Epic Sphere of Lag

ChristensenCT · Post by **ChristensenCT** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 02:29

OK, I've been letting my game run overnight for a while without actually doing any real playing/combat so this issue crept-up on me without noticing. Basically, a massive swarm of Boron decided to spawn and now inhabit ALL my savegames, so there is no going back.

I realized today trying to do some good ol' Xenon massacarin' that my game was running at about 10 FPS (normally around 60 because of VSync). I decided to visit sectors to make sure everything was OK and then I found it...

Story in pictures. http://imgur.com/a/fazOc

Basically, how do I get rid of these guys? I am playing unmodified X3AP and very much loath the modified tag.

Save game for anyone that wants to see themselves. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jujxa0ftblu4e7/X13.sav

JackKiller2266 · Post by **JackKiller2266** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 03:11

the evil boron barracuda bug or BBB, your best bet is to get some serious firepower or use a script

Draekros · Post by **Draekros** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 03:11

Sounds like you have the Billion Barracuda Bug. That link takes you to the post in the Tech Support forums regarding it.

ChristensenCT · Post by **ChristensenCT** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 03:41

Woops, looks like the devs are already on the case. Didn't even bother searching (not that I would know what terms to use) because I've never heard of anything like this before. Thanks!

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 04:30

ChristensenCT wrote:....Story in pictures. http://imgur.com/a/fazOc..

That's a lot of squids...

Basically, how do I get rid of these guys? I am playing unmodified X3AP and very much loath the modified tag.

Looks like the devs are on it. So, hopefully, you'll just load up a patch and next time you enter that zone, it'll be tentacles and eyeballs, all over the place.

JackKiller2266 · Post by **JackKiller2266** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 04:39

i still like my idea of grabbing some nukes and manually clearing it

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 04:42

JackKiller2266 wrote:i still like my idea of grabbing some nukes and manually clearing it

/agree

I wouldn't patch the game until I had some fun with all those squids.. Several transports full of drones, some mines, lastertowers and a ship with plenty of missile-spam-in-a-can ready to go... Glorious.

ChristensenCT · Post by **ChristensenCT** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 04:44

Morkonan wrote: I wouldn't patch the game until I had some fun with all those squids.. Several transports full of drones, some mines, lastertowers and a ship with plenty of missile-spam-in-a-can ready to go... Glorious.

You really can't have fun because you get about 1FPS moving through the center of that cluster. The only way it'd work if you're OOS which isn't very fun.

JackKiller2266 · Post by **JackKiller2266** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 04:57

get some long range manual detonation AOE missiles sit a distance away and wait until it is in the middle and let it explode

Jumee · Post by **Jumee** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 04:59

ChristensenCT wrote:You really can't have fun because you get about 1FPS moving through the center of that cluster. The only way it'd work if you're OOS which isn't very fun.

a pity really, my imagination is already full with pictures of a few Khaak destroyers roaming through that cloud

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 04:59

JackKiller2266 wrote:get some long range manual detonation AOE missiles sit a distance away and wait until it is in the middle and let it explode

I'm not familiar with those, just the loadouts available for X3TC. I'd definitely swarm them OS with a couple loads of drones, after the lasertowers were in place, that is.

JackKiller2266 · Post by **JackKiller2266** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 06:17

the ones that are manual detonation and create a big explosion i forget which ones they where, but they have this in there data i think (synaptic triggering)

Fulgrymm · Post by **Fulgrymm** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 08:12

Lots and lots and lots and lots of Flail Barrage missiles, using the launch-missiles-and-then-jump-away technique.

Barklight · Post by **Barklight** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 08:27

I can see myself taking a wing of M2's loaded with flak into that mix OOS and positioning them around it... Then changing the wing to Hostile vs Borons...

If only I could encounter this bug and try it first hand!

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 08:34

How about jumping in there with several TL's full of Snail Ranches? Fill the sector up, then just leave your ship in that sector, hit SETA, and let nature take its course? No combat necessary...

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 11:20

... but you would still get the race rep hit for each killed ship that way.

Arsaneus · Post by **Arsaneus** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 11:21

ChristensenCT wrote:OK, I've been letting my game run overnight for a while without actually doing any real playing/combat so this issue crept-up on me without noticing. Basically, a massive swarm of Boron decided to spawn and now inhabit ALL my savegames, so there is no going back.

I realized today trying to do some good ol' Xenon massacarin' that my game was running at about 10 FPS (normally around 60 because of VSync). I decided to visit sectors to make sure everything was OK and then I found it...

Story in pictures. http://imgur.com/a/fazOc

Basically, how do I get rid of these guys? I am playing unmodified X3AP and very much loath the modified tag.

Save game for anyone that wants to see themselves. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jujxa0ftblu4e7/X13.sav

Something wrong with your save file. Can you maybe re-upload it again?

Arsaneus

ChristensenCT · Post by **ChristensenCT** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 12:47

Arsaneus wrote: Something wrong with your save file. Can you maybe re-upload it again?

Arsaneus

Dropbox is bad or the save file itself? I have uploaded a new one with the same issue.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8amamkqtwt3nv8r/X01.sav

Arsaneus · Post by **Arsaneus** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 14:26

ChristensenCT wrote:
Arsaneus wrote: Something wrong with your save file. Can you maybe re-upload it again?

Arsaneus
Dropbox is bad or the save file itself? I have uploaded a new one with the same issue.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8amamkqtwt3nv8r/X01.sav

Now it works for me. Thanks. I will do some evil experiments on it..ehehe.

Arsaneus

ChristensenCT · Post by **ChristensenCT** » Sun, 28. Oct 12, 14:29

Yeah, just jump to the east gate in Menelaus' Paradise...can't miss it!

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