Post by Wids on Aug 23, 2017 21:57:54 GMT -5
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Okay, now this is a frustrating one: Some of my pets have — apparently at random — disappeared while I was crossing transitions. No magical "Unsummoning" special effects, no "Unsummoning Such-and-such" text in the Battle Spam box...nothing. One screen, my pet's following my character and its portrait-interface thingie is hovering right underneath my character's portrait-options-interface thingie in the Upper Right. The next screen — after the transition — both the pet and the pet's portrait are simply gone. Vanished without a trace.
This has happened several times with Tristoneira's Dead Rats (complements of her Talona's Curse doodads), and it has also happened several times with Ashanti's new animal companion. It hasn't happened to Tristoneira's familiar yet, but that may be because I don't call up her familiar very often (because as delicate as familiars are, I don't want to risk the heady XP loss that this server imposes every time a familiar dies; at least animal companions are somewhat durable and can usually be unsummoned before the deathblow descends). But in safe conditions, I might try crossing several transitions with Trist's familiar in tow and see what happens.
These vanishings have happened a few times when I've crossed a transition and crossed right back over it (usually after realizing, "Oops, this is the wrong way!" or "Oops, I forgot something!"). But it also seems to happen when I'm just crossing transitions cross-country. I can deal with it if I lose a pet because I was being stupid, or because an enemy Forest Ogre landed a lucky Critical. At least with those conditions, I have some degree of control over whether or not I lose the critter. But losing a pet just from the simple act of crossing a transition can deprive me of a valuable flanker or a needful speed bump between the enemy and me, all through no fault of my own.
So does anyone have any idea what might be causing this pet-obliterating glitch?
Big Honkin' Screenshot 2
Okay, now this is a frustrating one: Some of my pets have — apparently at random — disappeared while I was crossing transitions. No magical "Unsummoning" special effects, no "Unsummoning Such-and-such" text in the Battle Spam box...nothing. One screen, my pet's following my character and its portrait-interface thingie is hovering right underneath my character's portrait-options-interface thingie in the Upper Right. The next screen — after the transition — both the pet and the pet's portrait are simply gone. Vanished without a trace.
This has happened several times with Tristoneira's Dead Rats (complements of her Talona's Curse doodads), and it has also happened several times with Ashanti's new animal companion. It hasn't happened to Tristoneira's familiar yet, but that may be because I don't call up her familiar very often (because as delicate as familiars are, I don't want to risk the heady XP loss that this server imposes every time a familiar dies; at least animal companions are somewhat durable and can usually be unsummoned before the deathblow descends). But in safe conditions, I might try crossing several transitions with Trist's familiar in tow and see what happens.
These vanishings have happened a few times when I've crossed a transition and crossed right back over it (usually after realizing, "Oops, this is the wrong way!" or "Oops, I forgot something!"). But it also seems to happen when I'm just crossing transitions cross-country. I can deal with it if I lose a pet because I was being stupid, or because an enemy Forest Ogre landed a lucky Critical. At least with those conditions, I have some degree of control over whether or not I lose the critter. But losing a pet just from the simple act of crossing a transition can deprive me of a valuable flanker or a needful speed bump between the enemy and me, all through no fault of my own.
So does anyone have any idea what might be causing this pet-obliterating glitch?
