1.4 server downtime

Dommarraa · Oct 6, 2015

mister ron said:
still trying to wrap my head around these two updates:
-Allow NPCs to start interdicting the player while they are charging for a hyperspace jump (but not once the countdown has started)

-Don't allow NPCs to interdict if the target is charging their hyperspace drive - previously only blocked the interdiction during the actual countdown

so they can start interdicting but not actually interdict?
note: i have been interdicted at least twice whilst charging for hyperspace jump...

No idea if they reversed the fix because it was an obvious exploit, or they managed to fix the actual bug of the NPC following through your warp and causing you to crash into the destination star

danjay · Oct 6, 2015

CmdrJacks said:
2pm is the estimated completion time? Someone should run a book.

Before 2pm = 20/1
2pm = Evens
2pm - 5pm = 5/2
5pm - 10pm = 5/1
10pm - 8am = 20/1
after 8am next day = 50/1

Good luck FDev.

put me down for 5/1

woodhouse · Oct 6, 2015

CmdrJacks said:
Which of these folders are safe to remove? SSD space is premium.

LS to you too.

They're probably all safe to remove, except if you run them again, the installer will re-download all.
If you just want to play the production game, I think you can remove COMBAT_TUTORIAL_DEMO and PUBLIC_TEST_SERVER.

Comandante · Oct 6, 2015

mister ron said:
still trying to wrap my head around these two updates:
-Allow NPCs to start interdicting the player while they are charging for a hyperspace jump (but not once the countdown has started)

-Don't allow NPCs to interdict if the target is charging their hyperspace drive - previously only blocked the interdiction during the actual countdown

so they can start interdicting but not actually interdict?
note: i have been interdicted at least twice whilst charging for hyperspace jump...

What's your source/link, CMDR?

Lukozer · Oct 6, 2015

Zac Antonaci said:
UPDATE 2: We're looking like the downtime will be longer than expected but we will keep you updated as we go.

And i'm guessing no-one saw that coming... I mean, it's only happened at every single major update...

When will we get update 3 letting us know in advance about the week or more of constant disconnections when playing the game for more than 15 mins?

woodhouse · Oct 6, 2015

Dommarraa said:
No idea if they reversed the fix because it was an obvious exploit, or they managed to fix the actual bug of the NPC following through your warp and causing you to crash into the destination star

I noticed that if an NPC starts interdicting during the jump warmup and you jump anyway, you will sometimes get interdicted right after the jump, it will be hard to evade and you may end up suffering heat damage.
Which is exactly what you were saying, doh.

Irisa Nyira · Oct 6, 2015

Dommarraa said:
No idea if they reversed the fix because it was an obvious exploit, or they managed to fix the actual bug of the NPC following through your warp and causing you to crash into the destination star

It's not obvious to me - can you explain further?

EDIT: Never mind, found this explanation: "Then someone realised that by flying around in Supercruise with your hyperspace drive charged, but preventing a jump from happening by keeping out of alignment with the destination system, you could suppress all NPC interdictions."

stevesideas · Oct 6, 2015

It's 4.15pm...come on !!!!!!

mister ron · Oct 6, 2015

Comandante said:
What's your source/link, CMDR?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=188174

did i do it wrong again?

stripealipe · Oct 6, 2015

Lukozer said:
And i'm guessing no-one saw that coming... I mean, it's only happened at every single major update...

When will we get update 3 letting us know in advance about the week or more of constant disconnections when playing the game for more than 15 mins?

Now now... calm yourself... it'll happen soon enough....

Rimsplitter · Oct 6, 2015

DanTheMan said:
Maybe it has all gone horribly wrong and all accounts are reset back to a "clear save" position and they are too embarrassed to tell us ;-)

Talk like that would have got you shot in 1941.

danjay · Oct 6, 2015

avgroenink said:
I noticed that if an NPC starts interdicting during the jump warmup and you jump anyway, you will sometimes get interdicted right after the jump, it will be hard to evade and you may end up suffering heat damage.
Which is exactly what you were saying, doh.

I've had that happen to me on quite a few occasions recently

Soopyyy · Oct 6, 2015

Are you still doing the live stream?

conrad1878 · Oct 6, 2015

they are now doing the draw to see who gets back on 1st

- - - Updated - - -

and the first out the hat is not me

The_Quasar · Oct 6, 2015

conrad1878 said:
they are now doing the draw to see who gets back on 1st

but it's taking a while to get us all in the hat

Andovar · Oct 6, 2015

Soopyyy said:
Are you still doing the live stream?

Yes. It's going to feature Edward furiously clicking refresh on the server status page.

CmdrJacks · Oct 6, 2015

avgroenink said:
LS to you too.

They're probably all safe to remove, except if you run them again, the installer will re-download all.
If you just want to play the production game, I think you can remove COMBAT_TUTORIAL_DEMO and PUBLIC_TEST_SERVER.

echo sknaht | rev

Comandante · Oct 6, 2015

mister ron said:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=188174

did i do it wrong again?

Nope that's perfect! Been looking for that kind of thing. It says CQC update but am assuming it's the entire 1.4 deal.

Niiiiiiice.

conrad1878 · Oct 6, 2015

the last major update severs did not come on till after 9pm

msx361 · Oct 6, 2015

So if the update leaves us off line until thursday, will the pp cycle be cancelled. Or will we get to keep our current rank for another week?