"ghost players"

OAB · Post by **OAB** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:28 am

I wish ghosts would get fixed. Fighting stuff that isnt there sux0rz0 Y0! It's like being old and busted instead of hot and new.

neptune · Post by **neptune** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:26 pm

What's bad about ghost images? All you have to do is walk over the old image. I don't see a big deal.

bort · Post by **bort** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:39 am

It is a nuisance. Sometimes players forget who is who if they leave like 5 images behind. Not to mention it _is_ a bug. Bugs are maent to be repaired.
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cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:59 pm

Actually the more annoying one is thinking a monster is a ghost image, when it really isn't and tries to hit me when I walk near. Fortunatly I am far too strong to be killed by much short of a mega dragon in melee comabat, but still it can be annoying to take the odd HP loss here and there.

bort · Post by **bort** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:46 pm

Indeed. There have been more than 90 deaths alone among players due to a ghost image of a cyclops. I remember all of them.

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cyclops kill name

over and over. This bug is a nuisance at least and a killer at worst. It is probably based in the gtk client, where it doesn't update the player's position or monster position as quickly as it should.

neptune · Post by **neptune** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:18 pm

I haven't noticed that before...

woo · Post by **woo** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 11:13 pm

I would imagine it is a GTK client think as well as (to the best of my knowledge) no other client experiences it.
However usually walking over the ghost image will erase it...

Something I haven't noticed before is that recently I am getting some ghost banishment - i.e. when I cast banishment sometimes it appears to stay and only some of the squares are fixed by walking on them - has anyone else seen this?
I haven't updated my client in a long time so I don't know that it's a client problem (which really confuses me)

Valderan · Post by **Valderan** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:00 pm

I havent seen this ghost images your talking of and I use directX,(long live directX!), and Woo.. isnt that a tad suicidal walking on top of banishment? Even if you figure its just a ghost image.

Atan · Post by **Atan** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:11 pm

woo wrote:I would imagine it is a GTK client think as well as (to the best of my knowledge) no other client experiences it.

Same thing happens with the X (non-gtk) cfclient in linux (at least the current version for gentoo, and in fact I never had a client that did *not* produce this bug)

woo · Post by **woo** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:41 pm

Ok, so it's not just GTK interesting.

(Yes, woo doesn't walk on banishment

But miniwoo the Evil Master does)