Myth? Does force quitting the game use up all lives?

[arminius]

There are some who are claiming that hitting Alt-F4 or otherwise force quitting the game is using up all their lives, ie, characters who were about to die and had multiple lives, hit Alt-F4 and exited, came back in and they were permanently dead with all their lives used up.

1. Is this true?
2. If so, is this intentional?
3. If 1 and 2, then does it happen in non-imminent-death scenarios too?

I don't actually care about the morality of it either way, though if actually intentional that would be clever coding I think. I am just currently stuck on a loading screen for like 10 minutes now and am leery of force quitting the game if it is going to kill my character permanently.

[hit_fido]

As for the load screen issue, I've had that happen twice, and I closed the window to restart and both times everything was fine.

[arminius]

I did finally force close the game and came back in, and it is fine, so that's good.

However, I definitely had reports of people being affected by it, including seeing it happen to HCL guildies (in chat, anyway). They logged in and the red death report came up and that was that, though they had multiple lives to lose.

[arminius]

The theory now might be that the person hit Alt-F4 with a DOT on him, and when he came back he lost the extra lives because the extra lives are a buff, and the buff isn't on you when you log out, they get reapplied to your character in the process of logging back in.

So basically he fell victim to a quirk in how the extra lives are applied. The DOT "beat" the extra lives buff to the punch.

[piptroll]

So I had this happen to me. I died to Zuggtmoy when we lagged trying to get to the DDoor. I came out the other side of the DDoor dead but with a fire dot bug on me. I figured I would log out and back in to clear it before I rezed. When I logged back in I got the message for real death the dot was cleared. I was able to wander around with my group. They took me to a rez shrine and as soon as I rezed I was sent to land of the lost souls. I don't know if this is working as intended or a bug. Maybe to prevent Alt-F4 saves. So fare warning do not log out while dead if you have lives left.

[arminius]

So I had this happen to me. I died to Zuggtmoy when we lagged trying to get to the DDoor. I came out the other side of the DDoor dead but with a fire dot bug on me. I figured I would log out and back in to clear it before I rezed. When I logged back in I got the message for real death the dot was cleared. I was able to wander around with my group. They took me to a rez shrine and as soon as I rezed I was sent to land of the lost souls. I don't know if this is working as intended or a bug. Maybe to prevent Alt-F4 saves. So fare warning do not log out while dead if you have lives left.

Yes, I have gotten more anecdotal evidence from guildies. Do not log off while dead if you have extra lives. There is something weird going on with it, seemingly because the extra life is acting like a buff and is not reapplying if you log back in dead.

[Dabima]

My theory is that the extra lives are treated as a buff that is applied to you. Being killed after you closed your game or being dead when you log-in, you are sent to the land of lost souls because you do not have that extra lives buff on, as it isn't applied since you're offline. Just a thought

[Lychias]

I got the double death after a bluescreen. Had 80 favor left and lost two lives at once to kill my character off once and for all.