Elite: Dangerous - Bug discussion

Distance · Feb 26, 2015

I decided to test again to see if npcs actually stop and scoop cargo but I didn't get that far.

I was just interdicted by an eagle. I pulled to a halt and started dropping cargo in batches of 4. I ended up dropping 48 tons of palladium before having to leave since the eagle didn't think it was enough. This is so broken.

Libluini · Feb 26, 2015

Distance said:
I decided to test again to see if npcs actually stop and scoop cargo but I didn't get that far.

I was just interdicted by an eagle. I pulled to a halt and started dropping cargo in batches of 4. I ended up dropping 48 tons of palladium before having to leave since the eagle didn't think it was enough. This is so broken.

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This is probably not a bug and has more to do with Frontier's programmers expecting you to swat that Eagle like the fly it is.

Dr. Mabuse · Feb 26, 2015

When is the "interrupted bounty hunt" resetting the kill score -bug going to get fixed?

I had 6 kills out of 7 when my mission was interrupted by someone who wanted me to go after authority vessels instead.
This reset my kill count to zero, and I was just planning on going to bed because I have a workday tomorrow.
I've killed 3 more pirates (as in stopping me and demanding I release my cargo) but mission kill score doesn't update yet.

This blows more than my wife's hairdryer.
This sucks more than my vacum cleaner.
This is almost as bad as Windows 8.1 !!!1!!1!!

I had more to say but it's all blocked by the word filter.

Distance · Feb 27, 2015

Libluini said:
This is probably not a bug and has more to do with Frontier's programmers expecting you to swat that Eagle like the fly it is.

Wouldn't surprise me but if it's a pirate it should take x amount of cargo (that the ship can carry) regardless.

carazvan · Feb 27, 2015

Please fix (aka flip) the starting text description for "high metal content" and "metal rich planets".

A "metal rich planet" begins every text description with: "High metal content worlds like this ... "
A "high metal content planet" begins every text description with: "Metal-rich planet with a metallic core ... "

DragonsClaw · Feb 27, 2015

Dropped cargo "evaporating into space"

This maybe just a very minor bug, but could be related to npc pirates not accepting cargo dropped by players as "payment".

I met Cmdr. Stocko while doing a "get x amount of y goods"-type mission tonight. We started to chat, and since I have remaped "drop all" to a button close to "return" accidentally dropped all my cargo. I needed at least two or three units of that cargo so started to scoop it up again. After I had scooped up 28 units the rest "evaporetd into space" (i.e. showed no longer on my radar or contact list). However, the cargo I had'nt scooped up still showed on Stocko's radar, and he was also able to scoop it up. We both concluded that something strange was going on. He also dropped some cargo, but it appeared on both of our radars as supposed to do. I thought that dropped cargo would disappear normally after some time (since the canisters cant withstand radiation or whatever for a long time). Well, Im not so sure about this anymore. Could this phenomenon possibly be related to what Distance described above? Maybe the npc pirates just dont "see" cargo dropped by players just like I got the (false?) impression that dropped cargo "evaporates into space" after some time?
Both Stocko and myself took screenies so we have proof.
Hopefully this is of some help...

Greets!
DC

kendrickdm · Feb 27, 2015

Asp in 1.1 update now suffers damage when interdicted

Hi,

Is anyone else suffering the unavoidable interdiction problem where your ship loses hull integrity, using the ASP I now lose 50,000 cr per event.

Interdiction is not random but an event spawned by first login/journey and no further ships attack the player afterwards during a session in allied friendly space.

The interdiction sequence strobes and pushes the evasion target off screen immediately and even with the player flying perfectly never allows the evasion bar to fill.

I will be putting a note on screen to force jump into realspace to clear out any hostile's spawning but I am not supposed to 'fix' a developer issue with double sided sticky tape.

Cheers,

Kendrickdm

Pedrovasquez · Feb 27, 2015

Bounties collect issue

Am I the only one to have issue with bounties collect ? I get the blue message confirming that I have the bounty reward but it does not appear in the transaction panel.

NeilF · Feb 27, 2015

Libluini said:
This is probably not a bug and has more to do with Frontier's programmers expecting you to swat that Eagle like the fly it is.

It is part of an issue IMHO. People repeatedly getting interdicted by NPCs asking for cargo they don't even have (they're not carrying any)... over and over...

NPCs shouldn't generally attack you if you don't have any cargo. And generally if you dish cargo out, they should stop attacking you.

Else we end up where we are now with psychopathic NPCs constantly attacking/murdering people, which isn't good for the game IMHO!

1971efc · Feb 27, 2015

Pedrovasquez said:
Am I the only one to have issue with bounties collect ? I get the blue message confirming that I have the bounty reward but it does not appear in the transaction panel.

ive had this for awhile now,,,, ive lost about 300k worth of bounties in the last week alone that have not shown up,,, its seriously annoying

Pedrovasquez · Feb 27, 2015

1971efc said:
ive had this for awhile now,,,, ive lost about 300k worth of bounties in the last week alone that have not shown up,,, its seriously annoying

I would say i have lost near 500k :/
i play only as BH/pirate....

Alec Turner · Feb 27, 2015

Dr. Mabuse said:
When is the "interrupted bounty hunt" resetting the kill score -bug going to get fixed?

I had 6 kills out of 7 when my mission was interrupted by someone who wanted me to go after authority vessels instead.
This reset my kill count to zero, and I was just planning on going to bed because I have a workday tomorrow.
I've killed 3 more pirates (as in stopping me and demanding I release my cargo) but mission kill score doesn't update yet.

