Server Firsts

[Xinux]

[quote="zingtastic"]That is very bad news as a lot of collection data was lost then.[/quote]


Everything up to that last 24 minutes is still good.


So here is what the server sends back to the client after you discover a item besides the popup message which is easy to reproduce.

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0000:	02 00 DE 06 00 00 24 00 00 00 16 36 07 00 01 00 ......$....6....
0010:	00 00 2F B5 01 00 9B 17 16 00 F4 FF FF FF F6 FF ../.............
0020:	FF FF 00 E5 6F 47 00 EA 9C C6 00 9A 82 46       ....oG.......F

From what i can tell the client doesn't know how to handle this packet from the chunk or world server i'm not sure if they were going to implement something on the client side to display server firsts and just never got around to it.

You can even see here the client going wtf is this packet.

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0000:	00 09 19 E4 02 00 6F 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 0C 00 ......o...X.....
0010:	1B 00 00 00 55 6E 68 61 6E 64 6C 65 64 4D 65 73 ....UnhandledMes
0020:	73 61 67 65 73 43 6C 69 65 6E 74 2E 6C 6F 67 33 sagesClient.log3
0030:	00 00 00 52 65 63 65 69 76 65 64 20 75 6E 68 61 ...Received unha
0040:	6E 64 6C 65 64 20 6D 65 73 73 61 67 65 20 69 64 ndled message id
0050:	20 31 37 35 38 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 5A 6F 6E 65 53  1758 from ZoneS
0060:	65 72 76 65 72 2E                               erver.

[Zewtastic]

I can tell you from my past experience seeing this with a lot of server firsts. It was a nightmare. It would lock your client up for maybe 5-10 seconds, and in the case of poorer equipment or connection speed it would crash you.

During raids where we would get some type of notification of a first kill, most of the raid would drop CTD. Which created chaos when trying to distribute loot and so forth.

The old process on a discovery would literally take a screenshot at that instant and put it in your accounts history of your discoveries. You could see them by going to the vgplayers site.

[Xinux]

Ahh so they probably had that opcode tied into a function that did all of that for you. Not sure why they didn't comment out that section of the server code why send the packet since the function didn't exist anymore in the client. Man they send allot more network traffic then what is actually needed from looking at some of these packet logs.

[Xinghao]

Just to add to Zing's post, you could view a list of other people's server firsts on a "leaderboard" style page on the main Vanguard.com website. I remember when they merged to a new server, and everyone was getting server firsts for everything the game was nearly unplayable at times due to the server lag everyone was experiencing.

[Ily]

Just found another server first item if you are interested in cherry picking that log.

[Zewtastic]

I previously submitted logs with about 5 or 6 of them. They were all items though. No new npc kills.

I also noted it in the log description.