While fixing errors and culling forum bots, i found a bug report from late 2019.
I missed it when it was posted, but knew of the problem as i had experienced it myself.
This bug was respawns being invisible and characters being attacked by these invisiable respawns.
i am not familiar with this codebase and wasnt many players except me and my kids, so wasnt a big deal then. recently, we have begun playing more and this was causing problems. i made time this past weekend to look into it. it took me most of the day, but i found the problem and fixed it.
all characters are able to see what attacks them in the wild.
there are still invis guards and invis town patrollers, but they're supposed to be invisible.
In other news, Forum Registrations have been re-enabled. I still have not had time to link forums to game accounts yet, but it is on the todo list.
see ya ingame
~me