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Squeeken

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Spontaneous Combustion?
« on: January 03, 2017, 12:24:28 PM »
Last night, I was on the server alone.  While I was in the airport trader, I heard a loud explosion from the tarmac.  I looked outside, and to my horror, Boonedawg's brand new Blackfoot just exploded for no reason.  Boonedawg had logged off about 10 minutes earlier.  He parked well inside the safe zone, undamaged.

About a week ago, Tygerbaum was driving his brand new antiair vehicle (I forget what its called) back from a mission.  The vehicle was undamaged and was driving on a road.  He was not near a military base, and never heard a rocket launch.  He did not hit anything at all when suddenly his vehicle exploded.

Any idea what is causing these spontaneous combustion events?  These were both super expensive vehicles and the loss is huge.  It takes time to earn that back.  We all know its a high risk environment and we take chances.  Balancing the risk / reward is a big and fun part of the game.  But there is just no way to plan around these inexplicable explosions.  As you can imagine, its very disheartening to lose a high dollar vehicle this way.

I just wanted to see if others have had this happen.  Sandman, I'm guessing that there's not much you can do about these random explosions, but I wanted you to be aware of them, just in case you can work some magic.

Thanks again for a great server.

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Re: Spontaneous Combustion?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2017, 06:16:34 PM »
I can understand the frustration with this, but I'm pretty sure I did explain to almost everybody that the glitches are going to have to be taken in stride with this server. I believe I actually posted it somewhere an explanation that if you log in and your heli explodes, it probably means the ashtrays were full and it was probably time to buy a new one anyway. The road vehicle sounds all the world to me to be an unseen stray roaming AI with a launcher, probably a townie, or a para drop, but I've seen stuff like the heli before. This is a special case, I guess, and it's going to be very rare response, so I've added 50% of the purchase price to these players accounts, but honestly with the attrition rate of vehicles for this server, the new vehicles will probably not last long before an AI gets them anyway.  Maybe I need to find a way to boost the loot a bit more to make it a little easier to recover from these kinds of things.
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Re: Spontaneous Combustion?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2017, 06:30:47 PM »
Thanks for the response Sandman.  I just spoke with you in game 20 minutes ago.  I saw that you moved someone's BlackFish for them at the airport trader.  I was just now, reloading my Stryder at the Ammo Tempest and watched that BlackFish explode right in front of me.  I cant explain it.  I was again the only player in the server.  Maybe, I got bad mojo.  Anyway, I've never seen this before and don't know if its a new problem or an old one returned, but thought you should know about it.
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Re: Spontaneous Combustion?
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2017, 06:50:46 PM »
Thanks, Squeek. It may be because I TP'ed it instead of flying it and it spawned in partially underground. I believe this "inground" spawning is a cause of a lot of the issues with vehicles exploding anyway.