Vanishing wand

Arkadia Misella · Post by **Arkadia Misella** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:41 pm

I just tried to give someone a magic wand....and I dragged and dropped it to where they were standing. Then all of a sudden the wand appeared on the ground momentarily like 10 spaces behind us, then it vanished. Neither myself or the other person have the wand and I feel some glitched just nabbed this expensive little thing. Is there anyway I can get it back???

Randelon Morgental · Post by **Randelon Morgental** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:28 pm

I had the same Problem...
When i took my wand, it disapeared to nowhere...

Falk vom Wald · Post by **Falk vom Wald** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:01 pm

This might be the reason for what happened:

Every single item has a time to rot when lying somewhere on the ground, after that time it disappears. But: this is not a absolute amount of time, but a number of cycles. A magic wand has a rot cycle of only one period, so if you lay down the wand just a second before the next cycle period ends, it will disappear one second later. If you lay it down just after a period ended, it may lay there for some longer, as long as the period takes.
I am not sure, if this is understandable, but I do not know how to describe it in a better way.

Grant Herion · Post by **Grant Herion** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:36 pm

Will this ever be taken out? Because then it would be dangerous to trade large sums of money for large sums of materials.

Falk vom Wald · Post by **Falk vom Wald** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:14 pm

It was that way all the time, it's nothing new.

Randelon Morgental · Post by **Randelon Morgental** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:27 pm

It did not lay on the ground, it was in my bare hands...
I put it into my bagpack and it disappeared...

Falk vom Wald · Post by **Falk vom Wald** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:34 pm

Good to know, so it was something else.

Rynt · Post by **Rynt** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:45 pm

Valuable items, like wands, should decay slower.

Falk vom Wald · Post by **Falk vom Wald** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:30 pm

Rynt · Post by **Rynt** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:11 pm

Well, if you make rarer items like wands decay in two cycles instead of one, it would be far less likely for things to vanish while trading.

Arkadia Misella · Post by **Arkadia Misella** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:07 pm

Well, it really sucks to take an item worth 20 ingots pretty much, set it on the ground and then poof....the wand walks away. I was actually yelling at my computer I was so mad, which I am sure was a funny sight to my room mate. It is especially annoying when you had just bought it.

Klith · Post by **Klith** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:10 pm

Swearing at your computer is not strange, it's your right as a microsoft user, usually.

Nilo · Post by **Nilo** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:13 pm

Ark, I did the same thing.... Luckily i had 7..

Armil Darken · Post by **Armil Darken** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:01 am

Actually read the license agreement for windows. natrually its illegal to dis microsoft products you own.

Nilo · Post by **Nilo** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:42 am

You ACTUALY READ THOSE?! LOL!

Klith · Post by **Klith** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:42 pm

It's just as well I don't OWN what I have ... shhh!

Just kidding, honest!