To elaborate, the decline bug is/was as follows:
Occasionally a person had declined at least once during their time online, then removed it to challenge somebody to a duel. They, or the person challenging them in a reverse case would have the challenge automatically declined regardless of auto-decline's status. Though, the exact situation that causes it is really a mystery beyond one of them having decline on at one point or another. This has been around forever plus a million years..
The situation that brought this post up:
I was thinking, since the bug that caused messages to the server had been resolved, that the PK/PVP messages not being delivered issue was also resolved. Alexis and I both tested this with no issues which would seemingly mean that that bug which caused EXP to be reduced also caused some of the PVP/PK issues.
The issue at hand:
While those may not still be causing issues, it brings to light once again that the automatic auto-decline is causing the "decline bug" to be severely more annoying to deal with. While this will probably change due to the suggestion thread, if an option is made to disable it, it still poses a nuisance to those who would choose to have automatic auto-decline enabled should a config line be added.
Simply put, I'll copy from my message log:
03/11/2008 [10:06:34 AM] <Keseka> That reminds me.. I wonder if the server message problem being fixed coincidently also repaired the PK/PVP bug mess.
03/11/2008 [10:08:10 AM] <Alexis> we could try
03/11/2008 [10:08:40 AM] <Alexis> i barely remember the bug though
03/11/2008 [10:08:46 AM] <Alexis> only that noone could do so
03/11/2008 [10:08:58 AM] <Keseka> Well, with dueling the matches were constantly desyncing.
03/11/2008 [10:08:59 AM] <Alexis> or chose not to\
03/11/2008 [10:09:14 AM] <Keseka> With PVP, you simply only were able to hit roughly 1/4 times.
03/11/2008 [10:10:46 AM] <Keseka> Really was annoying..
03/11/2008 [10:11:07 AM] <Alexis> we could try it if you want
03/11/2008 [10:11:11 AM] <Alexis> i dont mind
03/11/2008 [10:11:24 AM] <Keseka> I can't even take a hit with my health.
03/11/2008 [10:12:35 AM] <Alexis> ill switch to bolas
03/11/2008 [10:12:56 AM] <Alexis> but my str is still quite high
03/11/2008 [10:12:57 AM] <Keseka> HP: 143 / 143(+100) <-- Bet it still kills me.
03/11/2008 [10:13:04 AM] <Alexis> Total Str:2018
[10:13:05 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> Your auto decline status has been set to 0
03/11/2008 [10:13:30 AM] <Alexis> ill do exactly 100 damage
03/11/2008 [10:13:38 AM] <Keseka> Suppose that works out.
03/11/2008 [10:13:42 AM] <Alexis> or 101
03/11/2008 [10:14:04 AM] <Alexis> i take armor off too
03/11/2008 [10:14:07 AM] <Keseka> There, wandered a little ways out of town.. see if hitting me works within the first few tries?
03/11/2008 [10:14:13 AM] <Alexis> hit for less
03/11/2008 [10:14:27 AM] <Alexis> hit me
03/11/2008 [10:14:41 AM] <Keseka> Words of Wisdom, attacking actually works again.
03/11/2008 [10:14:41 AM] <Alexis> did you stop?
03/11/2008 [10:14:50 AM] <Keseka> Yeah, four hits in a row is nice for once.
03/11/2008 [10:14:57 AM] <Alexis> k
03/11/2008 [10:15:04 AM] <Alexis> was it pvp that was having the problem?
03/11/2008 [10:15:15 AM] <Alexis> ack decline req bug
03/11/2008 [10:15:16 AM] <Keseka> PK/PVP, both were having issues.
03/11/2008 [10:15:34 AM] <Alexis> keeps saying your declining
03/11/2008 [10:15:35 AM] <Keseka> Heh, oldest bug in the book..
03/11/2008 [10:15:38 AM] <Alexis> yup
03/11/2008 [10:15:40 AM] <Alexis> brb
03/11/2008 [10:16:36 AM] <Alexis> that way it doesnt kick in
*relogged to the game, signed into a clan*
[10:16:39 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> Your auto decline status has been set to 0
[10:16:39 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> You cannot enable auto-decline while signed into a clan!
[10:16:39 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> Your auto decline status has been set to 0
03/11/2008 [10:16:44 AM] <Alexis> need to wait still though
03/11/2008 [10:16:50 AM] Alexis waits patiently
03/11/2008 [10:16:51 AM] <Keseka> Have to love the triple message spam though.
03/11/2008 [10:16:59 AM] <Alexis> yup lol
03/11/2008 [10:17:16 AM] <Alexis> ready?
03/11/2008 [10:17:32 AM] <Keseka> Hmm.. try challenging me..
03/11/2008 [10:17:41 AM] <Alexis> decline bug
03/11/2008 [10:17:53 AM] <Alexis> we may have a problem with the auto decline
03/11/2008 [10:17:59 AM] <Keseka> Well, this is why I never use the PvP by default.
03/11/2008 [10:18:11 AM] <Alexis> course it was never tested before cause of the pvp/pk problems
03/11/2008 [10:18:26 AM] <Keseka> Yeah, that's one of the assortment of issues I have with it. The autodecline makes it seemingly happen much more frequently.
