Newcastle Bug

[tazuras]

I think I can shed a bit more light on the Newcastle bug. I thought the server was just crashing regularly with me trying to move cargo from the Manchester JH to Cape Wrath.

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It seems to crash right at this point where I've circled in RED.

GREEN is the area other people have reported crashing.

That's an area people should stay out of for the time being.

PS: Sorry, my bad. :(

I believe I have personally caused 4 crashes in this area, I think Rudo did 3 tonight, is this enough data that people can be asked not to go there or is more needed yet?

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[Rudo]

It's a rocky road to a finished version, I guess.

Anyway, that whole field in the back of the system is an exploding server waiting to happen. Before I knew it was me, I caused crashes anywhere from 60k to 20k from Cape Wrath from the Manchester JH.

Stay the hell outta there.

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[tazuras]

Look, another one! See, dont go there unless you wanna crash the server. (unless the admins or devs say i am wrong of course)

You know, on that note, I did notice some Newcastle crashing, which I thought had been (and may be) unrelated. It was, however, in the general Manchester jump hole field area. Although in retrospect, it may have been the Chester hole I'm thinking of. In any case, it did seem to occur around that field.

Though with that in mind, during Beta 2 (and a few now) I went from the Tau-31 JH to South Shields several times, all without incident. So I think if there's an issue there, it's closer to Outcastland. Or perhaps it's related to hostility, as my IMG is hostile to the Outcasts?

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[tyro]

I have checked this area on the local server.
SERVER CRASH ALWAYS when I attempt to fly from South Shields Rafinery to Gateshead Station straight, like the patrol path line. The same effect if I fly in opposite side. After few K serwer crash.
The conditions : I am hostile to Outcasts, if not then is ok and if I fly not like patrol path line, then is ok.
It looks strange but I tried many times and it works like that.

[Ash]

I was in Newcastle yesterday along with two other people and there didn't seem to be any problems. But i guess your evidence outweighs mine huh?

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[pragun]

I was in Newcastle yesterday along with two other people and there didn't seem to be any problems. But i guess your evidence outweighs mine huh?

Were you Repex.Shipping|363 or something like that ??

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Retired

[JohnLenin]

By chance I was also in Newcastle but not in the reported sector: in the SE corner Chester JH and where a Nomad weapons platform and 3 wrecks can be found.

Might have been something else but while I tried 1st to discover then to escape the system the server crashed 3 times.

Again, I did not see anything special happening around me (NPC spawning or whatever) so it could have been something entirely different.

Cheers,
Jane

ps.: I won't go back there until further notice and I'd advise to do so others too

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JohnLenin * Collector * Junker
.:j:.Jane.Blond * Firefly * Smuggler * Junker Congress

[tazuras]

Lenin, I think the bug is caused when NPC's try to spawn, so you wont actually spawn they will just try to and that attempt brings the server down because the spawn code is bugged. At least that is my understanding.

Ash, it all depends on where you were in Newcastle and what the server population was (more people = less NPC spawning) I'm gonna get Rudo's map up now.

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[farmerman]

I moved the characters I had there out last night, and I did not see any problems flying from Chester to Belfast (?) and along the lanes. But I also did not encounter any Outcast npcs, which seems to keep getting mentioned.

If it's the latter, is there perhaps something wrong with the loadouts or names or something with the OC npcs there?

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[tazuras]

Sounds like it's fixed now, fly and be FREE!

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