Pages: 1 2 :: [one page] |
|
Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |

Aria Vetronas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 06:47:00 -
[1]
this is to supplement my ongoing petition
i would like anyone/everyone to post about known issues we have with autopilot, even if someone else has already posted about it i need as many people who have had this problem as me to post about it so the gm's and devs will know its real and want to fix it
i lost a charon last week, i spent hours loading it up, laid in a route from motsu to arnola, set autopilot to "prefer safe", and let her go... there IS an all-safe (no red systems) route, it is around 33 jumps and i'd been travelling it for at least a day or two prior to this trip what makes this trip special is that when i clicked autopilot to safe, closed the starmap, then set my destination to arnola, i did not know that the autopilot failed to plot the "prefer safe" course, but instead remained on default and plotted the "prefer short" course... i looked at the first few dots of the systems and they were all green, and knowing that i had set the autopilot to safe, i was satisfied that everything was in order, engaged autopilot, alt tabbed to a different character...
a few minutes later i heard explosions and firing and alt tabbed back to find myself in crieliere (not on the safe route) being pwned, i panicked and close the program immediately but if course that did me no good, awhile later when i logged back on, i saw my pod warping back to the scene of my charon's demise, and no sooner did i finish warping back in than i got podded by multiple smartbombs going off... and the next thing i saw was the station where my clone was...
i immediately checked my autopilot settings and it was still set to "prefer safe"
so far the initial response from the gm's has been that there aren't any records in the logs of obvious server side bugs or issues to cause this but we all know there are many flaws with autopilot that wouldn't necessarily have any indication on the server logs... for example: autopilot randomly shutting off... autopilot laying in and incorrect route (as in my case) autopilot being engaged but failing to activate etc.
i managed to duplicate the problem and get a screenie of it that clearly shows that "prefer safe" is selected while the route remains the default "prefer shortest" route... i have uploaded the screenie to the petition...
this bug may happen only 1/50 or 1/100 times u use the autopilot, it took me a long time to get it to do it again, by clicking back and forth between the settings lots of times... however things were very laggy for me the night i lost the charon, i had gotten d/c several times, and maybe that had something to do with it, but however it happens, that is for the devs to figure out... if any of you have screenies of autopilot acting up, especially those with "prefer safe" selected while the route shown is clearly not right, please find a way to get them to CCP so they can fix my issue and hopefully reimburse me for my loss...
your help here is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance
|

Zeba
Minmatar Pator Tech School
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 06:52:00 -
[2]
Never ran across that problem. Petition is your friend though good luck trying to get your stuff back as in cases like this 'the logs show nothing'. 
inappropriate signature. ~WeatherMan |

Koryvarn
The Fated Odyssey.
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 06:54:00 -
[3]
Edited by: Koryvarn on 27/04/2008 06:54:10 The hint's in the online part of eve-online.
The moral of this story is that if you fly afk, you either get suicide ganked, or you end up in low sec and make some pirates day.

|

Freya Runestone
Minmatar
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 06:59:00 -
[4]
what about the slider called "safety tolerance" or something? If you set that to 1 then i doubt it will care if it has to go through -1.0
|

Kylegar
Caldari Dawn of Fire Black-Out
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:04:00 -
[5]
This game isnt made to be played AFK...just FYI. --
Originally by: CCP Ginger No sex changes.
|

Retsil Evad
Caldari The Arrow Project Morsus Mihi
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:06:00 -
[6]
AFKing in a freighter will result in death. End of story.
============== Office use ONLY ==============
BRING BACK EVE TV!!!!!!! |

Aria Vetronas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:07:00 -
[7]
Edited by: Aria Vetronas on 27/04/2008 07:08:54 yes thank you all...
notice that i said i'd travelled the route several times before this happened and so i was sure the entire route was safe, if you had been in my position i'm sure you would have used autopilot knowing the whole route was safe, the point is the auto pilot went by the default "shortest" route and not the "safest" which was selected, read the whole OP before you reply next time...
if you can't see the issue you are beyond help
i don't need to be told the moral of the story, that i already learned the hard way, the OP states what i need, if u don't have it don't reply :)
|

