Is my account bugged ?
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:22 pm
It's going to be lenghty, since I've been trying quite a few things before coming to this conclusion.
The thing is, since friday around 6pm local (it's now 4:22pm for reference), I simply can't manage to get in game, though it's not an absolute (more on this later).
I had been afk over an hour, and came back to a non-responding world. Tried to gate, nothing happens. Tried to do a who all, nada, though a local who worked. But being in jaggedpine forest at the time, I was alone in zone.
So, I /exit, and try to reconnect. Log screen, fine, server select, fine, character select, fine, entering world... when you select a toon, screen freeze a couple seconds, then you get the loading screen back, and then arrive in zone. As for me, screen freezes, and a couple minutes later, I end back to login screen. Rinse, repeat, never worked except a couple very rare times, where I manage to get in game, but same symptoms as initially, world kind of frozen, no who all, no who guild, people mostly frozen where they are, sometimes flashing. I used the char mover to get back to the grove after a few tries, thinking the zone might be down, but it was the same.
I've tried here and there during the whole evening after an hour and a half of heavy tries, still the same. Finally, around half past midnight, I manage to log normally, get some buffs, join a friend in Ssra and whack some snakes for an hour. Fast forward to the next day, around 2pm. Can't log, same symptoms as before. I've tried creating a second account and log it, it manages to get in game, but like the very few times when I manage to get in game with the main, nothing works. Don't hear talking, no ooc, NPCs don't answer, merchants don't react nor the banker. though, I catch a glimpse of a guildie, try to send a tell, the text doesn't appear in my window. And yet, as I check my mail later, he mailed telling he saw my tell (I sent something like "can you read what I type"). More tests, including trying to log through a VPN in cae my ISP might be the cause, nada.
Fast forward to today, 2PM roughly. I try to log, pop right away in Ssra. Kill a dozen snakes and see Rhag1 up, so call for guildies to whack him. I head to entrance to group, and the world freezes. /exit, relog, can't, same symptoms. Try to log 2nd account, I get in game right away, can talk and all, which is kinda new compared to yesterday. Though after a couple minutes, the world freezes. Still, better than yesterday, I've managed to talk to guildies, even if briefly. For further tests, I copy my EQ install to my 2nd comp, try to log main account, can't. Frozen after char select like on main comp. Try to log 2nd account on it, works, freezes after some time too though.
So here I am. My fresh 2nd account clearly behaves better than the main, though the result is that the world freezes a bit later. Not that much of an improvement but at least it get in game and sees some traffic before going wonky. During all that, the rest of the net seemed fine. No lag on IRC nor disconnects, I spent some time on a flash site with no problem too, an updater linked to the net never acted funny either. I get the same symptoms for each account on both computers too, that only share in common the OS (though one's XP SP1 and the other SP2), and yet around midnight the issue seems to resolve itself.
Any suggestion ? Well not thing like "reboot" or "reboot your router", which have been tried (and wrecked my uptime that was about to reach 3 months) despite not believing it would change anything. I'm thinking about my account since those symptoms also happened on 2 other servers.
The thing is, since friday around 6pm local (it's now 4:22pm for reference), I simply can't manage to get in game, though it's not an absolute (more on this later).
I had been afk over an hour, and came back to a non-responding world. Tried to gate, nothing happens. Tried to do a who all, nada, though a local who worked. But being in jaggedpine forest at the time, I was alone in zone.
So, I /exit, and try to reconnect. Log screen, fine, server select, fine, character select, fine, entering world... when you select a toon, screen freeze a couple seconds, then you get the loading screen back, and then arrive in zone. As for me, screen freezes, and a couple minutes later, I end back to login screen. Rinse, repeat, never worked except a couple very rare times, where I manage to get in game, but same symptoms as initially, world kind of frozen, no who all, no who guild, people mostly frozen where they are, sometimes flashing. I used the char mover to get back to the grove after a few tries, thinking the zone might be down, but it was the same.
I've tried here and there during the whole evening after an hour and a half of heavy tries, still the same. Finally, around half past midnight, I manage to log normally, get some buffs, join a friend in Ssra and whack some snakes for an hour. Fast forward to the next day, around 2pm. Can't log, same symptoms as before. I've tried creating a second account and log it, it manages to get in game, but like the very few times when I manage to get in game with the main, nothing works. Don't hear talking, no ooc, NPCs don't answer, merchants don't react nor the banker. though, I catch a glimpse of a guildie, try to send a tell, the text doesn't appear in my window. And yet, as I check my mail later, he mailed telling he saw my tell (I sent something like "can you read what I type"). More tests, including trying to log through a VPN in cae my ISP might be the cause, nada.
Fast forward to today, 2PM roughly. I try to log, pop right away in Ssra. Kill a dozen snakes and see Rhag1 up, so call for guildies to whack him. I head to entrance to group, and the world freezes. /exit, relog, can't, same symptoms. Try to log 2nd account, I get in game right away, can talk and all, which is kinda new compared to yesterday. Though after a couple minutes, the world freezes. Still, better than yesterday, I've managed to talk to guildies, even if briefly. For further tests, I copy my EQ install to my 2nd comp, try to log main account, can't. Frozen after char select like on main comp. Try to log 2nd account on it, works, freezes after some time too though.
So here I am. My fresh 2nd account clearly behaves better than the main, though the result is that the world freezes a bit later. Not that much of an improvement but at least it get in game and sees some traffic before going wonky. During all that, the rest of the net seemed fine. No lag on IRC nor disconnects, I spent some time on a flash site with no problem too, an updater linked to the net never acted funny either. I get the same symptoms for each account on both computers too, that only share in common the OS (though one's XP SP1 and the other SP2), and yet around midnight the issue seems to resolve itself.
Any suggestion ? Well not thing like "reboot" or "reboot your router", which have been tried (and wrecked my uptime that was about to reach 3 months) despite not believing it would change anything. I'm thinking about my account since those symptoms also happened on 2 other servers.