Aug 19, 2005

SCREENSHOT: server problems and Kalimdor

Last month Laughing Skull was having a rash of server problems. One evening when I got on and tried to teleport from Ironforge to Moonglade, I got a rather interesting error message "instance not found." A few moments of watching IF's general chat told me why: the entire continent of Kalimdor was down. So I just hopped on an alt and played until the server restarted, which was supposed to bring Kalimdor back up.

And it did....just not properly.

I got to Feralas and noticed something odd. Every NPC in Feathermoon had double-spawned. So there were two inkeepers, and sentinels patrolled the area in pairs. Saren and I hung out, had some Noggenfogger (that's another set of screenshots), and enjoyed the madness. Then, we both went off to Darnassus, her to do some job leveling, me to turn in my morrowgrain quest.

Once there, we notice the same problem with the NPCs, and by then we've gotten tells that the double-spawn has happened to the mobs, as well, which is making it very difficult to solo.

In short, every single living thing in Kalimdor, from NPCs to squirrels and rabbits, had a twin.

Here's my favorite screenshot from that night. Wishful thinking tells me they're just running a two-for-one day on epics...

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