Dr McTurtle
Republic Military School
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:08:00 -
[8]
Edited by: Dr McTurtle on 27/04/2008 07:08:18 If you fly a freighter AFK, then you should know the risk of losing it increase significantly and by chosing not to fly it manually you accept that risk. Also, you seriously mean you petition the loss to get the ship back?
- You failed to check properly what route you had planned. - You was AFK. - Your freighter got killed by someone who didn't do anything wrong.
Those seem to be facts you acknowledge yourself in your post, still you want to claim that this loss was due to no fault of your own?
|

Diek Ran
Amarr Autonums
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:09:00 -
[9]
Edited by: Diek Ran on 27/04/2008 07:09:37 Sorry for your freighter.
I never had this problem that you are describing.
Autopilot is IMO completly implemented on the client side (a macro in a sense).
Sorry, please allow me to put a Link here that goes to a thread of mine that got lost. __________________________________
Originally by: Verlyn
I know it's my own fault, BUT THATS NOT THE POINT!
|

Aria Vetronas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:12:00 -
[10]
Edited by: Aria Vetronas on 27/04/2008 07:15:17 this has nothing to do with the ppl who attacked me, they did what they do best and that is fine...
the point is the correct route the autopilot should have generated doesn't take me into any systems below 0.5 security, and i doubt many people could suicide gank a charon...
the issue is that the autopilot plotted a route inconsistant with the settings that were selected and as that constitutes a flaw in the game hell yes i am petitioning it...
please read carefully ppl this is nuts, yes i know what i should have done differently i do NOT need to be told anymore thank you
also, PLEASE do not post unless you have something to aid the GMs to do their jobs, saying "i never had this problem" is unnecessary and as this is something that happens only rarely i'm sure most of you can say that but we will all be glad that you didn't post it so we don't have to search through several pages of this thread to find the important posts, so if u haven't had this problem (or a related one), IGNORE THE THREAD
|
|

itasteofcheese
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:14:00 -
[11]
Originally by: Aria Vetronas this has nothing to do with the ppl who attacked me, they did what they do best and that is fine...
the point is the correct route the autopilot should have generated doesn't take me into any systems below 0.5 security, and i doubt many people could suicide gank a charon...
the issue is that the autopilot plotted a route inconsistant with the settings that were selected and as that constitutes a flaw in the game hell yes i am petitioning it...
please read carefully ppl this is nuts, yes i know what i should have done differently i do NOT need to be told anymore thank you
I think he is reporting a problem more with the autopilot not doing what it was told than his ship loss, try reading
|

Kahrek Laume
Gallente Atropos Asylum
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:20:00 -
[12]
If you change your autopilot settings after you set your destination your autopilot will not usualy adjust your already planned route (At least it never does for me) you change your autopilot settings first then set destination, could that be what happened?
Regards,
Kahrek Laume.
|

Lord WarATron
Amarr Black Nova Corp Band of Brothers
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:26:00 -
[13]
Edited by: Lord WarATron on 27/04/2008 07:26:33 Can you give us a screenshot of your autopilot menu settings in map? --
Billion Isk Mission |

Black Otis
Caldari State War Academy
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:37:00 -
[14]
Edited by: Black Otis on 27/04/2008 07:41:41 As 'Shortest Route' is the default setting (poor design decision IMO) and the entire GUI has a nasty habit of resetting to default settings, it could be just that.
Everything else gets wonky from time to time. From the overview resetting whenever you undock to the ghost ships to the windows spontaneously changing positions.
For most of these things it's just annoying. But in your case it's a definite problem situation.
I wonder if other people can induce the same thing. I'll give it a shot when I next log in and see if I can replicate it. Might help your case if it can be made to happen for more people than just you.
I do hope it works out that you get your ship back. Losing it to a bug isn't, or shouldn't be, acceptable game play.
|

