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I was the other player on the MP server... we got multiple time out disconnects throughout the day... so common we just got used to them and expected them as part of Ylands operation After one time out disconnect .. i couldnt get back at all ... so logged right out after it first tried to re-start me as a new player. Got back and after the2nd subsequent time out sent invites to the game to help SandyT get back . SandyT got the invites and still got a connection refused message. i got a time out disconnect again ... and came back to a world that was rolled back about 4 hours! ... logged right out restarted steam .. re joined .. unable to connect at first but got in 2nd attempt, and all was restored. ....except invites sent to SandyT still did not work. We ended up joking (?) " the best way to play Ylands is to not play it at all " ..and on that happy note we both called it quits for the day, to seek a more pleasant form of torture ....... output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

Adam just been advised by Red that the server is back up. A problem is that some players get the message and then start again , losing everything. I was lucky i had a "base" (pvte pw protected) island i could log into! ... so i managed to survive. i Can now go back to the other island and find my Barrier and base. Other players seem to have not thought of that so they give up ..and re start .. and lose a lot So players ... find a island, pw protect it, and make it MP ..2 max players - and set up a "emergency" area you can locate easily . Then go to a open MP island and set up your main base with PB. That way should one server go down you could try returning to the pvte base of yours and surviving...not losing ship etc ...until main base area is restored

I left the pvte island and moved to another island with MP enabled ..and started to set up a base. I placed my replacement PB and started to build ... then got a session time out error and booted out . so did the other player with me ( we were encountering lag spikes) Other player couldn't get back so gave up ..( which will happen a lot if its not fixed! ) Got back and continued building ... then had to exit for real life meals etc. tried to get back a little later ..." session unreachable " message. ..another try gave me a " master server unavailable" message .... waited tried again "session unavailable" and could see the island with my avatar image there but nothing would work. clicking it gave me "session unreachable message repeatedly was late at night so gave up until morning. Tried again twice today .. "session unreachable" yet i could see my avatar image on that island. So i tried to get back to the pvte island ...yes ..made it , and found old base and parked there until i hear of a fix . But : my Protection barrier is set up on the other place thats " unreachable" at the moment so ... back to square one, not happy. I had avoided Ylands for a week due to the previous issues ... now i have very little incentive to continue. Others will not have the patience i have , so if this and other issues are not addressed .. well there's other games that work. Logs? well i am back where i started .. the other logs would be over-written Besides ..i no longer have the time to keep sending in the same stuff. output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

I have encountered it too ..it seems to be associated with that style of wooden door. it might also be related to the physics of climbing a ramp in front of the door.

Perhaps also a special "green" island being a generic spawn arrival point ...one in each biome . ...would have rapid respawning of useful non predators, also non build ... and with an instruction area where new arrivals totally new could perhaps learn a little basics. Also make objects indestructible against the usual script kiddies griefer attacks

So we have 3 tier islands ... thats good ..and its working ... ... just needs refining and some tidying up and optimization But how about having say 2 extra tier regions .....? and they show as diff colors on the map? (currently blue = SP ...pink = MP). Place say 2 of each of these new tier island groups in every biome group. Say we add Red tier 4 islands, ..and they be dedicated pvp . Non pvp players can avoid them , those who like that style of play can visit them ...and slaughter each other to their own content And then say we have tier 5 island...again PVP (orange color) and many smaller islands in that group but infested with NPC pirates ....on ships or in forts ! ... these npc's being aggressive and appear randomly and actively thirst for battles Also forts on coastal areas or hillsides, that will fire at you when approached and defend ... and contain great treasures etc for gathering if conqured ... and they will respawn elsewhere on the islands every 3 days if destroyed... Also roving npc vagabonds that spawn and go searching for intruders ;0 ...armed to the teeth. Have fun avoinding them and other pvp unfriendly players ...and predators If you place a base on a tier 5, expect npc's attacking and to try to overrun it This would add excitement to those who like running around killing things ...would make survival really challenging....and those who are not interested in such endeavors can avoid those places and do their own things on non pvp blue and pink islands

Well smack me down with a horsefeather.. restarted steam - restarted ylands came in and it offered me the chance to restart ... i ignored it and went in through the lobby ... tried again and wowzers i got back the map i was on before .... so logged in there... summonsed ship ... sailed to edge of maps and found my old base .... got home and checked ----- everything survived . (whew) Now ..if i had accepted the first screen saying 'start again " i guess i would have lost the lot . by going back through the lobby and looking for the game there ... might be the solution... But i had enuff of the game at the moment ... Time to eat and soak brain if hot coffee

Okay ... not happy guys.... game hung .... waited 15 minutes ylands stopped responding ...got dumped out ... came back and guess what? it wants me to start all over again. Is this a game , or torture? logs attached but i think they will be no help. output_log.txt output_log_clean.txt

