Animals and When The Server Goes Down

[ww3098zelda]

I'm getting tired of this i leave for not even 2 days i come back and all the animals i had in my house died cause of either the server went down or a restart, yeah some people don't care but most of those animals i had for over 5 months, i lost all that work cause nobody can script the animals right.
Stefan please do something about this, i don't mind when they die if there like outside with no food or something but when there in a house with like food all over the place they should eat no matter if someone is in the house or not.
I shouldn't have to come on every 12 hours just case the server goes down or something so they stay alive, i've lost a few animals before this but never over 20+ animals at one time that range from 2 weeks ago to when i first started playing here.
Something needs to be done about this....

[WanDaMan]

Forum PM ningnong

[Satrek2000]

If inside a house, horses will never go under 3% constitution unless someone enters the room. After a restart, they will be at 3%, if you leave them alone for 2 weeks, they will be at 3%. Entering the level without feeding them, however, will eventually lead to their starvation.

[axman36]

actually the animals dieng from server+server restart, and server going down=A whole lot of lag gone, and food

[Satrek2000]

Originally posted by axman36
actually the animals dieng from server+server restart, and server going down=A whole lot of lag gone, and food

None of the Horn's horses ever died from a server restart - they either go down to 3%, or to -<large number>%, which counts as bug but doesn't remove them for a little while, either.

[NyTLuvsLinkers]

Originally posted by Satrek2000
If inside a house, horses will never go under 3% constitution unless someone enters the room. After a restart, they will be at 3%, if you leave them alone for 2 weeks, they will be at 3%. Entering the level without feeding them, however, will eventually lead to their starvation.

Not true at all...We religiously feed the animals everyday...We give them jerky, they don't even have to eat from the troughs...I walked into the house this morning and that horrifying music was playing and all instantly turned into the food legs...Either there were some script changes or server restart screwed up the animals even worse...
Most of our aniimals were close to 6 months old...They were gifts and what not to one another so they can't just be replaced and have the same meaning...
this problem has gone to far and needs to be corrected now...I have msg'd Stefan numerous of times concerning the issue and he repeatedly tells me it will be fixed, yet it's gotten even worse...

The players make the game, not the money required to play it...

[axman36]

well atleast have the ones on the trading place die

[Satrek2000]

Maybe this is due to what as far as I know turned out to be a power outage on friday, when the whole server was down and out. As I said, our horses hardly ever die, and never directly from server restarts, but only from someone entering the level without feeding them in time.

[axman36]

thats why I rarely get/steal horses

[Admins]

We will try to fix this very soon. It seems to be a problem with the time variables messed up when the server starts. Pets in player houses shouldn't be affected by this though.

[Satrek2000]

Originally posted by Stefan
Pets in player houses shouldn't be affected by this though.

Explain this to the 50+ horses that died in the Horn-Family's stable in the last 2 weeks

[DraxxTeazok]

Originally posted by Stefan
We will try to fix this very soon. It seems to be a problem with the time variables messed up when the server starts. Pets in player houses shouldn't be affected by this though.

I'm not sure exactly how the pets are supposed to work, but ever sinse i started a year ago, if i leave for more then 2 days i come back, and there is nothing but meat left of my animals. No music. No 3% health. It has always done that to me.

But i think when the server restarts all the pets that are not tied up or in a house should be erased to reduce lag. It's not like its hard to get a new one anyway.

[Satrek2000]

Originally posted by DraxxTeazok
I'm not sure exactly how the pets are supposed to work, but ever sinse i started a year ago, if i leave for more then 2 days i come back, and there is nothing but meat left of my animals. No music. No 3% health. It has always done that to me.

It worked fine with the 3% for us for months, until the mass-dieing one to two weeks ago...