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Hello, commanders!
Dja Co-P mapping service reporting in... That is an emergency call for assistance!
A new and hard-to-track issue has been detected recently, introduced with the FC patch, but completely unrelated to so-called Carriers.
Strange anomalies has been detected in the normal ways of the Elite Universe.
Since the moment all populated space has been suddenly flooded with thousands of big hyperjump-capable ships loaded with LTD's and tritium, some others dozens of thousands of big ships supposedly responsible for transporting much less lucrative commodities have been suddenly ceased to function. At all... And that is not all the changes we are already aware about...
In brief.
1) Since the June, 4th (last server weekly maintenance procedure before the main patch) all the proc.generated traveling megaships (those with fligthplans) have stopped to jump according their associated schedules.
2) Also all Tip Off-related timetable-driven crash sites (their states are normally dependent on the same weekly tick timer) has been frozen in their states at the same date.
And I'm aware that most probably some other in-game weekly-tick dependent mechanics (if they do exist, and I'm not speaking of BGS) have ceased to function as intended by their design.
Both issues is hard to track and confirm (as they do require per week-observation of the related phenomena or otherwise established timetables in order to compare them with the present situation).
However at least for Tip Offs those timetables are available - in my signature both for Colonia and the Bubble, information about megaships and their flight-plans can be also found somewhere.
Here is a part of Tip Off timetable (as it was before the update) with some explanations:
I'm calling now for volunteers in order to confirm
this issue (17285) - posted yesterday on Issue Tracker by commander Ian Doncaster (present confirmation status 9/10)
One of the methods to check this, for example, is to visit following systems and use FSS on targets (systems are in the Bubble, not in the center but not far away from each other):
system | body | state as it was in tick 5 (4/06)
and as it is supposedly now due to the issue in question | state as it must be today (tick 7, 18/06)
according to timetable (but is not due to the issue)
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Kuru | B 1 | active | no |
LHS 2725 | A 1 | active | np |
Acan | B 4 | no | active |
Any help will be greatly appreciated
o7, commanders
Dja Co-P mapping service out
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