There are still several types of crashs to find but one of the most common (75% of them) has been related to docking at Aomori & Akita and possibly other stations in Honshu. Access to these bases have been prohibited until we fix this problem.
Sadly people who are already docked on these stations are causing the server to crash when they login. This is why the server is stable for a while then crashes 5 times in a row. The person who's trying to log in gives up and the server returns to normal.
I've lost modified some of the Freelancer anticheat behaviour to prevent a particular class of anticheat kick that has caused many problems for people due to base changes.
I am aware that some/many people who were docked at Omicron Minor have lost their ships. I haven't figured out how we will get these back yet but I will come up with something.
For the people who have trouble with too much cargo and getting anticheat kicked a solution is being worked on.
I will post more information when I've got it...
Proud member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
Good news. We now fully understand the reasons for most of the crashing and are implementing a fix. Once we have a fix for the BS missile issues and this one, we will release an update.
The server is significantly more stable. It's only crashing once ever hour or so now rather than every 10 minutes. We are continuing to work.
Please note that we are reading your bug reports. Most are finding there way into our issue tracking system. The team's priorities are:
- Server stability
- Client stability
- Lost ships and login issues
- IDs and techcompatibilty
- Everything else.
I expect we will release an update tomorrow.
Proud member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
Update 1 has improved server stability by an order of magnitude. On average it runs for 3 hours and at the time of posting this note the server has run for 11 hours without interruption.
There remain a number of critical bugs and we're working on these as quickly as possible. We have fixes in progress for the BS missile problems and understand the causes of most of the Freelancer crashes.
Once the Freelancer CTDs are addressed and another update is out for this, the development team will focus on resolving the other issues.
I also hope to restore the lost omicron minor ships and fix ships for people who are stuck in bases within the next week.
Proud member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
