Avlis <-> Hala portal fixed

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Avlis <-> Hala portal fixed

Post by NWDuneAuron »

Nob has been working tirelessly on this, and it's been driving him insane lately but, the Hala <-> Elysia portal should now be working correctly. Note: should. Report any issues, kids.

Thank Nob for not going insane and killing someone :).
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Post by ApproachingWinter »

Thanks Nob, definately appreciated by both players and Staff.
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Post by Gairus »

Time to make decisions about which characters will live where eh? :)

*notes post about cyndrid's unstable portal*
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Post by apandapion »

Thanks. It worked for me. My character has too much going on in Avlis not to go back, but I'll make a character for Hala soon.
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Post by NWDuneAuron »

As an addendum, the Hala <-> Glantri portal still does not work, and trying to portal to Hala through it is liable to crash the server, so, please, no touchy.
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Post by yespr »

My char got turned into a lvl 1 Barbarian with 1 hp...

Couldn't see him either, and he lost his name.

This was while going form Elysia to Hala.
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Post by NWDuneAuron »

Try portalling again, your bic got corrupted en route.
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*Rubs head on nob's shoulder like a cat*
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*Goes to design Nob bobble head dolls*
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Post by Days Awake »

Thank you Nob :D
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Post by Final Shinryuu »

/me wuvs Nob.
I never liked Glantri, now I'm glad that there's no more going there. Too much easy loot, powerful items, ect.
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Post by Enverex »

Final Shinryuu wrote:/me wuvs Nob.
I never liked Glantri, now I'm glad that there's no more going there. Too much easy loot, powerful items, ect.
I think Nob was refering to Avlis. The Glantri link was supposed to stay afaik.
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Post by Final Shinryuu »

Enverex wrote:
Final Shinryuu wrote:/me wuvs Nob.
I never liked Glantri, now I'm glad that there's no more going there. Too much easy loot, powerful items, ect.
I think Nob was refering to Avlis. The Glantri link was supposed to stay afaik.
Oh. Oh well.
I've heard rumors of the Mystara servers going down for good, anyways. Anyone hear more on that?
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Post by tristan_durst »

Final Shinryuu wrote:
Enverex wrote:
Final Shinryuu wrote:/me wuvs Nob.
I never liked Glantri, now I'm glad that there's no more going there. Too much easy loot, powerful items, ect.
I think Nob was refering to Avlis. The Glantri link was supposed to stay afaik.
Oh. Oh well.
I've heard rumors of the Mystara servers going down for good, anyways. Anyone hear more on that?
Have not heard anything aboout Mystara going down for good, but I have been too busy with Arborea. Which BTW will be up sometime this weekend.

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Post by Final Shinryuu »

tristan_durst wrote:
Have not heard anything aboout Mystara going down for good, but I have been too busy with Arborea. Which BTW will be up sometime this weekend.

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Post by NWDuneAuron »

tristan_durst wrote:
Final Shinryuu wrote:
Enverex wrote: I think Nob was refering to Avlis. The Glantri link was supposed to stay afaik.
Oh. Oh well.
I've heard rumors of the Mystara servers going down for good, anyways. Anyone hear more on that?
Have not heard anything aboout Mystara going down for good, but I have been too busy with Arborea. Which BTW will be up sometime this weekend.

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Post by tristan_durst »

8) :wink:

Now just to get Beta done, and link with you all, and Outlands...
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Post by Final Shinryuu »

tristan_durst wrote:8) :wink:

Now just to get Beta done, and link with you all, and Outlands...
One step at a time, now. If you rush ahead like this, the devolopers won't have time to build it all, and will do shoddy work. You don't want me doing shoddy work now, do you? :wink:
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Post by NWDuneAuron »

*Knocks together an Arborea link area in 2 minutes*
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did the portal move or something from cyndrids tower

Post by Guest »

I was just wondering cause i dont see it in the room its normally in. Did you all move it to a different locale.
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Post by Sable »

been wondering about portals and the troubles they cause. I realise this should be raised at a CoPaP level, but I'm not really a member of that forum and I could really do without joining another one... lifes too short. So, heres a suggestion for you, I'm pretty certain its all possible (definately at a DB level, pretty confident at a code level).

As far as I see it, when you portal the server you're exiting knows where you're going because, well hell there was a whole portalling system written to get you there. Therefore, it should be pretty simple to write a record to your DB file to say where you "should" be. Theoretically, the system should also be able to tell the difference between a player logging in and arriving through a portal (a whole system is needed to pass the bic from one vault to the other), therefore you should be able to work out who comes back via a portal and who just logs back into the server they shouldn't be on.
If a server detects that the player should be somewhere else, rather than refusing them entry it could be set to request the bic from the server they should be on rather than use the one it has. To be doubley sure, it could rename the bic to (for example) .bic.hala to allow for an easy restore should something horrible happen. If the coders really wanted to show off, they could put forwarding routes in so that if the server requests from a server that the player has left as well (say they are jumping 2 servers back) it forwards the request onto the server it knows the player has moved onto. And to wrap it all up, if at any point the server fails to get a response from the server its trying to get the bic from, it either goes with the most recently modified bic in the chain or what it has.

As far as I can work out, this should fix most of the woes brought about by portal abuse. Suggest it, ignore it, hurl abuse at me for it, s'up to you from here. :D
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Post by Days Awake »

sounds great,but seems they have enough trouble making the one they use now work,or so is said......


how much more difficult would this be to make work ok since they have enough trouble dealing with problems?
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Post by Anniko »

Sable wrote:Lots of stuff
I like it!
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Post by KeirannHalcynn »

is this portal back up or not? (Hala to Avlis, vice versa?)
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