Another weekend after 3.3 (and it has to be said, after the start of DW2) = another frustrated time trying to get to play and even after getting in, being booted out within minutes. Never had this issue before either event - I also have a pretty rock solid hi-speed connection and no issues joining other online games or services.
I cannot say much about 3.3.0.2, because I started with this version. 3.3.0.3 - this version - I used now for about two weeks, and as a new player I did not try too much different things. A bit exploration, a bit of fighting in a high security RES and several missions, mostly courier missions.
I could play several days and ran into two bugs, despite not doing/trying a lot of things. The first bug is annoying, supposedly fixed, but not really. It shows while surface scanning planets, where the planets starts out in 'fully scanned' view, so you do not see the drones impact zones. No big problem, but annoying and often costs your efficiency bonus.
The second problem (bug?) is more serious: On the weekend I tried twice to play my new game. And ran into disconnections whenever entering FSD. Once it left me stranded in my first target system, far from the sun, and unable to FSD to a station. Somehow I managed then to complete, what I wanted to do, but I left the game afterwards, disappointed and insecure of the game and the results. The second time, 2 days later I just tried to jump in system to a RES zone, same problem, FSD did not take on, crash with conn loss, after restart I was floating near my starting port. I just turned around, docked and put my ship to the hangar. No game for me. And to be clear: I know a bit about connections and the Internet, I am admin of a private game server (completely unconnected to Elite), and I am very sure that my connection is working well. Also at certain times I can play without problems (except the bugs). But since I use to sleep at night and have other things to do during the day, when I have time and would love to play, the game does not work.
I reported both cases on the bug report forum, and found there a lot (at least 5-7 different threads) from people, who had suffered the same problems. I also had netlog activated during the first time and posted the log files.
One thing is common to all these 'connection problem' threads:
They are all completely ignored. For days now.
I will wait for several days if something is done, or at least tried, or if some feedback comes from Frontier. If not, I will deinstall the game and write it off as a loss. Because having an online game - which I was distrustful to buy until now because of its need of game servers - which cannot be played (especially at weekends and in the evening), because the games servers do not work correctly makes no sense. I will just write Elite off and book it as a learned lesson...
