The post is cross-posted from http://www.daikonforge.com/webtab/2008/02/19/notecard-is-missing-from-database/
I’ve been thinking about some ideas and comments recently brought up by the conversation on C:SI and animation overrides, and I’ve decided two important things:
- I’m going to personally switch to the ZHAO-II AO. I’ve looked at the code, and it’s much cleaner than the previous ZHAO and uses less scripts (which was, of course, one of the goals that the developer had in mind).
- I am going to customize the ZHAO-II to be more "C:SI-friendly", because assuming that Colin is right, it would at least be a nice thing for me to offer to the C:SI community. I still don’t expect all that many people will use it, but maybe I will be surprised. In any case, I want one for my own use, so might as well continue my tradition of offering free goodies to people – I often give away items from my list of personal projects
Ziggy Puff recognized that it can be a pain to edit the notecards, so a free converter was provided by him that will read the data from an existing ZHAO-I notecard and convert it to the simpler ZHAO-II format. This is a pretty cool idea, and I’m actually making a web-based version that does the same thing, and may at some point actually provide a handy form for enhanced editing. Either converter could be used, though my thought was that a web-based UI for the notecard converter might allow "fast-and-easy" editing of animation sets like Aimee uses.
But there’s one big problem:
EVERY SINGLE FARKING ACCOUNT I HAVE HAS HAD THE ZHAO NOTECARD LOST.
I’m not shitting you. My main account and every alt I have that I cared enough about to purchase an AO for gets this message when attempting to open the notecard: "Notecard is missing from the database".
I’m simply flabbergasted. I’ve lost other inventory due to database hiccups or whatever LL is blaming it on this week, but I’ve never seen (or even heard of) such a consistent inventory loss before. I wonder how they would even attempt to explain that.
Un-freakin-believable!
Update: Apparently, Vint Falken is experiencing the exact same thing.