You were lucky you got back in and it was just gone! Some players get kicked out/ connection time outs etc ..and when they do try to come back ...everything is gone... they have to start from zero on a spawn island ... without a protection barrier. Every time i come to the situation i have to cross to another island , its "flingers etc crossed" hoping that the game doesn't hang ... and i have to stare at a non responsive hamster wheel hoping the game wakes up. A task manager exercise is required after waiting 15 minutes to quit out and try to get back ..and when you do get back, you pray that you log in back where you were before, and everything is still there . Twice i have been forced to restart ... its not a happy situation and i can understand why players leave ...never to return.

it has happened to me few times also with wicker baskets or barrels .... using f to rotate them ... them , then swapping back to the hand and then re crafting them and moving ... it would fix that issue with that item as it always happened either on a ship being built near the shore ..or near the shoreline, i suspect it might have to do with the "unable to dig underwater" problem. maybe the game thinks the item in the hand is a spade?

Unfavorable real life weather meant it was an ideal time to play Ylands from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm .my time i sailed the seas, visiting 9 islands ..several tier 3, and fought and gathered and traded. I explored wrecks and amassed a wealth of gold , copper and other materials, and also newer weapons and armor.. time to go to base island and craft up some stuff.. boarded ship and had a snack and then ... white screen .. "unity crash" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggh !!!!!!!!!!! dumped right out of Yland s... so saved all the logs and went back aaaaaarrrrrgh! ship was now onthe edge of the first island i started to explore ..and was going nowhere ...after several attempts it let me go back to my base. Not HAPPY! ALL THE STUFF I CHAD COLECTED HAD DISAPPEARED ...EVEN THE GOODS I STORED ON MY SHIP ...IT WAS LIKE I HAD NEVER SET OUT. So i looked at map, and islands i visited were still there ... went back to one but the place i had visited were as i left it after i visited there ...chests empty ..no gold or stuff or ores Ok heres the logs for you. Time to give Ylands a miss for 48 hours .... Really, its not being fun playing ylands anymore it wont let me send you the unity crash log ... output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

Peter Sellers said in a movie " Join the navy, Command a ship, travel to exotic places, meet people ... then kill them". That is where the MP explore seems to be headed. If your game / island is not deleted by either accident, a rollback or connection glitch, or act of something no one can explain, you eventually end up on a map surrounded by mp regions that seem to either not allow you to visit ( they scared of griefing) or they "invite" you in and change its status to PVP and try to seize your ship and goods. If you have to restart, you have np barrier to protect your base. Even so i have had players enter when island was "no password required" and tried to blow up my base, me and kill anything that moved. Yup .. there always will be these kid type feeble brains who have no imagination other than kill and destroy. In my game ( before it was deleted after a " connection timeout") i encountered players with obviously throw-away-alt names ( such as qqqaaswdw or fffgfgfttg or 111221232346666 ...) roaming around mp areas lookin g for genuine players to attack . the dont rob you ...just destroy everything and then look for another victim So perhaps as well as blue sp , pink mp also include regions with red to indicate pvp is active, and also block pvp on the other islands. Then genuine explorers will know which islands not to bother visiting. There is talk of "infinite islands, resources etc" but it is obviously not explained fully . Player soon find them on islands that re " unreachable" or "there are no more mp islands available" and often as i found out, if away from your base island with its barrier etc , it can get deleted ..and you are back to zero.... The new explore is in the right direction ... and theres promise (?) of it being better after 1.6 . Please listen to all the feedback and tweak the game accordingly. Otherwise the players you have won back might decide enough is enough... and please take the time to fully and simply explain what mp is etc ...a lot are confused from what we hear every day.

My latest ship has a forward mounted cannon and two side mounted ones.... someone with an obvious throwaway name tried to approach me from the side deliberately avoiding my front facing cannon..... and ignoring my chat Imagine his surprise when i opened a side door and appeared next to my sidewards facing bumblebee. I was a lousy shot ....Missed by miles ..but he had a change of mind and by the time he regrouped , i had reached the edge and scooted off to another island Diplomacy ..the art of saying "nice Doggie" whilst looking for a stone to throw I avoid MP islands with anyone on them.