03/11/2008 [10:18:28 AM] <Alexis> let me try turning mine off
03/11/2008 [10:19:38 AM] <Keseka> Hmm.. Be right back, I smell my breakfast burning..
03/11/2008 [10:19:40 AM] <Alexis> hmmm i dont have an option for turning it off
03/11/2008 [10:20:12 AM] <Keseka> Yeah.. Turning it off, was my first concern. ;p
03/11/2008 [10:21:00 AM] <Alexis> ahhh yeah i thought he had an option for that
03/11/2008 [10:21:06 AM] <Alexis> guess not
03/11/2008 [10:21:11 AM] <Alexis> i never bothered to look
03/11/2008 [10:21:46 AM] <Alexis> waiting for decline to turn off again then ill try again
03/11/2008 [10:22:02 AM] <Alexis> still declined
03/11/2008 [10:22:22 AM] <Alexis> ad yours isnt turned on?
03/11/2008 [10:22:28 AM] <Alexis> and*
[10:23:16 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> Your auto decline status has been set to 1
03/11/2008 [10:23:26 AM] <Alexis> awww
[10:23:48 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> Your auto decline status has been set to 0
03/11/2008 [10:23:49 AM] <Keseka> Mystery age frozen hamburgers. Probably still good from the freezer!
03/11/2008 [10:23:57 AM] <Keseka> Declined, turned it off.. done.
03/11/2008 [10:24:01 AM] <Alexis> if it continually declines even with it turned of we definately have a problem
03/11/2008 [10:24:18 AM] <Alexis> let me try rebooting you stay in game
03/11/2008 [10:24:24 AM] Alexis has returned to reality.
03/11/2008 [10:24:31 AM] Alexis has just joined the game.
03/11/2008 [10:25:30 AM] <Alexis> waiting for it to turn off
03/11/2008 [10:25:57 AM] <Keseka> Fourty five seconds to turn it on, then off again seems like forever while so short.
03/11/2008 [10:26:32 AM] <Alexis> declining still
03/11/2008 [10:26:36 AM] <Keseka> Be right back.
*relogged to the game*
03/11/2008 [10:27:24 AM] <Alexis> we know that you can at least PK
[10:27:28 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> Your auto decline status has been set to 1
03/11/2008 [10:27:54 AM] <Keseka> Praise be to that still working.
[10:28:00 AM] *Private message* <SERVER-MSG> Your auto decline status has been set to 0
03/11/2008 [10:28:09 AM] <Keseka> Decline is now off.
03/11/2008 [10:29:03 AM] Keseka just got romped by Alexis
03/11/2008 [10:29:11 AM] <Alexis> seems to be working alright
03/11/2008 [10:29:15 AM] <Alexis> its justgetting it to work
03/11/2008 [10:29:23 AM] <Keseka> Well, that didn't desync after one hit, so besides the mass decline problems it works.
03/11/2008 [10:29:32 AM] <Alexis> getting it to work is hardr than last time
03/11/2008 [10:29:42 AM] <Keseka> Auto-autodecline for the lose, in this case.
03/11/2008 [10:29:58 AM] <Alexis> try it one more time. I want to make sure its not me
03/11/2008 [10:30:08 AM] <Alexis> decline it if it comes up
03/11/2008 [10:30:22 AM] <Alexis> did you decline that?
03/11/2008 [10:30:31 AM] <Alexis> or nothing came up?
03/11/2008 [10:31:47 AM] <Keseka> I saw nothing at all.
03/11/2008 [10:31:55 AM] <Keseka> Still not declined though.
03/11/2008 [10:32:02 AM] <Alexis> said declined on my end
03/11/2008 [10:32:13 AM] <Alexis> we were only able to do it once
03/11/2008 [10:32:20 AM] <Keseka> From my last message, I got up because I realized I left the burner on..
03/11/2008 [10:32:26 AM] <Alexis> You want to post on it?
03/11/2008 [10:32:41 AM] <Keseka> Well, this has happened forever, just not as frequently..
03/11/2008 [10:32:48 AM] <Keseka> Shouldn't jouser already know of it?
03/11/2008 [10:32:50 AM] <Alexis> yeah its worse now
03/11/2008 [10:32:55 AM] <Alexis> or seems so
03/11/2008 [10:33:10 AM] <Alexis> he does unless noone evre mentioned it
03/11/2008 [10:33:13 AM] <Keseka> Well, that's because we're forced into decline this time around.
03/11/2008 [10:33:20 AM] <Alexis> yeah
03/11/2008 [10:33:33 AM] <Alexis> either way im going to post in that thread
03/11/2008 [10:33:36 AM] <Alexis> brb
03/11/2008 [10:36:20 AM] <Alexis> starting new topic in bugs section
03/11/2008 [10:36:34 AM] <Keseka> I'll post when I see it.
03/11/2008 [10:43:45 AM] <Alexis> there we go
03/11/2008 [10:44:49 AM] <Keseka> Thinking up a moderate sized post for them.. heh
03/11/2008 [10:44:54 AM] <Alexis> hehe
