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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: nightwolf on September 30, 2007, 11:47:57 am

Title: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: nightwolf on September 30, 2007, 11:47:57 am
Whan I entered the game, I tried to atack a NPC but my char could not. It said NPC is Impervious to atack(or somthing like that)
What happened?
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Parallo on September 30, 2007, 12:42:40 pm
NPC server is down. Just wait a while. It will be back later.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: nightwolf on September 30, 2007, 12:48:22 pm
How much can it take?
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Parallo on September 30, 2007, 12:52:46 pm
Oh a few weeks maybe. No, I have no idea. It varies. Just have patience.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: nightwolf on September 30, 2007, 04:07:41 pm
Are the GMs at least fixing this?
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Caarrie on September 30, 2007, 04:15:25 pm
Are the GMs at least fixing this?

the GMS have no ability to fix this only devs with server access can.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: nightwolf on September 30, 2007, 05:22:52 pm
Oh.
Anyway I hope they're workin at it.

Edit:
Had you this problem before?
How much did it took to solve it?
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Lenade Lavor on October 02, 2007, 10:15:47 am
I think this is about the 1000th time we have had the problem... It can last an hour, a day, a week... As a normal time I would say maybe 6 hours?
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: nightwolf on October 02, 2007, 04:44:13 pm
6 hours?
I think this problem was more than 24 hours. What r those guys doing?
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Caarrie on October 02, 2007, 04:48:28 pm
6 hours?
I think this problem was more than 24 hours. What r those guys doing?

how about they have jobs irl and other things to do, they dont sit at their pc's all day waiting for planeshift bugs to happen and fix them as they see them. Give it time guys the devs will work on it when they get a chance.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Cybelia on October 06, 2007, 03:46:12 am
yes same prob here plus can't get into town, ok thanx carrie and all, we will wait patiently my RL always takes a toll on my GL  8)
Title: Re: NPCs Can't Attack or Be Attacked
Post by: LlubNek on October 12, 2007, 06:10:18 am
Any chance we could get an NPC client status page like http://laanx.fragnetics.com/ ?

And maybe a system to automatically restart the NPC client when it crashes?  Something like... server pings NPC client, NPC client fails to respond, server kills any NPC client process that's still running and starts a new one, if NPC client crashes n times in m minutes, leave it down and post a message to a developer mailing list (could also make a similar watchdog program for the server itself).

There's not a whole lot you can do when the NPC client is down, you've already got a quest calling for a large number of animal parts (which you'll never manage to buy enough of to finish it since NPCs don't sell 'em, players don't hold on to them, and, under the circumstances, they're in unusually high demand), you've just leveled up in mining (so you can't progress before training and you're still low enough you can't mine anything that's worth something), and you're broke.

Title: Re: NPCs Can't Attack or Be Attacked
Post by: Rongar Elani on October 12, 2007, 06:32:53 am
... you've just leveled up in mining (so you can't progress before training and you're still low enough you can't mine anything that's worth something), and you're broke.

If nothing has changed, you can mine any mineral even with level 0, as long as the first training is done. However, you said you just leveled up, so I'm pretty sure you can mine for gold, which is worth 400-500 per ore to other players.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: LlubNek on October 12, 2007, 06:46:30 am
pretty sure that's changed... I remember getting a message like "You must be at least level n to mine x."  I think gold is level 3.  Pretty sure I can mine tin, but it's not worth much and I'd have to find it first (and since I just leveled up, I get no practice points, so it's a lot of work for little benefit).  Even apple picking is a faster way of earning trias than coal mining.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Rongar Elani on October 12, 2007, 07:09:28 am
Wow, okay. That's good to know, thanks. So I won't stand like a fool, next time I tell a newbie how to mine gold. :D

Fictional scenario:

Rongar: Here we are, here you can dig for gold.
Newbie: Hmm, I can't do it...
Rongar: Yes, you can. You have a pick and bought the first training.
Newbie: It won't let me.
Rongar: Stand right here and try again.
Newbie: Didn't work, I can't mine it.
Rongar: Yes, you can. You have a pick and bought the first training.
Newbie: ...
Newbie: ......

-Newbie has quit.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Suno_Regin on October 12, 2007, 09:24:22 pm
Hah, reminds me of when I first started...someone kept telling me to stand here and press /dig, I tried and nothing happened. About 2 hours later someone finally said to type /dig gold...I hate that.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Finne on February 22, 2008, 03:39:13 am
YES!  let's have an NPC server status page or add it to the existing page, sinbce it's sparse on content.  I've been stuck waiting for 2 days now and I can't do much until I get to kill some rats.  the NPC server seems to affect new players more than anyone, very frustrating.  I know I know, patience.  I'm trying.  But having a status page fo rthe NPC server would at least ell people what's going on instead of having to search for this thread.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Sen on February 22, 2008, 08:36:26 am
I like the idea of having a status page for server and npc.

Until we have something like this I suggest to visit the planeshift irc channel - someone clever wrote a bot who can tell you the npc status.
Title: Re: NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked
Post by: Durwyn on February 22, 2008, 09:19:09 am
I like the idea of having a status page for server and npc.

There are already many pages available.. :sweatdrop:
my own one : http://dudu.110mb.com/magicbox.php  :P