Hey Gang!
I think I've figured something out that is actually a new bug.
About a week ago, I created a character in my 5th slot by deleting the previous character and starting over again. At first level, I went in, talked to my initial contact, and then went out to do some street sweeping to get a few levels under my belt. I noticed that when I tried to attack, *all* of the buttons (even slots that had no powers in them on both bars) lit up, like all of them were pressed at the same time. My character ran up to engage (at range, since he was a blaster), but... he just stood there in a fighting stance.
After about 40 seconds, the attack that I had originally pressed went off. The two thugs ran after me and promptly pummeled me into a lump, as it was another 30-40 seconds before my attack actually went off. Please note that this isn't when I tried to trigger it. As soon as it cycled, I had the power queued, but it took far longer than it should for the power to go off.
Despite this fact, I worked to get the character up to 4th level so that I had several attacks to test against. This, in itself, was a painful process of waiting for an attack to go off, running away until it finally went off again, and literally kiting a single target until it was enough to take them down.
At 4th level, all 3 of my attacks had the same issue. Once an attack was triggered, it took anywhere from 30-40 seconds for the power to go off, and about the same length of time again before it would fire once it was queued.
I tried my other alts. They all seemed to have the same issue... so I messaged the admins from Facebook and told them that I thought maybe the server needed to be rebooted, and explained what was going on. I logged in tonight on my main, and all my attacks seemed to be working properly. I tried several of my level 20+ alts, and everything was working fine.
I went back to my level 4, only to find that I was still having the same issue as before. None of the other alts on my primary account were having problems, just the one that I had made a new alt in the 5th slot for. -Problem Noted-
I went to my alternate account and tried the one character (also level 20) without issue. So, I went back to my primary account, deleted the 5th character and made another new one. Same performance issue when trying to trigger a power. Deleted the character in the 5th character slot again.
I logged back into my alternate account and remade the same character I was having issues with on my primary account, and iVoila!, it worked like it was supposed to.
So... something is going on with the character creation process when trying to make a new character in a slot where a character existed before. This may have something to do with how the record is stored in the SQL backend. Maybe the way the table is joined is causing issues, or maybe there is something else that I know nothing about that could be causing the problem. Whatever the case may be, it doesn't appear to be purging the data for the character slot completely, or there is another bug that I don't know where to start commenting on. Whatever the issue is, you will probably want to look into it.
Hope this is helpful in some way. Thanks.