Reset progress on a server Thread - Olvand

So I was playing on testserver 1 and because of the combining items bug i lost my tool thing (that one for crafting a gun)
so I thought no problem i can reset my progress, I click the button and i disconnect from the server.
when i reconnect I still have the same items.

so what i want to say isn't it implemented or is it just a weird bug?

Hey, thanks for the bug report; that is definitely not supposed to happen, so I'd say it's a bug. Problem is, I can't reproduce it. This is what happens when I try to reproduce your bug:

1. I change my inventory (throw away the starter items, collect some stuff, etc).
2. I open the settings tab and click 'Reset my progress on this server'.
3. The server disconnects me
4. I log in again, and have the starter items again.

Is there anything which you do different here?

Weird I do exactly the same but i keep the same stuff

Hmm... have you tried it multiple times or just once? In case you already tried it multiple times; is it okay if I reset your password so I can log in as you, and see what goes wrong? It will only take a few minutes, and I'll email you your new password immediately (which you can change back to your old one if desired).

PS
Since you're Dutch too: hoi .

Okay it is alright you change my password and log in as me.
I trust you as a developer (hope I made a good choice here )

PS
I know you are Dutch so: hallo Wessel

Edited by: JoeyXtreme

Hi Joey, thanks a lot! I just tried it on your account, and you were right completely. My findings:

• It differs per server. There are no problems on the gamesketch.net server for instance.
• It differs per account. Woseseltops has no problems, but some of the accounts of my friends have.

I haven't been able to figure what exactly causes the problem, but with this very specific behavior it should be possible. Again, thanks, I've send you your new password in a personal message.

Okay Thanks bro

Just fixed this! If you're interested, this is how I did it:

• Last time I noticed that it only happened on servers with a lot of players, so I decided to explore that. I simulated servers with a lot of players, and the error did indeed occur. Hurray, I repro!
• However, I also noticed that on these servers, it only happened for the players that came latest. So if a server kept track of 100 players, player 8 had no problems, but player 88 had. I tried to find the boundary, and after some trial and error I discovered this boundary was between 9 and 10.
• Apparently, it had something to with 2-digit player numbers. This makes sense, because the 'reset account' code indeed uses the player numbers. What you do is send a message which the server decodes as 'reset the account for player x', and send your player number with that message. So all I had to do is go to the server code, and there it was: the server only used the first digit it received, not the whole number. So that's why there were no problems for early players (0 - 9).

Good to hear it's fixed.
The techy explanation looks interesting but i don't understand a word of it, but that doesn't matter I'm not the one that makes games.