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Unable to create new characters on POTM
« on: November 13, 2019, 08:15:00 AM »
Hello!

So, I decided to go ahead and roll a new character today after some hefty planning. I rolled my character, did all his stats, name, age, etc. I hit play and was sent through straight to the OOC Hall, not to the New Character Area. There my character stood with the full vanilla starting gear, completely unable to move.

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I did everything as followed afterward in an attempt to fix it:

1. I unsubscribed from all of my workshop NWN addons then deleted them again in their steam directory.

2. I uninstalled NWN from my steam.

3. I deleted but backed up my NWN folder within my documents.

4. I reinstalled the game and put in the CEP Hak and the POTM Hak as required.

I rejoined the game, made my new character and boom, the same thing happened again. I did this process a total of three times and so far nothing has worked, a clean slate or not. I was made aware that for some reason my newly made characters were 'invalid' or 'illegal', though I don't see how this was possible as it was completely fine just a week ago. My NWN folder wasn't tampered with for the past month, other than the usual uploading of new screenshots. My overrides comprise entirely of graphical and UI overhauls which shouldn't affect the CC process in any way shape or form. I'm left completely confused, as I now cannot make new characters at all.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2019, 08:30:25 AM »
Its possible your new character shares a name with another?

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2019, 08:31:13 AM »
That was going to be my guess as well.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2019, 08:36:01 AM »
Nope, not at all. It's a completely fresh character, no character in my vault shares that name.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2019, 08:49:02 AM »
Yesterday I created a PC successfully except I did notice one strange thing: some of the icons in my inventory had a weird, nontransparent background. This happened during NCE as well, by the way, but it went away once I started playing my AMPC.

The PC yesterday, however, continued to have those strange icons even in the hot bar.

Just now I created a brand new PC and experienced the same issue Blissey reports: did not go to the new character area but went instead to the regular OOC area. The weird icons are also present. And my PC can't move.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2019, 08:49:44 AM »
New PC and login is Anna Karenina if anyone on the Team wants to use her for testing.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2019, 09:22:34 AM »
Tested various classes, races, gave them all keyboard spam names. Same issue.
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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2019, 09:35:34 PM »
Confirming the issue.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2019, 11:15:37 PM »
I created a PC with everything the same (alignment, gender, race, class, stats, feats) as the PC I created successfully yesterday. Yesterday, no problem. Now, the new PC went straight to the Main OOC area and is locked.


Also, this is what I mean by icons that appear weird, which has started happening recently on new PCs as well:




Even in inventory the handaxe icon has that background, rather than black/transparent.


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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2019, 03:21:50 AM »
Yeah it looks pretty odd. Created a character on an alt account called Mark Unreable and he didn't appear in the starting area, spawned directly into the OOC hall, no server log messages showed up, nothing firing except for the character being frozen.

I wonder if the starting point of the module was moved after leaving out of NCE or something, it's like the OnEnter or moduleload scripts aren't firing correctly for characters without one of those PC OOC objects.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2019, 03:44:43 AM »
Issue still persists. Experiencing it myself now. It was working yesterday (the 12th) which is strange.
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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2019, 12:29:45 PM »
I was able to create a new character with no issues from a fresh installation. This may be resolved now.

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2019, 01:00:45 PM »
Just now worked for me (and without a fresh install).

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2019, 02:03:57 PM »
This just happened to me, any word on how to fix - other than a fresh install apparently
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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2019, 02:09:38 PM »
It fixed itself yesterday but appears to have returned.

Perhaps the server restart temporarily fixes it until whatever condition triggers it happens again?

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Re: Unable to create new characters on POTM
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2019, 12:00:04 PM »
Also have the same problem. :(