[Feature?] I think I found a secret server

census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/cha...r/1516123481376census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/cha...r/1516123482167

Both are off a server called jrohrssen worldid 353

Can we get an explination?

 

Nah...that is a mistake.

Each server is able to export data to our service by a simple configuration.  That is one of the developer's machine.  We found a couple of characters last week from "Nandy Land Too" (Zoltaroth) and "gspence" (Rothgar).  I can clean them up as we find them.

We are working on a way for each (actual) server to send world information to us so that we can gather more useful information - like a canonical mapping of worldid to world name (something that would be very useful).  We could also use this to ensure that we are only getting data from actual servers.

-dan

 

There are a couple of red herrings that hint they're not legitimate characters too.

Their main house is named "so-and-so's Cubicle", they're level 90 yet not wearing anything, and both characters know Antonican, Lucanic, and Argot. Although maybe that's possible now with changes to the PvP server?

 

Being a developer myself, I feared the naming conventions I would find if I stumbled on too many of these.

 

No matter...they are gone now.

-dan

 

Looking deeper, I've found a few more servers that had a few characters exported.  I'm cleaning those up this morning.

-dan

 

While you're looking, there's bit of those odd servers out there in the discovery info for items.  I finally decided to just use the servers from the server status feed and ignore the rest.