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BUG: PPL who log off in space without anchoring

Dude®Dude® Member Posts: 44
in Starport: Galactic Empires

I have found a bug, it may have been noticed b4. Those ships you see in a system that are on the very edge of the system (the ppl who logged off), are shown to the players who enter there that they are not moving. When in fact they are moving, normally in a clockwise direction around the outside of the system. Now to see this find a system where there is a ship on the outmost part of the system, and make sure they are not logged in, then enter something, then came back and you will noticed that they moved. This is I bet that the details of the movement of the ship is basically handled by the client, and the server will only update your client just when you enter that system.

So what is needed is a constant update to all clients, of what ship is moving where, of the players who are logged off, by the server to all clients connected at that time, in respect to what sector each client is seeing at that moment.

Now at first when I ran accross this I thought this ship was invincible but in fact it wasnt. The ship was just moving away from that location at a slw rate. When I finally found out what was happening then I simply went to the spot the ship was shown and went in the direction of that ships assumed movement and kept shooting to kill it, and that worked.


Dude®

Dude®

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  • XenoCidezXenoCidez Member Posts: 24
    Yeah took me awhile to realize that, when I was shooting at nothing and suddenly it said that I hit someone. When I started I kept thinking it was cloaked ship and went around shooting all over the map image

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  • Dude®Dude® Member Posts: 44
    This bug is now fixed. The last update cleared it up, so now you can see the logged out players ship move if they did not anchor it.

    Dude®

    Dude®

  • RafkinRafkin Member Posts: 9

    The problem I'm having is, even when i anchor, if i don't log out, and walk away for a bit, say for dinner, phone call, or whatever.. come back in 30 minutes and I'm not in the same place. even anchored i find i've drifted into the gravitation of the star, or some planet.

    If I anchor and log off, I find when I log back in, the same problem. I'm not where I was when I logged off.

    How well is anchoring your ship supposed to work? seems to me it may slow the drifting some, but I still drift.

  • The-OneThe-One Member Posts: 7

    I have the same problem.

    The One

  • XenoCidezXenoCidez Member Posts: 24
    That's why it's best to logoff in a biodome or on a planet. I've ended up in non-protected space after anchoring near a StarBase.

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  • LucianoLuciano Member Posts: 11

    Anyway, why peopple logoff on UN space? After more than 1,000 XP? Isnt it much cheap to logoff on starport that tax 1500 an hour?

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