Quote Originally Posted by Tralfazz View Post
This is not happening to everyone. Besides playing my main in and out of Hytbold for the last couple of days anyway, I've brought other characters there to test by walking, by using a Milestone skill, and via Stable Master travel. Hytbold is in various states of rebuild for each character I tested. I've been experiencing no issues at all. And even though Hytbold isn't the busiest area I do see other players there.

I mention this because while your characters become "un-stuck" at 3:00am server time when the new game day starts, because the problem is not universal there must be something on your end which is causing it. The fact that a full game reinstall also resolves your issue seems to confirm this.

Now, when I say, "there must be something on your end," I do not mean that you have done something wrong or there is something wrong with your computer in any way. LOTRO is to blame. It can be extremely finicky about DX components/graphics drivers/hardware, file permissions, and other things which cause our favorite game to run poorly, not at all, or generate odd behaviors like the one which is the topic of this thread; even when every other game played on that computer works perfectly fine. There are other potential causes including the way Hytbold graphics and interactives are staged for individual characters but there is something specific to your computer (or its graphics card or drivers) or its Windows components which LOTRO doesn't like due to the specific nature of Hytbold. (I wonder if you would experience the same problem in another staged area.)

Did this begin to happen to you, on the same hardware, only after a particular game patch or after a specific graphics driver update?



I don't have a solution for you. You said you already submitted a ticket. I hope you'll submit a ticket, including a link to this thread, each time this happens to you. People reporting this frequently and consistently is the best way for this issue to get attention from the SSG engineers.
Re: the re-install. It worked, then while my character walked way from Edgar, after handing in, she disconnected from the server and went into Limbo again. I'm not really sure could have possibly happened my end in that 20 seconds.

I've only been experiencing this since last weeks patch. Never ever had it happen before. No other changes on PC, no Windows updates, driver updates or anything else.

I lost two characters late last week (after the patch), porting out of a Rohan homestead (daily reset brought them back), and this character that got stuck in Hytbold yesterday (reinstal brought her back, only for her to disconnect again seconds later), is now in limbo after stabling from one place in Gundabad, to another place in Gundabad.