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Error code 10 is not mentioned on https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201863018-Common-Error-Codes but maybe have a look at that post about an error 10 case: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/709873/#Comment_709873

Thank you for organizing this!

How do we all make sure to be on the same map instance? Will there be temporary squads created for hopping into the same instance?

It's just that some style sheets and script files are lagging. Contact your ISP.

No, but seriously, that's what the browser console says: missing scripts - and consequently undefined objects - and missing style sheet - hence the visual chaos.

Apart from the Mumble API data, which makes character location and a few additional details available, I don't think the game client exposes anything, and you have to resort to pixel-to-text conversion (OCR) - and before that, you must find a very fast way to retrieve the image from the DirectX or OpenGL display, or the animation will halt all the time, as when taking a screenshot.

If you want only your own character's speech, things are simpler. You can hook the keyboard (not sure how that works if DirectX handles keyboard input on Windows platforms). For the system to tell chat text from action keys, it could ignore anything not between two Return key presses - first return to focus the chat window, second return to send the line.

Well done, and it helped me understand a bit more what it means to be a necromancer - I can't seem to wrap my head around both the concept and the gameplay.

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I hadn't realized you want your app to be future-proof; I agree there is not enough information in the API - gathering tool age included.

Let's hope ANet sees your request.

Use the ID, not the name - but of course you need to first make your system know what ID is what.

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Here is an update. I was creating more characters for the comic and got repeatedly kicked 5 to 10 minutes into creation, mostly on the last screen (choosing a name).

So I started my monitoring tools again. 2 to 3 connections to AWS, a momentary flurry of them to CoherentUI, decent latency, traceroute ok, no packet loss. I took my time, hoping to catch the culprit. Sure enough, after 15 minutes I still had no disconnect. Heisenbug. Will keep investigating.

You're right that an alert system would give an edge, more so than repeatedly checking a real-time website or the game.

However, your being outbid might just be by chance - people come to the TP all the time and add a copper to the best bid.

If account age is the same value as the in-game /age command, then it returns how many seconds you have been playing.

> @"Cragga the Eighty Third.6015" said:

> Pretty sure the last one was a key farmer doing the Level 10 story

OK. I would venture: "The key's mine! Mwahahaha!"

With some charr lore added there must be a way to make a funnier caption.

> @"Coeruleum.9164" said:

> Your time is up, sparkleboy!

As in "ending the farmer before the key?"

> @"Cragga the Eighty Third.6015" said:

> The mystery shot is not in HoT, but it's somewhere I'm sure VERY few players have ended up in. Happened by accident. B) (...)

> Okay, guess I will address the mystery pic before this thread vanishes to the back pages...

>! Thanks for revealing it. I was trying to remember some hidden tunnels around the Grove, but that wasn't it. So can we conclude that the inner side of the some 3D faces have textures too? That's some attention to detail.

@"Cragga the Eighty Third.6015" - The wheelogriff also looks like a winged snail, awesome!

The mystery shot I would guess some remote corner of HoT but I haven't completed it yet.

What's the context behind the last one? This can help come up with a caption.

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> @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> If it was _only_ during character creation... :s EU servers = :-1:

Ouch. I hadn't noticed; I play mostly on NA nowadays for the time zones. I hope it's not another rollback weekend for EU :anguished:

The disconnect during character creation happened to me again, I will do some tests monitoring the network. I suspect it's an entirely different mechanism than a 2-hour timeout handled at the server-level - if that was that, I would not disconnect to begin with, and it would likely only happen during a communication with the server, namely during name submission, when the server can actually check for session validity. Rather, it must have to do with a regular ping not being routed and the client (not the server) deciding to panic back to the main screen.

The reason why I'm mentioning the problem now is because I'm preparing a comedic screenshot-based comic about the struggles of one Norn family, and I would like the "actors" to resemble a bit what I have in mind. But in hindsight, their generic looks work too, it makes them stereotypical toons being thrown into some impossible storylines. Here is the comic if anyone wants to check it out: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/1328932/#Comment_1328932

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> @"TheAgedGnome.7520" said:

> I've spent a good hour or so whilst creating several of my characters, including one a couple of weeks ago. Usually its about 30 min creating, and about 40min trying to find a name that's not taken. :) Never had a disconnect during character creation, so it doesn't seem like a server issue.

Thank you for sharing your experience. If it's not the game, then some benevolent entity in the internet wants to save me from gaming.

I can relate on the struggle finding a (simple) name still available :)

> @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> Forgot about this bit. That is already covered since some faces, hair and hair color can only be selected through the kits.

True. I was on the verge of exasperation when I wrote that. Now I'm in peace with my default-settings characters.

Dizzying! Impressive though.

I also doubt this would ever be implemented, but the idea is excellent.

A new adventure begins...

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> @"ShadowCatz.8437" said:

> I an only speculate, but it is possible that when you are in creation windows that you are logged into ANet's server for identification (account ID and password) which is on its own server, but not moving or doing anything and that trigger a kick from game server. It is the same that will happens if you leave your character too long standing still without any active input or action.

It must be that, but then, why not ping the server that is responsible for the kick? Every minute: "Ping! I'm there, creating my next toon. Please don't kick me.'

> @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> That kick takes 2 hours ... GW2's character creation doesn't really seem to be so detailed that it would take that long.

Two hours would be more than enough, but last time this happened to me, I had spent only five minutes hesitating between races and professions, then five to ten minutes tweaking ears and things. I never disconnect in other circumstances, except a few infamous story instances that enjoy making you run for twenty minutes again and again.

You know the feeling when you have been painstakingly tweaking your new character and you get disconnected right before the final step. Because of this I have stopped "designing." I stick to the default options and jump in.

Why is the game client unable to keep the session alive during character creation? It could simply ping the server regularly when on the creation screens. Or was this solution intentionally ignored? (To sell more look and name changers?)

I started looking at baby cats from a different angle after a few months on this forum. A painful experience.

@"Pandakunnkku.5029" - You can check out the Community Creations forum at https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/categories/community-creations and ask the artists who do commissions for gold if they got into trouble. Many expressed the same concerns. But the safest is probably to ask Support.