Re: Bug in Player State

From: Brandon Phelps (brando@empyrial.com)
Date: 12/20/99


First of all i want to say that It's an honor talkin to THE greerga himself,
hehe
OK now for the real email...
Why is it that normally then if i get disconnected as long as I'm not in olc
(or at the main menu even) when I reconnect it connects fine and says "You
take over your body, already in use..."

-----Original Message-----
From: Circle Discussion List [mailto:CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca]On Behalf Of
George Greer
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:05 AM
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: Bug in Player State


On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Brandon Phelps wrote:

>I don't know why it is doing this but if I'm in OLC (trigedit, medit,
oedit,
>redit, sedit, etc...) and I lose my connection, when I try to reconnect
>after I type my name it says "Invalid name, please try again" instead of
>simply reconnecting me to my player.  It ONLY does this when the player
>state is not "Playing" and i've looked at the code and can't figure out
what
>to do =(

If your connection lags out but is not broken, you cannot reconnect until
the other connection times out.  This is due to the possibility of
equipment/money duplication otherwise.  If it annoys you, you'll have lots
of rich people running around with hundreds of one-of-a-kind weapons.

--
George Greer            | Shirak's CircleMUD for Windows help
greerga@circlemud.org   | http://shirak.circlemud.net/


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