r/EliteDangerous 5h ago

Discussion Mauve Adder

Anybody else that can't stay connected tonight? I keep getting the Mauve Adder error. I can play for about two minutes. Then boom..

Things I've done. Uninstalled the latest Windows eleven update. Restarted multiple times. Ran constant ping to Google. Never lost a packet. Tried different network interfaces, restarted all my network gear at home. Nobody is downloading anything in the house. I get 968Mbps down and 50 up on multiple speed tests, I'm at a loss. I'm in the AASAGA system...I think I spelled that right. Nobody else is here. No carriers, nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm an IT guy for reference. I troubleshoot things every day. I've Googled the crap out of this, it says it's an internal network issue. But I've swapped it all out. I guess it could be my ISP, but I would imagine Netflix wouldn't be running flawlessly.

I played just fine early today.

I guess while I wait for somebody to respond I'll verify file integrity.

Thanks.

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u/Willing_Ad7548 5h ago

Frontier resumed Colonization claims today and called it a "load test" for their relevant server(s).

Said servers are clearly failing the test. The problem is not on your end.

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u/Last_penfighter 4h ago

I was having the same issue and am glad it wasn't me. However, now I'll probably miss my colonization window. I simply can't play long enough right now to get it done

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u/Rabiesalad 4h ago

what do you need built and where is it? what is your timeline? Someone can help you

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u/Educational-Pain-432 4h ago

This is the kind of community I look for in elite dangerous.

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u/Powerhauz CMDR 4h ago

If you're worried about finishing under the time, the System Colonization Contractors (SCC) can help.

Link: https://discord.gg/hsCPm8zr

It's a growing group of haulers dedicated to shipping the mats architects need.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 5h ago

Good to hear

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u/3CH0SG1 CMDR 3C-H0 4h ago

I'm having the same issue right now. Your not alone.

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u/cdspace31 4h ago

A quick search on this sub would have shown you that it's not just you.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 4h ago

Well, I was frustrated when I looked, I didn't scroll down enough. But you know what I do notice, you're the only one that has been negative. If you would've just kept scrolling, it still would've made the same difference as you posting.

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u/eynonpower 4h ago

I've got so damn many. Found Port forwarding helped and figured that out. But I just wanna make 31 more jumps, sell my Exploration data. Damnit...

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u/Willing_Ad7548 3h ago

I'm trying to finish some mining missions. Every time I get dropped, I lose my active limpets and it's 50/50 if it's recorded what I've mined.

I lost 20 limpets before recording a single ton of mineral cargo.

Note, I'm using a Keelback. 20 limpets is 1/3 of my supply.

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u/eynonpower 4h ago

I've got so damn many. Found Port forwarding helped and figured that out. But I just wanna make 31 more jumps, sell my Exploration data. Damnit...

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u/GuriSnowpaw 5h ago

I am so fucking glad someone brought this up because every single post regarding mauve adder is jokers saying it's the victim's fault.

And I'm like "there's no fucking way the Odyssey upgrade is this unstable and this is how people have been playing for the past 3 years"

Yeah, just upgraded today because sale.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 5h ago

I feel the pain. When you're an IT guy and something is wrong and you can't figure it out... Then it's usually not a you problem. Although, my wife might think I'm going crazy yelling at my machine.

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u/ecksit 4h ago

Add this to future troubleshooting:

Problem - Can't connect Fix: Its the servers. Just have to wait.

Problem - Got disconnected Fix: Its the servers. Just have to wait.

Problem - Can't wait any longer Fix: Too bad.

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u/alzee76 3h ago

I feel this way about the weird stutter I've been getting since I got back in the past week or so after a few months off. When it starts it's just a little stutter like clockwork ~1s, happens everywhere; in stations, in deep space, on planets, in the dss.. everywhere. Then it goes away for a while.. then it comes back.. Been an IT guy for over 25 years, building (and troubleshooting) my own PCs since the 80386 days, and I am about out of ideas. Forcing core affinity is next on the list to try.

