Stations Disappearing.

BLEVE · Post by **BLEVE** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:00 pm

I have occasionally had stations disappear soon after they were built.

I have discovered that if you call up the Nav screen before the blue flash occurs, the station will disappear.

Sometimes the Blue flash is delayed by up to 1 minute. You must remain patient and not move forward or F3 until the flash occurs.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:28 pm

Good to know, thanks for the heads up BLEVE!.....

Post by **Marvin** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:42 pm

A couple days ago (thereabouts) I did the very same thing ... except I called up the Nav screen after docking with the new station. When I tried to re-dock, I was bluntly told that I wasn't docked ... and realized the station had disappeared from underneath me. When Dingo showed up in chat, I demanded my money back.

Rubber Chicken · Post by **Rubber Chicken** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:21 pm

I was online when that happened Marv, I also had to log out for other reasons but then I logged back on. I entered MP at a station and got a "Station Build Error" message. After about 5 seconds the station finally apeared.
It seems that it's been taking longer for stations to generate when you return if your last MP save was in the dock.

Reaver 5 · Post by **Reaver 5** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:57 pm

I noticed the error messages as well and thought they were odd. I happened to have made screenshots of them, maybe they can be helpful to Vice:

This is a crop out from one single screenshot, so the 3 messages appeared consecutively.

Post by **Vice** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:07 pm

High server load and/or regional station databases may delay station spawning, could be something else server-side that I can watch for. The object creation errors above are unrelated though and have to do with the game informing you that your system prevented it from creating objects it needed in memory. During runtime, rather than crash to the desktop or freeze, the game can often catch these errors before they happen and just report them to you so you are aware of the memory problem. The '51' is the ship type is tried to create, the '126X' numbers are the object ID slot it tried to create them in. If the game is not allowed to create those objects in memory by your system, it will replace them with cube primitives as placemarkers instead.

Rubber Chicken · Post by **Rubber Chicken** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:52 pm

From post: 123083, Topic: tid=8302, author=Vice wrote: If the game is not allowed to create those objects in memory by your system, it will replace them with cube primitives as placemarkers instead.

Could this be an explanation for the occasional "Talon Cube" encounter?

I saw one the last time I was on. It was a Cube that had a Talon label and info on the target I.D. panel of my HUD. The I.D panel image was correct also.
Two other pilots saw it simply as a Talon complete with correct frame and texture. I was the only one who saw it as a cube.

I've seen other posts about it so I know I'm not crazy (at least for this instance!).

Post by **Vice** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:20 pm

Yes, that is likely what they are (and when that happens, you can probably scroll up the message log to find the object construction message). You're not crazy

Rubber Chicken · Post by **Rubber Chicken** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:02 pm

From post: 123096, Topic: tid=8302, author=Vice wrote: You're not crazy

No offense Sir, but surely you don't reeeeeaaaally know me!:P:P

Dingo · Post by **Dingo** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:39 am

From post: 123075, Topic: tid=8302, author=Marvin wrote: When Dingo showed up in chat, I demanded my money back.

And that's when I told Marvin that if he wants a station built on USS, he better use union labor...you know...lest an "accident" occur to his precious building.

[Edited on 1-12-2012 by Dingo]

BLEVE · Post by **BLEVE** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:11 am

From post: 123113, Topic: tid=8302, author=Dingo wrote:
From post: 123075, Topic: tid=8302, author=Marvin wrote: When Dingo showed up in chat, I demanded my money back.
And that's when I told Marvin that if he wants a station built on USS, he better use union labor...you know...lest an "accident" occur to his precious building.

[Edited on 1-12-2012 by Dingo]

I can picture the paw hovering over the button. Zok Pow Kazam. LOL.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:46 am

ROFL.....

:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P

Post by **Marvin** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:20 am

Oh, yeah ... I forgot. True story.