Steam idea pending

[Teh]

Alright, so I was playing on Hells diner, then I left then came back because of an inventory bug, then I accidentally pressed a Steam_ID_Pending charecter, so that erased The Seers Main Monk, my charecter, any way of fixing him? ID: STEAM_0:1:3484931

Sunday, October 15, 2006! 1:54 PM Slot 2!

 

[Thothie]

Eh, I restored your slot2 character to its October 13th status... Tis very small though.

Meh, just realized I've no archving process running during FN's temporary stay here.

 

[Teh]

Any way to get my spells back? aka blizzard, poison, frost bolt, rebuke, and fireball? :? and I lost my Shadow Weaver lvl 9 status

 

[Thothie]

Sadly, due to the snow storm in the midwest, and my shortsightedness when moving the server to the west coast, that is the most recent backup. Guess you did a lot in those two days.

 

[Iselore]

Thothie, could you restore my char too. Did the same stupid thing =/ Having a char 3 days behind is better than losing a year's worth of work! Slot 3 STEAM_0:1:1055016 15/10/06 1.50 PM GMT. lol Teh, you didn't take heed of my earlier predicament, did you?

 

[Thothie]

Done...

...I've an idea that may make those STEAM_ID_PENDING characters unloadable by given the placeholder chars invalid items - not absolutely sure if it'll stop people from overwriting their characters with them, but worth a shot...

 

[Iselore]

Can you try changing their names to DO NOT CLICK ME?

 

[PBarnum]

Well some times people have the tendency to just click the character because they are so familiar with it. They dont bother to look at the name because they know what character they use. Maybe placing a different model or some how making it totally unclickable when ever that name comes up. if it is possible (anything is possible)

 

[The Man In Black]

Model is controlled by hard code, and I would think that making it unclickable is, too. =\

 

[Thothie]

I could make a crest with a big "DO NOT CLICK ME" written on it and put that in the STEAM_ID_PENDING slot.

Sadly, the invalid item didn't work for some odd reason... I wonder why I can load a character with some invalid items but not others. :\

 

[evilsquirrel]

give them all the invalid items

unless you've already tried that... :\

 

[The Man In Black]

Apparently Squirrel didn't read...

Well, since you CAN give them items, why don't you overload them so that they get a Reliable ? Or would they still be loading and overwriting?

 

[Iselore]

when i thought i had just revived my interest in msc....it had to happen

 

[2lt. Walter]

OMG, same Problem was on Hells Dinner now my chars ar all Steam_id_pending.

ID: STEAM_0:0:3674403 0 01:30 305 0

 

[Thothie]

Did you click on any of those characters?

Cuz if you didn't, it'll fix itself when next you start Steam.

 

[2lt. Walter]

I Clicked.

 

[Thothie]

*sigh* I gotta figure how I made those unloadable characters... Even then I'm not sure, it might wind up saving the unloadable character.

Alright, restored to Oct27th - tell me how that goes.

 

[The Man In Black]

You could see if Fuzzy could make a mediator between servers and Central that would block Pendings from saving >_>

 

[Thothie]

It's not that STEAM_ID_PENDING saves... It actually doesn't - as the char file with that STEAM_ID is write protected now. It's that whatever character is loaded, saves to YOUR character slot, once the STEAM_ID finally authenticates.

OOoooo, I got a new title, schweet.

 

[The Man In Black]

But the Pending overwrites your slot info, neh? Which would include name, which it always writes as Pending, so if he can influence save files and such, he can just make Pending a non-valid name.

At least I would think

 

[Thothie]

I dunno if MSCentral can read individual stats of characters (such as names) - it may just stream whatever data it gets back from the server and save it, without actually decoding it. Might have to be done from the server code side.

I'm working on something a bit more laymen friendly than "Steam ID pending" meantime.

 

[The Man In Black]

Something more along the lines of "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! DON'T CLICK ME YOU MORON! THIS MEANS YOU SQUIRREl!" ?

Wait....too long....dang...

 

[Thothie]

Like this:

Granted, it'll have to wait till next patch.

 

[The Man In Black]

Is there anyway you can make scripts recognize it? Because there is an ms_nosave (or something like that) entity.

Perhaps an ms_nosave spawns with them and then kicks them or something >_>

 

[Thothie]

There's no script function to disable saving sfaik. Also not sure if ms_nosave works (or even exactally what it is), not that I could spawn it via scripts anyways.