Self explanatory ... trying to move from one group to another... game hangs ... eventually crashes out after many minutes of waiting output_log.txt output_log_clean.txt

ditto everything for me. regarding memory, i have a 2 Tb external drive fitted, and for good measure run CCleaner and also Bitdefender Optimizer to clean up files etc .. but it happened again today ..game hung when trying to move between islands Logs attached ' output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

What annoys me is that i lost my barrier after a forced restart because my session was unreachable after i was kicked out from a timeout issue. The island i had started on and built a base there and the explored islands nearby all disappeared. The games unplayable if you have to contend with griefers wrecking unprotected bases etc .. and your ships etc being vulnerable to theft ...or your base simply disappearing ..or you get forced continually to restart after a connection timeout or some other server issue. If we have to wait 2 months for a fix ...well a lot of us will be out of here before then.

done a complete restart .... no luck Its useless building a base or storage without a PB to protect it . Until the barrier thing is fixed - thats it. This constant restarting from zero with lost stuff is a pain... but now the same with a ship? frustration.

I spent a whole day ( yes ,,i dont have a life...) using the workstations on a P! owned server to craft fittings to upgrade my ship. I paced on board workstations, storage and enhanced lighting and a safe to contain valuables with a key after finsihing it , and a short test run , i decided to return to my island i use as a base ( its a BI ylands server island as i have it password protected as i dont have a PB after a previous glitch/crash/disconnect. When i arrived at the home island ...all my improvements were gone! the ship had reverted to pre modification. the safe had gon, so had its key from my keyring, and the contents inside went back to the storage. also all the stuff i had crafted and stored on the P! server had disappeared from inside the storage cabinets. The issue seems to be crossing the boundary from a P! server to a BI server. Until the issue about retaining a PB is fixed to allow construction of a safe place on a P! server ... the games stuffed for me . I have to use a island with a pw to protect ship etc when offline .otherwise griefers rob and kill. Off to do something else . log attached of when i arrived at my base might not be of use NOT HAPPY ! output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

Theres a tier 3 island called 'yodelling octopus" on my map ..it has pirates, raiders zirc in the caves and iron, clay and sulfur and saltpeter.....on the surface. Not a nice lace to stay overnight ..those golems are not sleep friendly. I guess its like a lotto draw... some islands do, some dont.

Logged in at 8:30 my time finally got in at 8:35 am, 8:55 am server maintenance shut down Logs attached .. expect many many more posts like this today output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

Adam ,,2 days ago i got a "connection timeout" message and then couldn't re connect ... when i did ...all my game progress was lost. . the map showed all the islabds with ? as unecplored, and i could not find any of the islands i had visited ...it was asking me to start as if for the first time...except i had no Protection Barrier I got bac in by being invited to someone's game/server and when i arrived i had my ship intact plus all the stores on it .. but alas... searching around i found only2 islands that were near my original island ,,, but it and all others were "unreachable". currently i am loathe to start building anything grand ...in case i lose it all again..

What made i more annoyingng was just prior i fought off mutants in a cave and found copper gold and zirconium i took it back to my base to make into ingots ... about 300 of each ..;( I was planning to get a friend who knew the pw to my base to take my keys and try to access the base ... but the islands gone! including the 3 others nearby i had explored . so i guess others wouldnt see it as well This could happen to anyone ...i ihear of others having similar misfortunes of " area unreachable" and having to restart after losing everything including ships .. Something needs looking into here... otherwise mp might start again to lose the players it has won back

I Joined the game in a tropical area selected an island , named it, pw protected it and set up a base from which to explore. I made it Mp visible and some friends even visited. I built up stores of resources and was about to expand it after i went to a spawn area to help re-populate it after the usual noob rush and denuding era. Much to my horror as i left my base i got a "timed out connection" error and was dumped out to the game lobby. When i logged back in i was treated as a new player! nothing ...no base, no anything, and the option to start again ..without a barrier etc. All the islands in the map had a ? ... it was a total reset. Players said my boat had disappeared from the island i was on. Eventually a friend invited me to a game on another server and i arrived there, boat complete and with stores etc ... BUT :::::::: no matter how far i travel or search, i can find neighboring islands i visited around where mine should be but not mine. So, if you have a base on a Bi server, dont expect it to last! if griefers do not destroy it , then it will disappear on you regardless , it seems. Suggestion: build a big ship ..... put all your goods workstations etc on it, for at least you will have ( might have? ) something when your island goes missing. MEANWHILE 3 DAYS OF EXPLORATION AND BUILDING ALL GONE! good luck! ..

Be afraid The Y.S. Battlechook is now on the high seas of the P1 server. Although i do not expect to encounter any trouble whilst exploring....note the forward mounted cannon and two side facing defensive cannons. Hopefully i will never have to use them ... Its powered by 6 Ylandium engines ..very fast and has heaps of storage and other facilities inside. Friendly P1 gaming explorers welcome ..

How about the option of making flags that have custom made symbols ... ?ie cats, alligators , lightning bolts ... etc .. Craft able with a pole and cloth and maybe the options available through the dyeing station to add images? just a thought ...would make a nice touch to have a ship fluttering personalized flags ..then others would know who owns the ship ...and hmmmm................. discourage thieves? :0