Horizons Left Elite for 6 months, surprising result upon return.

[DAOWAce]

This is a game/server issue that got far worse with the 2.1 update. Has nothing to do with our network or system (aside maybe from how far away from the servers you live, which are located in Europe).

Mission board loading takes far longer the more NPCs and missions there are. If it's empty, it comes up near instantly.

There is nothing we can do but complain on the forum and hope FD improve it in patches/server updates.

This isn't a game for people without patience. If you can't wait 5 seconds for the mission board to open or look up how to complete a mission you may want to play a different game, sorry.

We're not waiting 5 seconds.

We're waiting 20+, for a MENU to load. It takes 3x as long as loading into the actual game from a fresh boot.

Argument invalid, go troll elsewhere.

 

[Cmdr Delmonte[VR]]

Hi TrixX,
Not doubled the 8gb to 16 YET ! ;-) , Yeah laptop is "Ok" took the HDD out when i put in the SSD, took a 500gb hit on storage, but the only thing i use it for is elite ! so plenty of space left regardless, and yes the improvement was HUGE !!! Boot up time is super quick and it gave Elite a bit of a boost on loading.
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I am looking at a gaming laptop (A real one) But the good lady said no, when i suggested the new curved screen 21" monster with two power supplies! Even when i offered to wait till Xmas ;-)
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http://www.techradar.com/news/mobil...e-21-inch-curved-screen-gaming-laptop-1327461

 

[TrixX]

I don't run VR yet. Not willing to jump on the first gen units, plus waiting on an HBM2 gfx card before I go the VR route.

With a wifi connection and using the desktop or a NAS device for storage and sharing locally, there's no need for a Laptop to have more than a single SSD anyway. A portable SSD/HDD can fill the void if needed anyway

That 21" ACER is a beast of a machine

Back to the topic though, if it's more than 18s and provable via TCP View and other tests that there is slow server response it's either in the Port forwarding, the Router itself having a 'mare, or beyond the home network into the ISP's territory.

If it can be confirmed that it's the ED servers causing the issue then that's definitely something to be looked at. However if I'm getting responses in the 3-18s range (for mission board and missions themselves) then that seems to be the servers normal response time +300-900ms, depending on server location.

 

[DozeOze]

Latency issues?

Check this: http://www.leatrix.com/leatrix-latency-fix

 

[Sunleader]

Picked up Elite Dangerous, the game was generally taking every opportunity to pee me off, so I put it down for six months and returned.

Upon returning to the game this is what I discovered.

The experience is worse than ever before. Accessing the station services takes 30 - 45 seconds on a 200m/bit fibre connection.

Once in station services, the job board takes 20 - 30 seconds to open.

Opening a job takes another 15 - 20 seconds, plus you see it loading images in real time like a         1990 webpage on dial up.

Commodities market is the same deal.

So yeah that sucks worse than before. Even transitioning from super cruise to normal space, or another system sucks up your life.

Why is this still happening? Why does it feel like I'm still using pre-release alpha software?

I took at 1m credit job. Simple enough, be at X system between time X and Time X. Search signal sources for guy X. Get 4 tons precious stone.

Wasted an hour and a half of my life trying to find this guy at the time specified using the method stated.

This game needs years more of development work. This is a bigger piece of beta-like crap than Elite 3 was. I just wish there was a company to sue the crap out of them like last time.

Given that the General Loading Time for me is much much Shorter.
I Conclude you got Networking Issues.

Maybe Reinstall the Game or whatever. Cause both actions you stated should take less than 10 seconds.


As for Missions. Well dont take these Crab Missions. They aint working properly for most Part.
Especially because there is no Tutorial that actually tells you to scan the Nav Beacon or whatever. Meaning that either you know what to do. Or you dont. Without the Game giving you any Logical Hint or Connection to draw upon for this.

They need to work in this Area for sure.
Because if you Fail to give your Player the leads he needs to find something out himself and also lack a Tutorial then you can Generally call this a Fail of Game Design.
And as too much stuff in ED has no Logical Connections that can be made by Players. And also does not have an Tutorial or otherwise Information you can get without looking it up in the Wiki or asked an more Experienced Player. You can call EDs Design a Failure here.
Years of Development is an Overstatement here tough. No offense but most of this stuff could be Solved within 1 month if they were to delay work on new Features and just for a Change Focused on correcting this.
But well as things are. Then others would be annoyed cause they have other problems they consider more importand and which would be pushed back by a Month

 

[Soopyyy]

Dude, this is like the third time you've spammed this now...

