Topic: Vanishing open cans? Anyone else?
Hi. I reported this once before (recently) in a ticket. The Devs responded quickly, politely and professionally, as always.
It just happened again so I'll ask if anyone else is getting this: I had an open field container while mining, about 97m away. I was depositing stuff into it. Then it just vanished. The 1st time was on an Alpha Island; the second on a Beta.
(What I usually do is plant a can in the middle of the field, start mining at about 95-97m and work my way towards it, to get the most use out of it. Once I get to it, I can continue into the other half of the field until I hit about 95m again.)
Now the can symbol had a full orange ring on it, because it was open. It vanished while I was looking at an info pane, so I didn't actually see it go, but when I went to put some more ore in it, it was gone.
I suppose it might have been some sort of lag issue, or a zone disconnect (I have had those not become evident until back in a terminal, when I try to deploy again), or perhaps an error in the distance reading on the overview.
This is only the 2nd time that it has happened, and I don't much care about the contents of the container (ony worth a mill or so), so I won't bother ticketing it again.
However, if it is becoming reproducible, I am a bit worried about the future.
One other person told me that they had once had a can disappear too, but that's just two people.
Anyone else ever had one vanish while it was open?
For now, I am just going to make sure that, if I have to mine into a can again, I am within 80 or so metres of it. If it still vanishes that close, then I think there is a problem.