sleeping characters disappear

[theTrav]

I believe this is related to viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2305 and is also causing a lot of the raeg about recovering from travel too slowly.

After a long time (possibly the critter despawn timer?) of being logged out with one character, I log on with another, and go to the bed he logged out in. There is no sleeping hearthling in that bed. When I try to log on again as that hearthling "where you last logged off" I cannot do so.

I believe the sleeping hearthlings are being de-spawned, and therefore
a) Don't gain benefits of bed once they're despawned
b) Cannot log in where they last logged out (it's walled in or lost in the despawning)

[kobnach]

I had one successfully log in by the bed, after the icon disappeared. It was fully recovered from weariness. _Now_ it cannot login where it logged out - and it was neither sleeping nor weary, unless the crash rolled back to a point where it was sleeping, in which case the problem might be 2 chars in the same bed.

[loftar]

This might be a purely graphical bug, but if it isn't, it would probably explain the "last logged out position"-bug, indeed. Can you verify whether another character can choose to sleep in the bed or not when this happens?

[theTrav]

Can you verify whether another character can choose to sleep in the bed or not when this happens?

Won't be playing for another 5-18 hours, will try to test more when I'm on next, if someone else could do this and post that'd be rad

[KiT]

sleeping characters disappear

The thread name made me think Freddy Krueger has something to do with this.

[theTrav]

word on IRC is that it's just a graphical glitch, the beds are unusable

[Gaiadin]

When this happened to me, I was forcibly logged out by a server crash, thus, not in a bed. I'm told there was a slight rollback when the server went back up (this was when I was unable to use "Where I Logged out") so it is possible that my character was transported back to the bed in the rollback but wasn't actually sleeping, confusing the server about where I was actually logged out.

[PhaedrothSP]

Okay, so its either a crash that does it, or its after less than 8 hours.

Though I'm betting on a crash.