This blows more than my wife's hairdryer.
This sucks more than my vacum cleaner.
This is almost as bad as Windows 8.1 !!!1!!1!!

I had more to say but it's all blocked by the word filter.

This! Still my number one bug and has been since I ticketed it about a month ago.

Myspace Kaitsu80 · Feb 27, 2015

If I set a long route (at shortest way-settings, always), when I get interdicted or drop out of SC for other reason, I dont then anymore see that "next on route" (yellow) sign next to a system name in my navigation panel.

I can still see my route in Galaxy Map though, follow it and then click it as a "route destination" again, then next system on route pops back to my navigation panel.

NeilF · Feb 27, 2015

Myspace Kaitsu80 said:
If I set a long route (at shortest way-settings, always), when I get interdicted or drop out of SC for other reason, I dont then anymore see that "next on route" (yellow) sign next to a system name in my navigation panel.

I can still see my route in Galaxy Map though, follow it and then click it as a "route destination" again, then next system on route pops back to my navigation panel.

My friends commented on that issue to. Ticket!

W4rSkuLL · Feb 27, 2015

Distance said:
I decided to test again to see if npcs actually stop and scoop cargo but I didn't get that far.

I was just interdicted by an eagle. I pulled to a halt and started dropping cargo in batches of 4. I ended up dropping 48 tons of palladium before having to leave since the eagle didn't think it was enough. This is so broken.

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In beta and Alpha the Npc scooped cargo. I havent noticed any scooping yet. Pirates often try to kill me if I have scooped cargo. But its a long time since I saw any NPC pick up cargo. They are supposed to pick it up. If not it has to be a bug. I remember in Alpha Npc were so after cargo they could "snap" it in front of your nose. It was competive and annoying at the same time. But made the universe more alive.

Myspace Kaitsu80 · Feb 27, 2015

Myspace Kaitsu80 said:
If I set a long route (at shortest way-settings, always), when I get interdicted or drop out of SC for other reason, I dont then anymore see that "next on route" (yellow) sign next to a system name in my navigation panel.

I can still see my route in Galaxy Map though, follow it and then click it as a "route destination" again, then next system on route pops back to my navigation panel.

Add to that, it also works backwards, when I were "stopped by a star" (luckily happened inside solar flare-arc in regular flight, awesome sight), I plotted my course again (to same destination system), did not jump but entered first SC to avoid too much heat.

And then in SC I no longer had that next system on route marked in my Nav panel. But still lines in Galaxy Map.

PS. NeilF, will ticket if still in next patch, been around long time and bet already ticketed, dont wanna crash that system... Have just started annoying me more lately as interdictions are harder to avoid (sometimes I have tried to stay at centre of escape vector but my side of bar did not went up still, now I just submit and run/kill).

Myspace Kaitsu80 · Feb 27, 2015

Jumped into a system, when I arrived I went through that yellow star and partly remained inside it until I accelerated (I think that star, I panicked and saw some yellow strings on my screen, another star straight at front of me....).

Temperature went to 200%, 300% and 400% in just few seconds, no way to escape that bug but pulling a blug.

Hope with these kind of systems we get to land at safe distance from all stars one jumps, not inside them

NeilF · Feb 27, 2015

Myspace Kaitsu80 said:
Jumped into a system, when I arrived I went through that yellow star and partly remained inside it until I accelerated (I think that star, I panicked and saw some yellow strings on my screen, another star straight at front of me....).

Temperature went to 200%, 300% and 400% in just few seconds, no way to escape that bug but pulling a blug.

Hope with these kind of systems we get to land at safe distance from all stars one jumps, not inside them

Yes, once I've arrive sandwiched between binary stars and statred cooking!

A couple of times when I've jumped into a system I've seen my view go through a second (nearby) star! Very very alarming!

Groumpf · Feb 27, 2015

Exploration Community Goal -- Progress Question

Kerrash said:
Greetings Commanders,

Rather than creating multiple separate threads,
Please use this thread to discuss any bug experiences with Elite: Dangerous.

Common issues and solutions will be updated in this first post as they are found and validated.
Please provide your ticket number to help track issues

The more concise information you give in the post, the better. This will allow the team to track your problem down swiftly.
Screenshots to visually illustrate them are welcome, but please enclose them in spoiler tags for readability.
For example "It's not working, fix it" does not help anybody, whereas :

Providing a breakdown of your machine specifications, OS version etc. can also help get your problem solved sooner.

Thank you.

Hi there,

I've encountered what I believe may be a bug with the ongoing exploration community goal in Lambda Andromedae.
I won't give details here, but please attract the devs' attention to ticket #00000041910 if you can. I'm not sure how available I'll be to help investigate, but I'll do my best.

Cheers.

Dr. Mabuse · Feb 27, 2015

Pedrovasquez said:
Am I the only one to have issue with bounties collect ? I get the blue message confirming that I have the bounty reward but it does not appear in the transaction panel.

I experienced that too. I had both a Kill-Warrant scanner and a Cargo Scanner installed. Whenever I assign the Cargo Scanner to a weapon group, the ship's computer shorts out and the Transaction and trading computer won't accept data from Comms and HUD.
Messages of bounty shows up on the Info-panel but does not register in Transactions.

I solved this by removing the Cargo Scanner from all weapon-groups.