 

[Iskariot]

Picked up Elite Dangerous, the game was generally taking every opportunity to pee me off, so I put it down for six months and returned.
Upon returning to the game this is what I discovered.
The experience is worse than ever before. Accessing the station services takes 30 - 45 seconds on a 200m/bit fibre connection.
Once in station services, the job board takes 20 - 30 seconds to open.
Opening a job takes another 15 - 20 seconds, plus you see it loading images in real time like a         1990 webpage on dial up.
Commodities market is the same deal.
So yeah that sucks worse than before. Even transitioning from super cruise to normal space, or another system sucks up your life.
Why is this still happening? Why does it feel like I'm still using pre-release alpha software?
I took at 1m credit job. Simple enough, be at X system between time X and Time X. Search signal sources for guy X. Get 4 tons precious stone.
Wasted an hour and a half of my life trying to find this guy at the time specified using the method stated.
This game needs years more of development work. This is a bigger piece of beta-like crap than Elite 3 was. I just wish there was a company to sue the crap out of them like last time.

Lately I have had a little bit more problems than usual. A handful of connection problems, but in general the game runs very good and I have none of the problems you describe.
FD is currently working to improve their servers, as a response to the increase of players since Gamescon.

But, from what you describe I think their must be something terribly wrong on your side.

 

[dcforeman]

Lately I have had a little bit more problems than usual. A handful of connection problems, but in general the game runs very good and I have none of the problems you describe.
FD is currently working to improve their servers, as a response to the increase of players since Gamescon.

But, from what you describe I think their must be something terribly wrong on your side.

Offical reply from frontier.

Thanks for getting in touch in regards to the problems you have been experiencing.

I apologize for the inconvenience the servers have caused in the last few days. We are currently working on improving the server capacity significantly as it seems that following Gamescom, the number of active players has increased dramatically.

The servers should return to their previous performance very soon.

Please could you add your feedback regarding the gameplay to our official feedback forums here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/76-Suggestions-Feedback

This forum is read by our game designers frequently. It's the best place to put any suggestions or criticism regarding the way the game plays.

I hope this would improve the situation for you, please let us know should this not be the case and we will look further into the problem.

Best regards,


Ride Inspector Vega
Planet Coaster Customer Support


So no, not my side. Thanks very much. Guess assumptions make an     out of people.

 

[TrixX]

That response is not instant vindication for your complaints. My first thought is that you are on an HDD not an SSD for Elite. That increases load times dramatically for the shaders at the start and the Mission boards.

If you are running it off an HDD, then chances are the added 10s for mission board and again 10s for missions themselves are a logical increase. The fact it takes that long in the first place can be considered annoying, but hey that's how the game works. If they can reduce that time, then awesome, but so far it looks like your toaster is more the problem than the game even with the increase in server loads. Just remember your fast Internet connection is still miraculously 10s slower than my slow connection from half a world away...

 

[Jukelo]

That response is not instant vindication for your complaints. My first thought is that you are on an HDD not an SSD for Elite. That increases load times dramatically for the shaders at the start and the Mission boards.

If you are running it off an HDD, then chances are the added 10s for mission board and again 10s for missions themselves are a logical increase. The fact it takes that long in the first place can be considered annoying, but hey that's how the game works. If they can reduce that time, then awesome, but so far it looks like your toaster is more the problem than the game even with the increase in server loads. Just remember your fast Internet connection is still miraculously 10s slower than my slow connection from half a world away...

I'm running the game from a SSD, opening the missions board still takes 15 seconds, so does accepting a mission. No other part of the game takes this long, not even supercruise/OC transitions.
There's nothing special about the mission board that would justify those delays. They're not graphically taxing, our computers can generate and render planetary surfaces on the fly without trouble, and they contain less information than your average web page which loads in a fraction of a second.

 

[TrixX]

I'm running the game from a SSD, opening the missions board still takes 15 seconds, so does accepting a mission. No other part of the game takes this long, not even supercruise/OC transitions.
There's nothing special about the mission board that would justify those delays. They're not graphically taxing, our computers can generate and render planetary surfaces on the fly without trouble, and they contain less information than your average web page which loads in a fraction of a second.

OH I totally agree. They shouldn't take that long, however I'd like to know why they take that long especially as it's just a server request and response from a networking point of view. I was just pointing out that 15s is on avg the current correct amount of time for the board to open. Over 20s and there's an issue like running the game on an HDD which is slower. Again doesn't make much sense as to why, what's being loaded from the HD that's taking so long etc...

Thing is the OP is crying about something that is Working as Intended, not broken in actuality. I wish it was quicker too, but FDev haven't given a response on the matter that I've seen yet.