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near (Vita App) | Scanning local Vita chums for all dat Game Goods
- Thread starter chubigans
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How does Near work in Uncharted? I've received tons of Uncharted Gift but I've no idea how to send it to someone else. I assume it work automatically? So everytime I update Near it match with other people bounty list on which item is missing. If not somehow I feel bad about it.....
Interesting Fact regarding Near:
- It could only shows 9-10 ID max and those pople have to be the nearest one to you.
- You could see someone ID but that doesn't mean he could see yours too and vice versa.
- In my place, Near always show me 10 ID (me included) which always the same no matter how many time I updated it. I received friend invitation and suddenly that person ID show up on my near.
- I updated my wifi on the 4th floor of my office and it pick 10 ID and the office address.
- I updated my wifi on the 8th floor of my office and it pick four same ID as the 4th floor and five different ID plus the name of the road next to my office.
Interesting Fact regarding Near:
- It could only shows 9-10 ID max and those pople have to be the nearest one to you.
- You could see someone ID but that doesn't mean he could see yours too and vice versa.
- In my place, Near always show me 10 ID (me included) which always the same no matter how many time I updated it. I received friend invitation and suddenly that person ID show up on my near.
- I updated my wifi on the 4th floor of my office and it pick 10 ID and the office address.
- I updated my wifi on the 8th floor of my office and it pick four same ID as the 4th floor and five different ID plus the name of the road next to my office.
Are you using some kind of proxy on your router?
Bluforce
Member
I added my router to Skyhook 7 days ago, and today near works very well!
Finally!
EDIT:
Also Maps now works.
krimsoncharge
Member
Added my details to skyhook but no luck so far. Also, can i add the details of my portable wifi hotspot (via mobile 3g) to skyhook?? Or any othet workaround?
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
It HAS to be recording repeats, though. I highly doubt there are 65 people within a square mile of me playing Vita, 6 of whom are playing Shinobido 2.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I do believe they have to be on. I could be wrong. Either way, it's nice if it keeps track of things once you've found people and hopefully update their data with scans.
OneMoreQuestion
Member
I've been getting "An error has occurred" lately, and from what I've heard it's becoming a common problem. Can anything short of a factory restore help me? I've tried the "rebuild database" option, to no avail. Or maybe I'll just wait for a patch or something...
Wait for a patch or factory reset seem to be pretty much the only option.
I've had this too, left it over a few days and it hadn't fixed itself so resorted to a factory reset which has fixed it.
OneMoreQuestion
Member
What kind of stuff do you lose in a factory reset? Will I keep my saves? And will I have to remove my memory card to make sure it doesn't get wiped?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
He probably has his settings tightened up to not show his info. I can't remember them but I really restrict my settings.
Seraphinianus
Banned
ok, i'll admit that I have no idea what near is doing. I should read up a little, seems intriguing. Like the trophy system, it's a little vague, which I like.
I took the memory card and game card out just in case - make sure you've synced your trophies. The only stuff I seem to have lost is all the information near had collected so far.
I'm just popping in to add my problems with Near post. Used it for a week on the WiFi model without problems, now I get "an error has occurred."
The most frustrating part of this is that I don't know what kind of error it is. Even "communication error," would somehow be more satisfying.
The most frustrating part of this is that I don't know what kind of error it is. Even "communication error," would somehow be more satisfying.
Still no luck with the UC black market. Everything else near related seems to work fine for me, and if I click on my own icon in near, it shows that I'm active in the black market. In the actual game, however, it still says that I'm actively seeking 0 treasures, and doesn't let me update what I'm seeking when I exit to the menu. Getting ready to give up on this feature.
sakipon
Member
Yeah, noticed this when I downloaded some demos from my foreign accounts. Wonder why you can't back-up your near progress? Also one should be able to clear near without doing a full system reset.
