Mauve Adder, Support, and my Thoughts

CMDR Minerva Nox

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Hello everyone.

I am brand new to these forums, but I had something to say. I want to say that it is an absolute rotten cabbage to find a system with a great economic opportunity for core mining and wind up losing an entire 15 resource chunks because of Mauve Adder. I have attempted to alleviate this. I have decreased my MTU, Port Forwarded, used another adapter- if it's out there able to be found on Google, I have almost surely have attempted it. I constantly get the Mauve Adder error, but it's only ever after I spent 2 hours searching for a core asteroid, dodging pirates, and barely surviving.

Mauve Adder makes me want to ascend from this mortal plane to meet every God that exists and complain to them about how terrible the internet can be sometimes. For now, making an account on these forums to scream into the void will suffice.

I love this game. I have put in 70 hours so far and have plodded through the endless Mauve Adders. I have seen more Mauve Adders than I have actual ship contacts. At first it was easy to ignore, but now it is though the $60 game that I bought all those years ago is defecating all over my eyes. It is taunting me at this point. I can't stand it, it triggers a reaction in me where I violently consume all the food in my fridge, and frankly at this point I no longer want to spend even a second longer playing this game. I actually uninstalled the game last night but wound up reinstalling it this morning just to give this post a hail mary.

I would like to reiterate that I have tried everything I can think of. If anyone has an answer or suggestion on how to alleviate this curse of an error code, please reply. I don't care if it's the most obvious solution. I am not the sharpest tool in the shed and I have been known to miss important steps. Currently I am using my phone as a Wifi Adapter, using the app EasyTether to establish an internet connection. To my knowledge this app creates a VPN between it and the computer it is linked to. If that has something to do with it I would be one happy bean. However.com, I have tried my regular Hiro Wifi Adapter on two different networks- my phone's hotspot and another router I have connected to my ethernet for guests. Both are dual band.

I'm at my wits end with this game. I would love to keep enjoying it but I cannot physically play it. It is either poorly optimized or I just have the most trash network known to man. If you can help, please do.
 

STRONTIUM DOG

STRONTIUM DOG
after the steps you have taken mtu level ect I can only suggest a paid for gaming vpn
(it can potentially find s more efficient data traffik route so trial one possibly...………………….
else change your :poop: isp
last mauve adder I have had was months ago that's not to say this game is perfect far from but to play this on a weak connection too would be unbearable
FD could up the :poop: bandwidth on the rented amazon servers per player slot but that would then just cost them more money to pay to rent the servers from amazon ecs
and that would damage there profit margin


sympathies
 
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CMDR Minerva Nox

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STRONTIUM DOG said:
after the steps you have taken mtu level ect I can only suggest a paid for gaming vpn
(it can potentially find s more efficient data traffik route so trial one possibly...………………….
else change your :poop: isp
last mauve adder I have had was months ago that's not to say this game is perfect far from but to play this on a weak connection too would be unbearable


sympathies
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I get the MA about once every 5 or so minutes. It has made core mining a chore, and it has made logging back in a nightmare. I'll give a gaming VPN a shot to see what happens, and if that doesn't work, I think I'll go back to the drawing board with my ISP. Cheers.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
PhantomMiner said:
I get the MA about once every 5 or so minutes. It has made core mining a chore, and it has made logging back in a nightmare. I'll give a gaming VPN a shot to see what happens, and if that doesn't work, I think I'll go back to the drawing board with my ISP. Cheers.
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Might be worth contacting Support and see what they say. I don't think I've had a Mauve Adder since the Great Server Meltdowns of ... ages ago, so every 5 minutes is ... excessive.
 

STRONTIUM DOG

STRONTIUM DOG
RF input cable to modem 2ft cat 6 lead to static ip address pc(y) if you can temporarilly uproot and jerry rig to minimize to most direct path to incoming cable for test purposes
that will dismiss if it's still bad your final network "hurdels" as a culprit
 
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CMDR Minerva Nox

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Ashnak said:
"use my phone as WiFi adapter"... could you sketch the full chain, from your ISP connection to your PC?
Something like ISP -> TV cable -> cable modem -> WiFi -> phone -> USB -> PC ?
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Sure! I believe it's something like-

ISP -> Coax Cable -> Cable Modem -> Ethernet connection to Wifi Router (Spectrum) -> Moto z3 (tethered with EasyTether) -> USB 3.0 -> PC

I'm unable to run an ethernet line from where I am to the router itself. I'd need to crawl under the house and run a line that way. It's on my list of things to do for certain.
 

CMDR Minerva Nox

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STRONTIUM DOG said:
RF input cable to modem 2ft cat 6 lead to static ip address pc(y) if you can temporarilly uproot and jerry rig to minimize to most direct path to incoming cable for test purposes
that will dismiss if it's still bad your final network "hurdels" as a culprit
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In a last ditch effort to attempt to alleviate this issue, I have created a monstrosity out of an old wifi dongle and an empty can of progresso. The cantenna is now enabling me to receive roughly four times the speed of what I was normally getting, and I was able to play for five hours straight before getting a Mauve Adder. I believe it may be the network.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Depending on the distance and whether there's already a power line running in that direction, a pair of powerline modems might also work (and anger any amateur radio operators in the vincinity). But usually be more expensive than a roll of cat.6.
 

Dragsham

Dragsham
About a year ago I was plodding through on foot content getting suits n weps geared up.
Having awful crashes and disconnects which l blamed squarely at fdev.
I switched to sky from BT.
Installed a ethernet cable rather than relying on wireless connection.

Problem solved.
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
Dragsham said:
About a year ago I was plodding through on foot content getting suits n weps geared up.
Having awful crashes and disconnects which l blamed squarely at fdev.
I switched to sky from BT.
Installed a ethernet cable rather than relying on wireless connection.

