Mass black boxes in maps

[dale "dalewj" ofj]

Everyone in alpha corp had there maps go black (mine was even open when it did it) around Server time: 2069 February 10 18:52.

after the antennas came back online (must be having power issues) some of us got our maps back, i did not.  A relog fixed the problem for me.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

This is still happening sometimes. Yesterday the antennas went offline suddenly while I was right outside of Sar and the left half of my map went black, including spots where I had some map markers. I log cycled and everything was fine again.

I hope this isn't one of those issues the devs feel is "fixed!"

[The "Fifth" Entity]

this problem seems to be wider


few days ago i there was a massive spawn of bolotoids/spiders south of swamp.
when i ran over there my radar's full of red dots, like old days in alpha world
started shooting the mobs, humming "strawberry fields forever"... and after 10th mob radar my goes blank, all red dots disappear at once, not a single living being around me. well, ok, suppose this was a "mob server overload" (if there is such a thing as mob server), and i somehow triggered the reset.


what's interesting thou - the same moment this area (server square) on the map goes black (offline) as well.
looks like "map server" and "mob server" are connected somehow?
or maybe they both depend on some third service that fails?




attached: a glimpse on "server squares"

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

Looks like a pretty massive server brain fart happened! Unless they were testing the idea of a massive earthquake fault line opening up and swallowing a large strip of land... which turned 90º about 100m away from you.