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Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale? (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Forgottengoldfish@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If they were playing online, it's likely all of the pads were full. You can either wait for someone to leave, or super cruise out and back in to load a new instance with available pads.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Good point. I forgot about that possibility because I don't spend much time playing in Open mode.

The same thing tends to happen on stronghold carriers in Solo mode, I suspect because Frontier programmed the game to spawn a bunch of NPC ships eager to dock with those carriers when a mini-instance is created. You can be the only player within light years, and still have to wait several minutes for all those NPCs to leave before you can dock.

*facepalm*