characters gone ... anyone else ?

ttim · #1 07-07-2018, 07:54 AM

First , many thanks for your excellent FAQ about getting Titanium to work .
I resisted my urge to post , and instead followed your advice.

read this first

wow ! who knew ?

anyway , a year and a half ago I had some pretty decent characters . Work and real life got in the way and I was away . Yesterday , got everything set up again , logged in , and have only empty character slots .

Has anyone else experienced this ? Any suggestions ?

Everything else seems to be working normally .

Kavious · #2 07-07-2018, 11:32 AM

Are you logging into the correct server?

ttim · #3 07-07-2018, 11:55 AM

unfortunately , only one P99 blue ... so , yeah

Varren · #4 07-07-2018, 02:09 PM

Most likely explanation is wrong server, or wrong account. They don't clear characters here. Unless you gave your password to a malicious person.

loramin · #5 07-07-2018, 02:16 PM

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Most likely explanation is wrong server, or wrong account. They don't clear characters here. Unless you gave your password to a malicious person.

This. I once had this exact problem, and it turned out I had two accounts: one I'd completely forgotten about, with a username I commonly use, and another that was my actual account. I accidentally logged into the one with my common username and could not understand where my characters went, but with some help from the forum I figured out what was going on, and when I logged into the correct account all my characters were there.

MagpieRockyl · #6 07-07-2018, 08:41 PM

did you update with the new patch files? sometimes it give you an error login screen.

ttim · #7 07-08-2018, 10:44 AM

I did ... the FAQ had a line about the " patchme" ..It worked great after I did that , just no P99 char
EZserver characters were still there , so maybe it was just a matter of one login and PW that I didn't write down before . Still puzzling over it .

ttim · #8 07-08-2018, 03:02 PM

I have been going over it , and there is something interesting.

The first time I logged in after installing , a couple days ago ( after a very long absence) , I hit several snags while trying to get it to work . After trying a few things , I finally got a login screen and logged in . I got to character screen , and the video was WAY messed up , and I could barely see anything . But there was a message . All I remember was something about " spells" and something about " patching" .
I went back and read more , and made some more changes , and logged in again .

But all I ever saw was a character selection screen with no characters . I still have characters on the EZ server , so I know it is the right account . But my main , 57 enchanter ( I think ) and my other alts , are all gone .

Baler · #9 07-08-2018, 04:47 PM

Did you share your login info with anyone ever at any point for any reason what so ever?

loramin · #10 07-08-2018, 04:59 PM

I don't play on EZ server, but doesn't it have its own files? If you're using the EZ server patch it might break P99 in a way that makes it so you can't see your characters.

Again, I don't know EZ server, but if it has patch files I'd try the following:

1) Get a completely fresh, from scratch, EQ install

2) Do not (ever) patch that install with EZ server's patch

3) Do patch that install with the P99 patch files

4) Run that installation ... hopefully see your characters?

5) If you want to play on EZ server use a separate install to do so (presumably the one you have since it's already patched for EZ server)

EDIT: It looks like EZ server requires the "EverQuest Rain of Fear 2" client, but you said you were using Titanium in the original post, so I'm not clear on how you even got EZ server working ...