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As I said reinstall fixes it. Check your PMs btw cause you didn't let me finish so I had to finish on PM .

a client reinstall, or what? lance's problem only or?

Lance let me answer ur problems

"when I fly from one nebula to another that overlaps my ship cloaks." - think this is a visual bug with all of FL, ive seen it happen with other mods so its not a problem to be worried about, i think its just about the game taking time to transition between the 2 environments...

"Sometimes CDs stop me from going to cruise, sometimes they hit with no effect. This is flying the Sabre." - lag-involved , its happened to other ships before.

"in Inner Cloud two of the Xeno depots display on the map as wrecks" - many storage depots display as wrecks if u havent noticed

"I also experimented with my faction reps and discovered that Tegaki's Base and Ryuku in Tohoku remain neutral even though all of my reps are either friendly or hostile (no neutrals)" - in Singleplayer, there r 3 other factions for the story, Corrupted Liberty Navy, Corrupted Rhineland Military and Corrupted Kusari Naval Forces. These r the bulk of the factions u fight during the story. Tekagi's Base and Ryuku hold the Corrupted Kusari Naval Forces rep, and u start neutral to them. these reps do not show up on ur rep card and cannot be changed.

hope this helps

Server is down for about 40 min now...

Lol, and I was starting to think it was just on my end... xP

Yeah and we were having a great time. Huge battle in Dublin was great. More people were logging on by the minute then POW, off goes the server. *Sigh*

I would like to fly to Germany and choke the people at the hosting company. [3]

Well that can be arranged Burro......now how do we get the black sedans there???

Lol, that battle had been going on for well over an hour. In the morning when I first logged on I saw that there were people smuggling and that CFPD had started a blockade - I thought it'd be great if it turned into something big but I never expected it to actually happen. If I hadn't been having so much fun fighting DK in X-3043 I prolly would have been down there getting screenshots for a news report.

If I needed to lend another observation btw it would be that I never encountered lag in my wandering across Sirius at any point during their melee in Dublin. Except for this tendency for the server to decide to go on vacation whenever it gets tired, and for missiles not to lock sometimes, the performance has been pretty good imao.

Ahh - i remember yes Lance you bring me to a good point.

When we started the Battle in Dublin all was working well i guess we was about seven or eight players. The fighting was more some little skirmishes in different parts of Dublin.

More and more Players came in and was taking part (we was fighting much longer than one hour there and was moving away from sol where some DK´s caused some crashes when stepping in the fights)

At least we had KoH (2), LP (1), TRF (1), SMG (3) IOC (1) and Max Power as hired Freelancer Merc against MN (1), BG (1) and CFPD (3) (where Sev was on his way to help us).

After a while Missiles, Torps and Cd´s wasn´t tracking anymore. The whole battle went to Battleship Hood and we got some lag (not critical). After some Minutes of intensiv fights the Server crashed and didn´t came back.

Anyway i don´t beleave the crash cames from the battle but from some Traders at earth maybe these Earth route should be moved to somewhere else or the DK´s should be taken out of Sol as long as their fire causes crashes.

I think OP mentioned somewhere that the crashes in Sol would be fixed in 1.8, but I don't remember where that was said.

As suggested by the Serverpolice I did a clean install of CF to see if it'll make some of the bugs I encountered go away. This brings me to another set of observations though. In the options to setup CF is there are a lot of options but it is hard to make informed choices to mix things up a bit. How do I know the differences between the intro choices #1-10? Without having to spend many hours playing SP how can I know what the storyline characters all look like?

It's not a gripe really, but I'm just curious... which intros are which music files in the MUSIC directory of CF? Are there a set of screenshots somewhere for all the possible player appearance variations somewhere (was able to google image 1/3 of the characters, but not the rest)? I don't mind figuring it out on my own, but doing a clean install of the game each time I want to check out another option might be a little time-intensive. If any of you could help me out I'd really appreciate it.

Edit: Uh... clean install hasn't stopped the crashing. I can log onto the server, but no matter which of my accounts I try it tells me the server has crashed about a second after taking me to the character selection screen. Is it just me or is everyone having this problem? Says there are 12 people online...

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Edit: Uh... clean install hasn't stopped the crashing. I can log onto the server, but no matter which of my accounts I try it tells me the server has crashed about a second after taking me to the character selection screen. Is it just me or is everyone having this problem? Says there are 12 people online...

No mate you are not the only one i have the same problem...

I am now relieved - I have this problem too - I thought I had been banned for some unknown reason. I have asked OP for help.

i am having similar problem also - when i try to logon with my accounts, it says server has gone down everytime.

Ditto the last 4 posts; can see the server, but soon as I click "Connect" I get to see my acc't screen, and get the server drop message... (with 16 players online)

as soon as my char lists comes up i get disconnected...after multiple re-installs. thought it was just me:P
experienced a wierd phenomenon in sol too...when using the saturn warp gate i experience a total system crash...thats never happened before..when i was able to connect:P

same here (without the saturn jump gate)

About 1200 server time the flhook seemed to be down. After that I had some work and now I tried to login but I also get disconnected as soon as I reach the char selection.

MaxPower and Vesata got in after ~15 trys.
I do NOT want to encourage you to storm try it now or else we can say goodbye to the server again^^. But try it now and then and maybe you are lucky and it works. It worked for MaxPower and Vesata. I for myself better stay logged in^^

now this seems very strange. Also I noticed my Updater starts spitting out messages I've never seen before. It starts counting the files downloaded - 1 to 8, then jumps to something around 430, fetches some more files and then is ready to launch.

a quick peek into FL directory shows me that quite some files were updated that weren't updated anywhen earlier.

Maybe somehow connected to that? My guess though is that FLHook is acting up or not acting at all. Why else should the kick message appear before I even reach the char selection screen?

If it were April 1st, ok. But this is not funny...

Update: while typing this, the updater runs in the background - in ULTRA-slow-mo... and at the page botttom a line reads "Could not write to the server's socket".