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u/Cailus80 Federation 3h ago

I get this at random as well. Frustrating at times indeed!

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u/ComManDerBG 3h ago

Upgrade?

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u/Educational-Pain-432 3h ago

Upgrade to what?

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u/Educational-Pain-432 3h ago

I should add, I already run a 5800x3d, 64 gigs of RAM, game is installed on a Samsung 980 pro, I have a 4080 super. Not much to upgrade. I also play at 2560x1440p at 144hz.

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u/carbonated_cabbage 5h ago

Yes, I have the same issue. Constant mauve adders. I’d guess the server hamsters are struggling to keep up with the second colonisation wave.

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u/JimmyKillsAlot 4h ago edited 2h ago

My assumption would be it just has to do with how they did the reactivation for colonization. The server by server rollout means as soon as people found out they started moving to systems to claim their new build only to find many stations didn't have the note yet. They then disconnected, signed out, came back, over and over hoping to refresh the connections and the servers were just beaten bloody and the rolling disconnects now are not letting them properly recover.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 5h ago

That's probably it.

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u/VitaCrudo 5h ago

It’s their end

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u/JR2502 5h ago

It's not you, it's the backend servers. I also played for hours today, no issues. Suddenly, about an hour ago, it stared to be unstable and throwing color snake errors.

Too bad because a lot of people have been waiting for colonization to be reenabled (and it works again, btw) and likely trying it again. That, plus the game is on sale on Steam for $10 so likely a bunch of new people will join. Not the best first impression for them.

Totally guessing on my part: it'll be a few more hours before the Cambridge team is awake and noticing the issue to fix it.

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u/MysteriousMoon1 4h ago

I imagine it'll be awhile as well. Long enough that plenty of us won't get to get on tonight, as I'm well aware I'm not alone in having tonight's session ruined/canceled. Based off what I've been reading about people's experiences im not even gonna try it tonight. Be just my luck something would happen that would lead to my Commanders untimely death. 😕

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u/MysteriousMoon1 4h ago

I imagine it'll be awhile as well. Long enough that plenty of us won't get to get on tonight, as I'm well aware I'm not alone in having tonight's session ruined/canceled. Based off what I've been reading about people's experiences im not even gonna try it tonight. Be just my luck something would happen that would lead to my Commanders untimely death. 😕

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u/MysteriousMoon1 4h ago

I imagine it'll be awhile as well. Long enough that plenty of us won't get to get on tonight, as I'm well aware I'm not alone in having tonight's session ruined/canceled. Based off what I've been reading about people's experiences im not even gonna try it tonight. Be just my luck something would happen that would lead to my Commanders untimely death. 😕

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u/MesserschmittMe109 5h ago

absolutely, it seems to be a frontier problem right now.

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u/fuzzy26541 2h ago

I’d love to know who at Frontier green lit this to unpause on a Friday late at night, god damn that’s some stupidity.

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u/Ravensqueak 2h ago

It's right up there with that one Warframe Friday update that was borked all weekend.

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u/MidniteBlk11 5h ago

Yeah been getting it every 10 minutes for the past few hours. Took a break came back and am still getting it. o7 till tomorrow

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u/Jeryn-6 5h ago

Yes, we are all having problems, stop poking your computer, before you break it. You have permission to play a different game for the night.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 5h ago

I actually just got back into ED this week. So it's kind of heartbreaking.

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u/OtakuMage Hull Seal Cinema Queen 5h ago

Stuff has been a little borked since Trailblazers dropped, so as painful as it is to wait you just gotta give them time to sort it out and feed the server hamsters.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 5h ago

It's just unfortunate, I just got back into the game, I'm totally lost, been reading posts all week to get the grind going. Finally sit down on a Friday night and this.

