Can't see Chat

[Red Giant]

I have MSC 1.1 and the october 1st update.
Sometimes when i play, i cannot see chat or when i look at other players or NPCS their name wont come up.

 

[evilsquirrel]

seems to happen to me occasionally, you just need to change the map on the server...its an odd bug that occurs when players disconnect (sometimes)

 

[Thothie]

If yer hosting, you can talk to the players through the rcon still.. and I *think* the votemap system will still work, and get you out of it right quick.

If yer lucky, another player (or the player that left) will re/join and it'll be fixed - but if you disconnect and rejoin, you'll be in the same boat.

Rare, annoying bug - I suspect something in the hard code messes up the player index when someone leaves, sometimes. It *used* to only happen when people were in parties, and then *only* if the party leader left - suspect it may *still* have something to do with parties, as I've never seen it happen on a server where no one was in one. Fubarbs everything. Only searchable error it used to deploy was "Error 101" - research into said, needless to say, turned up squat.

 

[Jax]

If I'm not mistaken, when party leaders leave the server, chat disappears for everyone...

 

[Thothie]

Tis what it used to be back in MS 1.35 - like clockwork. But it seems it doesn't even need to be a party leader anymore. Just, anyone on the server being in a party will do. (Or maybe somehow "party history" is sticking to players)

 

[PBarnum]

how does the game tell who is the party leader and who isnt?

 

[Thothie]

First party member in the server, or the first party creator on the server, is party leader by default, apparently.

 

[Netrogor]

Too bad it can't have a nice simple 'cut' command of some sort to prevent somebody's leaving killing off chat