Admin Notice: Anti-F1 changes

[Thurgret]

Well, I'll give it in detail, since it was asked:

My connection peters out every 5 - 10 minutes if I am playing from a certain place. I can usually, but not always, get a better connection than this. When the connection is dodgy, I log in on my trader - it makes sense, since I clearly can't do combat properly. Sometimes I will just get red lag, sometimes it stops entirely. I tend to fly through populated space. It is rare that I cannot see another player on my scanner.

Earlier on, I was hauling some ship hull panels. I went to Southampton Shipyard. I docked. Well, I thought I docked. Because I managed to land, sell the hull panels, buy some basic alloy, went for a brief break since there were only 112 people on and I wasn't hogging a spot, came back, and tried to undock. Then I was disconnected. I reconnected and found myself outside the shipyard, with no cargo at all and the credits I had when the ship hull panels (which had only cost a million, granted - not all that much) were still on board. My hull hit points were at full. I docked, and I had a repair fee of some 29,700 credits for my ship's hull (it's a Firefly). My first thought was that someone had destroyed me in space when I lagged out next to the shipyard - but there had been no pirates in the system or in Leeds, and then I saw this thread.

(I admit it's much less severe than a barge taking a hammering.)