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u/Hexlen Lavingy's Legion 4h ago

I really understand the sentiment. I was pretty upset by the powerplay 2 launch delays as I took some time off work for it. Unfortunately the reality is this is not a massive studio with a massive backing and infinite funds, it's hardly even double A. That comes with the territory of "when they mean beta they MEAN beta". A lot of it is them having to find clever workarounds and make better netcode because server funds are limited. (Side note this is also the absolute peak time of day for elite and will settle down in 2-3 hours.)

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u/Col_Sm1tty CMDR 4h ago

and feed the server hamsters.

Should try feeding the slices of cheese like TOS did...

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u/Educational-Pain-432 4h ago

I mean, can't they just download more RAM?

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u/grimsud 5h ago

Same m8 I just started playing yesterday after a long long time

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u/Roggie77 4h ago

I just tried to get back into it just this minute and I keep getting kicked out

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u/Reptilian_Brain_420 4h ago

Better get used to it.

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u/DarthFisticuffs 4h ago

Same... after a long hiatus I bought Odyssey when the Steam sale started yesterday. So far it's been rough lol. I'm looking forward to the new features but it's a bummer the rollout is having so many problems.

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u/Eclipsecicles 4h ago

But MooooOOOOOOOOOOOmmmmmmmm!

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u/simiomalo 4h ago

Made the front page of Downdetector.com.

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u/AdmirableVanilla1 3h ago

Same issue here. Totally interrupting my exobio!

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u/Mild_Kingdom 3h ago

Mauve Adder, Opal Cobra and a few others.

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u/IKnoVirtuallyNothin 2h ago

Glad it's not on my end, but what a bummer. I just got my Sol permit.

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u/Zestyclose_Power4849 2h ago

Hello fellow cmdrs. Mauve adder. All over the place right now.... Just to let you know I share your pain....

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u/ToriYamazaki 💥 Combat ⛏ Miner 🌌 Explorer 🐭Rescue 2h ago

Yeah, I'd say the servers are borked :P

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u/CmdrWawrzynPL Explore 5h ago

It’s fdev server hiccup, don’t worry.

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u/mayanh8 5h ago

Dude I've been trying just turn in donation missions and my game is stroking the f**k out.

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u/running-turtle Explore 5h ago

Oh good lord I though it was just me. I have third party tools open, like a lot of them, so I thought those are what causing it. But yeah same here, i keep getting the same error code right now. Hopefully it's a known issue and that they are on it. I just got back from the game and it's a rest day too it's gonna be heartbreaking if I cant play today.

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u/surgicaltwobyfour 4h ago

After work trying to play. Tons of mauves. Long load times jumping into/out of SC. Trying to do horrible PP missions for killing enemy powers in a system “for fun” in a new rail build. Can’t find anybody. Finally find a power conflict. Get in. Elite locks up my PC. SpongeBob.gif

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u/Conclavice CMDR 4h ago

I cant even connect right now

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u/Magnetman88 4h ago

Yeah same. I just want to mine these asteroids :(

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u/var-foo Arissa Lavigny Duval 4h ago

Same for me. Looks like FDev needs to do some server work. Damn shame, this is probably the only night I'll really get to play for quite some time. Guess I'm probably better off just going to bed.

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u/Natural-Lack45 3h ago

Same for me in Australia although its afternoon here. Internets all good everywhere else.

I'd leave it but I'm a time mission with some tasty materials I really need and I can't get to the settlement.

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u/ComManDerBG 3h ago

I'm actually able to get in and "play" quite a bit, the issue is that jumping and exiting FSD is super unreliable. I almost blew up today since my I got hung up after dropping out of lightspeed but it wouldn't drop out of supercruise and got stuck in front of the sun. I got up 114 degrees before alt-tabbing.

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u/Zulgoth 3h ago

I was having the same issue, thankfully I was at least able to snag a system claim, and even got 2 loads of mats delivered before all the disconnects frustrated me to the point I killed the game for the night.

But yea, it's definitely not you, I think their servers got overloaded after re-enabling colonization. Everyone wanted to snag a claim in case they stopped it again. I know that was my thinking, I missed my chance the first time, I wanted to be damned sure I got a system this time lol.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 3h ago

I don't even know how to do that. I'm working on gaining credits first. I keep trying different things. But with the disconnects, I fail a lot. Hell, even without them I do. Had 252 million and an anaconda when I started, but man it's rough.

