spawning bugs?

[MelloYell]

so theres a lot of weird things going on with spawnings in one town.

awhile back, my char had not gone inside since the spawning of char (a). she had not been on the road...she had been no where but in town. well, i was looking at the char list, and suddenly, there was a newspawn! i didnt remember seeing her spawn and she had never spoken, and she wasnt a traveller. i know because i opened up the event log and did a search for the phrases that appears when people spawn or travel into town. there was no such message ever since the spawning of char (a). i didnt really think to say anything of it though, figuring it was some bug, until something else weird happened today.

you know how usually, the youngest spawn gets placed at the very bottom of the list, so the newspawns, in terms of age, are placed oldest to younges? well today, char (1) spawned, and about...20? minutes later, char (2) spawned. but char (2) shows up above char (1) on the people list.

[Snickie]

I can't explain the second paragraph, but as for the third, I'm pretty sure that spawning order on the People tab is determined by the hour and the day of the spawn, not the minute.

Of course, though, I could be wrong, and it's SUPPOSED to be ordered by character ID, and if they are not in ascending order (I.e. 267, 326, 3726, 7259, and so on) then it could be a bug of sorts and probably worth checking out.

[SekoETC]

My theory was that characters are arranged by spawnday and player, so if someone's player had registered earlier, they would show up higher on the list if the spawnday was the same, but I checked the code and they are arranged by character id so there doesn't seem to be a logical explanation as to why it happens like that. The hour of when someone spawns is not recorded, only the day, but like I said, the function sorts them by id. It happened to my character once that he spawned and there was someone younger than him on the list. I just checked the db for those ids and the other character does have a smaller id, so logically he should have been above my character on the list, but he wasn't.

But I think there's some thing that characters exist from the moment someone accepts a new account, but they're marked as pending and that makes them invisible until the player accesses them. Maybe the spawning event isn't created in that case, or maybe it happened over a week ago and the player took that long to notice their acceptance email? This is just speculation.