Huge problem, no solution (yet)
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:38 am
As some of you know by now, there is a problem when a single account has characters spread across multiple "Worlds" - being New Telon, Kangaroo, etc. The problem being, the first World to be queried for characters, wins... and subsequent world characters are ignored, resulting in the annoying
[center:16upnl79][color=#FF0000:16upnl79][b:16upnl79]Waiting for data from...[/size:16upnl79][/b:16upnl79][/color:16upnl79][/center:16upnl79]
What is happening is in the client, where the client gets the 1st world's info and doesn't bother to look for more. We're suspecting (for now) that this is a design change in the client when VG Live went down to 1 world - there was no reason to check for others. If this is the case, this is something we cannot fix (client modifications).
We're still looking into it, and will likely come up with something soon enough. In the meantime, [color=#0000FF:16upnl79][b:16upnl79]you can work around this problem by only having characters on ONE world[/b:16upnl79][/color:16upnl79] (New Telon, [b:16upnl79]or[/b:16upnl79] your own, not both).
If you encounter the Waiting on data from... problem, simply ensure you only have characters on 1 world server for now. I know this is a pain, but there's nothing we can do about it for now.
[center:16upnl79][color=#FF0000:16upnl79][b:16upnl79]Waiting for data from...[/size:16upnl79][/b:16upnl79][/color:16upnl79][/center:16upnl79]
What is happening is in the client, where the client gets the 1st world's info and doesn't bother to look for more. We're suspecting (for now) that this is a design change in the client when VG Live went down to 1 world - there was no reason to check for others. If this is the case, this is something we cannot fix (client modifications).
We're still looking into it, and will likely come up with something soon enough. In the meantime, [color=#0000FF:16upnl79][b:16upnl79]you can work around this problem by only having characters on ONE world[/b:16upnl79][/color:16upnl79] (New Telon, [b:16upnl79]or[/b:16upnl79] your own, not both).
If you encounter the Waiting on data from... problem, simply ensure you only have characters on 1 world server for now. I know this is a pain, but there's nothing we can do about it for now.