Now with these Socket Closed errors I'm having to pay more attention and even use a mouse-mover app to try and keep the Socket Closed errors away.

If it's just an app that moves the pointer minutely to indicate activity then he should be fine, I use a similar thing if I'm at keyboard but not doing any mouse of KB inputs to stop my machine going into sleep mode.

If it's just an app that moves the pointer minutely to indicate activity then he should be fine, I use a similar thing if I'm at keyboard but not doing any mouse of KB inputs to stop my machine going into sleep mode.

Its really tough these days being a miner because until a week or so ago I could set up mining plus defense drones then go away for a while and walk my dog.

Now with these Socket Closed errors I'm having to pay more attention and even use a mouse-mover app to try and keep the Socket Closed errors away.

If my poor dog understood she'd petition CCP to get them fixed soon.

Strange, I've been popped so many times but never while away walking my dog.

Serious though, if its bad for me then it must be hellish getting a Socket Closed error during PVP.

May I suggest you look into modifying your windows power settings? You can set a power profile that requires no dickery.

Its really tough these days being a miner because until a week or so ago I could set up mining plus defense drones then go away for a while and walk my dog.

Now with these Socket Closed errors I'm having to pay more attention and even use a mouse-mover app to try and keep the Socket Closed errors away.

If my poor dog understood she'd petition CCP to get them fixed soon.

Strange, I've been popped so many times but never while away walking my dog.

Serious though, if its bad for me then it must be hellish getting a Socket Closed error during PVP.

Its really tough these days being a miner because until a week or so ago I could set up mining plus defense drones then go away for a while and walk my dog.

Now with these Socket Closed errors I'm having to pay more attention and even use a mouse-mover app to try and keep the Socket Closed errors away.

If my poor dog understood she'd petition CCP to get them fixed soon.

Strange, I've been popped so many times but never while away walking my dog.

Serious though, if its bad for me then it must be hellish getting a Socket Closed error during PVP.

It was a Windows CE system, now running a low powered linux thin client, it's so old I'm not even sure if power profiles are even available, it just drops of to sleep if no inputs in 30 minutes regardless of it doing something like streaming internet radio.

I wasn't actually trolling btw

Put the dog on a treadmill.

And have that treadmill power your laptop.

And have that treadmill power your laptop.

And teach the dog to mine, he can earn his walks

There is a serious side to this concerning socket close errors and I'm not the only one suffering from them (and my dog) :-


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Some players suspect the lack of player interaction(keyboard or mouse) with Eve client is causing the problem whereas a few weeks ago one could leave the computer to go for a cuppa etc or to walk the dog.

And teach the dog to mine, he can earn his walks

Yeah I get those too. And I'm running 3 clients... one would crap-out while the others are still ok. It's weird.

We should coin a term for getting this socket errors.... how about:

Pilot one: "Dude! you dissapear in mid mid-flight"
Pilot Two: "yeah, I got socketed".

You're not even supposed to walk your dog while mining. If you really need to go walk the dog (or go AFK for any other reason), learn to dock up. I sincerely hope someone will find you and gank you while you're out walking the dog.

I hope you're trolling... Because I'm pretty sure that counts as automated play, while afk... Perhaps I'm wrong.

Why, why would you hope that ?


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So he would learn not to go AFK in space the hard way. Why else?

Thats a good idea, she'd be better than me. Lately i mine all this ore then log out, but forget to return before all the cargo containers have perished

I believe the OP is missing one very easy way to prevent these socket errors from interfering with mining: actually be present at the computer while mining.

I have never seen a "socket error" in the two years I have played this game.

Its really tough these days being a miner because until a week or so ago I could set up mining plus defense drones then go away for a while and walk my dog.