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How to handle beta characters

Hey,

Is there a reason the beta characters pop up with /v2/characters? For my usage they’re a bit annoying and I don’t really see a reason why they appear there in the first place. The bank api endpoint /v2/account/bank completely ignores the fact that beta characters even exist (since they have their own copy of the bank).

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Posted by: Lawton Campbell

Lawton Campbell

Web Programmer

It’s because they look just like normal characters, except they’ve got a flag set that we’re not currently extracting from the character blobs. I’ve been meaning to fix that but keep forgetting.

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Posted by: Kasoki.7013

Kasoki.7013

Lawton Campbell.8517:
I’ve been meaning to fix that but keep forgetting.

Haha, that reason feels somehow familiar. Anyway would be really cool if you guys could fix that^^.

Thanks.

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Posted by: Nabrok.9023

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It’s actually useful for me to have beta characters shown.

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Posted by: Lawton Campbell

Lawton Campbell

Web Programmer

Nabrok.9023:
It’s actually useful for me to have beta characters shown.

They’ll still be shown, eventually there will be a flag to indicate that the char is a beta char.

Dunno when it’ll land on live though.

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Posted by: rodadams.5963

rodadams.5963

Presumably, this issue goes away in late October, so I’m not sure it’s worth any level of priority vs things which will stick around for longer.

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Posted by: Lawton Campbell

Lawton Campbell

Web Programmer

rodadams.5963:
Presumably, this issue goes away in late October, so I’m not sure it’s worth any level of priority vs things which will stick around for longer.

It’s actually already done, but the part that reads the account/character blobs follows the normal game release cycle (which is a rather long release cycle since it involves QA and stuff). Web stuff is outside that release cycle (which is why we can hotfix stuff in under an hour and without requiring a game patch), so I lose track of which releases with what are going out when.