04-25-2004, 03:28 AM
A new 1.10 interface bug occasionally shows itself on realm games, and I suspect lag is responsible.
While talking with an NPC or interacting with an object, the server will sometimes not get the flag that says you've finished the interaction, after you've gone off to do something else. The result? You can go around killing monsters, but you can't pick up items, enter town portals (though you can cast them), open the stash, use waypoints, or interact with NPCs. Other players get a "busy" message if they click to trade with you. This because the server is still waiting for an End_Transaction flag or something. As I said, this seems to happen during 'net lag, especially if a spike occurs in the middle of you clicking to do something (besides attack or cast), possibly resulting in a lost packet.
The only fix we've found so far is for the affected player to exit the game and re-enter.
I don't know why Blizzard felt it necessary to fiddle with the data transmission between client and server; the game was doing just fine back in 1.09d. Now there's all sorts of weirdness, with monsters running in place, monsters warping around the room (without having a teleport ability), etc. The new speed increases only serve to make this worse, since with lag the monster movement rate can exceed the data transmission rate.
While talking with an NPC or interacting with an object, the server will sometimes not get the flag that says you've finished the interaction, after you've gone off to do something else. The result? You can go around killing monsters, but you can't pick up items, enter town portals (though you can cast them), open the stash, use waypoints, or interact with NPCs. Other players get a "busy" message if they click to trade with you. This because the server is still waiting for an End_Transaction flag or something. As I said, this seems to happen during 'net lag, especially if a spike occurs in the middle of you clicking to do something (besides attack or cast), possibly resulting in a lost packet.
The only fix we've found so far is for the affected player to exit the game and re-enter.
I don't know why Blizzard felt it necessary to fiddle with the data transmission between client and server; the game was doing just fine back in 1.09d. Now there's all sorts of weirdness, with monsters running in place, monsters warping around the room (without having a teleport ability), etc. The new speed increases only serve to make this worse, since with lag the monster movement rate can exceed the data transmission rate.