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[PappyBoyington]

Searched the forum but couldn't find anything about the Mining Colony map. I had problems on it in the beginning but it seemed to have been fixed with a patch but I no longer see the map, what happened?

[LT. HARDCASE]

PappyBoyington, on 07 February 2015 - 11:58 AM, said:

Searched the forum but couldn't find anything about the Mining Colony map. I had problems on it in the beginning but it seemed to have been fixed with a patch but I no longer see the map, what happened?

They've pulled it to figure out why so many people have the crashing issues.

[Weeny Machine]

Good question. It is my favourite map

[Lily from animove]

q.q my mining map, Y U DO THIS PGI.

better make a blacklist and those who crash do not get the map.

/firstworldproblemrant

Edited by Lily from animove, 07 February 2015 - 12:02 PM.

[Chive On]

I crash EVERY SINGLE TIME, when I walk through a certain part of the map. I try to avoid that side now....

[PurpleNinja]

I am one of these crashers.
Last week I started to change every option of my graphics card in order to find out the problem. Nothing changed, still crashing under 1 minute into the match.
I hope they fix it, I love the map, which is ironic.

[LordKnightFandragon]

Hmm, I got the map like 3-4 times, never crashed on it once.

[C E Dwyer]

wasn't there another couple of maps pulled as well ?

[Escef]

Mining Collective would crash my client around 1/4 of the time. No idea why. I hope they figure it out and get it back into rotation, because it was a decent map.

[wanderer]

Cathy, on 07 February 2015 - 12:14 PM, said:

wasn't there another couple of maps pulled as well ?

RIver City/Night was briefly to hotfix an issue. Believe they're back now, Mining is out long-term to get the issue untangled.

[Bulletsponge0]

PurpleNinja, on 07 February 2015 - 12:11 PM, said:

I am one of these crashers.
Last week I started to change every option of my graphics card in order to find out the problem. Nothing changed, still crashing under 1 minute into the match.
I hope they fix it, I love the map, which is ironic.

I use to have that problem

Running the 64 bit client and Dx11 seems to have eliminated Mining COllective related crashes (but not crashes for other reasons)

[Coolant]

Wish they would bring it back, was one of my favorites. Did I freeze? Yes. Did Alt+Tab fix it? Yes. I don't ever remember crashing fully. Just screen freezing. I would've been more than o.k. continuing to Alt+Tab on the map in order to keep playing it. But, I guess there are people that actually had the game crash and have to rejoin? No one in my unit had that problem that I recall. Freezing yes. Crashing no. If it's just the freezing issue, they should just work on a new build and fix the bug and leave the map in rotation. But, I suppose, if it's causing crashes I would get tired of rejoining.

[LordKnightFandragon]

Bulletsponge0, on 07 February 2015 - 12:19 PM, said:

I use to have that problem

Running the 64 bit client and Dx11 seems to have eliminated Mining COllective related crashes (but not crashes for other reasons)

The massive radar dish+ the fire jets interferes with your PC through the light years and the ages and shorts out someones PC atleast once a game.....its a "feature" of the map.

[PurpleNinja]

Bulletsponge0, on 07 February 2015 - 12:19 PM, said:

I use to have that problem

Running the 64 bit client and Dx11 seems to have eliminated Mining COllective related crashes (but not crashes for other reasons)

I tried all the combinations of client version and DX version, none solved the problem. Also, DX11 brought so many artifacts to all maps that I rolled back to DX9 once I confirmed it didn't solved Mining crash problem.

I once worked at IT support section of a company long time ago, and from time to time there is problem which the solution works fine for everyone except this one guy, for this guy, nothing works unless we spend a lot of time analyzing every bit of code to find the true source of the problem, which is boring and time consuming. This time, I am this guy. Must be karma.

[stratagos]

The first rule of Mining Colony Club is, we don't talk about Mining Colony

[AssaultPig]

man, why couldn't it be alpine making everybody crash

[Vassago Rain]

Coolant, on 07 February 2015 - 12:20 PM, said:

Wish they would bring it back, was one of my favorites. Did I freeze? Yes. Did Alt+Tab fix it? Yes. I don't ever remember crashing fully. Just screen freezing. I would've been more than o.k. continuing to Alt+Tab on the map in order to keep playing it. But, I guess there are people that actually had the game crash and have to rejoin? No one in my unit had that problem that I recall. Freezing yes. Crashing no. If it's just the freezing issue, they should just work on a new build and fix the bug and leave the map in rotation. But, I suppose, if it's causing crashes I would get tired of rejoining.

Alt+Tab fixed it sometimes, and for some people.
For once, PGI did a rational thing, and just straight up removed a problematic item, rather than leave it as a placeholder for years.

[FrontGuard]

Glad to see it go...
I crashed on it about 1 in 3 games.
I like the map and i hope it is back soon.
as long as its fixed

[Brody319]

no!

I only crashed once, in the like hundreds of games I played on it.

[MoonUnitBeta]

PappyBoyington, on 07 February 2015 - 11:58 AM, said:

Searched the forum but couldn't find anything about the Mining Colony map. I had problems on it in the beginning but it seemed to have been fixed with a patch but I no longer see the map, what happened?

And this is why communicating with your fan base solely through twitter sucks, PGI.

Leaves everyone out who doesn't follow your dumb social media to the T and waiting with baited breath for the next tweet to pop up.
Twitter should be the Official website for MWO, and move this forum to a fan site.


Here's the tweet, OP.

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 07 February 2015 - 02:45 PM.