Only seen one real problem with the new build of the server patch. And it is a rare occurrence. Both myself and one other person I know of has experienced a total crash of the game (CTD) while in formation. Seems lag related. The others in formation had no trouble and flew on. Happened to me last night and again tonight with a friend. Minor thing.

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If only I could get a password that works. Can someone please email me it? I don't mod or cheat

[email protected]

There is nothing wrong with the posted password.

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So I assume all is well with the new patch, and everyone has been busy playing... this thread has gotten quite quiet.

What does everyone think of the current build?

- Has it reduced cheaters and improved performance?
- Stability appears to be better, what are your thoughts?
- And from you out there that have tried to cheat, and have been kicked (we know who you are), what are your feelings?

I'm sure we're getting close to a final release of the patch, and right now, your opinions mean more than ever.

--A
(Freelancer server stuff)

Other than the two cases of CTD during formation and heavy lag I have not had much trouble. A bit of docking weirdness maybe, but that is very minor. Several times while docking at places like Newark Station the auto dock took me up on top of the station and beat me against the roof. Having a blast otherwise. Seems pretty stable.

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Thanks Holliday.

Just how bad is the lag? Should I reduce the number of players until the hardware is upgraded?

(The connection "should" not be the problem)

Edited by - akataka on 01-05-2003 06:05:54

At peek times, early evening EDT it can get pretty bad. Very hard to dog fight in large numbers or in systems full of asteroids. Later in the evening it improves.
Have not seen a CTD in a day or so.

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I think its just been lagging a bit yesterday and the day before, but for the most part its been fine, and yeah, I was with Doc (Holliday) when those CTD's happened.

Hello,

I played on the Elite server all day yesterday, 10 am to 8 pm CEST.
Rose from level 4 to 28.
Some lag due to my own connection being used for browsing
and some during battles with 20 ships, when the screen jump a second.
No blowups anymore at jumpgates.

Had to stop for dinner, after which the server was full at 30 players.

Thanks!

Joostvv

this morning while playing on Elite i got booted twice in a row for "possibly cheating". i was on planet houston, i had just equiped a scorpion (class 2) particle cannon i looted, bought a few diamonds and took off. didnt make it off the planet, lost connection. when i logged back on i was told by another player (Hellif) that a message came up saying i was booted for "possibly cheating". so i did it again and the same thing happened. wasnt sure where to post this, so i put it here. well, back to the game.

I've been playing on ELITE for the past two or three nights building up a new character. It has been running smoothly and I've encountered no mishaps in any maneuver I've done. Didn't experience any lag or other kinds of connection problems either. It's been just great. Now I'm connecting from the South-Central US and mainly in the evening and later at night. A couple of times I went to log in and the server was already full. It seems to be working really good for me so far.

You mentioned something about a hardware upgrade on the server. When are you planning that and what will it entail? (Hope I'm not beating a dead horse here)

"People can always be counted on to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid[!" - Christopher Snow

I just sold a friend, Troy, a Tizona del Cid, and he immediatly got kicked for cheating. And of course the gun was gone when he came back. It took me hours to get that gun, improving my rep and running missions. Not to mention the fact that I had to buy the thing three times because I died with it unmounted a couple times. Once I died when I got swarmed by enemy fighters while my chat box was open. I couldn't move fast enough to close it and protect myself. I am 100% sure Troy did nothing wrong. He is in an Eagle so his ship can handle the gun. He got right back into the server. This is a problem for player-to-player commerece.


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k, i found a big bug. Holliday had bought me a tizona de cid and we had traded and i had payed him for it. Then while docking with planet new toyko, the console said i cheated and kicked me. So I relogged on and tried docking with shinjoku station, New toyko, the console said i cheated again and booted me. after that it said it was time to do a server reboot. I did not cheat, I have Holliday as my witness, so don't ban me. this is a serious bug as non-cheaters may be called cheaters. My character name is troy and I have a sabre and 1,523,117. If you doubt me just ask holliday as he is my witness

edit- as I said holliday is my witness, but i think it is to do with docking as it said i cheated after i pressed to dock with planet New Toyko and after i pressed the dock button with shinjoku station

edit#2- after reading above posts i saw bobalonius' post, so this seems to not be an isolated problem, and seems to be after buying a new weapon and docking/undocking.

Edited by - evil_turtle on 03-05-2003 04:04:13

Edited by - evil_turtle on 03-05-2003 04:07:24

Thanks for the updates folks. I have notified the appropriate people, and they are looking into the issue.

We're getting closer...