Shattered Kingdoms

As we all know, there's only one coder - I'm sure when Dulrik resurfaces he'll come back swinging. Re. this specific bug, I've heard it in a few directions but a surgical report on what needs to be done needs to include:

1. A reliable test case that proves how this bug is achieved
2. An immortal to use the STAT NPC command to report on affects at each point in the test case (especially before and after logout/login, if that turns out to be the main area of concern).

No matter how busy Dulrik is, I've always seen him step up if the game is crashed or needs assistance. The frustrating thing for the playerbase that I'm seeing is this bug is being abused ( ) but unclearly reported.

I'll leave it to Meissa or Achernar (or even both! ) to assist with whomever wants to send them a PM to get this sorted. Then we can present a task to Dulrik that he can fit into his currently tight schedule, as an urgent fix.

on the short term, you could just give lions hide that can't be vested, I guess.

also, I'm a big fan of the game and everyone who works on it. I just don't like pulling wool over people's eyes regarding a real problem, and I hope it gets fixed. I can't wait to be put in my place and told I'm wrong about a lot of these things. I guess you could say I'm like on of those players who abuses a bug to elevate its priority of getting fixed, only instead of griefing in-game, I just make forum posts.

We've had this communication problem in another thread before, Marfik, so I have nothing against pointing this out for you: I'm not targeting, blaming, or accusing you or your fellows of anything. If anything, I'm saying its a shame that your workload includes assuaging the woes of people affected by problems you can't fix--that isn't fair or right to you.

This is Bug Discussion, not "grep rags on nice people," after all.

It has nothing to do with Magical Vestments. Just throwing that out there.

Fair enough, grep. If I said something similar before, I must have forgotten, so sorry for getting on your case. I do understand what you're doing I think, I'm just not a forum warrior myself. I don't really think it necessary, but I do understand how you might have thought it was. You guys do deserve to know whats going on, especially when there is a potential bug abuse threat. I hate to disagree with Viltrax, but I myself have seen the multiple reports of this bug. They have only gotten worse in the last two weeks, and now people are threatening to abuse them.

And, in a way, I was simply defending Dulrik, because frankly, I don't foresee him jumping to our aid if we talk down about him or the game. I also seriously thought A had been elevated to coding privileges, and I would defend him with my life.

Gotcha.

I don't think anything bad of Dulrik, but I guess I'm just the world's worst motivational speaker.

Fixed for next update.

I was wrong. Thanks for the fix D.