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Xanthan

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Everything's happening out of sequence!
« on: September 13, 2005, 01:49:55 am »
Is this just me?  For the last two days things are happeningout of order:

  Monsters die, then keep hitting you.
  Dead monsters keep moving.
  Monsters, and sometimes me and other players,
     will zap back to places we were a few seconds earlier.
  Spells have their effects, then later the casting window
     appears, with the time delay.
  Spell effects don\'t happen, then they all happen at once,
     often after the target is dead.
  Monsters hit you when you are nowhere near them.
  You try to hit them from close by and it says you\'re
     too far away -- though they can hit you just fine!

To me it looks like the ordering of the requests and responses between the client and the server is being lost somehow.

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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2005, 02:40:29 am »
There is a problem from what i\'ve heard and yeh i \'ve had them problems i\'ve also had one (a good one) where the monster couldn\'t hit me but i could kill it  and there was one where the monster could hit me but i couldn\'t hit it (i was close enough and it didn\'t say \'\'too far away to attack\'\' just took like 5 attempts at attacking to start attacking again, i\'ve had problems when i\'e been going fine and all of a sudden a pile of attacks kill me, but yeh they will be fixed hopefully
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« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2005, 03:34:53 am »
S-E-V-E-R-L-A-G

Yes, the dreaded server lag has arrived, its not the monsters or anything, just that the server has experienced terrible lag ever since that cable thing...Should be back to normal as soon as they get to it...Which will be next weekend if we\'re lucky ;P

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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2005, 07:00:53 am »
Yes i have plenty of screen shots of monsters taht are moving but i made sure to hit attack a bunch so i could show you i have already killed it... one even chased me and was hitting me after i killed it... its ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIES!!!
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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2005, 04:17:19 am »
My favorite is the ones who get back up, hack you, and fall back over.

I also like the spells that I cast, they seem to do nothing so I cast again, then a minute later all the spells kick in at once.

I guy can learn a lot about network problems from playing this game  :)

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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2005, 04:46:18 am »
The kick of death (the hit after they died) can be annoying, i don\'t think i have died so far off it though
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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2005, 07:04:29 am »
I have...

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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2005, 04:31:51 pm »
I have too - a good minute later - I had even walked away.

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« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2005, 06:59:42 pm »
All the above is annoying, agreed.  It\'s tough when you are fighting a good battle and down on HP.  I find myself running away sometimes, just in case the corpse feels like getting one or two more hits in.

Although it is pretty cool to give the monster one more slash after you\'ve killed it.

*AND STAY DOWN!*
« Last Edit: September 17, 2005, 07:21:41 pm by Stronith »

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« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2005, 09:09:39 pm »
It gets even worse if you take a health potion in battle:

Fight NPC,
Drink potion,
NPC dies,
last hit gets in,
you die,
you fall down,
you get up,
walk around for 5 seconds,
get send to the Death Realm.

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« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2005, 09:45:37 pm »
I cannot wait for this lag to be dealt with.  My character is getting killed due to the HP bars being out-of sync with what\'s  really going on.   I can\'t afford the trips to the DR...  

I know the game is in \"pre-alpha\", but this never used to happen.  

Must be a good game, though - as I and many others are sticking through it.  

Not sure if it\'s related at all, probably not, but I lost my arm in the arena the other day.  Then my head.  Then my arm was back and my eyeballs appeared, without the rest of my character\'s head.  Got a screenshot. Is there anywhere to post my floating eyeball pic?

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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2005, 09:15:00 am »
I believe what is actually happening is that your client is processing packets out of order due to lag.  The actual battle calculations are the same (your character has same chance of winning) but you see the results later and possibly out of order.  Hence, all the weird stuff you\'re seeing.
The way I interpret the one-way being able to attack problem is because your client checks who you can attack based on where it thinks they are and the server checks who its creatures can attack based on where it thinks they are.  It\'s basically like two people trying to play a game where they both have their own rules.  I\'m thinking it could be fixed in code but it really wouldn\'t be a problem if the lag stays down.

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« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2005, 05:23:48 pm »
It is all server lag...

But as for pictures i use http://www.imageshack.us

you go there then  browse for your pic then click upload...

after that click the direct link box until the text inside has the way to copy it... then ctrl+c click on the forums and ctrl+v then wrap it all in [ img ] [ /img ]

EXAMPLE!!!:



and if you look closely in the text box, i sold a torquiose encrusted battle axe of blinding strike for 4800trias... and its stats were 5/2.3/2.5 LOL!
« Last Edit: September 18, 2005, 05:28:43 pm by Rage McCloud »
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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2005, 06:42:31 pm »
The oddest thing I had to deal with so far was dying for no apparent reason, and finding myself stuck in fallen-down position in the death realm.  I could move around, but I had to do it sliding around in a prone position, at a 45 degree angle to the way my head was pointing.  Some smartass even challenged me to a duel while I was in this state!

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« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2005, 11:24:23 pm »
yes... a glitch... you can even slide under low walls in that pos... but someone challenging you to a duel... idiot...
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