Corruption claims a friend, R.I.P. Klokwurk Options

[Mute]

Wow, I really hate the Internet Explorer keyboards. I had a nice long descriptive post about how corruption effects us all, but it was wiped out when I hit "backspace" and Explorer intrepreted this as go back. Good-bye post. Anyways, just wanted to say that a good buddy of mine, some of you may know him as Klokwurk, lost all his main characters to the freeze corruption bug last night. I was hit pretty hard by it, since he's been a playing partner of mine since the DC days. I don't think he's gonna quit, however, but I do know that this bug is still very much alive and should really be dealt with by the server support team. Not that it will do a damn thing, I decided to write a little statement to Sonic Team Support (hah!). Here's what I wrote:

I'm writing in regards to inform you all that the looming Freeze bug that corrupts PSO data is still VERY much present and the double save is the major cause for character corruption. While, this second save does indeed help against illegal item duplication, the risk of character loss is far greater in the eyes of the community. Not to mention that there must be several other ways of duping, due to the fact that duplicated items are ALL over the place. Anyways, last night, a buddy of mine suffered this Freeze while joining a game and lost his character to "corruption." He was very much an active player amongst our group of friends, and now it seems he will be leaving. This corruption bug effects ALL players, regardless of direct loss or loss of a buddy. I only urge the support team to look at this issue further, or to even remove the second save if at all possible. Thank you for your consideration and keep up the great work!

Hopefully, I'll get some sort of response worth my time. I won't hold my breath though. =/
R.I.P. Klokwurk, your RAcast will be missed. T.T

[Sheik]

I was playing, if most of you do not know already, A LOT of cmode the last week or so. I was playing most of the day yesterday and encountered two different FSODs.

One of them was returning to the lobby from a game and it froze. The other one happened like a minute after joining a game.

The funny thing about this one is that it froze after I joined, it saved, and I was chatting with the players. I am not sure if my chats got to them because they did not reply...so this could have been one sign that FSOD was near.

I can not remember who but someone told me that if two players leave cmode to the lobby at the same time it is very possible to FSOD.

Anyways, this is just encouraging me to make a memory card for my cmode characters...so don't be suprised if you see Sheik or Kesho running around as a lv1 as they will ONLY be used for cmode. At least if my cmode memory card corrupts nothing is really lost except completed stages, and that is easy to fix.

I sure wish they would remove that double save. From what I have heard, removing the double save WILL NOT prevent the game from FSODing on you...but at least it will not be saving when it FSODs. FSOD does not bug me...corruption does. Maybe if more people sent email...or postal mail to ST they would possibly remove that double save. I wish there was a way to block the save command from the server.

When I got FSODed yesterday all I did was power off and back on...and got right back on. Since I keep all my stuff equipped or in the bank I have no worries.