Automatic Stacking - Please remove this feature

[saamu]

Automatic Stacking - Any item moved from furnace, forge, combination table, hand (dequip), ground (pickup) into an empty inventory slot is automatically stacked onto a similar item that is currently in inventory. I have a 300Q SS in inventory. Just made a 180Q SS. Move the 180Q from the table to an empty slot in my inventory. The game automatically stacked the 180Q onto the 300Q giving me two 240Q (approximately). I lost a irreplaceable 300Q SS. (*sigh* hopefully replaceable  in the future)

I believe this auto feature was added in response to the complains regarding the 'dishonest' stacking method of making 300Q swords. Auto stacking will not allow anyone (er... maybe only me) to craft (well keep) quality anything. Anything newly crafted will be averaged out giving average quality. There is no work around that I can think of. Even trading will auto stack I believe (There is a bug report on averaging of two different quality swords when traded)

I heard that someone is working on this, to this someone (I believe I know who it is) my heartfelt thanks. I will like the old method back, meaning let me put my newly crafted item in the slot that I want and stack if I want.

[neko kyouran]

http://planeshift.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/planeshift/planeshift/docs/history.txt

*** 2007-07-25 by Rakhun applied by Tom Towey
- Added a precise paramater for check stackable with calls.
- Added check for item quality for some stack attempts.
- Removed check for guild it prevented players from sharing resources.
- Checks if quality, max quality, and owner are different for autostacking.
- Made sure we do not care about quality checking for spawned stacks.
- Made sure we allow players to specificly stack items if they want regardless of quality and creater matching.

[Beliy]

http://planeshift.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/planeshift/planeshift/docs/history.txt

*** 2007-07-25 by Rakhun applied by Tom Towey.

Just out of curiosity, when patches like this are checked in to cvs, what is the process for getting them in game? I assume that it is server side code that will require a server restart? 

I just now checked for client updates and there were none, but the stacking problem still is occurring. I had two 110/110 daggers in my inventory and crafted on that was 85/85 and it went right on top of the other two and created 3 101/101 daggers. <Edit> To clarify, I did place the newly crafted dagger into an empty slot</Edit> . I point this out not so much to nag anyone, as to say "hey, if this problem is thought to be fixed in game, it isn't."

Beliy

[Nairan]

will be in next client version , so soon (tm).