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It started about an hour before Megan hit.. pings now show Megan in full swing, wasn't showing lag to sunrise until an hour ago.. this had been down for about 2 hours now.

Looks like they took the whole thing down... it's all red now.. fix soon!   Maybe not.. just Megan lag to the server on top of the sector logins failing.. *sigh*

I was thinking about this the other day... I think it would be an awesome idea... give them something other than ammo and comps...   Everyone that uses builders a lot, makes a builder... Everyone that needs WH a lot makes a JE... Everyone that needs ore for ammo to make comps, makes a JE Most of the long-term players are rather self-reliant and only buy what they can't kill/find/make themselves....   Most of the hard to get items are raid related or very rare spawns, you can't buy them with credits because the people who have those items have BILLIONS of credits...   If we have something to burn money on that is useful, expendable, moderately expensive and frankly addictive (one-use buff items would be addictive) can kick start the credit based economy again...   I think it is an awesome concept and opens the doors to a great deal of content (items), Devs?  Input?

It appears to be a server issue causing some trouble with logins... many people have this right now, hope they kick it... er.. um.. fix it soon!

Oh thank goodness you didn't delete this one.. I was looking for this today to add it to the Net-7 Wiki in whole or part.. please don't delete this Duvel.. just because some people will cry if you give them ambrosia on a silver platter does not mean the majority of the rest of us don't love you.. :) Please keep going!

This is a tool we have and that we can all contribute to.. http://www.net-7.org/wiki I have started doing some work on it and I know others have.  This is a solicitous post to garner more input from players and to encourage people to use the Wiki.    The main page doesn't look like much, but here is some tips for using a new-ish wiki...   SEARCH!!! It is your friend....   Also there is a link under "Toolbox" to the left.. "Special Pages"   It will have a number of pages that make no sense unless you are familiar with Media Wiki... however "All Pages" and "Categories" are quite useful to start your searches.   I am currently embarking on a long project to document all Systems, sectors, stations, npcs, vendors... essentially all of the core information into the wiki... and as I get these projects completed the information there is going to.. well.. explode.. so PLEASE USE IT!! let me know IG if you find problems, send me notes on the forums or.. EDIT THE PAGES YOURSELF and fix errors!    It is an open knowledge base, you can EDIT the info!! You can ADD pages! I know a few folks have been doing this, but since all of the resources we have externally are now very out of date and dying, we need to recompile it in once place.    USE THE WIKI!!!   mmmkay... <3

  To my way of thinking there really isn't anything wrong with this..   1. you don't get the field clear bonus because you didn't clear the field.. that's on you... 2. the prospected roids will repop normally if you empty them... 3. The L9 ores are more valuable and those are often the ones people want to find, you are leaving the good stuff for someone else..   We've all been low-level prospectors and had to leave roids with ore in them we just can't pull at one time or another.. It is part of growing up for a prospector. 

The trick is.. login to the forums on the last couple of days of the month.. The Donation window closes fast because people are generous and we have a moderate goal.  So to make your contribution you have to actually TRY to catch the cycle in the 1 or 2 days before it reaches goal.

1.  I didn't break it, I swear! 2. It appears to be coming back up.. 3. .... 4. Profit!

It would also be nice if we could remove unwanted prints from back in the early days of being a builder... I mean.. TT's go wild and print everything!  Then later, sifting though the long lists this creates can be very time consuming to find the thing you WANT to build. 

Thanks for posting this Duvel, I know you have been working on this a long time and now others can benefit from it!

Not all of the post 135 skills are in yet... Contemplation still has not been implemented, should we not complete one thing before starting another? Just a thought...

Though I am sure there are other hosts that they can move to... for the cost v.s. facility I can understand why 1&1 is hard to move away from... I've looked at a number of them in the course of years and for a mostly non-profit, low cost situation as this it is hard to beat 1&1.  Unfortunately for that reason their systems are over-taxed, under maintained and problematic.    It comes down to patience.. I deal with a little lag now and then.. gives me an excuse to walk away from the box, do other things, chit-chat, etc... I think a better solution would be to find ways to make the Client-Server situation more packet-loss tolerant.. I believe that is what the Devs are trying to do, give it some time 1&1 will fix some things, the Devs will fix some things... it will improve.. We'll still have Megan hour and bouts of lag, but given the nature of the EMU, some of that is to be expected.

Whatever change was made to "fix" the gate crashes on the last patch does not seem to have been effective.  I am still crashing when grouped and gating 80% of the time.  I went in a tour last night and we had crashes at every gate, which was very unusual previous to the first "Proxy Update".  Since I spend a lot of time running around in groups it is getting silly to even try and do anything other than sit in one sector. 

