Emergent Gameplay: First to Discover New Bug Achievement

AceMcKool

AceMcKool
FDev, please give us some kind of achievement for discovering new bugs in the game.

This just happened: I dock at Felice Station in Konduwa, disembark, and the black load screen just goes on and on and on for like 5 minutes, so I force-close the game and relaunch it.

Upon login, I find myself not in the hangar beside my ship but inside the station. Cool, I say. I check Pioneer Supplies and mission boards, find nothing interesting, so I head to my ship.

No can do. "No accessible ships docked". Hm.

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I check Galaxy Map, it says and shows that my ship is stored in this system.

Hm. Odd. I never stored my ship.

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I check System Map, it too says I have ships stored in the system, however no stored ship icon on the station.

Odd indeed.

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I click on the station, then the ship icon, it now says I DON'T have stored ships in the station:

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After a couple more relogs and pondering what to do for a long five minutes (I have little experience with on-foot content and situations), I go to "Inter Astra" and find out that it is the Odyssey version of the Shipyard. :rolleyes:

So I ended up having to transfer my ship from "another" (i.e. ghost) location in system to the station I had docked at.

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I'm now thankful I didn't force-close the game during the jump to this system, in which the hyperspace load screen also got stuck there forever.

Who knows where in Witchspace I or my ship would have ended up.
 
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DjVortex

DjVortex
AceMcKool said:
So I ended up having to transfer my ship from "another" (i.e. ghost) location in system to the station I had docked at.
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My guess is that somehow because of the forceful closing of the game the server for some reason put your ship in the system undocked/unlanded (similar to what happens when you dismiss your ship while landed). Transferring your ship to the station where you are currently in can be done regardless of where your ship is, so I suppose it was in this "dismissed" state, in principle floating in space unmanned, and then you transferred it to that station.

Perhaps it might not be a "bug" per se, but a kind of intended procedure that happens when the server code doesn't get complete feedback from your computer about where the ship actually should be. It might just put it in the system in the "dismissed" state. That's my guess.
 

zimms

zimms
👆What DjVortex said.

For example this will also happen if your game crashes during a ground CZ. You will get teleported back to a station, but your ship might not be there.

Can also happen if your ship gets destroyed while you're out and about and take an Apex back to the station. You'll have to head to Inter Astra to manage the rebuy before you can use the elevator (I think even if you have other ships docked at that port).
 
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