character location mysteriously changed

The other day I was playing my level 12 corrupter in Cap Au Diable. I had just picked up a mission from Dr Shelly Percy, but needed to leave for a bit to do some errands. Before logging off, I parked my character right outside the mission door, which was a cave entrance on the south-east corner of the map, just past the Arachnos airfield. A few hours later I logged back in and found my charcater in the lobby of one of the buildings in Aeon City near the AE buidling. This was nowhere near the location where I logged out, nor had I even recently passed close to that area.

This has never happened to me before. Is this a known glitch that just happens sometimes?

Another unlikely possibility: you parked yourself near a hold in the geometry, and when you logged back in, you fell through it, and the game yanked you to what it determined to be a safe area.

Or... someone hacked your account and was playing around, or moving to sale your stuff or move to the respec guy to strip things for his use, when you logged back in, hence logging him out and, bam! there you are. Not likely, but could happen.

That building is right beside the AE right? that's a very common building to login to.

I've seen this "logging in from a mission door" thing a lot. If I die in RV near a door to hat would havebeen a store, use the base to go back into RV, Then I come out of the door that I died near.

About a year ago, I remember logging in a character to find she was in the Crey building in Nerva; I was positive I hadn't logged out there because I didn't know where it was (the only reason I knew it was the Crey building is that I got the Day Job badge). It happened again a couple weeks later, and this time I chalked it up to being the default location it sends you if something's wrong with where you were when you logged out.

This tends to happen if you log out in an area with a spawn near by it seems and not just in cap but any zone the server will decide for what ever reason that doping you there would be bad so it drops you in a defaulted location every zone has this "if cant spawn at x spawn here" it seems.

I have had this happen so many times i just roll my eyes at it anymore, Remember that your toon actually drops "in game" before you have control over it i think that this code is to prevent spawn death that would make players rage. "note if you log out when dead it seems to bypass this effect(this has not been tested)YMMV"