiser and 3 BS that seems to be spawn 1 described in the survival guide. However, after clearing them, there are no more spawns.

I can't target patient zero, and I am right next to it, at 2km. Tried ctrl + click and clicking on it to target it in the selected item window doesn't allow me to select it.

Tried warping in and out several times.

According to the survival guide comments someone said you need to shoot patient zero once to trigger the initial spawn but that didn't happen, the first spawn appeared shortly after I landed in the deadspace.

I have asked in Help and in HelpMyMission but couldn't get any info there if this is a known problem or whether I'm missing something.

I have checked my overview settings in case there was some other 'infected' structure there but can't see anything.

Also, read the mission description a couple of times in case there was some clue there but didn't see anything.

Any help would be appreciated.
FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#2 - 2015-07-24 12:52:52 UTC  |  Edited by: FT Diomedes
I am assuming you read the EVE-Survival guide already. According to the guide:

"Mission complete on Spawn 3 and "Patient Zero" building's destruction. (Mission completes also when Patient Zero is destroyed and spawn 2 and 3 have not yet been spawned - just leave some ships from spawn 1 alive)

Structures
The destruction of the "Patient Zero" structure is the mission objective. No loot."

From the comments: ""patient zero" which is a ruined ship that likely won't be on your overview."

If you can see the "Patient Zero" building, but cannot target it, then my recommendation is to submit a stuck petition from in-game and ask to have it reset.

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.

voetius
Grundrisse
#3 - 2015-07-24 17:21:59 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can mouse over next to the beacon and see the Patient Zero structure but when I click on it it doesn't show in the Selected Items window where I would normally click the target button and ctrl + click doesn't work either.

I'll file a stuck petition.
FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#4 - 2015-07-24 17:32:05 UTC
Good luck!

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.

Orlacc
#5 - 2015-07-24 20:19:41 UTC
I assume you have held ctrl and clicked on the structure itself.

"Measure Twice, Cut Once."
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#6 - 2015-07-25 03:33:34 UTC
I like that one, warp in blow it up and done! Or do you have to kill spawns? been a while since I've done it, so don't know if they broke anything.

@ChainsawPlankto on twitter
voetius
Grundrisse
#7 - 2015-07-25 08:13:15 UTC

Orlacc : yes, I've tried to control + click Patient Zero, but cannot target it.

Chainsaw: I vaguely remember doing this before, maybe a year or two ago and I think at that time I just targeted the drone and shot it while aligned out. The survival guide seems to imply that you can do that. I know it is supposed to have something like 170k HP but in a 1000 dps missile boat that's just a couple of mins and the spawns and AoE damage don't hit that hard.

I decided to leave it a day or two before petitioning it in case anyone had an answer. I might go over again (it's 4 jumps away) and have another try :)
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#8 - 2015-07-25 08:55:14 UTC
then there is also the chance it resets and downtime and fixes itself.

my best guess from here is to say go back and cycle through overview types and see if it shows up. if not petition.

@ChainsawPlankto on twitter
voetius
Grundrisse
#9 - 2015-07-25 11:14:36 UTC

Issue resolved. Overview needed to be changed. OP updated.

Thanks for all the efforts to help me resolve this.
Pytria Le'Danness
Placid Reborn
#10 - 2015-08-03 12:02:44 UTC
Since I had that mission shortly ago, as far as I could see there are actually TWO "Patient Zero" objects, both of which do not have a visible model.
One is the beacon that has totally no use, and one the actual "structure". They are at the same place or at least so close to each other that clicking in space always selected the useless beacon.

Add "Large Collidable Structures" to your overview and you'll see the real Patient Zero in the overview and can lock it.