Massive Ping Increase and Shield Bug

[Matthmatt]

Occasionally my ping will increase drastically for no apparent reason, making the game incredibly laggy, bringing me down to 1 FPS. The strangest thing about this is that I play single player, so the ping is increasing from a number around 1-10 to several thousand. It seems to happen when there is already some stress on the FPS, though not always a significant amount, though it has happened while I am at a decent (for Starmade on my computer) FPS of 20. I have also encountered an unrelated bug where pirates manage to destroy a noticable amount of exposed blocks, even though my shields never drop below 80% during an encounter. While I understand that shields on large ships have been made less invincible, I don't think blocks are meant to be destroyed while the shields are still up, much less when the shields are near full.

 

[DracoNB]

You are probably fighting pirates near sector border / boundries, shields do not correctly show the damage they are taking near these areas. So your shields are actually down while they still show as up on your hud. Try disabling the shield effect and see if that helps your fps, but it sounds like your machine can\'t handle being both the server and client. Try playing multiplayer, or using another local machine as a server.

 

[brownshome]

I have this problem often on servers (the shield problem), never played enough single to see it there though. It also seemed to also happen with player controlled ships as well. I put it down to connection latency but if it is happening on single player then it is a larger problem.