CTD while doing Beacon Quest (relog horror)

Server went down on Beacon Quest (relog horror)

We all lost connection and server was at 96%

Just happened to our 3 ppl team with a 29 ped beacon.

We cleared the 1st level…started to walk to the teleporter.

Then exactly 22:00 MA time (0:00 germany) we lost connection (server 96%!!). A relog brought us back to planet calypso. The beacon was gone. :frowning:

There were no bots around anymore, so we couldnt get killed.

Of course we all wrote a support case at once.

So, did this happen to anyone else allready ?

McCormick

It is common to CTD on the robot mission, but usually you come back to the mission. Many avatars all CTDing on certain levels of the mission is also common.

I’m guessing here, but maybe because your whole team CTD’d and because for a momment nobody was on the ship, PE triggered some kind of mission end event… ?

Maybe more reasons to bring a bigger team next time perhaps.

Good to hear that you normally get back to the shuttle when relogging.

Well, maybe that “event end thingy” happened, but because of the servers where 96% it was defenitly not our fault that we CTDed.

So even a bigger team wont help at a server status of 96% :frowning:

Not ctd, server went down

I have been in that team with McCormick and another friend too.

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So even a bigger team wont help at a server status of 96% :frowning:
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Yes, the annyoing fact is, that it wasnt a ctd, which is normally not a big problem, even if you are on a “spacequest”

The server which was responsible went down for a minute at exactly 22:00 MAtime and after logging in back we found ourselves down on calypso after surely firing some rounds on drones lvl1-6 in 1st room (btw: 29 ped beacon)

I will let you know answer of supp case as well

… :eek:

i read about this on EP too.. and one of the team embers showed the response from from MA support saying they didnt see any evidence of that in thier logs.

Another thing that could cause loss of server even enough to show on the client loader is network/internet problems.
Could be somehting a simple as a switch blowing at telia and it taking a couple of minutes to route around it.. or the same thing happening in Ma’s server room. That along with the speculation that nobody being left on the ship cuased a failure event wiht the mission may have cuased it.

MA would now kow through thier logs that a switch at telia blew.. and they wouldnt know from server logs except for maybe a few netowrk ping timeouts of thier own switch failure unless they dug much much deeper.

On a side note.. this woulda pissed me off.. its bad enough getting a CTD in combat and it not letting you back on for a couple of minutes to find out you died becuase you are no longer killing the mob when you ctd..

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i read about this on EP too.. and one of the team embers showed the response from from MA support saying they didnt see any evidence of that in thier logs.

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Incorrect Kay-T :wink:
he wasnt a member of our team, he just made a suggestion about a possible answer from MA-support.
And to be honest: I expect one of their normal “copy& paste-answers” too :frowning:

And yes: we were pissed after that. We all was like :eek: :eek: :eek: WTH ARE WE BACK ON EARTH?!!!

With a normal ctd and getting killed while loggin we maybe could live, but how i said before: We cleared all resistance and faced tp to next floor. Nobody died up there. It was just the downgoing server what causes our revive at nymphtown terminal.

[QUOTE=Venus]
Incorrect Kay-T :wink:
he wasnt a member of our team, he just made a suggestion about a possible answer from MA-support.
And to be honest: I expect one of their normal “copy& paste-answers” too :frowning:

And yes: we were pissed after that. We all was like :eek: :eek: :eek: WTH ARE WE BACK ON EARTH?!!!

With a normal ctd and getting killed while loggin we maybe could live, but how i said before: We cleared all resistance and faced tp to next floor. Nobody died up there. It was just the downgoing server what causes our revive at nymphtown terminal.
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you might have a sllight chance of getting the beacon back, only the beacon tho

Why is the title still unchanged MindBuster ?

Why was it moved to noobs corner ?

This is a very importtant “problem” and should be disgussed in general I think.

Sure, it would be nice to get a new beacon. But for the ammo/fap/decay im quite dissapointed then.

If this is how quests can be interrupted, then Quests arent a good idea. :frowning:

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Why is the title still unchanged MindBuster ?

Why was it moved to noobs corner ?

This is a very importtant “problem” and should be disgussed in general I think.

Sure, it would be nice to get a new beacon. But for the ammo/fap/decay im quite dissapointed then.

If this is how quests can be interrupted, then Quests arent a good idea. :frowning:
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How come everyone calls this a quest?Its the dungeon of Mass CTD and no story behind it really

Well except for the drones stuck in the wall (which still attack u but u cant hit em), CTDs and Connection Lost, MA created a nice atmosphere up there :smiley:

Here is the answer i got today:

2005-07-14 MindArk Support:
Thanks for your report.

You have been compensated with a new Beacon.
It has been putted in VAYU’s inventory

Sadly the beacon dont works yet. When we want to use it, it says: “This beacon appears to be broken”

But well, we seem to be on the right way. I guess that will be fixed soon.

At this point i would like to say thanks for a very fast and noble MindArk-Support :thumbup:

[QUOTE=McCormick]
We all lost connection and server was at 96%

Just happened to our 3 ppl team with a 29 ped beacon.

We cleared the 1st level…started to walk to the teleporter.

Then exactly 22:00 MA time (0:00 germany) we lost connection (server 96%!!). A relog brought us back to planet calypso. The beacon was gone. :frowning:

There were no bots around anymore, so we couldnt get killed.

Of course we all wrote a support case at once.

So, did this happen to anyone else allready ?

McCormick
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my guess: tehy didnt want you to loot some realy uberish item :stuck_out_tongue:

for the noobs of us out there, care to explain exactly what a beacon quest is, and how to start it..??

i’ve never seen any sort of quest in this game.. and to be honest, i’m kind of getting bored with just hunting…

[QUOTE=Venus]
Here is the answer i got today:

2005-07-14 MindArk Support:
Thanks for your report.

You have been compensated with a new Beacon.
It has been [SIZE=1]putted[/SIZE] in VAYU’s inventory

Sadly the beacon dont works yet. When we want to use it, it says: “This beacon appears to be broken”

But well, we seem to be on the right way. I guess that will be fixed soon.

At this point i would like to say thanks for a very fast and noble MindArk-Support :thumbup:
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lol @ MA’s english

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lol @ MA’s english
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Reminds me of someone who won something :hammer: