The Day the Wormhole Opened (photos/aftermath)

[Jibartik]

Castle is able to travel from city city faster than anyone else using wormholes

another castle thing does better than us dammit!

[Castle2.0]

Rumors still swirling

[goblinmob]

I can't really speculate what the implications would be.. like a GM or server test or something or someone maliciously fucked with the server?

[Edit] so this is where characters were upon logging in, what about dying or gating?

[Chortles Snortles]

that was a fun day in Oggok
(lol)

[zelld52]

They said it was a "random code bug"

random bug that followed suggestions from p99 discord. and then expertly placed the spawn point in the cleric guild in felwithe.

and then on blue it was right in front of the warrior GMs in oggok.

why did the GMs lie about it being a "random" bug

[Castle2.0]

Those are some tall accusations there.

But I do see your reasoning:

Felwithe is the most anti-evil city.

Oggok is an anti-good city that can be confusing for some people to try and exit.

And as you mentioned the specific locations. It's almost like a trap was being set.

Did the GMs get sick of endless petitions and say... "OK... it's time for PAIN!"?

[zelld52]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Those are some tall accusations there.

But I do see your reasoning:

Felwithe is the most anti-evil city.

Oggok is an anti-good city that can be confusing for some people to try and exit.

And as you mentioned the specific locations. It's almost like a trap was being set.

Yeah, too much went right about the spawn locations for it to be "random"

The locs were different in each zone. So it wasn't like players were being sent to 0,0,0 for instance.

And whoever was behind it corrected their location for Blue -- on Green the Oggok spawn was in front of the bank, a (relatively) safe location.

On Blue, the Oggok spawn was directly above the level 61 warrior GM who is KoS to all good races.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, too much went right about the spawn locations for it to be "random"

The locs were different in each zone. So it wasn't like players were being sent to 0,0,0 for instance.

And whoever was behind it corrected their location for Blue -- on Green the Oggok spawn was in front of the bank, a (relatively) safe location.

On Blue, the Oggok spawn was directly above the level 61 warrior GM who is KoS to all good races.

My gut would say that there's only 2 reasonable explanations:

1. A disgruntled person with access to the database decided to troll people as a send-off for leaving the project.

2. Someone with access to the database didn't realize they were operating on the production database and was doing some pretty heinously irresponsible queries to test something.

It would've only been a "code bug" if they happened to deploy a patch right before this happened. If that happened, then yeah, very likely a bug. You can't have "random code bugs" without deploying new code. They would've said that though instead of explaining what it actually was because it's usually too painful to explain how software actually works to people, it's easier to just tuck it under a generalized umbrella term.

The locations are interesting, they all sound like locations new characters start in. It could've just been a bad query that set everyone's login position to a new character's start location when they're made instead of just that new character. It moved because people made new characters and it updated it again for everyone. They would be in convenient locations in cities because that's where new characters start? Do any classes spawn in front of the bank in Oggok?

I wasn't there, those would all be my guesses though.

[Castle2.0]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My gut would say that there's only 2 reasonable explanations:

1. A disgruntled person with access to the database decided to troll people as a send-off for leaving the project.

2. Someone with access to the database didn't realize they were operating on the production database and was doing some pretty heinously irresponsible queries to test something.

It would've only been a "code bug" if they happened to deploy a patch right before this happened. If that happened, then yeah, very likely a bug. You can't have "random code bugs" without deploying new code. They would've said that though instead of explaining what it actually was because it's usually too painful to explain how software actually works to people, it's easier to just tuck it under a generalized umbrella term.

The locations are interesting, they all sound like locations new characters start in. It could've just been a bad query that set everyone's login position to a new character's start location when they're made instead of just that new character. It moved because people made new characters and it updated it again for everyone. They would be in convenient locations in cities because that's where new characters start? Do any classes spawn in front of the bank in Oggok?

I wasn't there, those would all be my guesses though.

Only 3 classes for Ogre. None start in front of Warrior GM or in front of banker.

[zelld52]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My gut would say that there's only 2 reasonable explanations:

1. A disgruntled person with access to the database decided to troll people as a send-off for leaving the project.

2. Someone with access to the database didn't realize they were operating on the production database and was doing some pretty heinously irresponsible queries to test something.

It would've only been a "code bug" if they happened to deploy a patch right before this happened. If that happened, then yeah, very likely a bug. You can't have "random code bugs" without deploying new code. They would've said that though instead of explaining what it actually was because it's usually too painful to explain how software actually works to people, it's easier to just tuck it under a generalized umbrella term.

The locations are interesting, they all sound like locations new characters start in. It could've just been a bad query that set everyone's login position to a new character's start location when they're made instead of just that new character. It moved because people made new characters and it updated it again for everyone. They would be in convenient locations in cities because that's where new characters start? Do any classes spawn in front of the bank in Oggok?

I wasn't there, those would all be my guesses though.

My guess is option #1.

Most telling by looking at forums / discord from the day- easily searchable for July 8th 2022

member saying “do somewhere classy like felwithe” and then the spawn point being changed to in front of felwithe cleric GM (no new player spawns here)

Then they suggested qeynos catacombs and wouldn’t ya know the next spot was qeynos catacombs.

Then they suggested cabilis and as luck would have it the next spqwn loc was cabilis