You have been defeated by $name

Mikan · 01-15-2008, 10:44 PM

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joeygannaio · 01-23-2008, 12:47 AM

wierd... i have no idea lol

Arkenion · 01-23-2008, 12:38 PM

:O
Lol, the guy who said Hi to you is a friend of mine

rmchapman · 01-23-2008, 01:02 PM

Looks like a code error.

The game is programmed so that, when you die, you are sent this message:
" 'You have been defeated by ' + $name "

'$name' is a variable, who's value is the name of whatever killed you. Perhaps in this case it couldn't assign '$name' a value, so it added "$name" to the message.

Arkenion · 01-23-2008, 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rmchapman

Looks like a code error.

The game is programmed so that, when you die, you are sent this message:
" 'You have been defeated by ' + $name "

'$name' is a variable, who's value is the name of whatever killed you. Perhaps in this case it couldn't assign '$name' a value, so it added "$name" to the message.

Yes, but the strange thing was, that there was no damage message, so why did he die?

rmchapman · 01-23-2008, 01:21 PM

Most probably lag/client being out of sync with the server. The client had killed the mob, but the server still thought it was alive. So the server kept sending damage to the player, while the client didn't report damage being taken in the combat log or health bar, as it thought the mob was dead. This continued until the character died from the servers perspective, so the server told the client to be dead. So the character died and since it had no apparent source of death it displayed '$name' in the death message.

Keep in mind this is mostly pure speculation.

01-15-2008, 10:44 PM	#1
Mikan Baron Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: In Nekoko's lap ;) Posts: 768	You have been defeated by $name Deleted... Last edited by Katiechan; 04-07-2008 at 11:52 PM.

01-23-2008, 12:47 AM	#2
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01-23-2008, 12:38 PM	#3
Arkenion Master Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Switzerland Posts: 278	:O Lol, the guy who said Hi to you is a friend of mine

01-23-2008, 01:02 PM	#4
rmchapman Pledge Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 0	Looks like a code error. The game is programmed so that, when you die, you are sent this message: " 'You have been defeated by ' + $name " '$name' is a variable, who's value is the name of whatever killed you. Perhaps in this case it couldn't assign '$name' a value, so it added "$name" to the message.

01-23-2008, 01:21 PM	#6
rmchapman Pledge Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 0	Most probably lag/client being out of sync with the server. The client had killed the mob, but the server still thought it was alive. So the server kept sending damage to the player, while the client didn't report damage being taken in the combat log or health bar, as it thought the mob was dead. This continued until the character died from the servers perspective, so the server told the client to be dead. So the character died and since it had no apparent source of death it displayed '$name' in the death message. Keep in mind this is mostly pure speculation.