NWN2 Server Bug - SPells

[GodBeastX]

If a player gets over the 8bit value range of spells known, the server crashes. This is 255 max or so. Not sure if XP_bugfix can do something about that, but just pointing it out.

[Skywing]

It's not clear to me which counter you are talking about as there are many counters relating to spell usages / spells known / spells memorized, etc.

If the value in question is stored as an 8-bit integer in numerous places, then the answer is that it will probably not be feasible to address.

[Rasael]

Might there be a way to limit a player from attaining that number and crashing the server? That would be the next best thing to expanding the possible amount of known spells.

[Skywing]

It's still not clear which counter we are talking about here (at least to me).

[Rasael]

It crashes when someone learns such a spell when he has roughly 249 other spells known. That's the spells known counter I think.

[pain]

Yes that is a known bug - kind of aiming to limit players from going over the cap to begin with eventually and allowing them to swap out what is in their spell books - only thru custom content does this become an issue. Pretty sure it's just going over the bounds of how the spells are stored, after you learn too many you run into issues, and it's only allowing 256 or so entries.

[Skywing]

Do you have a character file that does not require custom content which reproduces the problem?

[pain]

[GodBeastX]

Yeah, you probably need custom content. Essentially a wizard scribes too many scrolls and POOF, server dies.

[Rasael]

hahaha, that holds true with most WOTC storylines: A wizard did it!

[luna]

[GodBeastX]

Once they reach over that amount loading the char file is doom. Wish there was a hook for char loading or something that could block a char from loading if it had too many or even remove some if needed.

[MustangSVT]

Is there any way I could help make something like this a reality? I'm facing an issue where a cheater player logs in with a hacked character with several spells, and it crashes my server.

[luna]

Skywing, any chance you can help with this?

I can work with you a bit to show you where to check the spell list data in a BIC which can be used to get a spells known count.

Thanks

[MustangSVT]

I can offer my time to make something like this a reality too.

Ideally, the plug in code would flat out block players with too many spells from connecting to the server. I already have a small application (command line) that one of my scripters made that goes through the server vault quickly and finds players with too many spells, but I need to somehow put this on login rather than just an external tool.