So there I was happily trucking a 16T load of Cargo Harvesters to LHS 3447 last night, in my humble little Adder. Visited the Commodity Market to sell them for the 512 Cr/t profit i was due to make, and then suddenly I found myself caught up in all the transaction server weirdness. 3-4 attempts to sell my cargo, where suddenly ED claimed i had 48 of them squeezed into my 16T hold (don't think I am flying the Tardis!). A few logoff/on's trying to figure it out, and then i come here to find its not just me. Well, I ended up making an unexpected additional 488,000 CR - enough to get the Cobra I have slowley been working towards. So did I do it? No, actually I went to sleep on it and came back this morning to see what has been going on. In the end I ended up submitting a ticket along the lines of "hey, i've ended up with all these extra credits because of the issues. I'm cool with it if you let me keep them, but I understand if not!".
Which leaves a small dilema. What to do in ED while the issues are being fixed?
Not sure I trust trading at the moment. I have also not submitted to temptation and upgraded myself to a Cobra (oh so very tempting). If FD decide to remove the unexpected/ill-gotten CRs from players, then I should not end up out of pocket (hopefully).
For now I have decided to simply try some exploring, flying off into the void and see what I can find. May end up with some legitimate CRs from cartography at the end of all this. And I am also testing out ditching the joystick and learning not to crash-land with KBM (a major reason for switching to joystick in the first place).
So what are the rest of you doing during this time of uncertainty?
edit: I should add that while i only did the sell/logoff/logon cycle 3 or 4 times (late night, beer, cannot remember exactly), the math of getting 488,000 CR from a phantom 48 cargo harvesters was also wildly off. At the normal 512 CR/t i have been making from those that amount of credits would have needed 20 cycles of 48 items to be (re)sold (~953 Tonnes). I certainly did not spam that cycle 20 times!
edit 2: Hmm, actually breaking out the calculator if those crop harvesters were totally "free" and sold 100% profit at 2554 CR:- 488000 CR / 2554 CR = 191 Tonnes of 100% profit crop harvesters. Using the magical 16T hold that could hold 48T of goods: 191T / 48T = 3.97 (call it 4) cycles of (re)selling the items at 100% profit. Okay - that matches the number of times I actually went through the process! Given my original "seed cargo" of 16 Crop Harvesters before all this started: 488000 CR / 16T = 30500 CR/t profit - Thats an awesome trade route! Can we keep it?
Which leaves a small dilema. What to do in ED while the issues are being fixed?
Not sure I trust trading at the moment. I have also not submitted to temptation and upgraded myself to a Cobra (oh so very tempting). If FD decide to remove the unexpected/ill-gotten CRs from players, then I should not end up out of pocket (hopefully).
For now I have decided to simply try some exploring, flying off into the void and see what I can find. May end up with some legitimate CRs from cartography at the end of all this. And I am also testing out ditching the joystick and learning not to crash-land with KBM (a major reason for switching to joystick in the first place).
So what are the rest of you doing during this time of uncertainty?
edit: I should add that while i only did the sell/logoff/logon cycle 3 or 4 times (late night, beer, cannot remember exactly), the math of getting 488,000 CR from a phantom 48 cargo harvesters was also wildly off. At the normal 512 CR/t i have been making from those that amount of credits would have needed 20 cycles of 48 items to be (re)sold (~953 Tonnes). I certainly did not spam that cycle 20 times!
edit 2: Hmm, actually breaking out the calculator if those crop harvesters were totally "free" and sold 100% profit at 2554 CR:- 488000 CR / 2554 CR = 191 Tonnes of 100% profit crop harvesters. Using the magical 16T hold that could hold 48T of goods: 191T / 48T = 3.97 (call it 4) cycles of (re)selling the items at 100% profit. Okay - that matches the number of times I actually went through the process! Given my original "seed cargo" of 16 Crop Harvesters before all this started: 488000 CR / 16T = 30500 CR/t profit - Thats an awesome trade route! Can we keep it?
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