Keep an eye on your mat's.

Stealthie · Feb 28, 2018

Something odd definitely just happened.

I've been hoovering up Refined Focus Crystals for days, with the intent of using them to "buy" other mat's, and I had something like 100-odd of them.

Bought a Chieftain, took it to a CNB for a spin and hoovered up even more Refined Focus Crystals.
Scooped an RFC and got a message saying "Storage Full. Refined Focus Crystals 150/150"
Okay. Got it.
I spaced another NPC and he dropped more RFCs.
Thought I'd try to scoop them, just to see what'd happen.
And... I get a message saying "Refined Focus Crystals collected"

Eh? [where is it]

Check my materials inventory and it's now telling me I've got 98 RFCs.

I'm still at it and I want to see what happens when I reach 150 again.
It seems like when I got to the limit something "rolled over" and reverted me back to the quantity I had when I first started tonight.

GraXXoR · Feb 28, 2018

“Keep an eye on your mat’s”

Keep an eye on my mat’s what? You’re missing the end of the title.

baqar79 · Feb 28, 2018

I wonder if this might be related to seeing only 100 slots for each material here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...far-about-v3?p=6450993&viewfull=1#post6450993

Initially I fixed this by relogging in again, but I did something after that point that set the caps back to 100; your post seems to point to a bit of a bug with material storage....I'm leaving the mat filtering alone for now...

EDIT: Just did some engineering at Didi Vatermann's, when I landed I checked and the material limits were as they should be; but after engineering 2 boosters, the material limits were set back to 100.

GraXXoR · Mar 1, 2018

I found the bug!!!! My SRV was limited to 100 mats of each when I first went out. But engaging the materials filter at the top of the list (elements only) the limits all reset to the proper 150-300.

kofeyh · Mar 1, 2018

GraXXoR said:
I found the bug!!!! My SRV was limited to 100 mats of each when I first went out. But engaging the materials filter at the top of the list (elements only) the limits all reset to the proper 150-300.

That's quite the bug; having to reset a filter view for the totals to recalculate.

Stealthie · Mar 1, 2018

GraXXoR said:
I found the bug!!!! My SRV was limited to 100 mats of each when I first went out. But engaging the materials filter at the top of the list (elements only) the limits all reset to the proper 150-300.

I told you there was something screwy going on.

I just realised mine's doing the opposite thing.
Seemed to be working properly yesterday.
Just checked it, now, and all slots are set to 100 units.

Makes it kind of hard to gather mat's efficiently when your SRV decides to limit you to 1/3rd of the permitted allocations.

Also, I'm 90% sure that I've lost a heap of mat's at times, presumably as a result of this happening.

GG7 · Mar 1, 2018

I have been noticing that the cap values keep changing back and forth between all 100 and the correct amounts based on grade. This is happening to me without logging out or anything. Seems that they are doing some stuff on the server side, or the server is at least responsible for setting those values.

I am not sure if you stop increasing a total if the all 100 is displayed, or if the lower grades keep increasing above the 100 based on their new caps even though they are not always displayed correctly.

???

Odd bug to be sure.

dognosh · Mar 1, 2018

I found material limits went back to 100 after changing ships. Relog fixed that.

Bob Lighthouse · Mar 1, 2018

I had something similar happen while trying to pick up mats with limpets.
But when I checked the hold it was showing the correct values, and then all of a sudden the limpet worked.

Stealthie · Mar 1, 2018

GG7 said:
I am not sure if you stop increasing a total if the all 100 is displayed, or if the lower grades keep increasing above the 100 based on their new caps even though they are not always displayed correctly.

The mat's stop being collected.

I've just spent an hour not picking up stuff like Iron, Phosphorus, Sulphur and Carbon 'cos I kept getting messages telling me they were full.
Looked at the inventory and they were at 100/100. [sad]

Vardaugas · Mar 1, 2018

It seems in an SRV the limits are at 100 while in a ship they're at the staggered capacity. Not sure how that works.

Loskene · Mar 1, 2018

Vardaugas said:
It seems in an SRV the limits are at 100 while in a ship they're at the staggered capacity. Not sure how that works.

Someone forgot to change an important number in one of them. Responding to other issues the devs have stated fixes for many bugs like this won't be coming for several weeks at least, and that's just their hotfixes. Don't know how long we'll be waiting on a more expansive bugfix update.