Individual roids respawn within a field if the roid is CLEARED... Just because one roid was "picked" does not stop it from spawning until every last roid the field is removed...   What does cause problems is when there are 2 junk ores in a roid and one good one... cherry picker takes the good one and leaves the rest... So it is easy to fix....   When a roid has an ore removed, it should count town a respawn timer just like one that has been emptied... then when it timer expires the roid self-destructs.. then respawns on a normal cycle..   Other possible solution, but will make ores harder to gather... one ore/item per roid/hulk.. eliminate the "Debris (50)" I see in many L8 and 9 hulks because it is a pain to sit there while your maxed Prospect and devices takes an eternity to extract the pile of debris only to be discarded into space... This causes people who are pulling hulks in a hazardous area to leave the debris, even if they want to clear the roid they can't because they will get hit in the process and stop the prospect... If the hulk would "Clean" itself after the "good" item is removed.. problem solved... if the only thing in there is a small slag (5) or Landing Strut (4) or an item and the roid is cleared, then problem solved..   Cherry picking is caused by lazy miners or miners looking for specific things... If I am after 3 Aesirium just to get a build done I am not going to clear an entire field for that... If I am looking for 5 Gold I am probably not going to clear the entire L5 roid either... I'll find the roid, get what I want and warp out...   Only when prospecting for stockpiling or XP do you see people clearing entire fields... My 2 bits on this dead horse..

sunrise.net-7.org is the correct server. 

The messages that appear in the chat window that are not related to chatting are a bit "noisy" .  It is even worse when you are in a group now, since most of the messages related to solo activity have been moved except "Credits" notification when looting....   Messages from Prospecting and looting in groups is horrible, enough to the point that if you have 2 prospectors going hard at it you can't read even group messages and the only way to get someone's attention is with a /t, because it makes a sound...   Can we get any player activity related message (non-communication) moved to the Notification window and out of the "chat" window?  People can expand that notification area as needed (like with building and such), but limit it when the information is not needed, I don't need to know what the other three prospectors in my group pulled off their 'roids.

I do not have the options in my Ethernet Card as described... Broadcom NetExtream 57xx Gigabit Controller ... However it does have a "large Send Offload V2 (Enable/Disable) which I believe it similar to the setting you are describing.   Single Client: (Prototype Reorder Checked)   Rubber Banding is a bit better... Only bouncing + and - 1K to 1.5K not 2K to 5K as before... and stopping at a normal distance from objects rather than ending the bounce 2k+ away from the object I warped to...   Single Gating seems OK, did about 20 gates, no crashes when solo.. :) That makes me VERY happy....   Dual Gating in group mode... Still throws toon 1/2 across the sector unless I gate the "Followers" first then the leader...

    I wish that worked for me, I am still unable to reliably undock/gate a single toon..:P  But I understand the Dev issues, being that nobody is getting paid I can wait until the next patch and just hope the tweak it such that I can play again.. :)

  Putting my computer in line with my connection is not possible.  My connection point to the ISP IS a router, behind a NAT... A DMZ is a bit different in that it involves two routers and a firewall to build a DMZ.  Direct connect to the world is not possible and ill-advised to not even have a NAT in there.. I am bare to the world in every other way...  Also I am a in a house with not 1 but 7 devices that connect to the internet, so in I were to bridge my router and pull the IP directly to my PC I will not be able to use anything else in my house.... Not gonna happen...

SPI is a firewall function... Since I have already disabled or killed everything remotely like a firewall between me and the servers for E&B I don't think this will help me any.. :( I am still crashing often enough I don't even bother to do anything that involves gates...

I am having similar problems.  If I am dual-client it is even worse... All of the following is AFTER I have reinstalled everything and rebooted my machine.  I have this problem on Two different computers, one with WIN7 and the other with WIN Vista.Here are the things I've tried with no effect on the problem:   Enable "Prototype Reorder" Enable "Packet Optimization" Enable "Disable Mouse Lock" Enable "Delete TH6 Files" Disable "Local Cert" Disable "Debug Launch" Disable "Lock Port"   This allows me to gate most of the time without a crash, however the second client seems to have trouble with this. Client #2 (Follower in a group gate) finds itself at "Safe Spot" after gate.  i.e. Gating into Saturn from Akeron's Gate client #1 (Leader) is OK, client #2 reports on gating screen "Gating From Jove's Fury (where I logged in from) and is not at the gate in Saturn but sitting at Net-7.   Enable "Prototype Reorder" Disable "Packet Optimization" Enable "Disable Mouse Lock" Enable "Delete TH6 Files" Disable "Local Cert" Disable "Debug Launch" Disable "Lock Port"   Game is sluggish with single client, CTD about normal when gating, once every 10 gates or so.... With a second client CTD 90% of the time now, one successful gate in 8 tries.   Disable "Prototype Reorder" Enable "Packet Optimization" Enable "Disable Mouse Lock" Enable "Delete TH6 Files" Disable "Local Cert" Disable "Debug Launch" Disable "Lock Port"   CTD Single and Dual logged is high,  Also "Rubber Banding" is horrible, when I warp and then stop my toon BOUNCES 2K from the gate then will "Rubber-band" 2K Past the gate, then back again... two or three bounces.  WTH?  JE doing Warp+Prospect used to mean I would stop cold at a roid @ about .5K, now I stop "Bouncing" + or - 1.5-2K from the roid....   PLEASE revert to the previous Net-7 Launcher or help me find a solution, I know I am not the only one dealing with this now, even though people have been telling me it was my system or my ISP, if Efiltis is having issues as well then it is not isolated to me.    EDIT: If I select "Lock Port" I can't even login.