Servers down?

TaoZero5 · May 17, 2015

At least we can communicate on the interwebs and know that we're not alone in our puddle of Grrrr.

epoch71 · May 17, 2015

Astronut57 said:
FD's servers are probably fine. It's the stuff in between us and them that's ropey at the moment.

On the other hand, it could be that the servers hosting FD's services are fine and dandy, but what's actually being hosted is not robust.

LordZoltan · May 17, 2015

Can confirm happening to me, too - from Colchester, UK.

'Couldn't connect to matchmaking server' and now I just have a spinning cobra. I need to get back to civilisation damnit!

Dr_Dunkel · May 17, 2015

It must be kind of a bad coincidence that server crashes mostly occur when you finally have got the time to play for a bit, afters weeks of work and business stuff... Jeez

Cmdr Zach · May 17, 2015

back in now, private group.

LordZoltan · May 17, 2015

Actually, scrub that - just got in

yay! Open play,

gooddoc · May 17, 2015

Can't complain really.....iv been on every day since it went online in December last year....this weekend is the first time that iv had connection problems.
I can wait a couple of hours for FD to sort out the issue...i wait patiently

lolanon · May 17, 2015

Astronut57 said:
FD's servers are probably fine. It's the stuff in between us and them that's ropey at the moment.

Says who? Dont give them excuses. Aren't they on AWS? Where i work uses AWS, and they are running perfectly fine.

VampireG · May 17, 2015

gooddoc said:
Can't complain really.....iv been on every day since it went online in December last year....this weekend is the first time that iv had connection problems.
I can wait a couple of hours for FD to sort out the issue...i wait patiently

I don't get that much time to play, work, family, real life. So when I do get time it is normally at the weekends, so this is really annoying for me.

DanTheMan · May 17, 2015

Does FD even bother to monitor their own server failures?
Their status page says the service it "fine"...but we all know different.

I think FD must have forgotten that the Galaxy is not a M-F 9-5 Operation. ;-)

Brett C · May 17, 2015

DanTheMan said:
TBH what really bugs me is the lack of communications and/or acknowledgement that the service is ropey.
FD seem to ignore all their failures and only tell us about their successes. Not seen a "We are very sorry that...." from FD yet.

We're aware of the issues. They are being looked into now.

X2Eliah · May 17, 2015

Also, it's sort of sunday. Not exactly the time when a company would be 100% staffed.

Bacon Sarnie · May 17, 2015

Heh, that told you Dan....

lolanon · May 17, 2015

Brett C said:
We're aware of the issues. They are being looked into now.

Cheers for feedback.

smiths121 · May 17, 2015

booho - every time I come on and pop for a ciggie I come back to server communication error. It is my fault, must give up smoking

gooddoc · May 17, 2015

DanTheMan said:
Does FD even bother to monitor their own server failures?
Their status page says the service it "fine"...but we all know different.

I think FD must have forgotten that the Galaxy is not a M-F 9-5 Operation. ;-)

Id rather FD look at the server problems & not the status page

epoch71 · May 17, 2015

Brett C said:
We're aware of the issues. They are being looked into now.

What's the point of quoting a post suggesting an apology would be nice, if you're not going to make one? Please understand I'm not saying you should (as it's probably not your responsibility to do so) ... I just wonder why you quoted it when you could have simply just posted.

Elgered · May 17, 2015

Thanks Fdev. For working on weekends when all the other play Elite

Ben Salient · May 17, 2015

London UK , 12mbs sec connection , 970gtx 4th gen intel. 16gb ram
having similar issues as those people have posted above.
..........
I understand the reasons for NOT having an offline mode , and I LIKE that the game is ONLINE ONLY.
what upsets me is that I try to organise my game time in advance ...
so when problems occur with no reason given , no explanation forthcoming , and sometimes not even an acknowledgement that there was anything wrong
it is , to say the least somewhat exasperating..
....

thanx Brett C

Viggen. · May 17, 2015

Yep all good again here too, I guess someone tripped and pulled out the power lead

Was beginning to think I was being cursed for being in one of the blacked out systems that only have a black hole as primary lol.