5.8 server bugs
 

This is hopefully in the correct spot, please forgive me if it is not...

I just downloaded the newest source from cvs, and compiled a fresh bin.

noticed these problems...

1) I wanted the server to be locked, and it showed up as locked, but while I was testing I got visitors.

2) I also noticed that all previous characters created using 5.7 for the person logged in got deleted, with a message of it being a bogus character.





I will post more bugs as I come across them

Drag

1) Was your server set to locked in your LoginServer.ini file?

2) Yah thats normal, a converter wasnt written for this version, so it will delete old characters that are incompatible.

Will there be a convertor before official 5.8 release?

This would be the deciding factor of wether or not we upgrade )

I guess I could write one

Edgar1898 Wrote

Yes, it was set to locked, as well as showing up as locked on the server select screen.

Drag

I have a converter that I will release eventually.

Everybody loves Nitty.

^_^

too late!

I checked mine into cvs, it should reach public cvs in a few hours.

Re: 5.8 server bugs
 

This is probably related to the bug that people could log into other peoples characters. SInce when its locked, GMs can still get on, they were probably getting in as the server thought they had a GM account.

On the 5.8 Testserver when using a necromancer, and tyring to go down to neriakc to talk to trainer, the gouls at the entrance to the necro/sk training area are aggro to me.. KOS as a matter of fact...Unless they have changed this from live, it has ALWAYS been that they are warm to necros/sk's.....

KOS faction is a database issues, not a code bug.

And if you're anything but a dark elf, those ghouls are supposed to be KOS, necro or not. Ask my gnome.

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Yes, I understand... TY...:)

[edit] Semi-my fault, as this is test server bug, and I suppose I posted it in a general 5.8 bug thread, when there IS (as I saw after posting) a test server specific thread... Oh well, Is still a bug nonetheless.....

I tried playing on the "official 5.8 test server" and I find that almost all the time when I zone I never come out the other end. My client just hangs. And then a lot of the time I can't get back in at all with that character.

Is that "normal"?

This is a direct copy of a client that is working fine with EQ Live so I'd be suprised if it's a client issue at all.

No, it is not normal. I have been playing test every day for the last 5 days and no trouble zoning at all... other than it turning me around on zone so that I face the zone line again and if I take a step before looking around I end up zoning back again.