Was that today?

It wouldn't have been related to me fiddling with the DMBuster (which btw is very broken so I'm going to start fixing it tomorrow). I'm also reluctant to think it's #1 because they store the player files on different servers so they shouldn't affect eachother.

Catch me next time you're in game and I'll restore your levels and such...

An SA should be able to restore your skills.

You've unapplied your weapon because you no longer have the right skill. This was changed as a result of the previous thread because each time fix_player() finds a weapon applied without the appropriate skill it logs a bug, which leads to a bug flood = crash soon enough.

This isn't the case with armours, etc.

That said, I'm not totally clear but is this test we're talking about? If so, none of the above counts. To get your skills back I'm not sure if /setskill will work. Try /dm_dev then talk to Skillgiver on that map.

Either way, to get your god back (permanently) first get dp then apply an altar.

Yeah it wwas fixed. But something is happening again? Check tech logs cos they're quite detailed re skills ATM so it should be quite obvious where it is happrning. Last time it was caused by a missing .art file (no idea why but I guess it's more to do with things then being in the wrong place in memory).

Nor am I but this is just like previously with the Singularity stuff. So I'm guessing Crim has an artefact for which the definition is no longer being loaded.

Yes IIRC (and I think I do) the immediate cause of the bug was a missing .art file (there was also a missing .tl but I don't think this did it). This triggered some bad behaviour in some (old) code which ultimately borked several player's skill objects.

I think it was coincidence that I had just recently done extensive work on how skills are handled.

Also coincidentally I had just sttarted rewriting the /setskill command when this bug broke (and committed nothing). So when I did commit the new code it was easy for SAs to fix things.

It was actually replacing the .art that fixed the bug.

Now that all came about because of the hallo maps/event so perhaps someone has done something similar for xmas?

Peanut gallery comment: I notice both times we've had this bug, right before it happened we placed a portal to jump to a holiday map.
I'm probably wrong but maybe someone could peak at the code in this area?

Well I've had it hitting 4 characters in total. 3 got it upon logging in and one of them got it when I transferred belt from special material quest from Crim to Shroud.

I'll note that lvl 110s seem to keep main level while ones under it seem to be drained (e.g. lvl 80something to 21, lvl 9 to 1 etc)

EDIT: Seems even clobber can't fix it all. Well as far as what's broken it's as follows:
Skills lost e.g. Slash weapons, literacy etc
Skill groups reset to lvl 1
Quests Reset/Completed - All quest data is reset. A few in progress auto-completed
1-Drops reset - Things like Rhun's cloak drop again
Atheism - You lose your god, making it hard to cast prayers
Guilds lost

It seems it's also hard to fix skill groups. For example my level for Wi is stuck at 1 when my divine prayers is at 110 giving me 22 grace. It also seems that set skill doesn't reset it. It should also be noted that when someone is lowered to lvl 1 and put back to 110 that if they were perfect they no longer are when put back up

Chars hit = Crim, Shroud, Sneezy, Crimmy