Log In Issues: Thursday, October 10th

[Graskitch]

We have made a change that appears to be resolving long load times and stuck load screens for many, and also appears to be improving the general game environment. There are still issues to be corrected for some players who are currently unable to reincarnate, and an issue where the Night Revels landscape instance is both not spawning its correct enemy numbers and awarding expired chocolates.

hi ! thanks for the update - will try it out.

just to make sure: this change that you made did not require a restart or patch? you made a change to live effective immediately?

[voxson5]

hi ! thanks for the update - will try it out.

just to make sure: this change that you made did not require a restart or patch? you made a change to live effective immediately?

Probably means that issue was server side.

[snook59]

We have made a change that appears to be resolving long load times and stuck load screens for many, and also appears to be improving the general game environment. There are still issues to be corrected for some players who are currently unable to reincarnate, and an issue where the Night Revels landscape instance is both not spawning its correct enemy numbers and awarding expired chocolates.

At Last! I'm one of the few and not the many. It's still not working for me, can't log in much less play.

[dlsidhe]

We have made a change that appears to be resolving long load times and stuck load screens for many, and also appears to be improving the general game environment. There are still issues to be corrected for some players who are currently unable to reincarnate, and an issue where the Night Revels landscape instance is both not spawning its correct enemy numbers and awarding expired chocolates.

Characters can't load. Still can't TR. At least this morning I could get in.

[SirValentine]

There are still issues to be corrected for some players who are currently unable to reincarnate

How widespread is this issue? If I were to try to reincarnate, am I certain to hit it? Or a 10% chance? Or what?

[Darsch82]

How widespread is this issue? If I were to try to reincarnate, am I certain to hit it? Or a 10% chance? Or what?

its widespread enough that I have seen a few people claiming to be entirely locked out of their characters now that did TR and several threads and post of TR being broken, enough that i would not risk it until a dev says everything is fixed.

[Darsch82]

infinite load screens still happening, just tried to log in my lvl 1 ranger, new character, and it wont load past character select screen.

[Zretch]

Still getting stuck at Loading...Please wait. Can log in to character select, but can't actually log in with any character. Cannith. Most characters are trying to log into the Lordsmarch Bank, but one of my characters parked on the guild ship can't log in either. Waiting a minimum of 5 minutes per attempt and no blue bar at all. Multiple tries since Cordovan posted that things have improved, none of them worked.

[DJSDJS]

Just a quick interjection with regards to being able to see your characters face/front: there is a keymapping option called Orbit. Make sure it's assigned to something. Then, when you hold down that key, moving your mouse will cause the camera to orbit around your character, thus allowing you to see your front in game without having to go back to the character select menu.

That's great! Thank you - I look forward to checking that out!

[Phoenicis]

Taking forever to zone anywhere

Leave a dungeon and any hires are still in the party

Pretty much the same as yesterday, except it's taking longer to log in any given character

(both Argo and Hardcore)

[Vierala]

Still getting stuck at Loading...Please wait. Can log in to character select, but can't actually log in with any character. Cannith. Most characters are trying to log into the Lordsmarch Bank, but one of my characters parked on the guild ship can't log in either. Waiting a minimum of 5 minutes per attempt and no blue bar at all. Multiple tries since Cordovan posted that things have improved, none of them worked.

Count me in as another that can't log in with any of my characters on Cannith. I had thought it was a bug with purchasing a 32 point build last night until I checked the forums. I tried another server (Thelanis) and have the same issue, can't get past character select.

[SocratesBastardSon]

For me at least, the fixes seemed to have worked. I've been having difficulty logging in for the last few days. After trying several times to log in today, after the post by Cordovan I tried again and was able to get in without any difficulty, both on my main toon and an alt.

[Luthor_Darkhammer]

Still getting stuck in Load screens. Issue not resolved

[Sylvado]

I appreciate your attempt at empathy and your defense of the game. I also appreciate the respect with which you replied. Therefore, I will continue this dialogue because those things are rare.

That said, I agree with your first point, which doesn't dispute my point with programming. They go hand in hand and still do not solve the issue.

Cosmetics, I find interesting that you are able to see the front of your character. Perhaps I am doing something wrong! But when I rotate the camera using right mouse button it goes everywhere but the front. Additionally, the camera rotation you have pointed out to me did the same when I had it (I will have to test again and remap those keys). If there's a way to do it that I have missed I would be grateful to know. Otherwise - perhaps it's just my setup or something...I will look into it and get back to you. Keep in mind, I don't have to constantly look at my character. But in WoW, every piece of armor, even looking at the AH, brings up a window with the front view of your character and how they would look wearing it. It was less of a complaint and more a suggestion since it seems a worthy feature to upgrade and implement for people.