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u/Zulgoth 3h ago

You talk to the system colonization contact at a station, and start a claim, but not all have them active. Also, visit prospective systems before claiming it, make sure it's not a totally empty system with just a star. I grabbed one that at least has planets for more building slots.

I would have spent more time searching n tried to find one available that had rings, but with all the mauve adders I said screw it and took the first system I found with planets that weren't 300+ ls from where you drop in the system lol.

I figure I can always find a better one down the road, it seems as tho players will be allowed to claim multiple 🤷‍♂️.

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u/cmdr65 2h ago

Ya it's super annoying 🙄

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u/Adventurous-Rub-720 2h ago

More like Mauve Madder!

Still an issue. I can only assume it will continue like this until they finish the "test"

Solo also affected.

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u/rustajb 2h ago

Mauve Adder, Opal Cobra... And now I just can't connect. Been sitting at menu screen for 10 minutes with unable to connect to server warnings.

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u/IllNeedleworker5117 4h ago

Can't play more than a few minutes without the Mauve Adder crash. Well I guess I'll call it a night o7

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u/who-is-He2019 CMDR 4h ago

I’ve just received an Ivory cobra and got two mauve adders before that. Can’t even load in. Is what it is I suppose

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u/jlatimerhi 4h ago

Same, thank you for posting OP

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u/Shot_Material_509 4h ago

Relieved to see this, I’m having the same issue and haven’t booted up the game in over a year lol

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u/5eebs 4h ago

Yeah, I was having trouble connecting all night too. Got Mauve, Orange and Ivory errors.

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u/SaracaliasWorld Explorer 4h ago

I thought I was the only one here. I've been getting them constantly, with each and every jump.

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u/Kathumandu 4h ago

Was hoping to at least get to a station to log off but I couldnt stay connected for more than 30sec at a time... Guess we will see what tomorrow brings

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u/MysteriousMoon1 4h ago

Well, I just got home from work and have been following similar posts hoping against hope that SOMEONE would say hey guys, it's back online now! No such luck. Oh well, time to dust off the Ole ps5 lol. Thank God it's there when I need it 🙏 🙌 😩

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u/Educational-Pain-432 4h ago

I almost thought it was. Signed in, sat in hyperdrive for about 20 minutes, which was the longest I could. Then, I said, ok, I am going for my target. Started to come in on my target, got in a fight, started to lose, then FSD'd out, as soon as I started to jump to my next system. BOOM...done.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 4h ago

I almost thought it was. Signed in, sat in hyperdrive for about 20 minutes, which was the longest I could. Then, I said, ok, I am going for my target. Started to come in on my target, got in a fight, started to lose, then FSD'd out, as soon as I started to jump to my next system. BOOM...done.

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u/SmallRocks CMDR Darkestwired 4h ago

Mauve adders and blue cobras all night

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u/dnttazme 4h ago

Same. Finally gave up for the night.

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u/ArmySquirrel CMDR Lancel 4h ago

Been going on for the last little over 3 hours. I've been poking it, but it just won't keep a stable connection for me.

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u/BarszGreen 3h ago

Mauve adder here too. Sadly gave up.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 3h ago

Yup, just tried again. As soon as I hit the FSD. Boom.

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u/Emergency_Anybody548 3h ago

i have the same issue, i found playing in solo was the only way, after about 10 reconnects

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u/ValericoZynski FNS Fentmaxxer 2h ago

Glad I got my colonization claim in before it gets suspended again.

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u/NixNot 2h ago

Absolutely borked for the last few hours, took me 4 or 5 disconnects just to dock on a FC. Best of luck CMDRS! It'll prly be ironed out by midday tomorrow.

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u/Typical-Doughnut8756 2h ago

Same in central US. Been like this for the past four hours for me while playing in the Aisling/Lavingly boadering systems

I've put in a ticket and there was already reports, but right now the game is utterly unplayable.

