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Last round - started as station's only engineer.  Valiantly do my duty, secure the particle accelerator, wire it up, get it scanned and ready to rock, get plasma tanks in collectors and activate/lock them (couldn't pressurise the plasma tanks as there was no CE, so no access to secure storage).  Head out to get the emitters up.  Activate the first, lock it, activate the second, lock it...

...aaand lag spike hits me.  When my game catches up, turns out apparently I slipped over and fell in front of the emitter.  Normally I'd take a shot or two and get out of the way, but, well, lag.

I died.  No singularity.  Nobody even noticed for about twenty minutes until the power started failing. 

Worst.  Engineer.  Ever.

Fun to watch, though.

Also:

Round trip ping-pong took 30 seconds.

 

Edit: wow...

Round trip ping-pong took 6.5 seconds.
Round trip ping-pong took 39 seconds.
OOC: Jhxmt: Dear god.
OOC: Jhxmt: 'Round trip ping-pong took 39 seconds.'  It's getting worse.
Round trip ping-pong took 0.26 seconds.
OOC: MisterTeeth: 0.13 seconds.
OOC: Jhxmt: And now 0.26
OOC: Scrdest: 0.24
OOC: Tsuchigumo550: .15
OOC: Vakothu: 0.22 here.
Round trip ping-pong took 14 seconds.
Round trip ping-pong took 61 seconds.

I have no idea what's causing this.  As you can see, it randomly spikes up from around 0.26 seconds to up to a full minute, and then back down again, for no discernible reason either in-game or to do with internet connection (my connection, and I assume the server's, remain stable throughout).

Simply...baffled.

Hmm...do solars work down on the mining outpost?  And, if some enterprising soul were to dismantle everything and pull it to the mining shuttle, could the singularity be set up down there too?

Forget Nanotrasen - let's secede! 

Every round I play, no matter the job, seems to go the same way:

1) Start job.
2) Just about start to get comfortable/efficient at it.
3) Realise that everybody else is elsewhere, panicking about something.
4) Have no idea what the panic is about.
5) Shuttle is called.
6) End up at Escape/dead in vacuum en route.

... 

Sliming yourself is super-easy. Feed one of your starter greys and once it splits, grab a purple and stick it in a new pen. If there are no purples, grow up one of the greys again. Once you have a purple, do the same for it until you have a green. Kill the green, extract it, use an empty syringe on the extract, and inject yourself with it. It only takes more than 5-6 minutes if the RNG hates you.

Ah, cool, thanks - I managed to get a purple, but that was the point at which I decided to go pet one of my other slimes and, well, it petted me back.  Hard.

It appears the alternate server is so laggy (in terms of connection, not server) for me that I can't actually play it - I get so much lag on my inputs that I keep walking into walls because it thinks I'm still holding down keys. 

Stupid trans-Atlantic internet.

Trying something a bit new to me.

As xenobiologist, how do I stop my pet slimes trying to eat my precious, precious brains?  I've followed the guide(s), and have made sure that I'm in the pen when they're eating the monkeys, can see me, etc...but they still seem incredibly prone to simply stun-attacking and glomping me.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this normal?

Quote from: jhxmt on January 31, 2014, 12:06:33 pm

Quote from: Nycro on January 31, 2014, 11:57:28 am

Yes its down and the alternative server is not working correctly for me anyways...

I logged onto the alt (only player) and...well, let's just say it's kinda gone to hell.  I logged off after about fifteen minutes of trying to cope with the lag caused by...well, everything.

See, this is why if you're ever drifting through space and you come across an abandoned station, you should just keep on drifting! 

You could have restarted the world.

I wasn't sure whether voting for a restart had the potential to break things further - I dimly recall there were some dangers around that if you were the only player back when I last played.  Also didn't seem like much point as the only player. 

Main server down?  Keeps failing to connect for me.

Map file is 2.9 MB, larger than /tg/ but smaller than Meta. Still nowhere near 30MB

Drat, guess I'm missing a buncha resources somewhere.    Download's going at a crawl, too...921 KB in the last thirty minutes.

Yes.  KB.