every time I get a mission update or series of misison updates, the client hangs. Due to a bug in a plugin, I've been spammed with a lot of updates on occasion, and the longer I play, the worse the client lag gets with each update. Quitting and restarting client does not reset it. Deleting the file does nothing either, as it gets rewritten again immediately. It seems the client is re-saving the entire file with each update? the file is over 1MB, and when I'm getting dozens of updates a second, that's a LOT of HDD overhead, and could explain the issue (I'm betting it is.)

Is there any fix or workaround for this? I'm up to a 1-second client hang per mission update now, and the game becomes totally unresponsive when I'm doing something like prospecting missions.

EDIT: I was able to delete the file successfully after exiting the client completely, and it fixed the problem! at least, temporarily... I'm not sure if it may have messed some other things up, however. Active mission had no contact option until mission update.