Ships crashing into each other in MP often causes disconnect?

Equalizer

Has anyone else noticed that ships colliding seems to make multiplayer games really unstable and likely to cause a disconnect?

However there are lots of other sources of connection loss so I am not sure. This might also only apply to ships colliding at a relatively fast speed.

Mc2

Equalizer
Welcome to MP.
I find out that game disconnect so often with so many different reasons, that it is most probably not game fault.
And I discovered that chance for disconnection is strictly connected to provider connection strength.
advice is to play when local Internet routes are not so used ( deep night, everyone at work, early morning). Like for me time from 15:00-22:00 is completely unplayable, everyone back home browsing.

Equalizer

Mc2 I imagine that making multiplayer stable will be one of the hardest problems to 'fix' (technically it is impossible to totally fix but at least make disconnects less common / less resources needed to maintain connection).

Even games developed by companies often have serious connection stability issues, some of which never get fix simply because it's really hard to do.

Walt

Due to the way multiplayer is implemented, I highly doubt ships crashing would cause a disconnect (ships crashing doesn't result in any additional packets getting sent), though it's possible it could be a cause of desyncs.

I've already made a bunch of improvements that should make the next update more stable. Also, the game is currently sending far more data than it needs to, because I'm having it send diagnostic data to track down the causes of desyncs. Hopefully I can get those desyncs fixed and can then remove the diagnostic data.

Mc2

Walt And to be honest, I do not beleive how quickly you solve all theese troubles.
From my point of view, what we have now, is much more we deserve (or at least some of us).

Equalizer

Walt Could anything that slows down the simulation increase the chance of disconnecting?
Collisions being one but also large chain explosions as well as probably lots of other things.

If the simulation is stalling due too much stuff going on does this give less time to transmitting the update game state to the server? (I am assuming at least some part of the game state is being transmitted at the moment to check synchronization.)

Walt

Equalizer Possibly. The game sends a few dozen synchronization checks every 30th of a second, and if the game stalls for a few seconds, those could pile up and theoretically stall the network and cause a disconnect. (And if the game freezes for longer than 10 seconds, that's an automatic disconnect by-design.) The current 0.13.5 version has some bugs that makes that problem much worse. The next update fixes those bugs, and I think should be more stable, but we'll have to wait to see how stable it is in the wild. (I wrote some code to simulate an absurdly poor internet connection, and it's stable with that, so I'm hopeful.)