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Qhue · 08-19-2003, 11:14 PM

Well it didnt take long for the new "Instancing" code that accompanied the Plane of Time patch to become undone. Right now Time is NOT instanced on Tunare through some bizarre bug that is apparently starting to manifest itself on other servers.

On monday my guild (Talisman) zoned into TimeB for the first time in over 7 days as we share the plane with a week-long rotation with the other North American timezone guild. Given that it had clearly been >> respawn time since we were last there we expected to find that our instance was fully spawned....instead what we found was that phases 2 and 3 were down and 2 of the phase 4 gods were dead! A little investigation showed that this was the exact configuration that was left on the Asian timezone's guild from earlier in the day. The first person to click over into TimeB had not gotten the friendly red warning about creating a new instance if they continued...the instancing was simply not working or at least had given us a copy of a different guild's "save point".

Having received no GM support on the matter at allwe proceeded to clear phase 4 and part of phase 5 before heading to bed and hoping that we'd start again today with a fresh instance. We found out when the asian guild started their raiding Tuesday morning that they got the same instance we had been in the night before. Where they had left half of phase 4 up they now found themselves facing the half of phase 5 we left up. They made no progress on phase 5 and left it in the same state they found it in. We log in tonight and are once again at Phase 5, we clear it and progress onto Quarm where we fail and have camped for the night.

So right now the asian guild will wake up tomorrow and, despite not having killed Vallon Zek yet, will port straight up to Quarm. Again this evening we made VERY certain that the first person to click in had ZERO connection to our raid on monday as the secondary in question hadnt been logged in for days. Once again no red "instance" warning message and we got happily ported into the shared instance.

I'm not sure without having the other North American guild zone into Time and try and start a raid if we have a situation where two guilds are sharing ONE instance and the 3rd guild is in an instance by themselves, or if instancing is just plain broken entirely and we are all back to sharing one verison of Time. Regardless its clearly pretty FUBAR right now.

I heard from others tonight that found themselves suddenly in an instance that was different than the one they left the previous night so perhaps this is not an isolated fluke on Tunare but is actually spreading to other servers as well...

08-19-2003, 11:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
Qhue Tunare's most surly gnome Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sunny Upstate NY Posts: 987 +4 Internets	Time 'instancing' fubar. Well it didnt take long for the new "Instancing" code that accompanied the Plane of Time patch to become undone. Right now Time is NOT instanced on Tunare through some bizarre bug that is apparently starting to manifest itself on other servers. On monday my guild (Talisman) zoned into TimeB for the first time in over 7 days as we share the plane with a week-long rotation with the other North American timezone guild. Given that it had clearly been >> respawn time since we were last there we expected to find that our instance was fully spawned....instead what we found was that phases 2 and 3 were down and 2 of the phase 4 gods were dead! A little investigation showed that this was the exact configuration that was left on the Asian timezone's guild from earlier in the day. The first person to click over into TimeB had not gotten the friendly red warning about creating a new instance if they continued...the instancing was simply not working or at least had given us a copy of a different guild's "save point". Having received no GM support on the matter at allwe proceeded to clear phase 4 and part of phase 5 before heading to bed and hoping that we'd start again today with a fresh instance. We found out when the asian guild started their raiding Tuesday morning that they got the same instance we had been in the night before. Where they had left half of phase 4 up they now found themselves facing the half of phase 5 we left up. They made no progress on phase 5 and left it in the same state they found it in. We log in tonight and are once again at Phase 5, we clear it and progress onto Quarm where we fail and have camped for the night. So right now the asian guild will wake up tomorrow and, despite not having killed Vallon Zek yet, will port straight up to Quarm. Again this evening we made VERY certain that the first person to click in had ZERO connection to our raid on monday as the secondary in question hadnt been logged in for days. Once again no red "instance" warning message and we got happily ported into the shared instance. I'm not sure without having the other North American guild zone into Time and try and start a raid if we have a situation where two guilds are sharing ONE instance and the 3rd guild is in an instance by themselves, or if instancing is just plain broken entirely and we are all back to sharing one verison of Time. Regardless its clearly pretty FUBAR right now. I heard from others tonight that found themselves suddenly in an instance that was different than the one they left the previous night so perhaps this is not an isolated fluke on Tunare but is actually spreading to other servers as well...