HWS 12 Reloaded | Lessons learned

Good Morning HWS Community,

Patch 12.2 got released and with that, hopefully the end to most of the current issues.

With that we also release our announced 2 new Supporter Packages

You can buy your own Supergates and if you want put your own image on it.

Other than that I did some Config fixes and keep working on finalizing the current season like activating all Events etc.

Nevertheless I also try to take a bit of a break from everything… as good as I can.
It was an insane patch with a lot of troubles. Thanks a lot for your patience and enduring this.

Your HWS Team

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Hi,
that means, the solar systems didnt vanishing any more? Last Time i Jumped out from a system, its vanished from the galaxy map :wink:

Hey guys,

many got stuck in ā€˜Proto Station’ the last weeks due to connection issues or broken playfields. All connected to some game bugs.
For those ones we implemented two new commands:

  • cb:EWarp
  • cb:EWarpECC

These help you to get back to your last location, or at least to ECC. So no one should be stuck in ā€˜Proto Station’ anymore. Thats a symptom fix, but at least helps you while no Admin/Police is online to help. We still try to help the devs to find the root issue though.

Also some can not login anymore due to a game bug. For now the @HWS Police can help you in those cases, warping you to a new location and fixing your player file through it. In near future we also plan to implement a function to fix it yourselves over HWS Connect.

Lets hope those problems are history soon!
Please spread the word

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Good Evening HWS Community

After a painful week of massive Forum tickets => Player in Proto Space, because playfields were ā€œdeadā€ (e.g. Freelancer HQ), we finally found the reason!

There were a hardcoded limit which killed a playfield and everything within the process if it would take more than 10 seconds to load. For the full life cycle (hence sometimes it worked after a server restart and sometimes not)

Hardcoded limits are never good… we had times over 20 seconds regular…

Good News: this discovery helped Eleon to fix it. Patch incoming soon.
I’m hunting the Disconnect Popup spam bug now. After that I try to take a break…

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Oops. Sorry I missed this message. This was on the NA server. But it’s a moot point… we’re in S13 now and everythings working smooth. Thankfully they bumped the player slots from 70 to 170 so no more waiting to get in either.