Script Errors

[Tyr]

I think I can put a small explanation with it. At least one that one of the builders might be able to work with.

I think this happens with people that have a lot of alts. Myself and Tino have a lot of alts. One for everyday of the month almost. The item used to look into the players account file uses something called an array and organizes those into a list. In programming an array can not be expended and is a set number. If that number is set at 15, and your alt to delete is on number 20, the deleter will try and pull from some random spot in memory and pull up something else more than likely garbage. The deleter will not stop looking for it since to process an array requires a loop also. This will happen until the memory or buffer is full and then causes the server to crash depending on what the terminator for the loop is. This can be seen by watching the ping rise until it crashes. When building and testing this will work fine but when we play this can pop up. This causes what is known as a memory leak. I am unsure however why this causes a gear loss as well. If I had to take a guess the memory has been paged and is not able to save the gear switches. Since this happen to Loki when I did this the first time.

[Ael'Thas]

If that is the case, we could try exchanging the array for a linked list (permanent solution) or just expanding the array (temporary solution)


Would have to check how it works first though.

[Tyr]

Linked list would probably be better the array would take up more memory usage.

[sylvantis]

Got some fairly serious bugs/exploits, managed to corrupt (still playable, but can't feel right about it) a decent portion of my characters.

Can't really post details, too lazy to PM. Catch me in-game when you get a chance.

[Raven]

Dont know if this is the right area or not to post this but...

Siomyril's Folly Quest in Stonerige....
Went to 3rd lvl and there no port/blue line to take me back to Stonerige once i killed the monster.
There no way to walk back up to 2nd lvl, no blue line.
Only way out is recall and it takes you back to Shandar.
To me its a little odd, figure I let ya know.

[Tempus]

Noted Raven. I made all boss areas one way. So you have to recall out. Siomyrils beholder is considered a boss.