CTD when installing skydrop

[aimlesstraveller]

Hello, I just got to Gren, assigned crew to a fleet ship, then in the shipbuilder I attached a skydrop, no issues inside the shipbuilder. Upon saving, I get a CTD.
Edit: CTD still happens no matter if Watchtower is at the top or bottom of the load order.

This doesn't happen with my simpler ships with relatively fewer edits.

I'm using the following mods:
- larger ship size limit (esm version)
- ship builder categories
- better ship part flips

I realize some additional info is needed for troubleshooting, so please let me know what would be helpful. Thanks!

Sorta related question(s), but is it possible to take out mechs without using skydrops? Beating watchtower without skydrops?

Not sure if I should open another thread for this other question, but is it possible to increase my home ship's cargo capacity with the cargo of my fleet ships? I think as it is right now, fleet ships don't store cargo. And I'm not sure if storing things on a fleet ship will be lost in case I change fleet ships later on.

 

[justanotherjon]

I use SBC and BSPF alongside Watchtower, and a slew of other ship mods, and haven't had this particular issue. Sounds like it could be a scripting or runtime issue.

I would try removing the ship from your fleet, and then maybe leave Stardock (travel to a different planet/moon or land), and then return and give it another shot.

If that doesn't work, try a different ship tech elsewhere and see if you can edit the ship at all. It may be a vanilla bug affecting that specific ship.

 

[aimlesstraveller]

Uh oh.. after moving on with skydrops installed on my simpler ships, I'm getting a CTD after trying to save in the shipbuilder (again, without any issues in the builder) EVEN THOUGH the ship doesn't have any Watchtower-related parts before/after the edit.

I know that almost sounds like it's not related to Watchtower at all, but I haven't experienced so many post-shipbuilder CTDs until after I installed this mod - and this is on a level 99 with most questlines finished with mods.

Not sure if this is related, but in my StarfieldCustom.ini, I've had this line:

[Spaceship]
fShipBuilderModuleOverlapTolerance=-4

I use this so I can clip to my heart's content in the ship builder. And that non-watchtower ship edit CTD involved clipping that this line enables.

Edit: yes, this CTD was experienced via another ship tech elsewhere (Wolf, the Den)

 

[justanotherjon]

Okay, typically, in my own experience, I've experienced similar CTDs trying to edit ships when they had certain items or crew on board.

I don't think any .ini file edits are the culprit here.

Is it happening with ships that aren't in your fleet?

Also, the Den has been notorious for bugging ships and crashing out games when trying to edit ships there since the game launched. They patched the worst of it, but I still never edit my own ships there out of habit now.