Wasn’t either of these things. But good try anyways. As a programmer, you should know everything isn’t always simple.
I mean, if you want to completely ignore what’s on testlive…
3D Artists are not coders. Game development has specializations in the different jobs that people do and have skills for, and 3D art and C++ code do not cross over what so ever. The existing DLC’s do not require coders to tackle either.
This bug? It’s being worked on and they are hoping to have a fix for it soon.
What does your event log say? Unfortunately, the very limited information you provided here won’t be helpful to the developer team. If you would like to see a bug fixed, post a bug report with as much information that you can.
A few causes, but it’s high on Funcom’s list of things they are working on trying to improve.
This has been a persistent bug for a while with multiple causes. Funcom I think is re-approaching this one though to stamp it out for good as Ignasis posted recently they are working on a very specific solution for it.
Other then all of that, there is a huge patch currently being finalized. It should be here at the end of the week, or sometime next week (PC platform), pending any further setbacks. Consoles will receive their own huge patch after the patch is finalized and is sent off to Microsoft and Sony for certification.