BATTLEGROUNDS Disguise Names Lag The Servers

[G33ke]

Service (MCSG/SGC/QQ/BG/ZC/Creative/Teamspeak): BG (Battlegrounds.)
Server Number / Gametype / Region (If applicable): All servers, Battlegrounds, US.
Time (With timezone): Monday, July 21st, 3 PM PST. (About an hour to an hour and a half before this report was posted.)

Description of the bug: When a disguised player joins any Battlegrounds server, the server begins to lag heavily. Should the disguised player leave, the server will resume as normal. The player is able to rejoin without the disguise name and it will continue working as normal.

(Thanks Sixzo for helping me record this.)

I believe this may be caused somehow by the leaderboards. The leaderboards must get confused when a disguised player joins, possibly not knowing how to display the name, or where to pull it from? That's all I can imagine is the cause.

 

[Roluctive]

your alive!

 

[Pixelatorx2]

Congrats! Its the first actual "bug" someone has found, not a map glitch or something they knew about :O


But I cant see how it would cause lag, when it really only should be a display name that they change (and other things ofc, but they would only need to display the displayname, which you can change within bukkit). Weird, might be a glitch with bukkit itself.

 

[G33ke]

But I cant see how it would cause lag, when it really only should be a display name that they change (and other things ofc, but they would only need to display the displayname, which you can change within bukkit). Weird, might be a glitch with bukkit itself.

Seems to be exclusive to Battlegrounds, so the only thing I can assume is that is has to do with the one thing that needs to pull names from players: The leaderboards. Since these leaderboards are partly a Minecraft feature, it may have to do with Minecraft's scoreboard system, or yes, potentially Bukkit's modifications, if any, to said system... Hoping this isn't the case, because that's a tough thing to work around.

Side note: If you guys (devs) need more footage, I have plenty. We tested this numerous times on several different Battlegrounds servers, and it always happens. When I continued to play without Sixzo, the next time a disguised player other than him joined, sure enough, it happened again. This player, however, did not leave, and it disrupted gameplay quite a bit. (Many players were calling out the lag after about 20 seconds of it straight - so no, it wasn't just me.)

 

[SixZoSeven]

I take full credit for this.

Thanks goes to my secretary, G33ke, however.

 

[kpwn243]

This issue has been fixed. Thanks for the report! TL