mini map glitch

just been accused of cheating by gold mysterious because as i was fighting him his mini map stopped working, this isnt the first time this has happened, indeed when ive been fighting the same has happened to me, it needs sorting out i have seen loads of posts about this very problem, come on bp sort it out!!

 

Were you in a battle map, one that prevents you from jumping if an enemy is shooting you? There's been a glitch for a long time now that breaks the minimap if you are shot when you try to jump out of a battle map. Just ask him to search the forum and he should find multiple posts regarding this problem. You're right though, it should have been fixed long ago...

 

yeah 4-1 pvp map

 

Are flying the SpearHead? I have heard this causes the mini map to short out

 

It's nothing to do with what ship you are flying. If you try to jump from a bmap and the jump is interrupted by an enemy attack then the minimap can't be clicked on in order to move your ship.

 

It's not a glitch, it's a loading thing. Us Old Timers should know of this. When you are running, (In ANY map, not just PvP maps), and you jump a portal while you are moving around with mouse... you are actually staying still at the portal, while on your game screen, you are pulling away. This happens, because the game has to load up a new map and all that blah blah blah, this has been around since the birth of DarkOrbit.

When it gets interrupted, the game can't go back for some reason.

Solution? VERY Simple: PREVENT THE ISSUE! When heading to the jump gate (ESPECIALLY on a PvP map) Click past the portal [icon] ON THE MINI MAP!!! As your ship flies over the portal, jump the portal (make sure to hit the 'J' key or the jump icon). Doesn't sound much different? Here's where the magic happens. Since you clicked past the portal, you told your ship to get there. It gets encoded into the game. Now when you jump the portal, the ship is still getting there, to the marked spot. As it keeps going, the game loads another map.

Hopefully, you kids learned a new lesson today

 

or, they could fix the glitch where if the jump is interrupted you are unable to click on the minimap to fly your ship

 

Yeah i get that one where i cant click on the mini map so i have to do everything manually.

 

Yes I have seen this before, when I asked about it I was told it was the Spear Head ship that does that paralyzes the mini map... The mini map becomes Null un - use sable this gives an advantage to the enemy to kill you... We don't know if its a glitch. but it happens from time to time

 

It is a glitch. Read my previous post.

 

So basically, what happens is that since you are still interacting with the previous map, the game can't load the new data over the existing data because the existing data is still being used. However, when you set the portal area as your destination on the mini-map and jump with j, the game can interpret that command correctly and load the new data.

Is this a valid interpretation?

 

That must have something to do with being shot by ghost ships too

 

Yes, that is correct.

There are no "Ghost Ships". You are frozen on the map because you are stuck in "loading mode", where you can't quite do anything then
Only hope is to get away correctly (as I posted above) until BP fixes this.

 

huh its got nothing to do with jumping thru port, fly to 4-1 get someone to attack u, mini map packs up, end of, it needs sorting out as im running out of patience now

 

You just agreed earlier on that the mini map glitching was happening when you jumped the port there...

 

The glitch has been described, a way to avoid it has been given. Point is that it needs to be fixed.

 

The mini-map randomly glitching started, I believe, after one of the events of this year's or last year's events. Probably Domination.

 

(Mods, can you merge this post and my post above because I don't know how to reply to someone in an edit)

I believe so. Even if the map data loaded correctly, because of the way the game put the new data over the existing data, the game doesn't load everything on the new map graphically.

A "Ghost ship would be when there is a ship in the map, but you can't see it and it is not cloaked. If that happened on an enemy, you would start to see dmg numbers on you ship and start losing your shields/HP from nowhere.

I know because I have experienced it myself before.

 

There is two parts to this deal

(1) Ghost ship shooters

(2) You see who is shooting you fight back and the mini map stops working.

Ghost enemy ship you can not see on mini map all you see is lasers coming from no where shooting you and you don't know where they are coming from till you die....


The mini map may be working when you fist jump to the pvp map, then you get into a fight with an enemy player and then mini map may malfunction and become canceled out.

KilerStreak said this happens when a player does not fly past the mini map and hit the letter J - Mini map palatalization and Cloaked shooters may happen. because Map is still trying to load the new map so, your ship is in the new map but you are now in no where land you are there but not. Your ship is in the new pvp map but the pvp map you just jump to is lost somewhere in time trying to load. Meaning the enemy can see you but you can't see them. If you see enemy then the mini map may not be fully loaded yet.

 

Ah yes, thank you, I forgot about that Ghost ship.
That usually happens when you jump right after they jump