Foundry mission map loading times...

hawkrunner

Is there anything that can be done about the extremely long map loading times? I really enjoy playing foundry missions but some missions have many many map changes which seem to take forever, and it can feel like I'm spending more time looking at loading screens than actually playing. This in turn leads me to stay away from such missions, which is too bad because they are well written and I can tell that a lot of time was put into them.

Perhaps the game could start loading ALL the related maps when someone enters the first one, since it's very likely that the person will play through the rest of them? I wouldn't mind a slow loading time once per mission to get it started, but to suffer through it more than 5 times per mission is painful.

thegreendragoon1

Unfortunately, Foundry map load times are a due to the fact that the servers have to spool up an instance of the Foundry map when it's loaded. You'll occasionally experience the same long load times with seldom-used Cryptic maps.

stryker456

got another question which also goes to looong loading times. for me it appears even when i warp from system to sector-map.. well got enough time while warping from earth spacedock to sirius sector to google long loading times read this and reply now this thread... is that really normal?!