I just docked in Odia M14 with my twin mining beam MkII behemoth, time is 18:30-18:45 GMT.

In the whole Odia M14 sector, all the roids I probed (~100) are overheated. The range I observed is ~600K/~96'000K. On channel 100, we guessed it was a bug, since it's materially very hard for players to heat up all the roids in such a large field to such high levels.

The temperatures were slowly going down while I observed them. The mining laser extraction times were consistent with the shown temperature.

One thing I noted: the temperature is inversely proportional to mass. Tiny roids had temps above 70'000K, while the large icy ones in the far cluster were around 700-1'000K.

Wild guess: a database temperature table gone nuts. :)

I think some really bored player was just heating them up.

you don't know that!

maybe they were having the time of their life!

Bored? How much it takes to heat a roid to 96'000 K (ninety six THOUSANDS Kelvin)? Multiply that for ALL the 100's of roids in M14?

Ok, you're the dev. If that's possible, given the formulas you devised, then it's not a bug, but someone with enough time on their hands and nobody who noticed him doing this month-long job in one night.

Are you saying they weren't that hot less than a week ago?

I'm not ruling out that it's a bug, or anything. Don't take my flippant responses as actual dismissals. Ray took a look at it and there's nothing that's exceptionally unusual about the asteroids in that sector except that the asteroids are really hot. They each seem to be heated to different levels, in a manner consistent with their mass. It might have been some kind of weird timer glitch though.

In any case, it looks like the temperatures have been reset.

Edit #29384: hah, Ray says he didn't reset them, so there is definitely some kind of bug.

you count your edits! haha how geeky!

I know I mined some stuff in Odia M14 waiting for hosting the 95th DR. It happened last saturday, at 1am GMT. All the roids close to the station that I bothered checking and mining were at the usual 10.0K.

Yeah, I just realized that it must have happened within the 8 days that Odia M14 has been running. The database version of the asteriods is still relatively cool, but the in-game version is probably still hot. Hmm.

Hosted again the DR, and again M14 had all the roids extremely hot, again in the same range. Checked the other stations of Odia, and all roids are at 10.0K. Checked a couple of roid fields around M14, and they're at 10.0K.

I logged in in M14, if that can make a difference (like when you log in in an unloaded sector, and upon loading, it starts some convoys).