Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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On my server often - but not always - messages like "U-Damage has been exhausted." or "The Jump Boots have drained." are posted twice one after another. Also the message after joining a Jailbreak game that Zeroping is used is posted twice.

Any ideas what can be the cause for this?

EDIT: During this discussion here viewtopic.php?f=15&t=12361 I came to the conclusion that Nali Weapons 3 is the reason for that in the way it handles the damage mutator.
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Re: Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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The ExpireMessage is issued by function UsedUp() which is defined in Pickup. I'd look at the server's code if UsedUp is called twice in a way.
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Re: Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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Probably the code in the 2 mutators called it once (So we might have 2 here) since they were made like that.
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Re: Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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Yeah, I dislike when that happens as well but have not really looked into it yet.
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Barbie wrote:The ExpireMessage is issued by function UsedUp()
Chamberly wrote:Probably the code in the 2 mutators called it once
Other mutators like ZeroPing103 post their messages in some gametypes also twice.
I have now removed ALL mutators and mods from my server testwise except the bonus packs, zeroping and jailbreak mod.

Result:
Zeroping posts its messages in Jailbreak mod still twice, so there is no other mutator responsible for that.
Also I went through the server.ini (server config) and found nothing special that can produce this misbehaviour.
I don't think that i realized this on the server as it was a nearly clean install.

So something strange happens in recent years but I don't know why :shock:

Does somebody has a similar situation perhaps with other mutators and their messages?
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Re: Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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On my server [...] messages [...] are posted twice
May I ask what kind of server that is respectively how it is set up?
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Re: Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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It's a Linux 4.51 server. As I have written before I tested it with bonus packs + zeroping + jailbreak mod or one time with doublejumput instead zeroping.
No other special configuration exists. No XserverQuery, no XC_Core ...
Gamespeed is 1.15 but I don't think that this could trigger it.
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Re: Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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Can you reproduce the double pickup messages? If so, I'd remove ALL mutators and then try again that map. If now the double message is a single one, I'd add the mutators one by one and test again. So you'll find the responsible mutator (assumed the reason is one of the mutators).
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Re: Why some ingame messages appears twice?

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See default FlashLight how ends the charge and or an empty weapon at switching attempt. I really don't want to know how many codes are twice called for no purpose: SniperRifle has no ammo, /NewLine/ SniperRifle has no ammo. Aha is a check like at Passwords: Enter New Password, Repeat New PassWord... :ironic:
Player must be convinced twice when has no ammo for desired weapon...
Exist a solution: Keep items charged and weaponry loaded with some like "Unlimited" called stuff. If you don't have such things I can write some dumb stuff against double messages by keeping you loaded constantly...
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