Ricardo Bosch Slate Fix

What this?

Fixes not being able to remove Ricardo Bosch's Slate from your inventory, with a dirty hack to the corresponding alias flag to remove its quest object state.

Any more info?

Yes, but only relevant if you're a bug fixer in a big project maybe?

Refer to screenshots for visualized support.

Quest: FFNewAtlantis03(000A47F2)
Quest Stage: 4(0004)
Reference Alias: #20(21)
Corresponding Script Fragment: qf_ffnewatlantis03_000a47f2.psc -> stage 4, 300(?) and 400(?)

The usual way would be to clear the alias after the slate is given to Ricardo Bosch, or the quest is finished. But due to whatever reason this never happens.

The reason why I did the dirty hack is because I could not find the exact position in the main script of the quest, or any of the fragments related to the quest, that is set to clear the alias. I have a strict "I'm not going to invest more than ten minutes as long as I don't have acces to CK" search policie, because in CK it would probably take me only a fraction of the time to search and find the correct position.

Usually the clear alias is triggered in either the SetStage or SetObjectiveDisplayed portion of the quest, but this is really really hard and tedious(emphasize on tedious) to trace down in xEdit. I should also mention I need to limit my time I spend on doing this "mod creation/bug fixing"-thing, simply because of sanity reasons, and I'm already investing more than enough time into the whole game and franchise.

So in other words, if anyone else wants to do it the "best practice" way, go on, I already did the searching part for you.

How to install?

Done with currently experimental xEdit, so mind the risk!

According to the developers of Mo2 -> drag&drop, Vortex the same. But if you want to do it full yolo hardcore, do it manually this way:

1. download Plugin enabler and install per instructions
2. add this to your load order .txt file(without quotes) "BSF_BoschSlateFix.esm"
3. move the file inside the .zip to your Starfield/Data folder
4. blatantly ignore anything said about MyGames in the past
5. done

I'd recommend using xEdit to integrate it into your master patch, if you make practice of one.

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