Shaun Klaroh
Caldari Nova Mining Manufacturing and Research LTD
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:46:00 -
[15]
I have seen my autopilot get a little wonky at times even for short hops between four systems. I've seen it turn these trips into 28 jump trips as a result, luckily I rarely go AFK, and thoroughly check all waypoints before letting it go. -----
Quote: "Are these people prisoners?" Arkhan asked.
"Not at all," Melak replied. "They're free to run and get shot any time they like."
|

Aria Vetronas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:46:00 -
[16]
Kahrek Laume
i don't think so because, as i said above, i set the autopilot to "prefer safe" first, closed starmap, then set destination....
this is part of the reason why i didn't notice that the route was bad because the first few visible systems were safe anyway...
of course i know to check the whole route in starmap in the future
i'll gladly post the screenshot when i get back to the computer it's stored on, i'm at my g/f's atm :)
|

Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:54:00 -
[17]
Originally by: Kylegar This game isnt made to be played AFK...just FYI.
I think the fact that there's an option to activate an autopilot disproves this claim. Of course, one takes one's life into their own hands when they alt-tab out of the client.
Sometimes "show safer" includes low sec systems. This is a notorious problem in the Solitude region, where "show safer" back to bordering empire regions charts a course through NULL SEC of all places. You have to select "prefer less secure" to bring you back through like a 15 jump low sec pipe in order to avoid a nullsec route. That doesn't seem to be the problem that the OP is describing, but it is an issue. But yeah, if you think there's an autopilot bug definitely keep escalating the petition until someone says that they acknowledge the problem exists. They may not refund your freighter but at least they'll put a sticky note up on some wall at CCP central command that says "autopilot problem - discussion about this at Glaumbar tonight".
|

Trinity Dusk
Art of War
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 07:59:00 -
[18]
Sorry for your loss.
I presume you had your Security Penalty set to 5 (or smaller) and/or had Avoid pod killings selected. If you set your Security Penalty to 5 and plan trip from Motsu to Arnola then it'll go through Kamela (0.4 system). If you really want to avoid low sec then you should set the slider to 100. Checking the route before going afk is always a good idea too.
|

Zakgram
Atomic Heroes Phalanx Alliance
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:05:00 -
[19]
Originally by: Aria Vetronas being pwned, i panicked and close the program immediately
Logging off is bad sport. You deserved the smartbombing imho.
|

Ki An
Gallente Filiolus Of Bellum
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:12:00 -
[20]
As this issue should be solved through a bug-report and not the forums, I'll just post and say:
You flew your freighter afk. You didn't check your route properly. You logged during combat. You admit all this freely. God, you're lame.
Filiolus of Bellum is recruiting
|
|

Pan Crastus
Amarr
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:21:00 -
[21]
Originally by: Ki An As this issue should be solved through a bug-report and not the forums, I'll just post and say:
You flew your freighter afk. You didn't check your route properly. You logged during combat. You admit all this freely. God, you're lame.
Lovely how some of the "forum PVPers" will do anything but acknowledge that there are bugs in the game that cause problems ...
EVE Online: a cold, cruel world where (RL-)rich people replace their losses with GTCs sold to poor students who need to farm ISK to afford their play time ...
|

Sokratesz
Rionnag Alba Triumvirate.
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:21:00 -
[22]
Originally by: Zakgram
Originally by: Aria Vetronas being pwned, i panicked and close the program immediately
Logging off is bad sport. You deserved the smartbombing imho.
Not at any point in his post is he being bitter about anything, so stop flaming.
I refuse to respect religious beliefs, and i refuse to respect people who hold them. |

