bugs

Karador has been down for days. So much for any automatic fail-safe measures meant to prevent that from happening.

Sorry to hear that. Didn't know it was a power failure. Not much anyone can do about that.

I'm guessing you added my Nixie character Sephra Oswello but instead of an overwrite, she doesn't appear in my folder. Not the old one or the new one. Maybe try adding her again?

I think I remember having a little trouble there or something similar with my silver dragon, but was able to fly or polymorph or something to get it done.

I think for the most part playing large creatures means you cant get into small places... without magical aid, be it polymorphing, teleporting, etc.

I suppose an argument could be made that some candles should not stop a huge spider-bodied creature from getting through.

Bug with "Wings" cloak, on death: inventory filled with them.

So my pixie died and dropped their stuff. When I revived I found my entire inventory filled with the "Wings" cloak. What I assume happened is that when the PC died, the 'copy to corpse' script fired and copied all items to the corpse, but when it coped the wings cloak, the cloak re-coped itself to my body, which the script then coped again, repeating until my inventory was full.

Now, the NEW cloaks can be dropped, unlike the old one, so I'm not stuck with a bunch in my inventory, and can just trash them, which is GOOD.
However, that means the next time I die, the cloak is unlikely to remain on my PC since it doesn't auto-copy any more, which would be BAD.



The same kind of thing happened to my normal human rogue, too, with the book "Things every rouge should know"... which I didn't even know the PC had a copy of. On death the book filled my inventory. No idea what was going on here, since I'd think that a book would not have a copy-back-on-lost script, but you never know!



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I'm assuming you guys are awesome scriptors and can fix this, but I figured I'd suggest ways to do it, anyway!


If all items that 'self copy' have the same tag, the 'copy to corpse' script could be updated to just not copy those items, based on tag. I don't think this is the case given the way the new cloaks don't auto copy, though.

The items that copy themselves could have the "copy BACK to the PC" portion (which is like 2 lines of code, usually - copy back + delete old) be set on a very short delay, like .1 to .3 seconds - just enough for the death 'copy to corpse' script to complete before another copy is made, which would prevent or limit the number of copies created.

Could create a script or otherwise use a local-var to flag all the items that are supposed to 'stick with you' and then the 'copy to corpse' script could just look for the flag and not copy/delete those items.

Instead of a delay, the special items that copy themselves back, could set their own flag on the copy made in the PC's inventory, and this flag could be read by the death script and the new items skipped - this would prevent  extra copies from being made, and would probably be the easiest to implement as you just adjust the special item script and death script without needing to create a script to flag all the items.

Obviously the solution depends on the implementation, and how universal the scripting is.

I've had characters in the past flooded with 1 single type of item after I recovered the character's body due to a death. I don't know why that happens but you could end up having a bunch of worthless junk or something valuable copied to storage max.


Also, there is a guy named Joe who played an Ogre Magi and the last time he played that character, I was adventuring with him. For some reason the game or something in the script of the race glitched and he became stuck in one spot and couldn't move. After leaving the game and returning the character somehow became so badly damaged (not combat damage but scripted damage) that he could never play it again and up to this point, I'm not sure if that issue or the character was ever fixed or a complete loss.