I've decided to give 2.4 a try.

So i thought i try the game after a few months away. Misson board errors, yup the same stuff since launch more or less. Yay for forced online solo gaming.
 
I remember one of the BIG selling points for this game to be touted by DB himself was the fact it required very little bandwicth and would be easily playable over the most mediocre internet connection......... I take it that bull went the same way as the in-depth gameplay? LOL

and of course....play your own way ?
 
It's quite obvious that you do. When you list positives you stick the knife in at the same time.

Triggered? Not really, I like the nostalgia that your posts give. It's like a bygone relic that doesn't evolve. I open the forum today, first time in ages, and laugh when I see the thread. I predict what you'll post before I read it - more precisely, the acerbic style. Reassuring. It's nice to have a fixed unchanging point in time.

Thread title is wrong. You haven't decided to give 2.4 a try. So why waste your time on two fronts? I bet noone has changed their opinion either way one jot on reading your post.

I don't like FFXIV as much as you, but I'll refrain from constantly trolling the game on Square's website as I recognise that people like and dislike different things. It's really quite simple?

See you next update/patch/season.

Again, who said that I even like ffxiv? I just said I played it this month.
You've a very, very big bag of made up assumptions, it's quite hilarious actually.

And, even if I perfectly know your wall of assumptions is unbreakable, I seriously tell you I gave 2.4 a very open minded chance of hooking me back into the game. Didn't expect anything bad or good, just wanted to plug in the hotas and fly around once more just for the sake of it.

Weird you say I don't evolve, in 2 years I went from being a huge fanboy in pre 2.0, taking a break for 2.1 burnt out by the engineers, then again being one of the fanboys club again with 2.2, the only update that I truly liked, and then becoming a bitter part time forum user after 2.3 where I actually play once every 2-3 months til this day.

So yeah, another assumption. You probably read a few comments I made back in the day, and then decided I was a "bygone relic that doesn't evolve" but seriously, you should drop that assumption bag as soon as you can. Believing something doesn't make it real ;)
 
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You see, you say that, but last night I played for three hours on one account doing a CG, then three hours on another account doing missions. Never experienced a single dropout, never had an issue with my SLF or SRV. Had 15 - 22 missions on the boards with 5-6 factions to choose from, did 30'ish hypserspace jumps without problems. The last session, I was chatting to two buddies, each 2,000 KM away, over voice comms, sharing my screen with both so they could see my game play and updating several other games through Steam. Throughout, I was using Inara, EDDB and the forums. Not one problem in six solid hours of play and I'm on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic with Internet that is "aspirational" at best.
It's only sub-par for you while others are having excellent game experiences. Logic says that isn't the games fault.
So Questor has some sort of connectivity, system, hardware, or driver issue. Either his ISP/router is filtering traffic or his home system has issues. There's all sorts of tech articles issued by Support to help you fault find what is wrong, but to use them you need to recognize that Frontier techs are not responsible for your hardware or ISP. You are. Instead of blaming them, take some responsibility and sort out your home system before blaming others.

Except it's not on his end. It's affected other people too. I don't know how you haven't seen *any* of those issues yourself, and I would consider yourself lucky if I were you.

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2.4 switched upnp settings around. Switch em back and see if that works better for you.

uPnP isn't enabled on my router. Port forwarded on 5100. Ingame settings line up perfectly with that. Still had issues.

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Then why aren't I having any of the same problems that the Opie is having?

The honest answer is dumb luck.
 
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Ugh....

So, I've found out that getting the left UI panel stuck isn't limited to doing those missions - apparently it's *any* time you go from SRV > ship > jump back into supercruise, and at that moment the left panel becomes stuck, even though it was not stuck in the SRV or in the ship.

I know it's not planetary landings in a *ship*, because I've landed at surface stations just fine without it getting stuck.

I'll be putting in a bug report and will edit this with a link once I've done that....pending on what's in 2.4.0.2....
 
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Again, who said that I even like ffxiv? I just said I played it this month.
You've a very, very big bag of made up assumptions, it's quite hilarious actually.

And, even if I perfectly know your wall of assumptions is unbreakable, I seriously tell you I gave 2.4 a very open minded chance of hooking me back into the game. Didn't expect anything bad or good, just wanted to plug in the hotas and fly around once more just for the sake of it.

