I've lost 8.5 million because of graphic issues

[SportyScribe]

You would if you'd seen the screen before and thought "hey I remember were that button was". I'd just spend the day exploring man, and I mean THE DAY of endless warp to system, system scan, detail surface scan EVERYTHING then move on. It's mind numbing work, and somewhat akin to data entry. I was pushing myself hard to see how much I could make doing it. Then I was going to blog about it. I'd just got back to Founders World to sell my data when the station destroyed me for a 300 credit fine I don't even remember getting (how could I, I was in deep space!) :\ you try making sensible logical decisions when you're tired and extremely ticked off.

I was putting up with repeated server disconnection problems and a few game crashes as well. This game is about as stable as a sinclair c1 taking a fast turn.

Jump, scan, scan, scan, jump, scan scan CRASH... RESTART, Scan scan scan, jump, DISCONNECTION ERROR * rage * Scan Scan Scan Scan Scan.

I spend 8 frigging hours doing all that dude.

I didn't get to sell my data, I lost 8.5 million credits because of a glitches screen and I'm getting endless damn crashes. It's getting to the point where I'm going to ebay this sodding thing and play something else.

Appreciate you must be frustrated to hell and back, but a couple of points...
1) Did you screenshot the glitch to include in your ticket and hope that they refund you some credits
2) get a tiny bit of a grip... This is a game, not a job. You made a choice to play an aspect of it for 8 hours and then made a judgement of error in continuing on borked screens...
3) I would also recommend putting this in the bugs threads... I suspect the folk at Frontier have had all manner of tickets and I have two from a glitch of my own that still haven't been answered, so you may be lucky and get a response through there instead.
4) the endless crashes do sound a little more severe of an issue. I have had maybe two kicks and one interdiction through what appeared to be a GFX card glitch that saw the escape vector distorted so much and skipping about like a kangaroo with blisters that I had no choice but to accept the interdiction and then try and spam boost my way the hell out of trouble. Haven't seen the issue since so again, ticket, just in case it helps someone else in the same situation.

at the end of the day you have paid your good money for this game, and are now frustrated to the point of quitting. Maybe see if FD do get back to you, or take a break from it until you get a little perspective... And then come back to it - you have obviously made a success if it thus far, and there is no doubt you could do it all again.

you haven't "lost" 8.5m credits... You have lost a bit of time you put into a game in your own time, by your own choice.

 

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Gets you enough time to run away if you're shields go down. You spend 24 hours exploring, if something interesting like a pirate attack happens I wanna kill them, with enough room to get away fast. That's alot of exploration data to protect.

as much as i want to kill attacking pirates (and i REALLY want to) i've found that running has been 100% effective at protecting my exploration data, and the heartache of starting out again. have you been jumped by a squad of pirates yet? happened to me a few times now in deep Anarchy space. i'm still not sure it's a great idea to turn and fight when you have an opportunity to out fly them and escape.

 

[ted]

All the boxes were bright red so I couldn't read any of them, the text was garbled.

maybe it was a carry over from when the your ship was heavily damaged and the holo displays start flickering red. i've had this affect lock on me a few times. i had put in a ticket about it.