So I finally got in to prime.. There's only 48ish people in there, yet /pickzone still currently says 257 or something whack and isn't letting people in, despite *actually* only having 40-50 people in prime.
Looks bugged somehow. Maybe a result of the ddos stuff or DBG implemented the timer removal poorly. I am now alsoin main but there are very few people here.
Also, for most zones I've been to since the DDoS the /pickzone window only lists one or two other instances. Lguk, for example lists prime and 3 only.
The reason for this is because when you /camp (not /quit or /exit) the game puts you at character select. As long as you remain there your 'spot' is reserved in the zone. The downside to doing this is buffs/food are still consumed of course. With autokick, people in the character select used to be booted. Now they are not. Want the commonlands freed up? Ask for the auto removal to come back. We're not going to see the limit increased. The zone will start crashing otherwise. I don't know why you all don't do your business in East Commons, there's no limit that I know of since its a city zone. But whatever you wanted auto removal gone. Take what you wanted and deal with it.
What? You're telling me people at character select still count as being in the zone? No way, say it ain't so. There is something seriously wrong though, something needs to be fixed.
It was something I found out by accident, recently. I logged out but not all the way and hit the sack. Came back and all my buffs were faded and my food was gone. That means it thinks the character is still in, even if they are not 'in'. Having a hard time debating the issues, that you got to go personal? I'll take it as a compliment.
No, just that you don't actually lose buff timers if you're /q out. Maybe 30seconds of buff timers, and if you camp to character select you don't either. Also, there is no "East Commonlands" anymore. Commonlands is all merged together, so it would be impossible to use East Commonlands?
I didn't test it with /q. But it did work with the camp button everytime I did it. And you have to make sure you don't LEAVE the character select. If you login with another character or exit the game then it counts as a full logout. I brainfarted that one. I meant East Freeport.
East Freeport doesn't work because both Paladins and Guards path through most areas, so dark races would have a hard time, also, you can't port directly into EFP like you can commonlands, would be my assumption. And just tested the log with buffs and log back in 3 times. Still didn't reproduce what you're saying.
Did you press the Camp (Exit) button on the Actions bar? I'm assuming that's how he did it since he said he pressed the camp button. Regardless of what you think or not, something is wrong, so I'm not sure why you're arguing. Go to commonlands and try and log into the main instance, you won't be able to. It says there are 280 people in it when you do a /pick, but there aren't. There are only like 80 when I logged in there with my seller.
First of all, they didn't have to raise the cap anyways. All you have to do is move to another instance. It's not really that bad, if someone wants your item bad enough, they will pick over.
How to avoid KOS guards in East Freeport: 1. Create new character. 2. Pick Human. 3 Pick Warrior, Magician, Wizard, Enchanter, or Bard 4. Pick Agnostic. 5. Pick Freeport as starting city. 6. Used Shared Bank. 7. Buy or Sell without fear of attack. Its actually much easier than that, but there's one sure way. I know Dark Elves function fine around the paladins as long as they aren't SK or Necros, but even then with a few orc kills in the commonlands they lose the KOS status quick.
Commonlands needs to be brought down and rebooted entirely to get rid of these ~200 ghost players currently taking up slots in the base instance.
Yeah, the main Commonlands instance is broken. I think it may have to do with people crashing or exiting EQ incorrectly. I've noticed the problem more recently when you go LD. Sometimes your character will remain in the word indefinitely until you kick it off or the server restarts. Others won't be able to see your character, but the server will still think it's logged in even though you went LD hours ago. Add that weird bug plus the DDoS attacks we had Thursday/Friday probably screwed up the instance population counting of LD players and actual real/live characters in the instance.
i avoid commons like the plague now, i will not go there to buy/sell or farm skins, it's laggy as all hell. it was bad enough before the changes, wanting more? nuts...
