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[nevelis]

It's taken all night but we've got it. The problem actually came from eAthena; a bug got committed which corrupted the order things were in in the inventory. This will be affecting every private server in the world, including 3rd class servers.

Now I hate to complain, but I usually submit bugs with fixes to both eAthena & 3CeAM. However last time I submitted a bug with the full fix, someone with an unusually swollen ego put the changes in with their name on it, so I thought "well, that's the last bug report you get from me!" - and it turns out that this bug was put in by this very person. What goes around comes around, huh? =3

End rant - there have been a number of you who have accidentally sold gears to NPCs. I will be constructing a list of all refined, carded & rare gears that have been sold to NPCs since the bug was introduced. If you have lost some of your main items that you use for hunting/PVP/GVG, please contact a GM Assistant immediately, and we can see if they have been sold. However if you have lost gear and it's not vitally important that you have it back right away, we appreciate your patience. This will take a while to undo, but we're committed to returning everyone's equipment accidentally sold to NPCs.

Cheers,
The team at MC

[Shizuhiku]

Yay Nev come to rescue

[theragon]

Can't wait to get my item back

[Grey]

Yay! Thank you for all your hard work!

Also, snickering about Mr. Swelled Ego. I guess people will find out soon enough he doesn't quite have the HAX SKILLZ he wants to be praised for, huh?

[Zander]

Inventory bug NOT fixed =)
Have had over a dozen problems within today, and dozens more the other night.
Sorry for raining or your parade ~

[Shinori]

Yeah, like Zander said.. it's still not fixed =\ I still get it randomly

[nevelis]

Can you describe the problem more, Zander? The inventory bug that was fixed is if you took items out of your inventory, then stored one with a lower item ID, then change maps, When you take out another item it will stack at the wrong index in your inventory. The client displays the little message thing at the top of the screen & the correct text in the message window, but the wrong item changes in your inventory. The problem was caused because eAthena made a change that your inventory gets sent down to the client, then it is sorted on the server, which results in the items in the client's inventory being in the wrong order.

Is this exactly the problem you're having or is it different?

[Think]

Hmm well I don't know about their problems but today I identified a Halo and it still appeared in my hand as unidentified until I @refreshed

Add- was in bio3, dropped an unidentified katar, dropped as the cecil damon card in my inventory

[Zander]

Yeah, that thing you described, Nev, sounds just about right. I'll teleport and then my Fly wings will become my Ygg Berries and I'll use all my Yggs try to teleport again. Or I'll enter a castle and my equipted gears will have NO effect. My headgear with my Maya P card didn't work untill I took it off, refreshed and put it back on. That's REALLY annoying, this also happened while i was MVPing. my GR didn't work and I kept getting pwnt in the bum hole by EQ. After 4 deaths I finally realized why, lol.

[h4ngedm4n]

Hey, I experienced something I believe is related to this inventory bug. I selected 3 items (the 2 daggers and one of the guitars) to sell to the merchant NPC in prontera, but it actually unequipped and sold 3 other items instead. Here is a screenshot so you can see what happened. Hopefully there is some information here to help iron out the bug. As none of the lost items were terribly crucial, no worries about getting them back.

[Think]

[Zander]

Yeah! We had 104 Ice Picks, we refreshed and they were gone! Dx! Give use our Ice Picks back plox!! .... hehe.....

[Skoiipion]

It's tew badz that weapons don't stack in your inventory. I smell a lie!!!!

[Think]

Umm- er- umm *thinks fast* well you see, a little known fact, when you get over 100 they do that! /ok *totally legit face*

[Cruz]

Eh, it's called Cheat Engine.

[Zander]

Yeah, if you're going to compose this inventory glitch a false image through the use of "Cheat Engine" go ahead, but this is a real bug that can really fucked with your items. If you have this inventory glitch while dropping useless items that you looted, or NPCing them then you just lost them, for good.
It's quite clear that this bug has NOT been fixed as there are still people complaining on and off in main chat about it using their potions istead of flys, or turning their fly wing numbers into card numbers. We've already lost a few decent items this way, and some people have lost the very gears they were wearing. So....

Please
Fix
It
Thanks.

[nevelis]

The bug I described to Think was the one I had fixed. Doing those exact steps as I had described them would corrupt inventory EVERY time, and now I cannot reproduce it, at all.

Think - do you have any idea about the sequence of events to get your inventory to report that many Ice Picks? Did you change maps, did you take items out of storage, I know it's a long shot to remember, but anything you can remember may help track this down. Also did @refresh fix this for you again?

I will put in another fix which is not so elegant but it will make sure your inventory is forcibly refreshed when you enter a map.

Also, there will be a 'buy-back' list on the website soon, where you can buy back the items you've sold to NPCs for the zeny value that you sold them for. But that will go up once the bug has been confirmed fixed.

[Zander]

Think: I pulled out 15 steel and saw my Ice Picks turn into them, then I pulled out about 90 more. Yes, @refresh fixed the problem, once again.

(Psst, make sure the over charge price is included in the site. I foresee a HUGE exploit on that! lol >.<)
Also, I really like that idea. Sounds pretty awsome!

[nevelis]

We won't need that. The logs have how much you've sold the item for. In most cases, selling expensive gears & cards is around 10z. I'm not worried if people make 3 zeny per item they've lost. But that doesn't apply, since they can get back the items at the cost they paid for them.

A fix is committed; we'll do a restart before midnight to apply the fix.

[nevelis]

The restart has happened, can you please post any updates about issues you're having with inventory/storage. And the title has been renamed to one more appropriate until it's cleared