RF15-104 All teleport scrolls send you back to HQ

Reported: Every Location Tracing Scroll, whether it names a map or a monster, sends you to your race's HQ instead of its destination.

Found: Each scroll names a destination point on a map. The RF 1.5 server currently knows only the portal and entry points on each map, and tracing scrolls point at other named points such as monster areas and map landmarks. When the server cannot find the scroll's point it falls back to your race's home spawn, which is the HQ you arrived at. Your log shows exactly that: the scroll resolved to no map, and you were sent home.

Of the 551 teleport scrolls in RF 1.5, 35 reach their destination today: the HQ, forward camp and town scrolls, and the scrolls to a few maps' entrances. The other 516 end at HQ.

Planned fix: Load the full set of named map points into the RF 1.5 content data, from the same map layout the server already uses for spawns and portals, and look a scroll's destination up there when it is not already known. That gives 427 more scrolls a real destination, including every coordinate tracing scroll and every quest tracing scroll that takes you to a monster. Work on it is starting.

Also affected: 89 scrolls will still send you to HQ after this fix, because their destination point is not in the map data we have:

• the 60 mining zone scrolls;
• the 9 outpost and rally flag scrolls;
• 20 map move scrolls, 19 of them to maps the server does not host yet.

To verify: Once the fix is out, use a coordinate tracing scroll and a quest tracing scroll and check that each places you at its named location rather than at HQ.

Reported: Every Location Tracing Scroll, whether it names a map or a monster, sends you to your race's HQ instead of its destination.

Fix: The server now knows every named point on the maps it hosts. Coordinate tracing scrolls and quest tracing scrolls take you to their destination instead of the HQ. The fix is ready for testing in the next RC build.

Some scrolls still end at the HQ because the map data we have does not include their destination: the mining zone scrolls, the outpost and rally flag scrolls, and map move scrolls to maps the server does not host yet.

To verify: Please contact Ron directly for the latest RC build. Use a coordinate tracing scroll and a quest tracing scroll, check that each places you at its named location rather than at the HQ, and report back here.

It appears to be fixed, except for the ones you already told us about that aren't working right now because we don't have the correct data. Tested on GameServer · v0.2.1-rc1

Reported: Every Location Tracing Scroll, whether it names a map or a monster, sends you to your race's HQ instead of its destination.

Fix: Confirmed by the reporter on the 0.2.1 release candidate: coordinate and quest tracing scrolls now reach their destination. It will be in the next RF 1.5 release.

Also affected: The mining zone scrolls, the outpost and rally flag scrolls, and map move scrolls to maps the server does not host yet still end at the HQ, because their destination is not in the map data we have.