Unofficial Starfield Patch

Quest ID: RQ_Settlement_PlaceObject_01

I believe this may be happening because stage 100 accepts the quest, calls stage 200, then immediately processes more stuff in the stage 100 fragment that needs the data from stage 200 to be initialized first and what you see on screen is the data initializing itself to the randomized count that stage 200 should have set up. Code as follows:

Stage 100:

SetStage(200) ; create activators

SetObjectiveDisplayed(100)

kmyquest.SetDialogueAV_PrimaryObjectiveKnown()
kmyquest.SetDialogueAV_Hello_Stressed_PostAccept()

; Add the Group's Overlay Map Marker to the map,
; in case it is not already discovered
Alias_OverlayMapMarker.GetRef().AddToMapScanned(true)

Stage 200:

; Set up Activators
kmyquest.PlaceInteractionActivators()

This quest attaches RQ_PlaceObjectScript and according to the Papyrus Script Manager in the CK, only this quest uses this script. So the solution may be as simple as moving the bulk of Stage 100's calls into the end of RQ_PlaceObjectScript PlaceInteractionActivators function.