Weird you say I don't evolve, in 2 years I went from being a huge fanboy in pre 2.0, taking a break for 2.1 burnt out by the engineers, then again being one of the fanboys club again with 2.2, the only update that I truly liked, and then becoming a bitter part time forum user after 2.3 where I actually play once every 2-3 months til this day.

So yeah, another assumption. You probably read a few comments I made back in the day, and then decided I was a "bygone relic that doesn't evolve" but seriously, you should drop that assumption bag as soon as you can. Believing something doesn't make it real ;)

You're very good at taking something small and making it into a big deal. Learn to read. I never said you liked FFXIV. You surely like it more than me because I detest it. On the basis of that, I think that's a pretty decent assumption to make. So saying I'm a very very big bag of assumptions is hyperbole to distract from the main issue: you are biased against the game due to burnout.

Every post I remember from you is the same tone. You now admit you are a bitter part-time user who plays once every three months. Your opinion of a game you loathe isn't even worth ten cents now. Now the criticisms are, but you go beyond that.

You've already played the game to death and had your money's worth many times over. FD owe you nothing. So this thread is really what's hilarious. It's obvious from your posts you've had your fill of the game and you coming back here proves you are that unevolving relic that you are in denial of!

Embrace your chocobos and move on, man. Some people like this 6.8/10 game, warts n all.
 
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Connection issues? pff

I could probably write a book about what's wrong with this game. However, relative to Frontier's commitment, it just wouldn't be a fair use of energy.
 

Jex =TE=

Banned
Haha, whatever you want, oh brave warrior. Noone but you dare's to speak out, you do so at great risk and your 'best in the country isp with 25mb/s download' must mean all settings are correct. Thats how networks work, everyone knows it.

Fine, carry on. God speed! :)

Sluet, you've always been one to insult around here along with many others. Fair's fair mate, you can't handle people criticising the game and you strike out but his reply to you didn't warrant your response above.
 

Jex =TE=

Banned
25mb/s should be enough to play any games. Also, for the game to work correctly people shouldn't have to dig that deep into their settings and configs for their routers. That said, port forwarding is easy to do, well-documented and greatly improved things on my side. Also, 2.3 and 2.4 seems to have corrected many network bugs or might just be my imagination.

Falcon 4.0 plays over a 56k connection. With half an Mb you can play with 20-30 people. Given what ED actually does, you should need less of a connection than falcon 4.0 needs lol
 
Ugh....

So, I've found out that getting the left UI panel stuck isn't limited to doing those missions - apparently it's *any* time you go from SRV > ship > jump back into supercruise, and at that moment the left panel becomes stuck, even though it was not stuck in the SRV or in the ship.

I know it's not planetary landings in a *ship*, because I've landed at surface stations just fine without it getting stuck.

I'll be putting in a bug report and will edit this with a link once I've done that....pending on what's in 2.4.0.2....

Good to hear.

This is not a new bug though, I already experienced it before 2.3, then it was patched and now with 2.4 is back.

Did the .02 this morning fix it?
 
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But on a lighter note, always remember....

What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

Put down the knitting,
The book and the broom.
Time for a holiday.
Life is Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band.
Come blow your horn,
Start celebrating;
Right this way,
Your table's waiting

No use permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!

I used to have a girlfriend
known as Elsie
With whom I shared
Four sordid rooms in Chelsea

She wasn't what you'd call
A blushing flower...
As a matter of fact
She rented by the hour.

The day she died the neighbors
came to snicker:
"Well, thats what comes
from to much pills and liquor."

But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
She was the happiest...corpse...
I'd ever seen.

I think of Elsie to this very day.
I'd remember how'd she turn to me and say:
"What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret."

And as for me,
I made up my mind back in Chelsea,
When I go, I'm going like Elsie.

Start by admitting
From cradle to tomb
Isn't that long a stay.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Only a Cabaret, old chum,
And I love a Cabaret!!!!​

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Good to hear.

This is not a new bug though, I already experienced it before 2.3, then it was patched and now with 2.4 is back.

Did the .02 this morning fix it?

Not sure...long story short a tipoff I went to resulted in my SRV being blown up, so since I didn't return to my ship in the same way and won't be playing for at least 3 days til I can get this petty bounty off my head (and try again, ugh), I'm afraid I don't know.
 
So over the course of the past week or two, I've encountered this Left-hand UI panel lock bug *every single time* that I've used my SRV and my ship has been dismissed (whether manually or automatically after you go too far away) and then recalled for me to return to it within a single session. I'll be writing up and linking the bug report soon....
 
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