Aria Vetronas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:25:00 -
[23]
i understand bout the security penalty but i had that covered and as i've said i'd been following the route for the previous 2 days and that at my setting the correct route travelled through no system lower than 0.5 and that i'm sure of...
yes i know it was bad sport but then again there is no sport in killing a beached whale...
i was encouraged to post this here and see if anyone else could supply useful information, if you cannot, don't post
|

Ki An
Gallente Filiolus Of Bellum
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:28:00 -
[24]
Originally by: Pan Crastus
Originally by: Ki An As this issue should be solved through a bug-report
Lovely how some of the "forum PVPers" will do anything but acknowledge that there are bugs in the game that cause problems ...
Read much?
Filiolus of Bellum is recruiting
|

Evita Achura
Caldari Science and Trade Institute
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:37:00 -
[25]
Originally by: Aria Vetronas ...owned by their own stupid flying habits...
IF there was an actual glitch and you are not just petitioning because you got blown up on autopilot then yes some one should look into it and thank you for making us aware.
However you should not be reimbursed for ANYTHING you lost regardless of whether there was a glitch. You were afk, you got blown up, you failed. Pilot not at the helm = dead ship. In high sec or low either way you got what you deserved and I will now commence laughing at you now.    
|

Yakumo Smith
Gallente The Forsakened Companions Pure.
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 08:38:00 -
[26]
I've seen issues when I've changed the settings while a destination is in place.
If I had autopilot set to shortest, picked a route, spotted it had some red systems, changed settings to "safer", it would still take me the original way until I unset the destination and reset it.
This was never an issue for me as I always fly manually, but if you were moving around in empire and had set the AP to shortest for a little while and then changed it to safer after having picked your destination it could account for what happened.
I suppose this must be my sig. I'll do something cool with it eventually. |

Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 09:17:00 -
[27]
set destination, press f10 check route.
|

Aria Vetronas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 09:23:00 -
[28]
Edited by: Aria Vetronas on 27/04/2008 09:25:12 Evita Achura,
laugh all you want but don't put words in my mouth, troll
chainsaw, thank you, i know now
ppl pls don't post unless you have something truly pertinent to the REAL subject at hand
|

Ka Jolo
Ministry of Destruction Southern Cross Alliance
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 09:46:00 -
[29]
I have seen the "prefer less safe" option route me through many lowsec systems when a much quicker nullsec route is available. When traveling from Delve to Querious, for example, "prefer less safe" routes through Aridia instead of going direct to Querious where it would be appropriate. The hack we use is to set "prefer shorter." As an outlaw, this of course always makes me double-check the route chosen by the computer.
Ka Jolo Your Money or Your Life! The journal of a space pirate
|

Misanth
The Graduates Brutally Clever Empire
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 10:23:00 -
[30]
That bug is really common and works in other ways as well, I'll mention a few:
* Each time the game patches, t2 ships disappear from overview settings. You have to manually update all your saves settings and add every single t2 and capital ship. I've lost ships to this three times and twice got ships back after I petitioned it.
* The overview settings restore to the latest used on log-in when you undock. This means that if I have my PvP setting that only show hostiles and dock up, then go to rat and set my setting to show NPC's and wrecks.. next time I exit the station my PvP setting is back and I have to 'load up' the old setting. It also means it's no point for me using brackets, as I have to restore settings by rightclicking and chose a saved setting each time I swap brackets.. which.. is.. exactly the same thing I do when rightclicking to swap settings already, so the brackets are 100% useless.
I highly suspect these things can be sorted somehow, as I know some players that don't have the second issue but they have the first. I'm guessing it is something with cache or old settings to do. Not sure if that would affect example number 1, or your autopilot settings. But there's definately something with the clients that "resets" settings now and then, which is ultimately the exact same that happens to your autopilot.
Apart from that I agree with the others that tells you not to autopilot ;) as well as I wonder why you didn't push F10 to re-confirm that the route was correct. I don't trust CCP, you shouldn't either. :D and honestly I don't know a single MMO that doesn't have bugs.
|
|

