Still Living With The /sync Bug

Quite some time ago, before the forum transition, a game bug appeared where specific characters on accounts (and all copies thereof) would de-sync on zone-in and be auto-re-synced several seconds later. This results in a rubber-band effect on every single zone-in. It was referred to as "the sync bug" or "the door bug". It's terribly annoying, persistent, and seems to affect only those characters that caught the bug long ago.

My main character ("ManEater.") has this bug. The Devs had made several attempts to fix it, the last one long before the forum transition took place. At the time Niviene posted a thread asking if any players were still experiencing it. I and several others posted that we were, but that was the last we heard about it.

Is anyone else still experiencing this bug and can we get a list of those characters who are affected?

Yep. My main character, Punchin' Judy, still experiences this bug as well.

While it is still extremely annoying, the auto re-sync "fix" is a vast improvement over the early incarnation of the bug's first manifestation, where the only thing you could do to fix it was try relogging, rezoning, (both of which only had a small chance of success) or find someone to teleport you. (This seemed to be the only guaranteed way to fix the problem.)

The /sync command was also a nice addition, but this quickly become old, having to retype every. single. time. you zoned.

Given that this bug seems to have only affected a small number of players, and only a small number of those players characters, and the current "fixes" that are in place for it, I'm guessing that finding a solution to eliminating this bug once and for all has become extremely low priority.

I just keybound the sync command to a key and pumped it a couple of times after zoning. I get it very occasionally now, but nothing like as bad as it used to be.