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LeoTHELion

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Sack bug
« on: May 05, 2007, 05:37:20 am »
I have found a bug that is involved with sacks and it needs to be fixed before people can use it succesfuly. It involves how the weight in your inventory is calculated.

This is how the bug works:
If you open the sack, and drag an item from your inventory to the sack inventory WHILE the sack is still in your inventory, the weight calculation system thinks that you are taking the item out of your inventory, thus it reduces the weight. You can do this with up to 12 items in a sack. So you can practically carry infinite items without the weight going down.

These are things that reset the weight in your inventory:
If you move a sack using the bug, the weight will reset according to how much weight that is in the sack.
Whenever items are equipped/unequipped, the weight will sometimes recalculate
If you try to trade the sack with items, and if the other person declines, the sack will either be dropped, or it will go back to your inventory adding weight.

WHY it works:
Whenever something is moved outside of the MAIN inventory, the calculator thinks that you are taking out weight, when in fact you are actually putting it into a sack which is already in your inventory. but the calculator does not know that the sack is in your inventory.  This is why you have to open (right-click) the sack before trying to put items in.

WHY you shouldnt use it:
1. It is clearly against the rules and is obvious when you are using it.
2. You can lose your items
3. You may be 'stuck' with the items and you wont be able to trade, equip, or do anything with your items except drop them
4. You WILL get  banned for using it. (I think)

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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2007, 06:26:41 am »
Supposedly the next patch will fix this... of course, I've said this before so I could be wrong again  8)
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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2007, 10:42:33 am »
Weight and capacity isn't forced yet, even with the new system. It's planned though :D
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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2007, 02:38:10 pm »
I have found a bug that is involved with sacks and it needs to be fixed before people can use it succesfuly. It involves how the weight in your inventory is calculated.

Supposedly the next patch will fix this... of course, I've said this before so I could be wrong again  8)

The bug has been discovered quickly after the sacks had been implented and its already used by plenty of players.
Well lets hope it to be fixed later. but im not sure if they have a clue to it as we are waiting for a long time to it be corrected.
do they found a possible solution? otherwise im not towards playing with it lol
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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2007, 10:45:35 pm »
It's not a bug, it's just not implemented yet.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!(tm) :P
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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2007, 08:54:21 pm »
It's not a bug, it's just not implemented yet.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!(tm) :P

So does that mean you are allowed to use it? Because if it is not against the rules them I'm using it! I just want to clarify first.

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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2007, 09:04:12 pm »
I suspect it is one of those things that cannot really be enforced but is discouraged all the same. You may find little sympathy from a gm if you run into problems while exploiting it.

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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2007, 09:49:05 pm »
I suspect it is one of those things that cannot really be enforced but is discouraged all the same. You may find little sympathy from a gm if you run into problems while exploiting it.

My guild and I have tested the limits of the bug and we encountered problems whilst trading. That's the only downside to the "bug". I dont think I want to risk losing items. It is mainly used for mining I think.

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Re: Sack bug
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2007, 10:19:19 pm »
A release will be soon out, it might or might not enforce the sack restrictions. Anyway it should fix this bug with dragging items from your sack to your inventory and weight calculations.
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