Problem solved.
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I have been with BT for years (many, many years) and don't have any of these issues. Of course I never use WIFI for gaming, have ALWAYS used wired connection for my gaming PCs. (This year they upgraded me to FTTH (full-fibre) at no extra cost.)

On the other hand, I picked up a decent laptop last year and have had no issues using that on WIFI - but I don't use it for gaming very often* - that quite surprised me as I was ready to patch-in a CAT6 to it for gaming.

* (MSFS2020 and Forza mainly, only occasionally ED for teabagging)
 

CMDR Minerva Nox

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CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
Sorry for the off-topic question, but what exactly is teabagging?
English isn't my native tongue, thus I have to rely on my trusty dictionary if I come across new (to me) words - which doesn't always work.
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I know it as crouching over an enemy repeatedly after you kill them. That is to say, placing your "teabag" on their foreheads in a show of victory. It also means just that- a show of victory or superiority, or the action of displaying it on certain platforms without actually needing to perform the crouch.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
Sorry for the off-topic question, but what exactly is teabagging?
English isn't my native tongue, thus I have to rely on my trusty dictionary if I come across new (to me) words - which doesn't always work.
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PhantomMiner said:
I know it as crouching over an enemy repeatedly after you kill them. That is to say, placing your "teabag" on their foreheads in a show of victory. It also means just that- a show of victory or superiority, or the action of displaying it on certain platforms without actually needing to perform the crouch.
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That happens when you look up things on the internet 😂.

Ok, having shared these forums with @Bottom Hat for a few years. this probably isn't entirely unintentional. Bottom Hat is one of the foremopst (on the forum) members of the Teaka Elite Altruists Bagging Cooperative, short TEABaggers. They had ther origin in ancient times - long before carriers. What they do is load you up. When there's a Rares CG (mainly), they congregate, go into the station, buy the rares and dump them outside the station's safe zone for other CMDRs to fill up their high capacity, long range cargo ships. That's teabagging in ED.

Rares are commodities that are only produced in a singke station, in limited quantities - and once you have a cerrtain allocation in your hold, you're not able to buy any more. So if you want to ship a large amount to a far away CG station, you need someone to go in, buy the stuff, then dump it for you to pick up. Wait ten minutes, rinse, repeat.
If you have a carrier, you can easily bag yourself - but only yourself, as rares can't be sold on a carrier's market. Reputedly, there's also a (limited) possibility to bag yourself without a carrier: dump the stuff outside the stations safe zone, dash in, buy another helping, race out again and try to pick up everything before it degrades (or is collected by the station's garbage disposal or a rescue ship...). LImited, because there are only so many canisters you can leave floating in an instance before the game removes the surplus.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
Ashnak said:
That happens when you look up things on the internet 😂.

Ok, having shared these forums with @Bottom Hat for a few years. this probably isn't entirely unintentional. Bottom Hat is one of the foremopst (on the forum) members of the Teaka Elite Altruists Bagging Cooperative, short TEABaggers. They had ther origin in ancient times - long before carriers. What they do is load you up. When there's a Rares CG (mainly), they congregate, go into the station, buy the rares and dump them outside the station's safe zone for other CMDRs to fill up their high capacity, long range cargo ships. That's teabagging in ED.

Rares are commodities that are only produced in a singke station, in limited quantities - and once you have a cerrtain allocation in your hold, you're not able to buy any more. So if you want to ship a large amount to a far away CG station, you need someone to go in, buy the stuff, then dump it for you to pick up. Wait ten minutes, rinse, repeat.
If you have a carrier, you can easily bag yourself - but only yourself, as rares can't be sold on a carrier's market. Reputedly, there's also a (limited) possibility to bag yourself without a carrier: dump the stuff outside the stations safe zone, dash in, buy another helping, race out again and try to pick up everything before it degrades (or is collected by the station's garbage disposal or a rescue ship...). LImited, because there are only so many canisters you can leave floating in an instance before the game removes the surplus.
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Thank you. I wasn't even aware of the other meaning, so I've learned a lot.
 

CMDR Minerva Nox

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Ashnak said:
That happens when you look up things on the internet 😂.

Ok, having shared these forums with @Bottom Hat for a few years. this probably isn't entirely unintentional. Bottom Hat is one of the foremopst (on the forum) members of the Teaka Elite Altruists Bagging Cooperative, short TEABaggers. They had ther origin in ancient times - long before carriers. What they do is load you up. When there's a Rares CG (mainly), they congregate, go into the station, buy the rares and dump them outside the station's safe zone for other CMDRs to fill up their high capacity, long range cargo ships. That's teabagging in ED.

Rares are commodities that are only produced in a singke station, in limited quantities - and once you have a cerrtain allocation in your hold, you're not able to buy any more. So if you want to ship a large amount to a far away CG station, you need someone to go in, buy the stuff, then dump it for you to pick up. Wait ten minutes, rinse, repeat.
If you have a carrier, you can easily bag yourself - but only yourself, as rares can't be sold on a carrier's market. Reputedly, there's also a (limited) possibility to bag yourself without a carrier: dump the stuff outside the stations safe zone, dash in, buy another helping, race out again and try to pick up everything before it degrades (or is collected by the station's garbage disposal or a rescue ship...). LImited, because there are only so many canisters you can leave floating in an instance before the game removes the surplus.
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Oh wow, I was way off! Haha!

Well, all things said, the Cantenna has been working beautifully. It's been two days and I haven't gotten a single Mauve Adder code. I think I found out what the issue was fellas, it's just my terrible ISP. I'll be switching to a wired connection as soon as I have the time/materials. For now, the tin can shall suffice.
 
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