Be Warned!

[Darkcloud777]

has the rollback occured yet? my toon Mikel lost 3 lvls (currently is lvl 23) waiting for the rollback before logging in.

[DM Wafflehouse]

The roll back has not happened yet.

[LISA100595]

PM'ed to Duster:

Many are reporting that they are being deleveled to level 23 - Has the server setting for Max Level been changed at all?

So here is the deal... Head Developer Talking... not HDMs.

Something is really borked with XP for higher level PCs. I do not know what/why.

I tried reverting to last weekend's Backup then patched up to yesterday, when things were working OK, then only add area and item changes from the update I was trying to push out today. Still no-joy on XP issue.

I will need to spend awhile locally back-patching to figure out what happened, what broke, and correct it with Rasael's help. This will take hours...

I made a ServerVault backup about a half hour after this mess started. I highly suspect we will roll-back to that once the update issue is resolved. Hopefully the few of you who got XP-losses early on have screenshots to share with DM Team to get your lost XP restored.

Meanwhile, we all have RL stuff to do, as do I. Already lost half of my day-off putzing with this. The Server is on/up. I will drop the Player password, but be forewarned - you may loose XP, whatever you do today, maybe tomorrow, will very likely be rolled back.

Sorry. Sometimes stuff happens.

[LISA100595]

POSSIBLY something to do with RP XP as that is when my - happened and dropped me to level 23.

** edit ** Thanks to Mike from Haven (ComeAndSee) for testing a few things on this for us.

[grymhild]

POSSIBLY something to do with RP XP as that is when my - happened and dropped me to level 23.

my guess is that the max_xp cap is now set to 253,000,

not having looked at the code, I would bet that xp gains trigger a function call that checks, among other things, to see if the pc's current xp is above max_xp and if it is Chen removes xp above max_xp.

[Dagesh]

Although, if a server cap change were the case, it might make a PC illegal and not allowed to log in.

[LasteEnygma]

The Server Details for BGTSCC in the NWN2 "Join Internet Game" has the "Enforce Legal Characters" unchecked.

[Blackman D]

if legal character was enabled no one on any PW would be able to login unless they only ran stock nwn2 with no extra stuff...

[Tsidkenu]

Observing all the various screenshots out there for this issue, it does seem to be some kind of problem with the XP cap. Anyone who was over 253,000 total XP immediately went down to that amount after gaining XP from any source (eg. killing a monster or RP XP, probably quests as well).

[Dagesh]

The Server Details for BGTSCC in the NWN2 "Join Internet Game" has the "Enforce Legal Characters" unchecked.

Just gave this a test to make sure. ECL doesn't bypass PC levels. It checks for skills, feats, ability scores and the like based on the PC build. It doesn't bypass PC level limits.

[khaevil]

253000 is the default campaign experience cap with a level cap of 20. I can't actually look at the campaign settings as that's no longer part of the files that get downloaded to the client (it used to be), but that the campaign settings got reverted is my guess as to what happened. I would also suspect any level 20 characters can't actually level up to 21, once the experience bar fills they can't choose to level up. I'm new to the server and have no epic characters to reroll or I'd check.

[Blackman D]

well the first part is reasonable enough and would explain why people are going to 23, since the xp cap has to allow a +3 ECL to hit 20

the second part is kinda already proven off if people are getting to 23 and not 20 without ECL

either way its like the expansions are not turned on/enabled or somethin

[Duster47]

I can confirm it is not something obviously silly, such as NWNX4 GUI being mistakenly L30-max. It is 30. I can see it on the GUI.

Sifted through scripts related to XP and found a conditional that returns TRUE if PC XP is > iXPMax. Now need to find iXPMax somewhere.

Just to be certain, XP is only being lost and resulting de-leveling for PCs w/ >=L23 not counting ECL?

[MasterOfSevens]

Rollback gets rid of everything found and all XP gained during today right? Any possibilities of reserving rare items found?

Me pirate like he booty, yaaargh.

[RedLancer]

Just to be certain, XP is only being lost and resulting de-leveling for PCs w/ >=L23 not counting ECL?

It's probably working off of XP value of 253,000, not levels.