Based off of my personal experience if you set near to auto update, it will update your location once in a while but not within an hour of the previous update. Also, the other person needs to have near update his location and, of course, allowed for people to find him via near. Keep in mind that you'll need either 3G or Wi-Fi in order to update your location.
Live Free or Die
Banned
near has been working fine for me since i got my vita on thursday, but now its giving me an error. :/
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
That's pretty awesome. I haven't messaged anyone in my area. I should try it out.
Dead Prince
Banned
have you met IRL yet? go camera stalk them.
Just curious, your shared your ID in Near and turned auto-update on right ? Have you ever rebuild the database or factory reset the unit ? Is this WiFi or 3G ?
Edit:
Same questions for you...
Idiot.
I like the Lol in his reply. LOL.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
My total always goes up at least a few people every time I use it, it must be total number of people found, cumulative. I'm at 67 in my crappy neighborhood, no way those are unique people. The same 8-10 people always show on the map too.
DangerousDave
Member
Near seems perfect to see what games are more succesful.
Here, in Barcelona, the top 10 is:
Uncharted GA
Motorstorm RC
Super Stardust Delta
Tales from Space
LiveTweet
Frobisher says!
Hustle Kings
Lumines
Wipeout 2048
Uncharted Demo
I'm happy to see that DD games are working well.
Here, in Barcelona, the top 10 is:
Uncharted GA
Motorstorm RC
Super Stardust Delta
Tales from Space
LiveTweet
Frobisher says!
Hustle Kings
Lumines
Wipeout 2048
Uncharted Demo
I'm happy to see that DD games are working well.
Dead Prince
Banned
glowing orange means that's your friend on psn.
A couple people added me as friends. I assume they're also students at my university. Haven't really talked to them much though haha.
I'm using "Connectify me" software on Windows 7 to create a hotspot using my laptop's wifi. And added my wifi physical address (MAC) on skyhook, am I doing it right or it wont work cause I'm not using a wireless router?
Seraphinianus
Banned
Had something weird happen yesterday--
i was using this last night and streaming Final Round on my macbook. I pressed the update button in the app and my network just slowed to a crawl-- my streaming vid got choppy and stopped, my vita froze in the middle of some menu animation. The system was unresponsive while it was updating, then everything went back to normal after it updated, a few minutes later. I had already updated once about 15 minutes earlier, so it's not like it was grabbing a bunch of new data. Weird!
i was using this last night and streaming Final Round on my macbook. I pressed the update button in the app and my network just slowed to a crawl-- my streaming vid got choppy and stopped, my vita froze in the middle of some menu animation. The system was unresponsive while it was updating, then everything went back to normal after it updated, a few minutes later. I had already updated once about 15 minutes earlier, so it's not like it was grabbing a bunch of new data. Weird!
Grayed out faces represent 10 users each.
But the number in my town had gone from 67 to 63 once. Somebody at Sony needs to explain this shit.
I get fed up everytime something reminds me that Frobisher Says is not available in US. 8^(
Actually, both. Reminds me of gangster movies where both bosses lol and swiftly proceed to backstab each other.
I thought that was a game gift from that person. Every time I've seen it there was one and I've just been adding whoever requests it without looking.
Now I know that someone within 500m of my work has added me.
Should probably find out who that is lol.
When you did the update 15 minutes earlier, did it use a new location data or cached ?
It sounds like Vita sent a large bunch of data to the server but the latter was occupied. The congested upstream may slow downstream traffic, affecting your MacBook video stream. I'm assuming your network is fast enough to handle multiple downloads/streams usually.
The cyber stalking commences.
Just kidding. I've had a lot of people from near message me just to chat about the Vita and games overall. It's really quite cool. I'm not sure if that's how Sony intended it to work but when it works like that it's pretty amazing.
Risk Breaker
Member
So if I want my WiFi Vita to check and store my location (via WIFI APs' mac address) while I'm not at home so that I can update when I'm back I have to let it go to sleep by itself? Or can I put it to sleep manually as well?