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Uhhh... (bug)

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Hellif

Post Sat May 24, 2003 3:31 pm

Uhhh... (bug)

Oddest bug yet.

Here I am, returning from a mission in Omicron Beta. I dock on Ruiz base and suddenly find myself in Shi***u docked at the Ohashi border station. Uhhhh....

On top of this, I docked with NO bots/batts, yet had almost 57 of each when I went to buy more. Uhhh... (again).

I'm guessing someone else in an Eagle docked @ Ohashi at the same time I docked @ Ruiz, and the server confused us somehow, but I can't offer any proof. I mean, I'm drunk, sure, but I didn't fly through ANY jumpholes/gates on my way back to Ruiz. I'm quite sure *L* Plus it was docking that ended me up in Ohashi, not flying. : )

The only thing I can offer that is even vaguely related to this is when I was running H-fuel back in Liberty. I managed (accidentally) to dock w/ a planet ring at the same time as an identical ship, and we BOTH ended up docking (me at a strange angle, but I still ended up on the planet). It happened more than once, but NEVER with a different type of ship (I was in a Rhino at the time). I know it's not quite the same thing, but it does show that sometimes FL has difficulty distinguishing between identical ships, even if one is AI and one is a player.

Hellif

Post Sat May 24, 2003 4:07 pm

Hey! This gets even better!

The server crashed w/in 5-10 minutes of the aforementioned problems, and now that it's back up .... I'm back in Ruiz, stuck in the docking tunnel... Got out by waiting for someone to dock and running once the door opened.

Now I wonder if whoever I was traded with got the benefits of my sales (some mines, couple sunblast Bs) and purchases (refilled bots/batts), as when I re-logged into Ruiz, I had all the booty from my last mission still, plus 0 bots/batts (as expected).

Too odd.

Hellif

Post Sat May 24, 2003 5:06 pm

Ok, based on some more realizations, I'm posting again.

From what I'm learning in bits and pieces, it seems that I didn't switch places with any other player. I switched places with MYSELF, although it's my PAST self that I switched with.

What is giving me this clue is the fact that a week or so ago, I decided to trade in one of my Tizona del cids for a Kraken 2, just to try it out. The projectile speed is WAY off my other weaps, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Ok, in my recent "deviation" to Ohashi, I had 1 Tizona, 1 Kraken 2, and 4 N. Cannons, and Screamer mines (I currently run with Ripper mines). This matches my equipment exactly from the stated "week ago" status of my character, and also matches an area I was travelling through at the time.

Based on all this, it seems the server suddenly loaded an old save of myself (upon my docking) rather than my current self. As such, I'm not sure whether to chalk it up to a bug or a packet or 2 mangled by the 'Net in just the right way to warp me back in time. In either case, the server obviously didn't like the results, as it crashed shortly afterwards.

I realize this seems mostly ramble, but I'm trying to give as much info as I can in hopes that it IS a bug that can be ironed out : ) Not like we can stop the net from mangling packets, but that'd be a longshot.... I mean, mangled "just right"? *L*

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