Segge Bolled
Caldari Dirty Sexy Pilots New Age Solutions Amalgamated
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 10:30:00 -
[31]
Once or twice only, since Trinity I think, I've seen the route generated by autopilot be a little odd. For example, the "prefer safest route" wanting to send me through some low security instead of high security as it should. Or "prefer less secure" settings trying to send me on a pilgrimage across the galaxy when "shortest route" cuts the trip by more than half and still doesn't involve any 0.0 or high security.
|

Frug
Repo Industries R.E.P.O.
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 11:45:00 -
[32]
One of the few things in eve that ISNT buggy as hell is the autopilot. :P
- - - - - - - - - Do not use dotted lines - - - - - - - If you think I'm awesome, say BOOO BOOO!! - Ductoris Neat look what I found - Kreul Hey, my marbles |

Cori4n
Caldari principle of motion Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 12:23:00 -
[33]
Originally by: Misanth * The overview settings restore to the latest used on log-in when you undock. This means that if I have my PvP setting that only show hostiles and dock up, then go to rat and set my setting to show NPC's and wrecks.. next time I exit the station my PvP setting is back and I have to 'load up' the old setting. It also means it's no point for me using brackets, as I have to restore settings by rightclicking and chose a saved setting each time I swap brackets.. which.. is.. exactly the same thing I do when rightclicking to swap settings already, so the brackets are 100% useless.
Switching to a tab with some chosen bracket/overview settings (even if it requires switching to another and back) should avoid this...
Amiwrong?
|

5pinDizzy
Amarr Pwnage Distribution Inc.
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 12:55:00 -
[34]
Before you all keep trolling or laughing at the OP with, "well you shouldn't have been afk", or when you all stretch it all to "well you should have had an alt scout, and another alt webbing you, and you should've had 10 battleships protecting you etc..." I'd like to note that they do have a very valid point about the autopilot system, it's a piece of crap, I don't use it anymore.
The security status filter doesn't work (lost a cheap ship in a 1.0 sec system due to my security status, I wasn't afk just very surprised and couldn't get it out again as it was webbed immediately), and as we've seen a lot of aspects of the autopilot/course plotting are either very inefficient or broken altogether.
For this reason the OP does have my sympathy, especially for quite a hefty loss, although personally for such a valuable shipment I would've kept an eye on where it was going every so often. I'm not sure if I entirely believe the OPs story, it may have been exaggerated, sounds a lot like they just had lowsec systems on the end of a route that was too long to show correctly on the starmap.
Anyway I don't use the ingame nav route planning anymore, it's a piece of junk, use this link in your ingame browser if you want to plot a route that actually works or a route that's actually more to your benefit.
http://eve.grismar.net/navigator/index.php
You can tell it to avoid single systems, to avoid certain security levels, and much more. Brilliant tool by all means.
|

aLtErEgO1982
Caldari The Knighthawks
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 13:36:00 -
[35]
|

Batolemaeus
Caldari Free-Space-Ranger Morsus Mihi
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 13:42:00 -
[36]
Originally by: Misanth
* The overview settings restore to the latest used on log-in when you undock.
There is a new tab in your overviewsettings where you can assign presets to tabs. You have to set those overviewsettings to tabs in this menue, and the tabs will reset to these settings everytime you switch or dock.
To the op: Ouch. As this could happen to me too, i wish you luck with your petition. (i don't fly afk, ever. But i normally set a route with an overview that only shows gates, and just click warp/jump while i do something else on my second monitor. That way i could accidently fly into lowsec too without noticing..)
|

SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 14:12:00 -
[37]
Edited by: SoftRevolution on 27/04/2008 14:15:35 How vexing.
Well I have noticed on occasion that when I've changed the setting of the autopilot from shorter to safer it hasn't updated the plotted route till I waggled the slider on the autopilot settings back and forth so I agree it does "stick" on occasion.
What I haven't noticed is the plotted route differing from my current setting although that said I tend to check long routes in the map screen anyway.
Seconding Grismar's Navigator as my autopilot route plotter of choice... although it'd be very fiddly manually setting 35 WPs. EVE RELATED CONTENT |

