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[Hangar issues:] Ships being destroyed while they're stored?

TL;DRShips showing as destroyed while stowed came from Benoit's back-end optimization change that stopped updating ship location IDs, so ASOP showed them destroyed for a couple of days; that is resolved.

Benoit BeausejourChief Technology Officer

I've got to come clean first. On the ships being destroyed when stowed, that was 100% me. So that was a back-end change that we did to try to alleviate some of the load that we were seeing in some areas. And one of those side effects that was unplanned was that the location ID of ships wasn't being updated when they changed. And so the way the ASOP terminal, again, moving sands, right, does its reconciliation, which shows you what's available for you, it actually uses the location as the key element to know if a ship is actually available. Not only is it stowed, but it needs to be in the right location. Now this change that I had made for optimization did cause, for a couple of days, the issue where the locations weren't updated, and so all your ships that were stowed in other locations would show as destroyed. They were there, but they would show as destroyed in ASOP. Yeah, I'm going to take the blame for that one. That was me.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Is this like if a branch falls in a forest and nobody can hear it? The ship's not technically destroyed, but if it reports destroyed and you can't call it because it reports destroyed, isn't it destroyed even if it's not destroyed?

Benoit BeausejourChief Technology Officer

Well, actually, claiming it would actually destroy it, too. So technically, it's destroyed.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Right, but we resolved that one.

Benoit BeausejourChief Technology Officer

Yeah, that one's resolved.

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Published on this date.6 Feb 2025