Error 1018: Lame

[Datante]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It has nothing to do with classic and it's not a mistake. How else would you have us handle clients that are linkdead? Let people instantly disconnect themselves whenever they want? That would be hugely exploitable, as it was before.

The current timing for LD character poofing seems fine and classic (30 s or 3 min if aggro); however, back in 1999, I specifically remember the game skipping me past the character select screen and putting me directly back into the game if my toon was still active after I went linkdead. This could not be used for exploiting (character can still die or even aggro), but rather allowed a person to possibly recover from an unintended LD a bit quicker.

When did error 1018 become a regular issue? Possibly after 1999?