The character respawns as a fresh spawn when I log off or the server restarts at very random times. In addition, sometimes when I log in, the character I spawn as will be a character I thought I had lost long ago. This issue seems to be extremely random; I did some in depth testing, spawning on several different servers, restarting the game without exiting normally, and restarting my computer. Overall, I still can't predict when I'm going to spawn as a fresh spawn when I hadn't previously died when I logged off, whether I log in on the same server I had been on previously or not. Very serious bug that is making the game extremely frustrating, so I'm hoping it will get fixed soon.