Hrm. I think I should clarify: When I said that some don't "recover", I mean from being bugged. Everyone's connection recovered. We've had it happen on boss fights before, and if nothing else, your character will still be auto-attacking away. So depending on which class it is (boxed rangers, especially), it doesn't hurt to leave them DPSing until the end of the fight, and then you can camp them out and back to un-bug them. The easiest way to tell if a character recovered from being bugged or not in that situation was to see if the mob actually died on their screen, or if it was stuck at 0% health indefinitely.
I probably shouldn't have brought it up, sorry. It's related, in that it has the same symptoms, but it's certainly not from the same cause.
I thought that the high NPC population might be a contributing factor in Storms, as it's not like a script had been executed yet with us just zoning in and grouping up. (Other than the script that makes the corpses at zone-in actually lay down on the ground.) Heck, it may well have been a connection hiccup that caused the problem. In fact, I don't think I've seen anyone get bugged from doing literally nothing since we upgraded our pipeline. We used to run far too many people for the connection we had, and would see the problem often in zones with large populations, like Ssra and PoStorms.
For instance, we used to be able to run about 9 people with no trouble. Any time we'd get over that, a random person would usually get bugged. The server and clients just couldn't pass information back and forth quickly enough. And yes, sometimes it would happen just from doing nothing. Especially if while someone was doing nothing, there were people doing lots of things elsewhere =P
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