Please fix the /tell Bug!!!

I don't know about you but I'm having to double up on my /tells because they just don't work.

This is the most annoying bug I've ever encountered in CoX - worse than the station bug, the Synch bug and any others!

PWEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE give it some Dev Love ASAP

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Shouldn't this be in technical issues?

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It's a curious bug though... I had it maybe 3 or 4 times right after i13 was launched, but haven't had it happen at all over the whole Christmas period...

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@FloatingFatMan

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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Shouldn't this be in technical issues?

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No it's a plea! The bug is known... but it's not getting fixed

FFM might not be getting it, I get it every single day. If I get a tell go through first time I'm amazed. It's a pain when finding talking to friends in game and it's worse when trying to get teams because you cannot be sure your message has gotten through/been received.

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Shouldn't this be in technical issues?

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No it's a plea! The bug is known... but it's not getting fixed

FFM might not be getting it, I get it every single day. If I get a tell go through first time I'm amazed. It's a pain when finding talking to friends in game and it's worse when trying to get teams because you cannot be sure your message has gotten through/been received.

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Before sending it, try tapping the HOME key, to go to the start of the line, then END to go back to the end. Seems to work fine for me if I do that.

Not saying it's not happening to you.... Just saying, it seems to be behaving for me over the past few weeks, but then, I do the HOME/END thing...

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@FloatingFatMan

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Shouldn't this be in technical issues?

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No it's a plea! The bug is known... but it's not getting fixed

FFM might not be getting it, I get it every single day. If I get a tell go through first time I'm amazed. It's a pain when finding talking to friends in game and it's worse when trying to get teams because you cannot be sure your message has gotten through/been received.

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Before sending it, try tapping the HOME key, to go to the start of the line, then END to go back to the end. Seems to work fine for me if I do that.

Not saying it's not happening to you.... Just saying, it seems to be behaving for me over the past few weeks, but then, I do the HOME/END thing...

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I'll try that... but I am also receiving broken tells too. That means _if I'm lucky_ that I might get the last letter of a name with no message.

example - you write:

Floating Fat Man: Hi

I receive:

n

then I have to type /r to find out who is messaging me and ask them to repeat it.

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Yea i get at least 1 per day usually, its not terribly annoying but it does make you wonder what exactly is being done to rectify?! As its been almost a month now and so far nothing :S But then iv been waiting since Villain Epic launch for Widows capes so i tend to look at this kinda thing from the "Not in this lifetime" perspective!

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I'll try that... but I am also receiving broken tells too. That means _if I'm lucky_ that I might get the last letter of a name with no message.

example - you write:

Floating Fat Man: Hi

I receive:

n


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I'd consider that lucky if you consistently get the last part of the name - I seem to get random substrings from the name... e.g if I was sent your example (Floating Fat Man sending 'hi') I could see any of the following:

Tell: g Fa
Tell: oat
Tell: loati

And I don't know if I'm being a supern00b but /r hasn't seemed to work as I thought it did (or at all) a couple of times that I've tried it.

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Or you can have fun trying to guess what the sentence was, then reply to that?

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FloatingFatMan: Hi
n

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I'll interpret this myself and reply appropriately;

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FloatingFatMan: I seem to have run out of Darjeeling, my dear fellow. Would you be an absolute star and fetch one? An East Indiaman is in port at the moment, I believe.

Wilfred: I would love to, but sadly my raccoons are a little feisty at this moment, and are chewing upon mine earlobes. In good time, I will see to it that your chest is restocked.

FloatingFatMan: Uh, what?

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Well, their vacation is over, hopefully we'll see a patch "soon" (tm).

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We've already got threads in technical about this issue, let's not spread any discussion over multiple threads and forums: it doesn't help.

Please remember that we've just come back from Christmas and New Year holidays, and that as with any bug it can take time to track down the root cause. Especially in a case such as this where there does not appear to be a reliable, 100% method to reproduce the issue. Intermittent bugs (even if 'obvious' to the user) can be difficult to track down.

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