Bug/Issue Locked out of Floran hunting mission

I attempted to go to the Floran hunting mission after spending quite some time trying to find enough Floran things to continue the story. I was on the teleportation screen for over a minute, and then warped back to my ship. Now universe.lock shows up in my universe folder.

I uh...kind of need to actually beat this mission to continue the story? Is there any way around this? Anything I can do to make it load, or skip it entirely?

 

I'm having a similar issue as well, but with the hylotl library mission instead.

I did have an issue with the Floran mission's final teleporter not beaming me out properly so I just beamed out manually. The mission registered completed, but it doesn't hurt to have this out there.
OS: Win 7
No mods installed the first few times I tried to do the mission.

 

This is supposedly a memory issue. You can sometimes reach it successfully by going to the mission right away upon starting the game. If it doesn't work, quit and restart. It's not a perfect solution, obviously. I think the same thing goes for the next, but so far no luck.

 

I think I did shut the game down in order to make this topic, and then a few minutes later I booted it up again. The mission failed to load the first time after starting up, but I tried again anyway and managed to get it to load. Thanks for the reply. That's useful to know in case it happens again.

Yeah, I have Windows 7 as well. 32-bit, but with the highest amount of ram and stuff as it can possibly have for 32-bit.

 

Yeah, I've noticed that. I've had that happen with planets occasionally, but when it happens to planets, the planets or star systems related to them just completely disappear, and I'm warped to a random location in the universe. (And "universe.lock" shows up in my universe folder.) Very frustrating. While I appreciate the timeout thing sending me back to my ship, and preventing me from getting stuck in a loading sequence, I don't like being locked out of things. :\

 

Really? Cuz the only time I've ever noticed that file appearing was when I had errors like this. (or when I tried to reset a world by deleting its file.)