Rutoo
Gallente Interstellar eXodus R0ADKILL
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 14:34:00 -
[38]
I'm going to guess the OP messed up. he said he checked the first few dots and that was it.
More Often than not people try and blame their mistake on someone or something else.
I often semi-afk 2-3 haulers and one freighter Around EVE space and never once have i ended up going to a low sec or a system i didn't want.
Make sure "Avoid Systems where pod killing has occurred" is not checked also Cause thats the only thing that will change your route all of a sudden (and probably your case) _________________________________________________________ My Second EvE Video Club Seals Not Sandwichs
|

Grarr Dexx
Amarr Naval Protection Corp Carpe Universitas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 14:45:00 -
[39]
I'm sorry but how do you not notice lowsec-colored dots on your autopilot?
|

Aria Vetronas
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 18:34:00 -
[40]
Edited by: Aria Vetronas on 27/04/2008 18:34:37 as i've said before ppl i had been travelling the exact same route for 2 days before hand and had become quite familiar with it and so i can assure you that on the true "prefer safe" route thare are NO systems lower than 0.5, not hidden in the middle, at the end, or anywhere...
in this case the first few systems were green and being that i had travelled the route many times over the previous 48 hours i thot it not necessary to open the starmap once more, but the first several systems visible were all green and consistent with what i'd travelled so i had no reason to suspect that the route would part with the one i'd been travelling many times over just a few systems beyond what i could see
yes i know now to check the route in starmap last once more...
rutoo, i never blamed anyone else for the fact that the charon got blown up, the point of this whole post is that IF the autopilot hadn't messed up, i would have never been in the situation to worry about the charon blowing up, charon blowing up is completely a separate issue from the creation of the circumstances that led to its demise, this has has also never happened to me before, hence i had no reason not to trust the autopilot, lets check the knowns:
1) previously travelled, known to be completely safe route 2) i trusted the autopilot (my mistake) 3) i also went semi afk, like i said i alt tabbed, its not like i went on vacation... 4) a few minutes later pirates were showing how pro they could be at blowing up a charon...
i know its a chore ppl but please read at the very least all my previous posts because i've already addressed all these issues...
|
|

Khorin D'tael
Caldari D'tael Contracts
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 18:42:00 -
[41]
Exactly the same thing has happened to me except I saw 2 jumps out I was going to end up in those lowsec systems around Rancer and corrected it.
|

Joe schmuckatelli
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 18:56:00 -
[42]
I may know the origin of the bug you describe. I have had similar autopilot bugs on several occasions.
If you have a destination set, and are looking at the Solar System Map. If you change autopilot settings from prefer safer to prefer shorter (or vice versa), the route will not change. This may result into heading into a system that should not be enroute with the actual autopilot settings.
The problem you have is likely related to this bug.
I have noticed other bugs with autopilot, such as it shutting off on its own. Or even warping to a gate, but not approaching it, even though autopilot is still on. The ship will just sit there indefinitely with autopilot on, and more hops to the destination.
|

Cybele Lanier
Amarr The Graduates Brutally Clever Empire
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 20:02:00 -
[43]
Originally by: Grarr Dexx I'm sorry but how do you not notice lowsec-colored dots on your autopilot?
Happened to me sometimes when it was a 20+ jump trip, and the last few systems were lowsec. --------------- ""Minimum collateral damage" and "Entire star system" do not belong in the same sentence." |

