Pedestrian "M" and logged on time
By
Bill Z Bubba,
Posted on: 2011-06-06 14:19 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
This isn't the first I've heard of M-destrians working erratically. Sounds like they're bugged, possibly just for new characters.
EDIT: tested a few characters. 800-odd for my 50 Blaster (created just before I5 and left to agther dust for a while after CoV came out), 1040 for my 50 Mastermind (created shortly after CoV went Live), 24 hours for a 22-ish Brute from Praetoria (created shortly after GR), 2 hours for my 7 Scrapper created a few weeks ago. First two are right based on my recollection of the last time I checked (a while ago, admittedly), last one is definitely right, the Praetorian seems like it could be right but I honestly am not sure. If there is a bug, it doesn't seem to be an obvious consistency with when the character was created.
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It seems that sometimes a character isn't really logged off completely. Friends might have been able to see that character still logged in all night long that you were not playing it, but the "Shard" (server) area in the friend list would be blank, indicating to us that the person is not really online, but the character is stuck in limbo until the account is logged in again. That might account for some of the errors.
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This. Infrequently (a few times a year), I'll log in and the game will tell me that the account is already logged in. No one else has access to my account and it has a strong password. Sometimes it just doesn't log you out properly.
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Originally Posted by Master-Blade
It seems that sometimes a character isn't really logged off completely.
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Everyone,
I was under the impression that pedestrians in game with names starting with the letter "M" told you how many hours you have been logged on.
However, I created a character last night, played her for about 3 hours, logged off for the night, and when I got back on today, "M" told me that I had been on the prowl for 13 hours, not 3. It had been 13 hours since her creation time.
I then logged on my main, and "M" told me that that BZB had been on the prowl for 2041 hours. Breaking that down into real time, it would imply that I created BZB 85 days ago, and having created him over 7 years ago, that looks like actual logged on hours.
Logged back on the new character, checked "M" again, and sure enough "M" tells me I've been on the prowl for 14 hours. However, this is no longer accurate if based on the time since creation. It appears that 10 extra hours has been slapped on to my logon time that shouldn't exist.
Anyone have thoughts as to why this would be?
Be well, people of CoH.