my pg is lost!

[ilp4zzo]

hi, How can I know if my pg was lost due to last server crash or if someone killed me?

[Peter]

What's a pg? Pregnant Goat?
People Grinder?

[Jackard]

last time someone made one of these threads they were referring to their (thief) character

pg must be italian shorthand or something

[Jeff]

Judging from his name he should be italian.Pg is an abbreviation of "personaggio", that means character in english.

[desyrio]

Judging from his name he should be italian.Pg is an abbreviation of "personaggio", that means character in english.

Or "personaggio giocante", meaning "playing character" PC, as opposed to the NPCs

[kedrigh]

hi, How can I know if my pg was lost due to last server crash or if someone killed me?

interesting, your "pg" wouldn't happen to be named Netto, would it?

[Flocke]

all i can say is that Mr. Netto has no hearth fire actually.

[loftar]

hi, How can I know if my pg was lost due to last server crash or if someone killed me?

I cannot think of any mechanism by which it would be possible to lose a character due to a server crash, so I guess it would have to be the latter. :)

It should be said, though, that when people have lost a character and don't know why, the most common cause has been that the character has been left logged in doing something really tiring and then starved to death.

[Potjeh]

I've lost one to a server crash. OK, it was back in May, but still
I still have him in my character list, but his portrait is a question mark and his name is a square. When I click on "play", nothing happens.
He was created just before a crash, back when crashes came with 12 hour rollbacks.

I suppose it could happen even now, if there was a rollback, but we haven't had one of those in ages.

[loftar]

Oh, I remember that bug. It is actually more accurate to say that the server crashed because you lost your character rather than the other way around, though. :) It's been fixed since then, though; I didn't know anyone was still affected by it. I've fixed up your character list now, so I think you should be able to play him again. :) (EDIT: Maybe not, after all. It hits me that if your account is loaded in the server at the moment, it will probably overwrite my changes back to the faulty version)

I suppose it could happen even now, if there was a rollback, but we haven't had one of those in ages.

I don't think so, though. First, that program wasn't even caused by a rollback, but apart from that, character lists are saved immediately upon changes, so they shouldn't even be affected by rollbacks.