Lisento Slaven
Amarr The Drekla Consortium
|
Posted - 2008.04.27 20:13:00 -
[44]
I rarely turn on autopilot anymore these days. But the routes I get for set destination are always accurate and consistent with "Prefer shorter" or "prefer safer" and the security thing set to 1.
On a side note I have yet to see the security slider effect my routes in the slightest...no idea how that thing works.
On another side note I would ask all the tools in this thread to re-read his post. He's been running this route for two days with prefer safer and going on autopilot. For some reason it apparently ran him into a low-sec system (that is not on the route) as if he had prefer shorter instead of safer set, when he indeed had safer set.
That right there is a bug if you know for a fact your route is 100% safe and you can confirm you were on "safer" and not "shorter". ---
Put in space whales!
|

SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 02:20:00 -
[45]
Originally by: Grarr Dexx I'm sorry but how do you not notice lowsec-colored dots on your autopilot?
35 jump route. EVE RELATED CONTENT |

Le Skunk
Low Sec Liberators
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 05:31:00 -
[46]
Originally by: Aria Vetronas i panicked and close the program immediately but if course that did me no good, awhile later when i logged back on, i saw my pod warping back to the scene of my charon's demise, and no sooner did i finish warping back in than i got podded by multiple smartbombs going off... and the next thing i saw was the station where my clone was...
1) unlucky with the autoplitot
2) Congratualtions to the guy who waitied at your log off spot with smartbombs for podding a logger.
SKUNK |

Felix Underwood
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 07:02:00 -
[47]
1st off, i am a friend with author.
2nd this isn't a post to argue how to fly a freighter it is about a bug that contributed to the loss of a ship.
3rd I have had this same problem, maybe 3-4 times. The 1st semi afk, and I was reading and watching what was going on. I caught it and didn't lose my shuttle, thank god, have you seen there price lately. Ever since then when I set my route I double check the route. Only thing I have found was to log and start up.
4th Good luck working with the GM's.
|

Evita Achura
Caldari Science and Trade Institute
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 08:58:00 -
[48]
Originally by: Aria Vetronas
If a bug or glitch in the game caused someone a loss, it is arguable whether or not it should be reimbursed, however it is not your call, if i wish to petition it, there is nothing for you to say on the matter...
I would say you are wasting time GM's could be putting to use on less trivial issues for starters. You state that it was set to prefer safe but you make no mention of whether you checked the slider or indicated in what position it was in. If you left it set in the wrong place, and you will pardon if I don't remember whether + or - is the correct setting for care bearing, then you could easily have still gone into lowsec. Doubly so if you made the mistake of clicking optimize route at any point in time after selecting your route and before closing the map window. But you don't address any of those issues which again leads me to believe this is more likely a matter of afk luser failure on your part and a waste of time. I look forward to contributing more non "real" posts to your thread.
Stand tall proud troll.
|

Aion Amarra
Minmatar Ascent of Ages Cosmic Anomalies
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 09:09:00 -
[49]
Curiously enough, I had the very same problem a few days ago when plotting a freighter course myself. The AP plotted a course through lowsec even though the AP was set to prefer safe. Thankfully, I noticed right away, but it took me several minutes of fiddling with the map to finally get it to plot the safe route (in the end, jerking the tolerance slider back and forth did the job, even though I reset it to the same value it had previously been at...).
Was the first and only time that this happened to me, and so far I couldn't reproduce it. This also happened after flying a route for the third time in one day.
|

Willford Bremly
Tadakastu-Obata Corporation The Honda Accord
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 10:59:00 -
[50]
People still use AP?
Your flying an expensive freighter, next time take the 3 seconds to F10 and check your course. »\(¦_o)/»
|
|

