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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ralas on July 13, 2005, 07:29:57 am

Title: OK this is a weird one
Post by: Ralas on July 13, 2005, 07:29:57 am

this might belong in technical help, but I\'m not asking for help, so i think it goes best here.

The server has been going down a lot lately.  This is not a problem.  The weird thing is that whenever it goes down, a certain player stays on.  When we come back, he keeps saying that everyone else went away.  Right now I cannot ping the server, and the web page at laanx.fragnetics.com lists him as being the only player online.  Any idea how this is possible?

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Post by: DaveG on July 13, 2005, 07:41:17 am

Yeah, I just saw a guy named Hart on.  My guess is he\'s the dev fixing it.

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Post by: Ralas on July 13, 2005, 07:42:53 am

No, actually, I know him he\'s just a player.  He always asks where everyone went whenever I can\'t ping the server.

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Post by: DaveG on July 13, 2005, 07:47:03 am

... odd

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Post by: Drey on July 13, 2005, 07:52:56 am

maybe he is just stucked, like with glue and stuff. or he stepped on chewing gum...

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Post by: Uyaem on July 13, 2005, 07:53:52 am

I think you can set the time before your client decides that a linkdeath (if that\'s a word) has occured with this value in psclient.cfg

Planeshift.Client.User.Persisttimeout = 10

The number behind the = sign is in seconds. If you set that to an astronimically high value, say 300 seconds (if that value is even allowed), his client might survive a server crash if the server comes up again within 5 minutes.

If you see the guy next time, ask him if he could talk to NPCs or if he himself saw anything he said in the chat box. If not, the server was down. If he did, it\'s still nothing but weird. :)

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Post by: Ralas on July 13, 2005, 07:57:34 am

Good thought, I\'ll ask him as soon as the server comes back up.  I checked again and he\'s still on, which means he\'s been the only one on for about fifteen minutes.

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Post by: DaveG on July 13, 2005, 08:34:37 am

/me hopes it\'s time for the prophecised \"big update\"...

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Post by: Cyl on July 13, 2005, 08:47:18 am

Drey... Drey.... ts

You always manage to cast a smile on my face

and yeah dunno how long you have it but congratz for the Game-Master title

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Post by: ramlambmoo on July 13, 2005, 09:06:57 am

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I think you can set the time before your client decides that a linkdeath (if that\'s a word) has occured with this value in psclient.cfg

Planeshift.Client.User.Persisttimeout = 10

The number behind the = sign is in seconds. If you set that to an astronimically high value, say 300 seconds (if that value is even allowed), his client might survive a server crash if the server comes up again within 5 minutes.  

Thats very interesting, though im not sure if it would work.. when the server comes back online wouldn\'t you have to re-connect?  Im not really sure, it could work, but im inclined to think it wouldn\'t.

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Post by: Moogie on July 13, 2005, 01:25:53 pm

Crap. Stop spamming. You made me delete this post by Pestilence by accident:

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hmmm that is strange indeed. Perhaps he lives very near the server or something and doesn\'t lose connection as fast as the rest of us? Doubtfull but it has been known to happen that certain areas of people kept being kicked out when apparently a connection between the server and that area had a bug in it or something.

Sorry. Only realised it after my fingers clicked \"delete post\" for like the 7th time in a row.

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Post by: Uyaem on July 13, 2005, 01:42:55 pm

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Originally posted by ramlambmoo

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I think you can set the time before your client decides that a linkdeath (if that\'s a word) has occured with this value in psclient.cfg

Planeshift.Client.User.Persisttimeout = 10

The number behind the = sign is in seconds. If you set that to an astronimically high value, say 300 seconds (if that value is even allowed), his client might survive a server crash if the server comes up again within 5 minutes.  

Thats very interesting, though im not sure if it would work.. when the server comes back online wouldn\'t you have to re-connect?  Im not really sure, it could work, but im inclined to think it wouldn\'t.

Doh .. you are right of course. Had I asked myself the question \'How should the restarted server know that the client is still there?\' I would have come to that conclusion too. :-/
Morale: Never post before you have actually woken up. :D

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Post by: Phinehas on July 13, 2005, 04:56:04 pm

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Originally posted by Moogie
Crap. Stop spamming. You made me delete this post by Pestilence by accident:

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hmmm that is strange indeed. Perhaps he lives very near the server or something and doesn\'t lose connection as fast as the rest of us? Doubtfull but it has been known to happen that certain areas of people kept being kicked out when apparently a connection between the server and that area had a bug in it or something.

Sorry. Only realised it after my fingers clicked \"delete post\" for like the 7th time in a row.

Now this makes me wonder what the other posts were...

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Post by: Drey on July 13, 2005, 05:06:41 pm

basicly it was me some boreness and some people getting confused, it all seemed like fun at the time, for us at least. then it went waaay off topic and then we end up here.

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Post by: Pestilence on July 14, 2005, 12:24:14 am

LOL

NNNOOO Moogie doesn\'t luv me anymore :(

hmmm does a high deletion count mean coolness? *sighs* Wish I was playing an evil person that everyhing would be so clear LOL ;)

Was wondering where my post went :)

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Post by: Ralas on July 14, 2005, 02:18:35 am

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Originally posted by Pestilence


hmmm does a high deletion count mean coolness? *sighs* Wish I was playing an evil person that everyhing would be so clear LOL ;)

No, just means that Drey has led you astray a lot.  It did seem like fun at the time, though.

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Post by: Phinehas on July 14, 2005, 02:46:11 am

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Originally posted by Pestilence
LOL

NNNOOO Moogie doesn\'t luv me anymore :(

hmmm does a high deletion count mean coolness? *sighs* Wish I was playing an evil person that everyhing would be so clear LOL ;)

Was wondering where my post went :)

*looks at deletion count*

Yes, yes high is very good. It would appear that I have been a bad boy. More power to me.

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Post by: Drey on July 14, 2005, 10:56:17 am

my view on deleted post...

if your gonna have one might as well have a few. but the people with none they are cool to.

/me never knew forums could be such fun before PS they used to be scary places with scary people.

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Post by: Phinehas on July 14, 2005, 12:34:23 pm

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Originally posted by Drey
my view on deleted post...

if your gonna have one might as well have a few. but the people with none they are cool to.

It\'s not just a coincidence that that rhymes, is it?

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Post by: Drey on July 14, 2005, 12:47:31 pm

wow. i was just sitting there typing and looking at the person out the window, maybe im like some master poet.

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Post by: Keyaz on July 14, 2005, 12:58:26 pm

the original question has been answered, please stop spamming :)

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Post by: Phinehas on July 14, 2005, 01:09:51 pm

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Originally posted by Drey
wow. i was just sitting there typing and looking at the person out the window, maybe im like some master poet.

Ooh! *bows down to Drey*

Demarthl: You\'re right. The original question has been answered. This thread has served its purpose. So why can\'t we use it for fun now?