EVE General Discussion

Please don't eyeroll like that! How are we going to get free stuff if we don't at least pretend to be outraged?

Stuff, CCP, hand it over

'Some of my clients close, but not all':

Socket closed messages happen when (for whatever reason) the client does not recieve a message it's expecting, in a timely fashion.

If, for example, you're sitting in a station, doing nothing at all, you have a better chance to not see the message, if there's a brief interruption between you and CCP. Your client just wasn't expecting anything at the time. If you tried opening the market, and, say, a link was saturated somewhere between CCP and you, then you're more likely to see it.

Make sense? Eve's very light on bandwidth, sending only what is needed. It means it's a little more likely to survive very short net issues.

It's been happening a lot more to me recently to. It's always happened a little bit, despite never happening on any other online game. But the other day for instance I was disconnected 10 times while mining within 1 hour... Two of which occurred while trying to log back into the game from another Socket was Closed.

But I guess this is another case of it being the players fault and not CCP's right?

Yes I'm aware of all of that. I'll add to the info I provided that I was actively playing at the time so all clients but one were played actively. The one account that wasn't actively being played was a booster alt and it disconnected about in the middle of the D/C spread.



I'm experienced in networking and most things computer. I also have a background in electrical engineering :P

i have this problem only with my laptop and now my desktop, every hour from what ever time it begins i will constantly get socket closed, my desktop will be fine.

If it was isp related then both of my computers should be doing it and it should be based on just playing 1 game, other mmos or even basic streaming should be getting disrupted, which it is only eve

I've posted this one a few times, but hey, never hurts to post it again!

As it's been explained to me a few times, the vast majority of socket closed errors come from an ISP assigning the EVE data stream a really low priority when moving through the network. It's called packetshaping, and pretty much all ISPs do it nowdays.

EVE is kind of touchy about getting packets on-time and in the right order, and when it doesn't, you get a socket error. It's also why you can get a socket error on one client, while the second client is OK. Client 1's data stream drops below the "magic number" for EVE tolerance and dies, while stream 2 is still just above the line and lives.


So, there you go. If your ping plot looks OK, and it's not a major outage, try pestering your ISP.

Oh, and I would be remiss if I failed to remind everyone that I'm selling Socket Openers in Jita. 1 Billion ISK.

Please, sent me money for a new beer and a new keyboard, I need both.

Well there may be a lot of different problems which may cause the same error. But I think no one can deny that the connection problems where suddenly a large portion of the EVE population gets disconnected are increasing.

It would be great if they communicate that they do something and what they are doing. Is it always the same problem or are this incidents unrelated? Will there be a solution soon that stabilizes the service or is there nothing you can do?

It's getting a bit frustrating with all the disconnects and all we hear from CCP is "oh, there seams to be a problem", "eh, the problem seams to be fixed". At the moment it just looks like your servers and cables are regularly on fire. It will probably stay that way if you don't tell us what's going on.

are any left-handed ones available