Cpt Branko
Surge. Night's Dawn
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 11:07:00 -
[51]
Edited by: Cpt Branko on 28/04/2008 11:11:58 Edited by: Cpt Branko on 28/04/2008 11:09:58 Edited by: Cpt Branko on 28/04/2008 11:09:14 How come you didn't *see* low-sec systems (red dots) on the upper left side of your screen after you've set the route?
I mean, it's hard to miss.
Edit: ah, read it, 35 jump route.
Ah, well. AFK AP-ing might kill you in high-sec too, it's how things are. Still strange AP didn't work properly though.
Very unlikely they'll do anything with the petition though, since even a screenshot of settings doesn't mean anything (you could've changed them afterwards).
That said, CCP likes breaking things bad on patches and stuff. I remember losing a ship+pod once because combat recons were magically off overview... maybe should've petitioned it, but it was a frigate and no implants, so wasn't too fussed about it.
Originally by: Misanth
* The overview settings restore to the latest used on log-in when you undock. This means that if I have my PvP setting that only show hostiles and dock up, then go to rat and set my setting to show NPC's and wrecks.. next time I exit the station my PvP setting is back and I have to 'load up' the old setting. It also means it's no point for me using brackets, as I have to restore settings by rightclicking and chose a saved setting each time I swap brackets.. which.. is.. exactly the same thing I do when rightclicking to swap settings already, so the brackets are 100% useless.
Omg, this is the most annoying thing ever, anywhere.
I so like the idea of brackets, it's just that they don't work at all. Seriously, whoever does testing for patches really really fails at his job.
Sig removed, inappropriate link. If you would like further details please mail [email protected] ~Saint |

Suboran
Gallente Victory Not Vengeance Intrepid Crossing
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 11:13:00 -
[52]
check your autpilot security slider is at max. but i doubt a gm will or should reimburse as it wasnt a server problem. If you hadnt gone afk u would have noticed your death.
|

Cyberman Mastermind
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 11:30:00 -
[53]
Whenever you change anything on your (autopilot) route, hit "optimize" - because only then the route is actually calculated again. Changing from "prefer safer" to "prefer shorter" or vice versa doesn't seem to update the route. I have made it a custom to always press the optimize button before leaving, to force an update. -------------------------------------------------- I'm a rich person. How I know? I can afford to be a miner. |

Ordon Gundar
Caldari Impending Doom Inc. The Crimson Federation
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 11:41:00 -
[54]
I dont know if this is anything to do with some settings somewhere, but I really hate the way the autopilot always warps to 20km from a gate, and then flies in. It makes a 5 gate jump take twice the time than if I am doing it manually using Warp to Zero. I can warp straight in and jump straight away.
Why does the autopilot warp in so short?
"Stay Small..Fly Fast..Keep Your Ship" - Ordon Gundar - Low Sec Survivalist & CEO of Danger Zone Enterprises |

Tippia
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 11:43:00 -
[55]
Originally by: Ordon Gundar Why does the autopilot warp in so short?
To make manual warping worth-while.
|

000Hunter000
Gallente Missiles 'R' Us
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 11:46:00 -
[56]
BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! *points and laughs at the OP really really hard*
U got pwned cuz u were too lazy to babysit ur precious cargo u *insert degenerative word here* and now u come to the forums to complain about it.
It would have been even funnier if someone had suicide ganked u in hi sec.
I hope u lost a lot of stuff and made some people in criel happy. _______________________________________________________ CCP, let us pay the online shop with Direct Debit!!!
|

Tippia
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
|
Posted - 2008.04.28 11:50:00 -
[57]
Originally by: 000Hunter000 U got pwned cuz u were too lazy to babysit ur precious cargo u *insert degenerative word here* and now u come to the forums to complain about it.
Maybe you should actually read the post...
|

Evita Achura
Caldari Science and Trade Institute
|
Posted - 2008.04.29 06:48:00 -
[58]
Originally by: Ordon Gundar I dont know if this is anything to do with some settings somewhere, but I really hate the way the autopilot always warps to 20km from a gate, and then flies in. It makes a 5 gate jump take twice the time than if I am doing it manually using Warp to Zero. I can warp straight in and jump straight away.
Why does the autopilot warp in so short?
So pirates can blow you up if you are dumb enough to autopilot. 
|
|
|
|
Pages: 1 2 :: [one page] |