skill rollbacks and temporarily duplicated inventory in NU

[Caliopus "Calio" Jones]

About 24 hours ago I logged in for a little combat skilling to finish leveled one of my skills at the NU south gate.  After getting the congratulations message saying that I had finished leveling it, I logged out by the gate. 

When I logged back in about 8 hours later I was a noobot and had to return to NU OP to get a clone.  After getting a new clone, I checked storage to unload loot and saw everything was duplicated. 

I decided to deal with the mess in storage later and went out to the south gate to skill some more.  After 20 minutes of skilling I got the message that I had (once again) leveled the same skill as I had leveled the previous playing session.  After a while I returned to the OP and logged for the night after checking the status of my melee skills. 

When I logged in this morning inside the OP, I was a noobot again. Remembering the events of yesterday, I checked storage and found that the duplicate items had been removed.  When I checked my skills, I found that the skill that I had already leveled twice was back to being 2 ticks from the next level, which was back where it was before I started 24 hours ago.  Other skills were also rolled back to that time. 

It's like the past 24 hours never happened as far as skills go, even though I still have the loot and my weapons/tools have all decayed.

Anyone else experience this?  If so, is it just an NU event, or wider ranging issue?

[Hugo "Lossehelin" Santos]

happened to me. somehow your gameclient gets disconnected from the server but still thinks it is connected, although you can still chat, when you logout it is like your play never happened.

[Caliopus "Calio" Jones]

happened to me. somehow your gameclient gets disconnected from the server but still thinks it is connected, although you can still chat, when you logout it is like your play never happened.

But, if everything was happening while I was disconnected, why do I have the loot and decay resulting from my playing time.  If it was a product of a disconnect then it would be a complete rollback in all things, not just skills, no?

[Hugo "Lossehelin" Santos]

well that is a miracle of server clusterization i would imagine.... Just another bug in this amalgamated game...

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I don't think I had any skills rolled back, but I definitely had some duplicated armor pieces. I was wearing a full set yesterday and changed some of the pieces by the normal method of dropping them on my avatar window and noticed that the pieces that should have gone back into inventory just disappeared. The game crashed on me soon after and when I logged in again I found that those same pieces were now duplicated in the top of my inventory, so I moved them down to the lower section I normally have them in and found that the second of the duplicated pieces would gray out as though I tried to move them to a bad location but the first set moved to where I dragged them. I could move either piece and the first piece would move while the second grayed during the move, but the second pieces would never move. I tried re-equipping them and the non-duplicated pieces equipped just fine while the duplicated ones would not equip no matter which duplicate I dragged over. The game crashed again on me a while later and when I logged in again everything was back to normal and I was wearing the full set.

So yeah, there are lots of weird duplication and other inventory bugs going on right now that seem to always be fixed by logging out and back in. Unfortunately this doesn't work for the things that disappeared when C300 was pushed out.

[Caliopus "Calio" Jones]

It's happened to me a few more times since my original post and I'm beginning to see parts of a pattern, though I haven't gotten it all figured out yet.  Here's what I've got so far.
 
1) If I log out after playing and log back in as a noobot, I lose the skills that I accumulated since either the last time I logged in or the last time I got a clone after dying (I'm not sure which, though I don't think I've ever lost any skills that I got before logging in for the current playing session). 
 
2) If I travel to or from Turukhansk to or from NU or Sar and log out, I then will log in as a noobot (and skills are gone).  If I travel to Turukhansk and enter OP before logging out and then try to leave the outpost my inventory goes to cloning room storage and I get the same message I get if I tried to leave the outpost as a noobot.  In order to be able to leave the outpost with my clothes, weapons, etc., I have to relog.  When I relog I enter the game as a noobot and I need to get a clone (and skills are rolled back).  It's almost as if in traveling to or from Turukhansk, at some point the game decides I am dead (even though I didn't die) and therefore any skills since the last time logged in need to be erased and they are erased as soon as I relog and the game makes me into a noobot.
 
3)  If I open my outpost storage at my destination (it's happened at least once at NU, Sar, and Turuk) while in this zombie (living dead) form it duplicates that storage unit (and removes the dups when I relog, scrambling the order of the stored items when doing so).
 
What I don't yet know:
 
1) Is it just traveling to or from Turukhansk that's causing the problem or is it crossing into or out of any revive zone that has the reduced damage/heal bug.  I do know it's not just a product of long runs.  Just before posting this I ran from Sar to NU and didn't relog as a noobot.
 
I'll add more as I find out more.  In the meantime I suggest people make a note about the current level of a skill you know you added to since the last relog and if you log in as a noobot, check to see if it's been rolled back.  If they have been rolled back, any information you can remember about what you were doing before you logged out would be useful to me (and perhaps others) for figuring out a workaround (like relogging early and often) until this is fixed.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

Cripes, what a royal pain!

I'm sure your detailed description and trial-and-error efforts will help the devs figure out how exactly to fix this. I hope they fix it soon, though my guess is that the storage/boxes issue is a higher priority at this time since it's affecting several people now.

[Caliopus "Calio" Jones]

I agree about the devs' likely priorities, but there are other posts about people relogging as travel bots and I suspect that the same rollbacks are happening to them and they're just not aware of it (yet).  So this is as much for their benefit as mine.

[Caliopus "Calio" Jones]

just crashed outside of NU south gate and reclogged as a travel bot (wasn't fighting at the time, so didn't die).  Didn't lose skills that time, so just logging in as a travel bot doesn't automatically mean you've lost skills.  I'm thinking the problem is traveling to or from certain zones (like Turuk).