Descriptive Problem Summary:

As of the last two or three days when logging into games I have a subscription to it'll fail to recognize me as a subscriber. Only seems to happen occasionally, but still enough to be an annoyance. Reconnecting to the game usually resolves the issue after 1-3 tries.

It seems to be related to the amount of 'lag' between myself and the server in question. I'm guessing some kind of timeout is triggering somewhere. Seems to happen a lot less often when my connection isn't being taxed and/or poorly connected.

Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:

1) Join a game which you're subscribed to.
2) (Randomly?) Fail to have a subscription to said game.

Expected Results:

Subscriptions to be properly authorized and locally cached in sauth.

Actual Results:

Subscription being recognized as expired or non-existent, sauth entry removed as no longer valid.

Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often? Seemingly random, but perhaps connected to connection latency.
In other games? I've managed to reproduce this in every game I currently have a subscription to; namely NEStalgia and Eternia.
In other user accounts? I don't have any subscriptions on other accounts.
On other computers? Yes, I've tried on my laptop, and a netbook of a friend's -- both on the same connection.

When does the problem NOT occur?

When it doesn't feel like happening? Seriously though, seems to happen when it wants and not happen in the same respect.

Did the problem NOT occur in any earlier versions? If so, what was the last version that worked? (Visit http://www.byond.com/download/build to download old versions for testing.)

The last time I experienced this it was during the earliest betas of the new pager and it vanished before I filed a report, hasn't happened since until recently. Back then using a non-beta version of BYOND resolved the problem 100% of the time. Now, however, the problem is happening on both 498 and 499 releases.

Workarounds:

Reconnect to the game until it recognizes your subscription.