Starfall Inconsistencies and Bugs - let's start a list here

[Wiley_dWunnaful]

Well it's been a while now, and I've decided that Starfall is indeed a Starfail. The time limits require a player to drop everything he's doing and set up a series of massive resource trades to advance each step of the questline, only to advance a step and set up another series of massive resource trades to advance to the next step.
A player must make various items, but where they are made are in different places. Some are made in the forerunner, some in the provision warehouse, and they can only be made when BB wants them made. If you make extra you will be penalized, as you are required to only make enough for each step of the quest. When you finally go thru the steps to get the motes (no, they couldn't just call them mines, they had to be named something esoterical just to be confusing) you have to plant a storage facility right next to them or they won't mine fast enough to complete the quest step within the time frame. That means blowing up a mountain, which means buying a VERY expensive buff with gems, which means spending cash to buy gems. Follow the money and now you know why the questline was created... and what do you get for all this effort? I hear that you can get SKINS! Very useless skins! Emperors clothes! I understand from comments online the whole thing is worth the experience, but I don't see it, but then again I'm playing for fun, and not pushing to get to level 80 today, so I'm not counting every point every day. The game is supposed to be fun first, Starfail is not fun, its a pain, fighting to get the trades made, the correct parts in the correct quantities, rushing to make it all happen NOW... only to have it all fail because the mine is too far away from the storage...

[gman1821]

Having found a star shard deposit inside/under a building I would consider a bug in placement.

Happened to me as well. I ended up moving the building.

[Ultim]

This is also a questionable placement

[Wiley_dWunnaful]

And while we're at it, I found another annoyance this morning: The shard storage is also very limited! I don't know exactly where it is, but this morning I wasn't mining star shards because my inventory was full. The only thing that tipped me off was the flag on the motes telling me there was a problem. I used 4,850 to make a class 4 reward and now have less than 850 to make a class 1 reward.... my guess is the limit is about 5k. REALLY STUPID LIMIT!

So use them or don't get any more. Don't try to wait until you can make a reasoned choice at your leisure.

[RantNRave]

as 2 others have posted, OP and another before, do not open the spire shard boxes, they will just bug out, give you nothing and will remove all from inventory instead.
(despite first showing as working, i still got nothing, ive opened debris boxes before with no issue though after the quest parts were done fine)

[Droidhak]

And while we're at it, I found another annoyance this morning: The shard storage is also very limited! I don't know exactly where it is, but this morning I wasn't mining star shards because my inventory was full.

In our storage screen, both the star dust and star crystals are on the Basic tab, the first one.

[Frii]

as 2 others have posted, OP and another before, do not open the spire shard boxes, they will just bug out, give you nothing and will remove all from inventory instead.
(despite first showing as working, i still got nothing, ive opened debris boxes before with no issue though after the quest parts were done fine)

I got 5 boxes of spire fragments. The first one I opened gave me 100 fragments. The second one just resulted in a spinning hour glass and didn't open. I clicked on the other three and they just disappeared without opening. I confirmed that fragments were not put anywhere in my inventory nor the star menu. I refreshed and reloaded the game and confirmed the spire fragment boxes just disappeared without crediting the fragments anywhere.

This happened again, I lost all my fragment crates except the first.

1. While The Dust Settles quest was active, I opened one crate of spire fragments and got 100 fragments.
2. When attempting to open the second crate it resulted in a never ending spinning hour glass with no option to close it.
3. After reloading the game the bugged crate that failed to open was gone without crediting any fragments.
4. The other 3 crates were also gone from the star menu without ever having clicked on them.

[xMarciaBradyx]

1. While The Dust Settles quest was active, I opened one crate of spire fragments and got 100 fragments.
2. When attempting to open the second crate it resulted in a never ending spinning hour glass with no option to close it.
3. After reloading the game the bugged crate that failed to open was gone without crediting any fragments.
4. The other 3 crates were also gone from the star menu without ever having clicked on them

This same has just happened to me -- why show 5 boxes? Are we only meant to get one box? Or, why only give us one box if we are meant to receive 5?
Something isn't working!

The lack of communication from BB about these quests is discouraging. I don't understand why we have to be in the dark all the time about what is *supposed* to happen and why don't we receive answers about things that are not working properly? Why is it that we must go to a third-party website just to try to figure it all out?

[sagminor]

I'm level 74 and I have two different starfall quests that are using the same forerunner. This whole quest really doesn't seem to make a lot of sense nor is there a clear explanation as to the objective. My two quests are fallen star mining (which has been there a while when I was doing another starfalll quest for level 4 parts) and major retrofit. With no explanation as to how these two interact with each other I have no idea what to do or not do. Really poor in my opinion. It gives great XP but so what if it is not fun, and I don't find "guessing" and dealing with poorly explained quests much fun. I'm sure there are many others who love this and are having no problem and I respect that, but I do wish the developers would ensure that everyone is "on board" with what should be done(i.e. quest lasts for 4 weeks, 6 days, 2 months, etc and will repeat) so everyone understands whether it is something they want to invest time in.

[AHughB]

I'm stuck at Shipshape in Altered State. Timer runs down and resets and nothing happens. waiting 6 hours to see if it will complete. I make fixtures and they stay in star menu. If I delete them and make new, same thing, they sit in star menu. The pay parts of quest complete OK, the gather parts just gather and sit in star menu.

edit: I sold excess parts for gold coin in the forerunner and boom, the quest allowed me to complete Shipshape but in a different quest chain, Collecting the clues. Will see how this goes forward.