Patch Notes Update Server Update Incoming - 19.06.2015
- Thread starter Michael Brookes
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He meant cost of battle damage will overall be higher. But overall costs (battle damage and wear and tear combined) should be lower. Sometimes you have to read between the lines.
DEVELOPMENT SUGGESTION for some end-user experience improvement:
It is clear that the authentication system is separate from the instancing, matchmaking, etc servers. When you do an update, you are only bringing down the back end servers. End users are still getting the log in screen, going through authentication, waiting on all the local client files to load...only at the end when the client tries to create a session with the server does it fail.
When you are taking the servers down you need to set a flag on the authentication servers to pop some simple dialog that the servers are down and stop the process there. This makes the process of eager-beaver gamers checking to see if the servers are back up as simple as clicking the login button and getting instant feedback.
It is clear that the authentication system is separate from the instancing, matchmaking, etc servers. When you do an update, you are only bringing down the back end servers. End users are still getting the log in screen, going through authentication, waiting on all the local client files to load...only at the end when the client tries to create a session with the server does it fail.
When you are taking the servers down you need to set a flag on the authentication servers to pop some simple dialog that the servers are down and stop the process there. This makes the process of eager-beaver gamers checking to see if the servers are back up as simple as clicking the login button and getting instant feedback.
It happens now and then. To lots of CMDRs in lots of systems. I suspect that it is to do with server load. The worst example I had was having to scan 7 times before it actually completed the scan. There are also similar issues with blowing your horn. You frequently get an incorrect scan, even with the Advanced scanner. Blowing the horn again usually works, if you leave it long enough. Again, I suspect server load. I sometimes get,say, just a star and two asteroid belts shown in the system scan, with a gap between the belts that obviously has planets in it - very like the view you get with an incomplete scan from just a basic scanner. I also get it where you blow the horn and are told there are lots of objects (say, 54), but the system map only shows a couple of stars, or similar. Blow the horn again, and it reports the 54 again.
Bottom line is that it looks like server load problems, with the client apparently not knowing that it has only received partial information: not only do you need to worry about the server loads, but you should probably put in more robust comms wih the server, so the client knows when it has only got partial information, and asks again.
TL; DR : scans are inconsistent, do not always work, and often report wrong information.
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*rolls eyes*
Thanks, I'll see how the update goes, though I feel I will probably be going that route..
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Unfortunately, they can't as some bugs and fixes are necessary immediately. This is an on-going and growing game that relies on the input of its players to improve. You can't say that about many games these days, eh.
Just be glad our studious little FrontierDev gnomes are on the job in some teeny industrial park near Cambridge and not sipping liquor store margaritas back at the Motel Six in LA, having spent all their allowance on tacos and gaudy mexican hats at EEE.
Perhaps they suddenly realised either that there's no point entering combat without shields, or that there's no point trying to rob miners in a depleted rocky field?
What is meant is an instant recharge via a "repair all" like button. I'd love this as it currently takes 10 minutes for shields to recharge after say, changing a powerplant in an FDL.
I think he means the majority of issues that are currently in the game were identified during the 1.3 beta and should have been fixed before it was released, this 'test it for a week then sling it out' approach to updates is ridiculous. I would much rather wait for big updates like 1.3 to be tested properly than be left with the largely broken game we've had for the last two weeks.
Thanks, makes sense now.
Cargo limit is still present, please fix the profession breaking patch as soon as possible.
Thank you for the integrity update.
Thank you for the integrity update.
Cmdr exar SPIRE. Wednesday between 8pm and 11pm.
Many times but out of human bubble (at least 10 times), impossible to remind me system name sorry.
I agree! It would be most helpful to get the real server status after logging in on the launcher. On a few occasions it would've saved me getting ready, moving seats to my other screen whilst the shaders are being prepared just to have wasted my time lol Though, I check here more often these day's before I'm about to play and again I've saved myself some hassle
Keep doing what you're doing FD! I have been a fan since Frontier: Elite 2 on the Amiga and am soo looking forward to what else may come in the future from this game!
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