I was fighting some mobs in OOT with a friend yesterday and was doing fine. A passing thunderstorm caused a power outage and , of course, our computers went down. Power returned 10 min. later and we logged back into EQ only to find that we had died and were back in POK at the soulbinder! How is that possible? Did the game continue to run on the servers even though our computers were off? I still can't figure it out.
Thanks for any insight.
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Due to the large number of users in EQ if you turn off your PC for any you do not go poof from the zone. The server will try to reconnect to your PC for some time then you will be maked LD and when you finally synchronize you will go poof. If you are fighting a mob at this time not much can be done you die rezz and move on. Mob can still beat on you during some of this time.
Yes the game will take 30 seconds to log out whether you watch it doing the /camp command or drop your computer in the bathtub. This is to prevent exploits, otherwise every time a fight went bad people would just /quit and log back in instead of die
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I am sorry to say Link Death systems has a lot of bugs in it.
1 If you go Link Dead it can take up to 5 min before the servers sync and log you off 4:30 sec of that time you can draw agro standing there turnning circles.
2 If you are fighting and go LD at 20% health you will run off trying to escape even if your group kills the mob odds are you will draw agro or when you log back in you won't have a clue where you are and be low on health.
3 If you have inadvertently target a pet and Taunted it, Hit it, or casted an AE, The pet has you on its hate list and the Pet handler hasn't done a Back Off to clear the agro list. When the Handler goes LD the pet will break off mob and attack you causeing possibly 2 exp deaths
1 If you go Link Dead it can take up to 5 min before the servers sync and log you off 4:30 sec of that time you can draw agro standing there turnning circles.
2 If you are fighting and go LD at 20% health you will run off trying to escape even if your group kills the mob odds are you will draw agro or when you log back in you won't have a clue where you are and be low on health.
3 If you have inadvertently target a pet and Taunted it, Hit it, or casted an AE, The pet has you on its hate list and the Pet handler hasn't done a Back Off to clear the agro list. When the Handler goes LD the pet will break off mob and attack you causeing possibly 2 exp deaths
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Also to note.
Sometimes LD's are not quick things.
You will hear the term "world kick"
I am not a MMO tech, so I do not know precisely why this occurs sometimes, but it does happen.
You could go LD, and spend hours trying to log back in.
Again, making the /q thing not a good way to go.
Sometimes LD's are not quick things.
You will hear the term "world kick"
I am not a MMO tech, so I do not know precisely why this occurs sometimes, but it does happen.
You could go LD, and spend hours trying to log back in.
Again, making the /q thing not a good way to go.
Thanks for all the great input. The picture is much clearer now.
Also twice now I have died zoning when very low on health. You used to zone immediately, and if you had even 1% health you lived (assuming you had no dots), now I seem to die.
I have noticed a bit of lag when zoneing the last few months.
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I've gone linkdead only to log back in and find myself in a completely different part of the zone, too. Luckily I didn't die, but I sure wondered where the hell I was when I got back.
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