ghost left after changing characters (D2)

[oldskooldrew]

When i switch characters all the other clients in a channel are seeing ghosts. I've fixed it so my bot does not show doubles, but the other ones still do, has anyone done anything for this? This refers to changing characters w/o re-logging in all together.

[UserLoser.]

Servers sometimes don't update your statstring right away, which appears you to be on an open character

[oldskooldrew]

actually thats the problem, they do right away, but it sends a Event_User and adds the new character to the list, but does not remove the old user/character leaveing a ghost, i can/have fixed this with my bot, but others dont do the same... any suggestions?

[Kp]

actually thats the problem, they do right away, but it sends a Event_User and adds the new character to the list, but does not remove the old user/character leaveing a ghost, i can/have fixed this with my bot, but others dont do the same... any suggestions?

Yes.  Since it's only affecting the people who haven't fixed their clients, don't worry about it.  Or, if you're feeling malicious, change characters as often as you can so as to deluge their list with ghosts, thereby encouraging them to fix their client.

[KrisL]

Yes.  Since it's only affecting the people who haven't fixed their clients, don't worry about it.  Or, if you're feeling malicious, change characters as often as you can so as to deluge their list with ghosts, thereby encouraging them to fix their client.

LOL KP.  A very evil yet effective way of "encouraging" people to fix their clients.  

[tA-Kane]

change characters as often as you can so as to deluge their list with ghosts

i foresee some asshat abusing that  

i wonder, does changing characters count against your flood values? eg, if you were to try changing 100 times/sec, would you get flooded off? it'd be very sad if not

[UserLoser.]

change characters as often as you can so as to deluge their list with ghosts

i foresee some asshat abusing that  

i wonder, does changing characters count against your flood values? eg, if you were to try changing 100 times/sec, would you get flooded off? it'd be very sad if not

IIRC, there is a limit, just it's not very strict.  100 times/sec wouldn't work, though, since the realm servers are known to have great delays on responding back to certain things such as logging on to a character.