Player Online but Not in Sessions or Search

[evenmonkeys]

This is rather confusing. Once in awhile, I see the Game-Server scrolling through text every five seconds showing random parsing. I run a "/sea all" and I don't see the player online. I look at the account_sessions table and I don't see the player online. I go to the location of the player and they're running around playing. First of all.. how are they playing without a session? Second.. what can I do to clean up the parsing? Is there a way to kick players who aren't in the session table? Or reset a zone.. or something?

I believe it's happening because these players are playing more than 1 account at a time.

Thanks.

[kjLotus]

wish i knew how people played without sessions

[TeoTwawki]

I see it happen all the time when my nephew plays on my server at the same time as me, and uses the same router I'm on. People who multi box will also trip it. Those are the only times I've ever seen it on any server I've played on.

[atom0s]

It's a bug that has been around for a while now. It is still unknown as to why it happens.

[evenmonkeys]

That's really weird. I guess if there's no way around it, there's not much we can do. I guess I'm just more shocked that the server allows them to be on without an entry in the session table. :p

[whasf]

Because the player data is stored internally, the database table is more of a secondary place. If they don't have a line in the session table then they can still kinda play, but some stuff won't work right.

I haven't seen this bug in a while though, it happened more often in the earlier days of the project.

[atom0s]

It's more of something the game server should be checking each time the player is requested to load. Such as on zone etc.
If no session exists, the player should be getting disconnected as a safety measure.