Restarting the NPC-server produces players with no account name.

[cbk1994]

After restarting the NPC-server on Era, we often receive error messages in RC that are the result of players having no account name (e.g. SQL constraints fail, players' gangs get reset, etc). This happened once about a year ago, but after that hasn't been happening again until recently. It now seems to happen almost every time we restart Era's NPC-server.

The following script:

PHP Code:

for (temp.pl : allplayers) {
  if (temp.pl.account == null) {
    echo("bad: "@  temp.pl.nick);
  }
} 


produced this output:

bad: Fro Bro
bad: Dark Phoenix

I confirmed that the players had no account name in-game (it wasn't possible to warp to them, but they seemed able to play fine except that they couldn't access bank accounts, etc).

[BlueMelon]

That is very odd... I was wondering why we where having those errors.

[cbk1994]

This just happened again.

bad: Kyle, Leader (VorteX)
bad: Karissa Akamada-Fiery ~Wei Xian De Nu Xing~ of Tachi *Supervisor* (Gun Point)

Also, what's the cause of the ridiculous amount of server lag (increased latencies to the server for almost all players and the server is freezing up periodically) lately and how can we fix it?

[Tigairius]

Weird. Witnessed it happening today. Bumping.