Of all the bugs I've seen over the years, this was certainly the oddest. When I opened my character select screen for the new Exalted server for the first time ever last night, I saw that the first of the twelve slots was already filled with a character! It was named "nezz" and had supposedly been logged off for 4725 days, but it was definitely there and occupying the slot. Its costume displayed as a male model using the new "blank" costume creator model display, the one that looks like a man made of very shiny metal with glowing, yellow eyes. I don't recall if its map location was identified. When I tried to log in with this character to make sure someone wasn't fiddling with my account somehow (not sure how this could happen, aside from the game getting hacked), I received an error message. I was able to delete the character without difficulty. I then made a new character in the slot and played it through the tutorial and into Atlas Park without difficulty.
All my character displays and lists on the other servers seem to be displaying properly and normally, as of yesterday evening.
Today, shortly before the servers came down, I began making a second character on Exalted, though I didn't make it into the game before the servers went down. I noticed that when I was kicked back to the character select screen after being unable to enter the tutorial with the character whom I'd been creating, the costume for the character I'd made in my first Exalted slot was also displaying as the "choose your body type" model, though his name and location displayed correctly.
So far, I haven't seen anything game-breaking or even anything that affects my actual gameplay with these bugs, but in case they are signs of something more serious, I thought it worth posting about them to let other players and any OCR/dev folks cruising through know about them.
"Bombarding the CoH/V fora with verbosity since January, 2006"
Djinniman, level 50 inv/fire tanker, on Victory
-and 40 others on various servers
Of all the bugs I've seen over the years, this was certainly the oddest. When I opened my character select screen for the new Exalted server for the first time ever last night, I saw that the first of the twelve slots was already filled with a character! It was named "nezz" and had supposedly been logged off for 4725 days, but it was definitely there and occupying the slot. Its costume displayed as a male model using the new "blank" costume creator model display, the one that looks like a man made of very shiny metal with glowing, yellow eyes. I don't recall if its map location was identified. When I tried to log in with this character to make sure someone wasn't fiddling with my account somehow (not sure how this could happen, aside from the game getting hacked), I received an error message. I was able to delete the character without difficulty. I then made a new character in the slot and played it through the tutorial and into Atlas Park without difficulty.
All my character displays and lists on the other servers seem to be displaying properly and normally, as of yesterday evening.
Today, shortly before the servers came down, I began making a second character on Exalted, though I didn't make it into the game before the servers went down. I noticed that when I was kicked back to the character select screen after being unable to enter the tutorial with the character whom I'd been creating, the costume for the character I'd made in my first Exalted slot was also displaying as the "choose your body type" model, though his name and location displayed correctly.
So far, I haven't seen anything game-breaking or even anything that affects my actual gameplay with these bugs, but in case they are signs of something more serious, I thought it worth posting about them to let other players and any OCR/dev folks cruising through know about them.
"Bombarding the CoH/V fora with verbosity since January, 2006"
Djinniman, level 50 inv/fire tanker, on Victory
-and 40 others on various servers
A CoH Comic: Kid Eros in "One Light"