Okay so I love doll-makers, especially making dolls based on my characters. So I figured I would share the ones I make based on my TEF characters here.

I've been having this problem a lot lately, though I've really only noticed it happening during the process of connecting, before the pictos have spread. My deer will get up and move while I'm doing something in another window. Even if they're sleeping. I never used to have this problem until recently. Right now it's not a big deal except I don't want my deer to be moving around when I am connected without me controlling them.

Everyone stopped moving. Then suddenly, everyone vanished. My connection had gone kaput.
That's not so unusual, even though I haven't had it happen in a long time.
The funny thing was, just as I was logging in again, I saw a bunch of "naked" deer run by, then vanish, right before pictos started gathering.
There were some glitches when I logged in, too. The deer around me stood up, sat down, stood up, sat down again--which I've seen before, but then a clone suddenly appeared, and it was running in place, then everyone glitched to different spots at the same time the clone vanished.

Oh, and then two nameless deer showed up, which is nothing strange (if unusual to see more than one at a time), but for a second I wondered if the "phantom deer" I saw while connecting were back...

Everything happened too fast for me to get screenshots, even if I'd thought of it.

This is a big one. WARNING: MAY KILL YOUR COMPUTER or at least slow it down
I don't think these are all in the right order but whatever.

I've had problems with pictos not spreading completely, and it seems that I sometimes can't see everyone that is actually in the forest. I also sometimes can't see actions--I just saw someone (I can't tell who bc they appeared with my picto and no set, and according to the map were in a group of more deer than I could actually see, so I couldn't tell which one I was seeing) who seemed to be moving without their legs moving, meaning I couldn't see their animations even though I have it set to show all animations.

I already have a thread about my connection issues, so I don't need to discuss that here. I just want to let people know I'm not meaning to ignore anyone. If my deer is not sitting, sleeping, or listening, and doesn't react to you (or bows but otherwise doesn't react or just headtilts a lot), either I can't see you at all or can't see your actions.

Okay so my internet connection is good but I haven't been able to connect to TEF. For most of the week, I had issues with pictos not spreading, or only partly spreading. I tried uninstalling TEF, deleting all the files, and then reinstalling it. Now it just says "network status: none". It was doing that yesterday and today. I don't know what to do about it.

edit: Okay that's weird, seems like the "network status: none" happens when I have nature detail turned all the way down. As soon as I turn it up, it starts connecting.

Still not connecting completely though.

So sometimes my game lags, and today it's particularly bad. It's hard for me to see what others are doing since it so often looks like they're not moving, and it seems to last a long time. I think I'll just have to give up for now.

If this happens in the future, you might see my deer acting strangely, reacting slowly or not at all, stop moving for a while, appear to be stuck in an animation loop (like running in place), or appearing to "teleport" from one place to another.

I don't know why this is happening now, considering I never used to have problems with lag except when in huge groups. I also seem to have more connection problems than I remember having in the past. I don't know if those are related or not.

Additionally, I've had some odd glitches that I never used to have. Sometimes I see deer without their set, or missing part of their set. It seems to be fixed if I (or presumably someone else) cast a spell on them and then they sneeze it off (so if my deer randomly casts a spell on yours, I might be trying to fix that glitch, though in some cases it might also be a form of play).

One time I saw someone with my picto, and the default pelt, but still had the skull mask and noh antlers, and their correct picto was on the map. Today I just had someone show up as nameless--they appeared to have the entire default set as well as my picto, while the map showed the correct picto. So, again, my deer might act strangely if this happens, and it's another reason I might randomly cast a spell (to check if what I see as a nameless is really a nameless, especially since the map isn't always right).