I want this thread to be a comprehensive investigation into the issue that affects some players upon starting certain quests. This glitch has been around since the beginning of the server and as far as I know it affects all other v62 servers and possibly v83 servers too. The quest glitch is only a problem on low rate servers such as this one since people actually do quests. How does the glitch happen? The glitch occurs when you accept some quests but appears to be quite random. Usually it is a quest which requires you to find a drop from a certain monster. You can also be affected by the glitch if somebody in your party has the glitch affecting them. How do I know when I am experiencing the glitch? There are several things you will notice when you are experiencing the glitch, such as: No drops from monsters. No EXP from monsters. The monsters do not respawn in the map when you kill them. Skills which usually hit more than one monster will only do damage to one monster. How do I get rid of the glitch if I am affected? To get rid of the glitch you can usually just forfeit the quest that caused it. You may sometimes need to relog afterwards but usually it fixes it straight away. What's been done to try and figure out the cause of the glitch? We know that it is not due to: The Operating System of the server. [STRIKE="might be"]The RAM or Java Heap size.[/STRIKE] Might be... What it might be due to: An issue reading the quest information from the xml files. What is the point of this thread? This thread has been made to gather as much information and to confirm what we know about this problem is correct. So if you have experienced the issue please post here with as much information as you can about the glitch or anything we might not know about it. We have tried a few things in the past to fix the issue and because it is so random it is hard to us to know if anything has changed. I myself have only experienced the glitch once in the last 5 months.
I experience this glitch quite often, as I mainly do quests in-game. Sometimes it is only one specific quest that causes it, but on a few occasions, I had to forfeit all active quests (that I know did not cause the glitch in the first place since I got drops after activating the quests) before it went away. It also seems totally random, that I could have had one specific quest active that did not cause the glitch on one day, but due to having to forfeit all quests at one point, this same specific quest could cause the glitch on another day. That's all the feedback I have from this.
Ok, I haven't experienced the glitch in FOREVER. I believe the glitch does happen on all v62s (although I am not 100%) but I can tell you without a doubt that it does NOT happen on all (or any that I've known) v55s or v83s.
It happens on a v83 server that I will not say the name of. It happened on a past v83 server that I played.
I'd like to add my bit to this investigation- IDC, I BELIEVE ONE DAY WE'LL BE ABLE TO FIND THE ROOT OF IT AND EXTERMINATEEEEEEE. Could this be linked to the random Genesis Bug? I remember doing Pap's preq- and I had the quest activated. Suddenly- when I used Genesis (it hits 15 normally), the skill animation showed that I hit 15 monsters- but only one got killed (when all 15 should have died). I remember there being no drops as well when this glitch happened. Another time this occurred- there were no drops as well These occurrences are also quite random- so maybe the coding issue is linked? Maybe when I have proper time, I could do some quest-related experiments LOL
I got the "no respawn" part of the quest glitch while farming Leprechauns at Phantom Forest: Creeping Evil. I was happily using Explosion while sitting between two respawning Leprechauns, when suddenly, the two I killed did not drop anything and did not respawn, leaving only one Leprechaun (which did respawn) on the whole map. Killing the Phantom Trees when they respawned didn't fix the Lep spawn, so I reported the bugged map to Alyo ingame. Quests active at the time: - Protect Ludibrium - Find the Maple History Book - All the Map Pieces in one Piece (part of "In Search of the Book of Ancient") I completed the Maple History Book and In Search of the Book of Ancient quests and forfeited the Protect Ludibrium quest. However, I didn't get chance to check that this had fixed things, because the server crashed. >_<
Has anyone had or heard about anyone having the quest glitch since the server migration? I doubt it would have fixed it but it's worth asking anyway...
the last part of Maya's Weird Medicine quest gives the no drop glitch. Beware; I completed the quest because I forgot I was in glitchmode and now I can't do anything about it....
Please post here if you have noticed any improvements (or not) since the recent RAM upgrade. Thank you.
It's now been about 12 hours since the server was turned on after the RAM upgrade and I see no errors of quest glitches in the server terminal. Strange coincidence?
Would really appreciate it if people could test out quests now for a) Quest Bug and b) problems with turning quests in. Let us know if either/both have improved, please?
Bump... Any quest / no drops glitch yet? Or have we solved the issue that has been driving me to insanity for the last 10 months?
I'm glad, however I have recently heard that there are some users that still experience this glitch. I am attempting some memory setting changes in the SC I am doing shortly.
I accepted but didn't complete the HTPQ prequest yesterday. It didn't give me the quest glitch when I accepted it, or for the rest of that day. Today, I had the quest glitch upon logging in. Forfeiting that quest fixed it.
Exactly the same situation applies to me as well. Worked fine yesterday, got some of the items, but today it was glitched.
For what it's worth, the Pap prequest (Protect Ludibrium - the 300 Tachions and 100 Mysterious Powders part) hasn't bugged for me yet (yesterday and today). EDIT: Yay, I successfully finished that part of it!