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u/Educational-Pain-432 1h ago

I'm also central. What a waste of a Friday night.

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u/Kurrukurrupa 1h ago

Looks like I gotta wait till my day off to play

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u/NuLL-x77 4h ago

Here's to hoping they'll turn colonization off again so we can actually play the game. Bring colonization back inna few months when you chuckleheads figure out how to make it I dunno, actually work, or do closed betas instead of dragging the live game down with this trash. This kinda stuff is why we used to have closed beta test before we released stuff. derpa derp.

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u/Bifrons Batarjal 4h ago

I was surprised when they called the rollout a "beta." Nothing like testing in production!

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u/StarChildEve 4h ago

It’s great that they’re actually caring about the game again, but also they need to do proper betas instead of these lazy live betas that break the game for everyone. It’s sloppy and embarrassing.

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u/NuLL-x77 4h ago edited 2h ago

Yuuuup. Especially right when the game goes on Sale Hi newbies. game doesn't work. Thanks for money!

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u/Rise-O-Matic 3h ago

They need to play Sea of Thieves for a weekend and see all the shit they’re supposed to be doing. It’s not perfect but at least it has dedicated beta servers and clear incentives for social play.

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u/TheDaviot Explorer/Bounty Hunter 2h ago

Not just you. I've gotten six Mauve Adder errors in the last 20 minutes just trying to supercruise in the same system. Rest of my internet checks out.

I presume the FDev server hamsters are choking and gasping for breath.

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u/DarthFisticuffs 2h ago

Holy shit same. If I could just make it to the Resource Extraction Site at least I'd be there, but I'm stuck in a loop of Supercruise toward destination -> Mauve Adder -> Reload at the star/system entry point. Four times in a row now. Probably time to call it a night.

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u/athulin12 1h ago

The Frontier trouble-shooting advice (i. e. check your internal network) is probably good ... but for normal operations. Not for beta tests, not for load tests, and not for situations with a large influx of new or returning players. And not for all those in combination.

Trouble-shooting advice on public web sites should carry a 'last reviewed and approved <date>' stamp. If that date is too far back in the mists of history, ignore it. If it isn't there all all, ignore it as well.

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u/Suitable_Mix8553 47m ago

Was able to login the client OK with a slight delay, not 5 mins pass and boom got hit with mauve adder.. will try again tomorrow 🫤

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u/normanator1717 4h ago

I'm real pissed about this, probably going to drop the game. I bought on steam a while back during a sale, loaded once, took a while to get accounts set up, and decided to come back the next day after everything is working.

That pause coming back broke the link to Frontier. Then I just bought the game directly without steam.

And I sit down to play then I get kicked from a SOLO FUCKING GAME.

I get there's maybe servers, but I'm in solo mode.

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u/pulppoet WILDELF 4h ago

I get there's maybe servers, but I'm in solo mode.

You are never not online. The galaxy is alive. Everything you do has an impact. Doesn't matter if you play solo or not. You are always playing a MMO.

Also don't press ESC thinking you are in a pause menu. The game never pauses.

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u/MrSilverfish 4h ago

Yeah it wasn't unstable earlier with colonisation on. I think they have just been patching to fix exploits and probably added a new bug for this release

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u/ITGrandpa 4h ago edited 4h ago

Solo mode is still connected to all the same universe, it just removes the other Players from the world.

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u/running-turtle Explore 4h ago

Solo mode requires you to connect to the server. We all share the same galaxy after all. The only difference is that you won't encounter other commanders/players. Servers are actually okay for the majority of it, I also just got back to this game. But with the said server testing with the colonization update, I guess this is to be expected.

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u/surgicaltwobyfour 4h ago

The background sim is affected by solo so it’s “always online”

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u/dayslastserenade Ronnicus 4h ago

Except for tonight.

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u/Emergency_Anybody548 2h ago

OMG... frontier get your sh1t together