I do disagree about the graphics. Even comparing WoW artistry to DDO artistry there is a difference. My machine is on the best settings but there isn't that much detail. I mean, final fantasy XIV is better looking, WoW is better looking, practically every MMORPG I have ever played is better looking. This game lags and is buggy with so many things I didn't even list where others are not. So, I just don't think you brushing it off will convince me.

Some examples which is more vibrant and detailed?
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dunge...ImageId,11717/
or
https://www.gamingcfg.com/img/4279/Fishbot-5000.jpg


How about is this more realistic than DDO?
http://bhagpuss.blogspot.com/2019/07...ope-ffxiv.html

If you remember Asheron's Call from like a million years ago, that's like DDO graphics:
https://kotaku.com/the-final-moments...all-1791833779

Which moves me to the next point about them managing two games. I don't see the point of bringing that up. If they are taking on more projects, more responsibility, and generating more income - then they should hire project teams appropriately. This isn't like Panera Bread short on employees.

Favor rewards, I will concede, is not that big of a deal on its own. But I do think it's representative of many things which DDO throws in to waste time. Inventory, for instance, big time waster. But I think it's weird that you think it has the purpose to encourage people to choose the best inventory items. They already do that with dissolving and crafting. It has nothing to do with efficiency. And besides, if I wanted a ton of inventory to look through, I would naturally organize and delete some! I don't need the program telling me I have to. And regardless, I was talking about ease of use. Why, for instance, can't I "select all"? All it encourages is less fun playing the game and more meaningless chore. And sure, grinding on any game can feel that way. But it's not like they do that in place of grinding - they do it in ADDITION to grinding. These suggestions are simple ease of use modifications. I can't quite understand why someone would defend SSG here. You like clunky time wasting? That's your alternative point of view?

Anyway, I hope this finds you well. I'm glad to have a respectful debate about it. And I can only hope it falls upon the right eyes.

Point is you are here because no other game has the depth of a combat system that DDO has, not even close because I have looked. That adds far more complexity than graphics.

[SocratesBastardSon]

LOL, spoke too soon. I logged in successfully 3 times, and the 4th failed.

[Qwikkish]

I am experiencing, along with fellow gamers:

1. Multiple client restarts to load a toon.

2. Long loading screens and hanging loading screens.

3. Hirelings not dismissing when quests end.

4. Lots of rubber banding/glass walling in quests and wilderness areas.

Sounds obvious, but I feel the need to say that everything was OK before the recent patching. The client is also making use of unprecedented amounts of RAM on my PC, so I suspect some sort of cache problem.

[Ahtan]

How widespread is this issue? If I were to try to reincarnate, am I certain to hit it? Or a 10% chance? Or what?

I bought a True Heart of Wood this morning (on sale and all) on the HC server and tried to TR. I can't. What I can do is get all the way to the screen with the "create" button (or 2 buttons) and then after pushing either button the client freezes. Quite frustrating, as HC has limited time until it is taken down and there is no guidance provided on when they might get around to fixing the problem. It has been down since the server came up this morning and I am sure they have gone home for the evening. There was no acknowledgement there was even a problem until a few posts ago. I suspect this may take longer than usual to get fixed (like the ladder bug???).

Short answer don't reincarnate at this time. Wait till a dev says it has be fixed.

[Ryiah]

But this is getting a bit out of hand.

Agreed. I was able to get what I wanted out of Night Revels. I'm logging off and I won't bother trying to log on again for a few weeks. I have very limited time to play games these days and I'm not wasting it on a broken one.

[alancarp]

Still getting stuck in Load screens. Issue not resolved

Issues I've observed (Thursday evening):
-- eternal loading screens
-- very slow character switching (or not at all)
-- failed spawns in the Revels' Graveyard quest (not enough spawns to allow the fog to lift and allow the quest to progress)

EDIT: Found a possible work-around for the quest: ran to the fog wall first. All mobs (3 of them) came to me. Killed them all (risky) and the other 2 mobs subsequently spawned. Don't know if that happened as result of speedy kills or engaging the wall or something else, but this time... it worked.

EDIT2: Never mind. Got 90% done with quest... last mob failed to spawn. Champion also failed to spawn. It was a waste of time.

How on earth do y'all screw up things that should never have been updated???

[MRJ2010]

Thank you for the update Cordovan. I was able to log into Cannith but still had delay entering guild ship. Guild chat isn't working, and buffs still taking a long time to activate. Also couldn't get past entrance section in Night Revels. Hirelings are still behaving badly and not leaving party when they should. I know you are all doing what you can to get these problems sorted, so I'll remain hopeful and check in again in a few hours.