Mine was a case of #2.
Eric E Cathell
Cathell & Cathell Designs
Custom Embroidery & Screenprinting
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Georgetown DE 19947
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----- Original Message -----
From: <kim@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Interesting bug
> From: kim@...
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Eric Cathell wrote:
> >
> > No that happened to me on the test server and a couple of my friends on
> > other servers....it seems that if you try to zone with less than a
bubble
> > and die during the zone the AI doesn't know what to do with you so it
puts
> > you back at the last saved point or maybe its the safe spot for the
zone....
>
> Folks, there are three different things going on here.
>
> 1. If you zone with baddies whacking on you, you cannot die
> while zoning - you will come through with 1 hp. It used to be
> that you could die like this while zoning, which led to a lot
> of confusion (and sometimes corpses out of reach beyond the
> zone line), but they fixed it by making sure you come through
> with at least 1 hp. (This still happens though if you slide
> through a zone while unconcious - apparently the 1 hp check is
> bypassed if you are already below 1 hp.)
>
> 2. If you crash or lag at the right moment while zoning, the
> server loses track of you and has to restore you from the
> latest backup. This seems to be more common if monsters are
> whacking on you, but then I've only seen it happen twice. Your
> hp and mana may be restored to full as some sort of safety
> mechanism, I haven't seen it enough to say for sure - neither
> of the persons I saw it happen to could recall if they were
> already at full hp when they were last saved.
>
> 3. Sometimes you will zone, and will end up back in the zone
> you just left (this is not bouncing off someone in the new
> zone - you only zone once, but end up where you started).
> Your hp are *not* restored in this case, and your new
> position is right at the zone, so I think this is just a case
> of failed zoning due to problems on the server. I had the
> displeasure of dying to a train due to this one.
>
>
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