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Locking bug in capital escalations?
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Antaria T'nar
Red Cross Marauders
#1 - 2013-05-16 19:01:12 UTC
we started a capital expo last week, and have been experiencing some difficulty locking our loki's and noctii with carriers

basically you start the lock, and when the timer finishes and it gives the >>locked<< part it will stay that way for up to 10 seconds before actually locking.
meaning that a lock can take upwards of half a minute, which kinda hurts if you have 3 escalation waves pounding on your loki
so we've had to stagger that a bit.

this is happening across multiple pilots, ships, computers, countries etc, and I've yet to try it in other scenario's

but seeing as the forums don't really have any mention of it (you'd figure otherwise if this was a global thing) i figured its confined to wormhole sites or something, maybe even just my wormhole :S


sound familiar to anyone?
Aquila Sagitta
Blue-Fire
#2 - 2013-05-16 19:08:52 UTC
I think this is just a sync problem between server/client

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Antaria T'nar
Red Cross Marauders
#3 - 2013-05-16 19:19:48 UTC
yeah thats a possible technical side of it, but the dreads dont have trouble locking, or any other ship for that matter.
and they're flown by the same people

so we sorta ruled out the cache or other local settings (after trying it)
Rroff
Antagonistic Tendencies
#4 - 2013-05-16 19:26:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Rroff
I'm guessing this is probably a new issue but... I've very infrequently seen an issue that seems to be related to the leadership skill where it seems certain fleet compositions aren't having their skills relating to targetting stuff applied properly but visually are locking as if skills + leadership locking boost is being applied. If your carrier pilot is in a leadership position try moving to another fleet position or vice versa.
An C
Doomheim
#5 - 2013-05-16 19:27:28 UTC
I have had this before but not a 10 second to half a minute delay, that's a huge delay. I would definitely petition this asap.
Antaria T'nar
Red Cross Marauders
#6 - 2013-05-16 19:32:36 UTC
Rroff wrote:
I'm guessing this is probably a new issue but I've very infrequently seen an issue that seems to be related to the leadership skill where it seems certain fleet compositions aren't having their skills relating to targetting stuff applied properly but visually are locking as if skills + leadership locking boost is being applied. If your carrier pilot is in a leadership position try moving to another fleet position or vice versa.


this actually doesnt sound to far fetched, but i just tested outside the shield on the POS

the delay was smaller but still there with no fleet up at all
Rroff
Antagonistic Tendencies
#7 - 2013-05-16 19:37:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Rroff
I'd say the other possibility you were in a Wolf Rayet and the visual effect wasn't taking the sig bonus into account but while that wouldn't have any effect on sleepers it also wouldn't show as bugged locking a POS (unless CCP has messed up POSes and system effects again).
Antaria T'nar
Red Cross Marauders
#8 - 2013-05-16 20:27:28 UTC
Rroff wrote:
I'd say the other possibility you were in a Wolf Rayet and the visual effect wasn't taking the sig bonus into account but while that wouldn't have any effect on sleepers it also wouldn't show as bugged locking a POS (unless CCP has messed up POSes and system effects again).


i think we have a winner


this sounds very much like what we're experiencing, the sleepers and everything else arent affected by the system effects so you dont notice

but the carriers lock players


and i didnt lock THE pos, but outside of it i locked a loki
Svodola Darkfury
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-05-16 20:39:12 UTC
Antaria T'nar wrote:
Rroff wrote:
I'd say the other possibility you were in a Wolf Rayet and the visual effect wasn't taking the sig bonus into account but while that wouldn't have any effect on sleepers it also wouldn't show as bugged locking a POS (unless CCP has messed up POSes and system effects again).


i think we have a winner


this sounds very much like what we're experiencing, the sleepers and everything else arent affected by the system effects so you dont notice

but the carriers lock players


and i didnt lock THE pos, but outside of it i locked a loki




It's this. The locking bar doesn't take into effect a signature radius reduction. One of our booster pilots has a sig radius reduction booster (don't ask me why he's changed it now) and I noticed it right away trying to lock our Lokis with the Carrier out of triage (about a 2-4 second "locked" blink like you're talking about). In a Wolf-Rayet, the effect would be seriously compounded resulting in the kind of lock-times your talking about.

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Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-05-16 21:34:15 UTC
hit triage, lock in 2sec *shrug*
though you really shouldnt need to.

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Nero Pantera
ATRAX.
Pandemic Horde
#11 - 2013-05-16 21:56:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Nero Pantera
Jack Miton wrote:
hit triage, lock in 2sec *shrug*
though you really shouldnt need to.

I usually triage one cycle and keep one rep running cuz triple escalations are alot of deeps =D...and ive disconnect being first carrier. if i didnt triage. i would have lost a carrier. Nothing quite like telling 3 dread to warp to you and you hear connection lost from ts as your screen freezes.
but ya i have experienced the delay even in triage...you lock it and it blinks for 5 to 10 seconds...havent noticed it any longer than that.