Bio Engineer Archive

Not sure exactly what is causing this yet but it's happened to me 3 times and another BE several times as well. It all seems to be tied to the use of a Bol mount that was made by a BE (the same BE in fact).

For me, what happens is that I'm out hunting with my Bol and usually another pet. At some point I dismount the Bol to fight or sample dna. Sometime after that the Bol stops responding to commands and the radial menu is stuck and won't show all the commands.

At this pointI store the Bol with the voice command. Then the Bol returns to the datapad but so does my toon and all my inventory items. My character disappears entirely but I'm still able to walk around. If I open my inventory window it is empty. So I end up logging off and on to fix the issue. In several instances this has resulted in a slight roll back.

So far I've not had this problem when using any other mount but then again I haven't taked any other mount out to missions either. I've also had many successful adventures with the mount so it doesn't happen all the time. Anyone else noticed this?

yah something about dismounting causes us to disappear, although I did disappear one time while still mounted it happened when I tried to trade while still mounted and all of a sudden game says person I was trading with disappeared, it was actually I who disappeared ( Ie. Pets wouldn't move or respond, friend could not see me and i couldn't see him although the radar did show his purple dot... radial wouldn't come up) logged out and back in fixed the problem, for some reason occasionally our toons disappear, I could send tells fine during that period. It's all mounts though, I've seen a friend disappear as he dismounted his giant carrion spat... didn't fix until he logged out and back in.

I had this problem the other day , when i stumbled upon a spineflap nest that i wanted to sample. Took a coupl eof samples, went to get on my mount, and there werne't any commands. spoke the store command and he and disappeared as did i. I tried to walk, but i was really slow, and stayed above the ground. I flew around for a little while, and then logged. got rolled back to where i logged in.

george

I stopped short of a Slicehound pack on Corellia. Jumped off my mount , was going to mask scent, but too late.. The Mount Cannon Shot mesmack dabin the middle of the pack.... luckily I was able to burst run back to my house, but I got the sh1t kicked outta me on the way. I think we should trademark the term and give the poster above credit for it.

I get the same bug, once a day like clockwork. BE mount, wild mount, it makes no difference - one moment Im fine, the next the mount starts acting up - then poof, im invisible.

Oddly, I can play for two hours and it happens once, or I can play for ten hours and it will still only happen once...

"Mount Cannon" (tm) is now Copyright 2003 of Tal-N Creations Inc.

Oh and a new personal record here folks, fountain on Theed to the inside of the starport. (as opposed to hitting thewall atmach3)For a moment I though I was caught behind those chairs until I found a way around. I quite literally flew 'over' them I guess when it was shot, maybe those swoop helms do have a use now

lol mount cannon...thats really funny. Never got it myself but I have another effect which is quite strange and...I copry right it as the

"Mount God" effect...(tm) registered andCopyright 2003 of Cowoth.

I'm riding on my mount...suddenly it stops, and all the usual non-responsive effects come in...I dismount and suddenly I am like a few hundred feet above ground.

I can see for miles around and can walk anywhere in the sky I want lol. Not much good for anything though coz cant seem to interact with anything on the ground...but it gives you that "godly" feeling looking at all the peons down below hahaha

That sounds alot like my stairway to heaven thats in my lab. There's a wall in one of the rear upper floor which is non-solid so you can walk through it. The result is that you walking in the air and can actually get about half way to Theed before you suddenly drop back into the real world from your heavenly position. The effect looks similar to that annoying bug where you walk down or up some stairs and the building vanishes leaving you surrounded by the sky.

**edit**...does that mean that my copyright will be rejected? hehe

It is a bit like the stairway to heaven bug...I get that sometimes too, but this one is more fun coz u get stuck halfway between sky and ground, and u can see all the topographical details from up top. And whenI pass some large mountains, it feels like my feet are just scraping the peaks hehe.

It's not just Bols but there's some odd problems with mounts in general not responding, theres also what I'm calling the 'mount cannon' effect where you dismount and your 'fired' in the direction the mount was facing and don't stop until you hit something solid I've done this several times and it's not just within cities but I have before now fired myself across the Theed market and was only stopped when i hit the fall of the starport entrance.

Lol.. I have had the "mount cannon" problem myself... is kinda funny.... But anyways... Have you had this problem?? I had my mount out.... I got off for some reason or another... I think I was shopping... But anyhow... My mount wont listen to commands... Not even Store(sleep is what I have...) but anyhow now I cant store him or pull out another... this happened last night and I even tried relogging and waiting 20 mins and it still said it... I quit for the night(It was late anyways.. lol) and havent tried it today... I just read the posts and it reminded me.... I was using a Dewback if that helps at all... lol...

Mine didn't work until the server was bounced the next day. Could it be possible that the mounts are going into 'ghost world' because I've experienced this for the first time in ages when I was on a mount but never while on footsince along time ago(in a galaxy far far away).

I have to admit I have nothing to add to this thread...but I literally laughed so hard about the "Mount Cannon" effect, I fell out of my chair. I SOOOO want to reproduce this bug if for nothing else than the shock value of launching accross vast quantities of real estate with no regard for gravity. That cracked me up so much