Hi

The game seems to hang when trying to logon and [Entering Universe...] but also at other times like when I died and respawned at the station [Entering Station ...].

Lots of players are complaining of strange behaviour.

Strange messages are shown like
- "weird"
and LUA command line console messages with stuff like
- "invitem failed"
- "encbuff"
- "invalid spickle string"

I'm sending you an extract of my errors.log file

-- Foo Fighter

Yeah, and our entire network was down just now... not sure what happened.

beeep... beeep.. beeep...

That, sir, is clearly a recycling truck and not the culprit.

They've changed their tactics!

Scuba: hahahahaha

aye , its been one of those days.......

it will all work out in the wash .....

This was actually due to a bad switch at our ISP. It started freaking out and sending corrupt packets until they replaced it yesterday morning.

I'd have thought the checksum inherent in the UDP packet would be enough to guarantee the client doesn't get corrupt packets, but I guess that doesn't work if the switch has hardware that calculates the checksum while its software is spewing garbage. So I guess I'll have to add my own checking back in.

I am seeing problems similar to this as well, right now. Connection to the server timing out, "station error"s and bots teleporting around in space(!).