Re: [CF:1366] CF 0.95.6: Character lost at sea, odd behavior following recovery

[Frank McKenney <frank_mckenney@mindspring.com>]

Magnus,

Thanks for letting me know I'm not _completely_ delusional (yet! (;-)).

> The fun bug where you step get stuck out in the water has plagued us
for
> ages and I can't beleive nobody has fixed it yet.

My experience is somewhat limited, but I don't recall seeing it with
v0.93...  and I think I'd remember _this_ kind of event (;-).

> As far as I can tell it has to do with the 'virtual' mapswitching done
> on the worldmap, the only two places I have gotten stuck are the
> following:
> Leaving the town you mentioned, name eludes me right now but the one
with
> hall of bones etc, for a while on our server it ALWAYS happened if you
> left by going se into the topmost exitsquare, now its more random
though..

It's listed on the map as "Ruins of Euthville".

Hm...  I would have been heading roughly SE, leaving the Magic Shop and
heading for the exit gate.  So SE into the top exit square certainly
seems possible.  Of course, I wasn't paying much attention at the time.

> The second one is when running on the road through the forest east of
> scorn heading west back towards town, this often ends up with my char
> 'jumping' between two different squares in the forest and if one doesnt
> stop fast as heck he either ends up out in the water or in some desert
way
> off...

Ouch!  I recall a "jumpy" point in 0.93 like the one you describe, but I
was apparently fortunate.  I never saw anything worse than "odd"
graphics.

What _really_ has me puzzled is all the oddities that only appeared
after I fell through a crack in the map, and yet which now seem semi-
permanent.  I'd _really_ like to be able to 'drop quantities, and every
time I visit the basement of Goth's now I seem to pick up another "Arrow
Of Mystery" whose icon points in a random direction, that I can't drop,
can't identify, and is otherwise pretty useless (;-).

Is there any "formal" way of "resetting" the Crossfire server so it will
act as if it were just installed (e.g.  'make reset')?  I've read enough
to know that there are permanent and temporary maps, so I'm going to
start by deleting all the stuff that looks "temporary" and see what
happens.  If that fails, or produces different "odd stuff", I'll rerun
'make install' and see if that clears the problem.

I'm assuming the odd stuff _will_ go away at _some_ point...  <grin?>

Anyway, thanks again for the information. I'm just glad there's only one
user (me) attaching to this server, so when I clear everything out I
won't get zillions of nasty e-mail messages.


Frank McKenney


Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates
Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887
E-mail: frank_mckenney@mindspring.com