Elite Dangerous | Server Maintenance 5 December 2024

[Jinx Chrome]

Both of those are clearly bugs. If you divide by 0, you clearly didn't check your input data before doing the calculation. If you allow letters from ascii data in a search field for phone numbers (arguably ascii strings anyway), you are again not validating your input data and handling it in a nice way for the user. Programmers do these kind of checks all the time.


The time a service should respond within is a contract and it is a bug if it doesn't respond in time. A retry is simply a workaround that smooths out some of those bugs. Whether it is an important enough bug to fix, is another story. Every user-facing system will have many more bugs "ignored" than those that are fixed. Retrying as a functionality is flawed and in my experience because you don't feel there is enough time to fix the root cause. It's basically saving developer time by letting the users spend more time waiting.

ever heard of an Denial of Service because the service is congested? With my examples I wanted to point to the fact that you wrongly say "an error message is a bug".
Which it isn't. An error message can appear when there is something not working but the condition is an expected condition under certain circumstances. A calculator will give you a Div by 0 error message. This is NOT a bug. It knows how to handle a Div0 and tells you that it isn't allowed. If the calculator had an actual bug, it would accept your input and crash.

As some support engineers would say: "Dear customer, it is a bug when it got a bug number from us. Unless it hasn't a bug number it could be a bug but rather let a developer look at it."

 

[Cmdr Daedalus Spyke]

Well spin my nipple nuts and engage smug mode, Fleet Carrier transfers are fixed. Thread for that is linked here.

Can someone try limpets? (Link to thread discussing collector limpets getting stuck)

I've been successfully using limpets the past couple weeks now. I think it's safe to say it's resolved for now once the servers stabilized.

 

[Brunosdad]

@ Rat Catcher: Thank you for the info.

 

[FluffyBits74]

There is no update today, only server maintenance

Really? What has messed up my ability to do synthesis then? It just says unavailable.
Even in the modules tab i cant.
Bizarre

 

[BDelacroix]

Well, looks like we got the weeping part down.

 

[Sublime]

The update as below?

OK...

Have you checked if the update has happened yet?

Yes it happened, and there was a client update.

 

[Markov Chaney]

I've been successfully using limpets the past couple weeks now. I think it's safe to say it's resolved for now once the servers stabilized.

The thread that I linked it makes it clear that it was still a problem this week. Interesting that it got better for you though - did you change any network settings?

 

[Jack Winter]

And then apparently I'm stupid for floating the idea of a paid DLC focusing soley on bug fixes. Yes its an extreme measure but at least I'm not naive enough to reward bad behaviour and expect them to suddently start behaving better xD. At least if they make you BUY their bug fixes, then you actually have consumer rights if they do not deliver what they promised. But people like you pay in advance and "hope" they'll use the money to fix bugs lmao.

That was one of the most stupid suggestions I saw on this forum for a long while.. Are you really proposing to let DLC buyers have less buggy game, while those who don't buy the DLC will have a buggier game? And how do you expect it to work in practice? Two server infrastructures with 2 clients, one buggier and the other less so?

And in spite of your assessment of the game, I'm playing and having loads of fun..

 

[PegasusSkull]

Greetings Commanders,

There will be extended server maintenance on Thursday 5th December.

Release Schedule (All times in UTC)

• 07:00 - Servers Offline
• 11:00 - Servers back up

These are approximate times and are subject to change.


Updates

• A shadow looms over Sol...

this is great but the update has wiped my game now cannot play when i log its says start not continue and all my ships I purchased i think i'll loose wanted to participate as have 6 titans feel let down now ?

 

[Taimaru]

this is great but the update has wiped my game now cannot play when i log its says start not continue and all my ships I purchased i think i'll loose wanted to participate as have 6 titans feel let down now ?

I don't think your game is wiped as servers are still a bit unstable and what you see can happen if your client can't retrieve you CMDR data. Try restarting the game.

If that doesn't work contact Support.

 

[PegasusSkull]

I don't think your game is wiped as servers are still a bit unstable and what you see can happen if your client can't retrieve you CMDR data. Try restarting the game.

If that doesn't work contact Support.

thanks for the reply I have restarted the game but still says start not continue I have contacted support not sure when they will get back though

 

[Taimaru]

I have restarted the game but still says start not continue I have contacted support not sure when they will get back though

They are usually quick but it depends how busy they are if others have the same issue. Good luck! o7

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Can someone try limpets? (Link to thread discussing collector limpets getting stuck)

They're the same unreliability as before - worked fine in two signal sources, took a while to put the cargo in the ship in the third.

Though there has been another quiet fix - the message saying what Power rank you got last week and how much you get paid for it now appears.

 

[DjVortex]

This is a thread about the update. Bug fixes are part of updates. I suggest you create a thread about narratives or use one of the many existing ones.

This isn't a game binary update. There's nothing to download. You are complaining about an "update" that doesn't exist not fixing something. Well, duh.

 

[Darkman Returns]

Well spin my nipple nuts and engage smug mode, Fleet Carrier transfers are fixed. Thread for that is linked here.

Can someone try limpets? (Link to thread discussing collector limpets getting stuck)

Nothing has changed for me. The commodities that were greyed out on my Fleet Carrier TRANSFER page are still greyed out.

 

[aRJay]

Yes it happened, and there was a client update.

All I got was the server side update, no downloads required.

Had you launched the game since the 28th?

 

[Rat Catcher]

Yes it happened, and there was a client update.

Curious, there certainly wasn't a client update for me...
But I have played very recently...

 

[FryaDuck]

ever heard of an Denial of Service because the service is congested? With my examples I wanted to point to the fact that you wrongly say "an error message is a bug".
Which it isn't. An error message can appear when there is something not working but the condition is an expected condition under certain circumstances. A calculator will give you a Div by 0 error message. This is NOT a bug. It knows how to handle a Div0 and tells you that it isn't allowed. If the calculator had an actual bug, it would accept your input and crash.

As some support engineers would say: "Dear customer, it is a bug when it got a bug number from us. Unless it hasn't a bug number it could be a bug but rather let a developer look at it."

The extended downtime was due to the devs having to move hundreds or thousands of Fleet Carriers to new systems. My FC got moved from 5ly from Sol to 69 ly.

 

[CMDR L0wlander]

There is a bug with the weekly missions.
I only have 7 instead of 10, and they do not complete.

I just did a collect escape pods mission twice, just to make sure it wasn't me doing anything wrong.

Collected at the correct system, delivered at the correct system, but no merits or mission completion.

 

[maximilianyuen]

how can FDev screw up a simple maintenance that bad?
the game still wont connect to server but seems some of you can but things dont work properly.

i am super confuse when some said there is client update when I never got any and it never does for a maintenance.