it's near radamant in hell, dont want to risk logging out and whatnot
i'll give you some pgems or something for your time
*whew* after a very long time i got it n/m|||Game / password don't match.
Edit: Okay
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Edit: Okay
took me about 45 min and i had 3k gold left in the bank (i had max when i started)
breathed a big sigh of relief.|||Quote:
took me about 45 min and i had 3k gold left in the bank (i had max when i started)
breathed a big sigh of relief.
just curious - what's wrong in creating a new game?|||Quote:
just curious - what's wrong in creating a new game?
I have heard stories about people losing all their gear if they die more than once. I stupidly thought I could get it easily so i died again trying to get it.|||(Disclaimer: This is stuff I've inferred mostly from experience. I haven't actually looked at the code or done any sort of testing on the topic, but I think it's mostly correct. There are some edge cases that I've probably missed, but the general rules of thumb should apply.)
You can lose gear while attempting to pick up your body only under very specific conditions -- or rather, the only way you lose gear is if you die while your body is still lying on the ground somewhere. This is because the game doesn't support "multiple dead bodies" of the same person - you can have only one dead body on the ground at a time.
In a situation where you die but already have a body on the ground, your original body (and equipment on that body) stays exactly where it is. But whatever it is that you're wearing on your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. death will all be dropped on the ground.
Thus, practically, the only way you can lose any of your originally-equipped gear is if you partially pick up the gear on your body and then immediately die again. How can this partial-pickup happen? Well, there are a couple ways for this to happen.
1. If you have something equipped when clicking on your body - e.g. "backup body retrieval gear", or anything you may have accidentally picked up from the ground and auto-equipped on your way to your body.
2. If your gear needs to be equipped in a certain order - e.g. you have a ring that gives you the 20 str that you need to wear your armor.
In both of these cases, the game will attempt to retrieve your full body instantly - first by putting your gear back on in their original slots, and if that doesn't work, then by putting the gear in your inventory.
If and only if the game fails to pick up all your gear on your character (either in your gear slots or in your inventory space), you will encounter this partially-picked-up-body scenario. And this is the point where it's the most dangerous - because if you die again, everything you have managed to pick up and equip so far will drop on the ground (ironically, anything you picked up but could not equip, but have gone into your inventory space will remain).
(Note: I also actually don't know what happens if you have partially picked up your body and then leave the game. I recall that in some past versions, the partial-body might actually "blow up" by dropping all the gear in it, but I think in the current version, it simply follows you to the next game.)
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Strategies for dealing with this:
1. The *safest* thing to do is actually to leave the game right away and either rejoin it or create a new one, so you can properly pick up your body in the safety of town. The most you'll lose in this case are the potions that were in your belt if your inventory didn't have enough space to hold them all when you died.
2. If you must remain in the game for whatever reason (i.e. the game hasn't been long enough for you to rejoin, you're playing single-player offline and don't want to lose progress or items dropped in town), then the *safest* strategy for getting your body is to ensure that you are *completely naked* when going to get your body. Unfortunately this is also the hardest to do, since the area where you died is likely crawling with mobs ready to 1-shot your gearless butt.
3. Thus, if you have to use backup gear to retrieve your body, I'd recommend doing the following:
- equip backup gear in town
- travel to the vicinity where your body is at, and try to lead the mobs away from your body
- tp home
- take a different route to your body, where it should be clear now
- DO NOT pick up your body right away; instead tp home again
- unequip your backup gear in town (drop it on the ground or put it in your bank)
- take the tp back and pick up your body with nothing equipped and preferably an empty inventory
Note that this is a pretty risky option - specifically, if you die with your backup gear on, it will most likely drop on the ground when you die. I don't recall if the game will try to dump the gear you're wearing into your inventory first (it might - this should be easy to test) or if it just drops it straight into the ground. But this approach should theoretically guarantee that your original gear remains intact.|||Quote:
You can lose gear while attempting to pick up your body only under very specific conditions:
1. You click on your body while you have something equipped - you will pick up all your gear except for the slots for which you already have gear equipped. The gear that didn't get equipped will "drop" from your body onto the ground. To avoid this, just don't equip any "backup gear" before clicking on your body and avoid picking up any gear on your way there...
2. Your gear must be equipped in a certain order to fulfill the stats requirements on certain pieces. e.g. your armor requires 150 str to equip, and you only have 140 base str because you rely on other pieces (i.e. ring, belt, gloves, w/e) to get you to the 150 str threshold. In this case, it's a toss-up on what happens first (someone who knows the code/specific order in which gear gets picked up from your body could probably answer this though). If your prerequisite gear is picked up before the piece with the stat requirement is picked up, then you'll be fine. Otherwise, the piece you're unable to wear with base stats may get dropped on the ground.
Thus, when you die, the *safest* thing to do is actually to leave the game right away and either rejoin it or create a new one, so you can properly pick up your body in the safety of town. The most you'll lose in this case are the potions that were in your belt if your inventory didn't have enough space to hold them all when you died.
Wow good information.. i wish you'd post more than once every 2 years hahaha|||Quote:
Wow good information.. i wish you'd post more than once every 2 years hahaha
People like you are probably the reason why he doesn't post very often. GREAT. Now we wont hear from him until 2013/ GG STEVIE|||Actually, sorry - that was actually some pretty egregiously incorrect information (brain caching error). I'm going to edit and update the post with the correct information instead.|||Quote:
People like you are probably the reason why he doesn't post very often. GREAT. Now we wont hear from him until 2013/ GG STEVIE
Hahahaha SORRY!!!!
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