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Message Edited by Vega2285 on 05-07-2005 02:53 AM

i myself have also experienced this problem ,however it only seems to occure in the evening ,presumably when the server is buisiest ,also i get it alot in kash space ,i think its just lag ,especially since the new content is driving alot more players into space to complete missions ,but i have to say it is a complete nightmare ,when everythings skitting around the screen and u suddenly get killed without ever knowing what hit u ,or the fact it took 20 mins to actually land at kash yesterday...

I think, as other have noted, that it's also a side effect of the asteroid bits. If you play after a server reset, life is great and the targets behave normally. By evening, they're erratic.

I went to deepspace yesterday and was flying near the rebel station when it start shooting at Imperial ships. Pretty soon the zone became laggy, and ships there started doing the bumblebee act as well.

This definately needs to be addressed soon, it basically makes sectors of space unplayable.

I've had the same thing happen. I'd be targeting a ship and it would be flying smoothly. But once I get directly behind or close to it and start to attack, the ship would "bumblebee" and shake making it very difficult to hit. It's like the ships are having their own seizures.

There's a link in the FAQ concerning ways to fix the 'drunken bumblebee' effect. I'd recommend checking it out.

you can also do a forum search on drunken bumblebee.

Cheers.

Very rarely, I'll get the drunken bumblebee effect. Rare enough that it's not a big deal. I experienced the problem where enemy ships were bumblebeeing on me and were really, really hard to hit. But that was only on one of the missions on the mining quest, and I took it as more of a challenge. Beyond that, space combat has been great, no problems.

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Erryc wrote:

There's a link in the FAQ concerning ways to fix the 'drunken bumblebee' effect. I'd recommend checking it out.

you can also do a forum search on drunken bumblebee.

Cheers.

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If your referring to the stickied FAQ in this JTL forum your incorrect, there is no reference to this problem what so ever listed...

But thanks for nothing at all.

This is one of our top issues and I'm trying to get a fix for it as soon as possible. The prime culprit seems to be asteroid overpopulation, but I've made a number of suggestions for how to cut back on both client- and server-side lag.

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Hawke_Ultima wrote:

As the subject goes ....

Since CU/ROTW, I have been experiencing weird peformance with Space Combat.

My ship engine keep cutting in and out each time I warp.

And the worst thing is that enemy targets warp abt erractically making it near impossible to target and complete missions.

Is this a known issue?

Any information will be most appreciated.

Thanks.

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I had the exact same problem. My solution, believe it or not, was to physically disconnect my joystick from the computer. After doing that, the space combat was smooth. No idea why. So I'm forced to use a mouse. Of course, now the combat is too easy

Yup... here's another thread in the TECH forum.... hope this helps you, sometimes it works by the looks of it !

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Techsupport&message.id=230126

Elvar

My friend this is a very common bug that plagued me for a while before I came to a pretty simple conclusion. Though the fighters may just erratically when your after them, when you joust head on you can indeed score hits on a "jumpy" target. That right, get agro and then boost out to 800+, turn back and do a head on with your jumpy target. They will fly right into your fire and will pull off. Now ive actually had jumpy targets revert to normal aft5er a single pass, but in the case that they remain jumpy just repeat jousting til the target is disabled.

-Tryqus