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Brackets randomly disappearing
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Kasai Sakirav
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-12-13 10:43:32 UTC
I've been having this problem decently consistently over the last day or two. What's been happening is that, seemingly randomly, certain brackets will decide to stop showing. It has happened in multiple ways:

- Most common: upon changing overview tabs certain brackets wont be visible (for example, I see drones buzzing around, I change my overview tab (both tabs had drones present in the overview) and the drone brackets are gone. They are still present in the overview but the brackets are missing.

- Upon first loading a bracket (for instance when I warp to a belt) certain brackets wont be visible. For example, I'll warp to a belt, see on my overview that there are 3 rat wrecks but the brackets for said wrecks don't show up.

As far as I've been able to tell, those are the two most common triggers of my problem. What I usually have to do in order to attempt to fix it is either:

a) toggle "show all brackets" on and off in the overview tab or reload the bracket profile "show all brackets"

b) nothing. Oddly enough, occasionally they slowly start showing up again one by one (even more peculiar is that "drones" as a whole don't all show back up at once. I'll see the brackets for each individual drone pop back up at their own pace. Furthermore, sometimes just 1 drone bracket will be gone. I'll see 5 drones on overview but only 4 brackets, then another one will pop up out of nowhere).

A few things to clarify:

All of my tabs have the "show all brackets" profile selected in overview settings.
It seems to happen to any and all brackets without discriminating. I see a lot of drones go away but that's mainly due to the abundance of them.
I've tried clearing the catch after reading about other possibly yet-not-directly related problems, though I haven't been able to extensively test whether or not the problem is solved because the servers are going down soon.

As far as when it started, I've only noticed it for the past few days, but due to my hectic schedule last week I wasn't able to get much play time in, so it could of been occurring without my knowledge.
Kasai Sakirav
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2011-12-16 17:43:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Kasai Sakirav
Well I can confirm that clearing the cache did not solve the problem. It has still been happening.

Edit: I've also tried repair.exe with the same unfortunate results. Brackets are still randomly disappearing and then slowly coming back. It's getting decently annoying.

Edit 2: I've also tried updating my video card drivers: still nothing. I've tried playing around with the overview settings (changing it from the "show all brackets" to the default overview profile "All." Nothing seems to work.

If it's any help, it seems to happen 95+% of the time in belts. I can generally switch between tabs near Jita without any problems but more often than not, when I switch my overview tab while at a belt, either the belt bracket itself, wrecks at the belt, drones or the other player ships themselves lose their brackets. When this happens I can still select them via overview but the little box indicating what you have selected doesn't show up. As I said earlier, eventually the missing brackets start popping up and I can't find any repeatable method of causing them to appear after they've decided to phase out.
Kasai Sakirav
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-12-22 11:49:07 UTC
I hate having to bump this but the problem is still occurring. If anyone (particularly a dev) has any potential answer, it would be greatly appreciated.
markposse10
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-01-28 03:46:26 UTC
I have been having the same problem. It's been very annoying and i hope someone will have a solution soon ;p