Goblin Squad Member
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Ok so last night, I logged off at 23h UTC.
Main character in Blackwood Glade.
Brand new character in Blackfeather Keep, I had deleted a character to start this one.
Log on just now.
Main in Marchmont! Never been there at all.
New character created last night missing and old deleted character back.
Ok if there was a rollback I can understand the old character being back and I am frustratingly going to have to start all over again.
On the other hand, why the teleport to Marchmont? This means yet ANOTHER trek back to Hammerfall, it seems as if I am doing this at least every second day now.
Is there ANYTHING I/we can do to help with these because I am getting extremely frustrated with the runs each time.
Swiss
aka Charone
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Goblin Squad Member
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It was described to me that what is happening is not actually a rollback, but perhaps something even stranger and worse.
Apparently the server creating duplicates of your character. When you log in, there is a chance that you will randomly spawn as one if those duplicates. You play for a whole and then log off. When you relog in, if you spawned in another location, you are not in that duplicate, but perhaps a new one or your original character. When you check your inventory you will notice what you gathered the night before is gone.
It is not really a rollback, it is warping to a duplicate. I have to be honest, I've never heard of a bug like this. I'm betting it is their top priority to fix.
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Goblin Squad Member
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Not sure about duplicates, but I have just checked and ALL my characters are now in Marchmont.
One which I had not touched, apart from a quick log on and off to check encumberance, originally in Hammerfall.
The one that I deleted was also in Hammerfall and is now undeleted and teleported.
I am not going to touch the account for the moment as something might show up if investigated.
Swiss
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I bug reported this, including the fact that when it happened to me after dumping my stuff in the vault at Golgotha I found myself in another settlement with the previously vaulted gear in my inventory. When I got back to Golgotha,the same gear was still in the vault.
So, these synchronization errors (or whatever they are) also allow duping.
Which means it REALLY has to become their number one priority, if it wasn't already.
A duping economy is a nonsense economy and leaves us nothing to fight over.
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Goblin Squad Member
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It's been clarified (a bit) in the Alpha forums, that whether you've been there or not is unrelated. When the desynch (followed by handoff to another server) comes, I think anything that happened since your last saved state is dropped, and the new server picks at random one of the hexes it manages.
If you care, the only available option I can think of is to log out and back in every once-in-a-while, so that there is a new saved state for your equipment. It still won't help your location.
It could be worse. You could have just received a bunch of +2/+3 equipment from the resident crafter before your last crash. I suppose, If you're lucky, it wouldn't just take yours, but desynch them too, and give it back to them.
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How many times must a man buy a sword,
before he can call it his own?
Your inventory my friend, is blowing in the wind.
Your inventory is blowing in the wind.
:-)
It is not a roll back, just stop calling it a roll back...
It is the Server CPU Lubricant, the lubricant reservoir is empty.
No, its the muffler bearings
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Goblin Squad Member
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It's those PvP types, they dug under a tower and cut some wires and pipes they were not meant to.
It could be worse. You could have just received a bunch of +2/+3 equipment from the resident crafter before your last crash. I suppose, If you're lucky, it wouldn't just take yours, but desynch them too, and give it back to them.
Doesn't seem to work that way. When I gave one of the Keepers Clerics some +2 Yew and Iron and a + 2 hammer I made for him recently it disappeared from both inventories in a crash. It is only vaults that seem to do the duplication thing.
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Doesn't seem to work that way. When I gave one of the Keepers Clerics some +2 Yew and Iron and a + 2 hammer I made for him recently it disappeared from both inventories in a crash. It is only vaults that seem to do the duplication thing.
I think duplication requires you to deposit it in the vault, then crash shortly afterword. You end up with one on hand and one in the bank.
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Goblin Squad Member
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Esiyr suggested in game just now that there might be a way to avoid these issues.
Don't use Quit
Instead, use Log Out and then use the X button to close the window.
I haven't verified that this works, but it's certainly worth a try, and just in case it helps, I wanted to share this information as quickly as possible.