0010084: Merc coins respawn in regions - DEV Arcen

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0010084	Valley 2	Bug - Gameplay		Dec 20, 2012 10:22 pm	Jan 3, 2013 3:48 pm

Reporter	madcow	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	0.706
Fixed in Version	0.708

Summary	0010084: Merc coins respawn in regions
Description	After taking a mercenary coin in a region if you leave the region (or die), when you come back the merc coin is back (and you still have the one picked up). This seems most likely a bug as somebody could just grind up 25 coins running through the same region repeatedly. Why somebody would want to do that is another question entirely.
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Internal Weight	Fix Before Major Release

Gemzo Dec 20, 2012 10:30 pm reporter ~0029219	This isn't always the case. In one case of mine, a coin permanently vanished after being picked up like 5 times.

madcow Dec 20, 2012 10:45 pm reporter ~0029220	Interesting, I haven't tested how many times they'll respawn, I know it was at last 3 times though so I assume it would keep on doing it. I'll have to see if I can find a region with an easy to get to coin and check how often it respawns.

tigersfan Dec 21, 2012 2:41 pm reporter ~0029237	Hmm, do you have the world file of you in the room with that coin?

Chris_McElligottPark Dec 21, 2012 3:33 pm administrator ~0029249	Thanks! * Put in some error checking code to hopefully fix the bug where perk tokens and mercenary coins would sometimes respawn after you had collected them and then left or died. Please do let us know if you see it again, though!

Itchykobu Dec 23, 2012 10:22 am reporter ~0029285 Last edited: Dec 24, 2012 11:31 am	Version .707 - I just played through an Evil tower 3 times. Each time there have been respawned mercenary coins. Only some of them respawn though, but it looks like the ones that do respawn appear in the same spots they were in before. Edit: And just grabbed 3 merc coins from the same spot running through an Ocean Shallows 3 times.

Chris_McElligottPark Jan 3, 2013 3:48 pm administrator ~0029483	Thanks! Got it for sure this time: * Previously there was a bug where various entities would serialize to disk and then come back to life even if they had already been slated for destruction. This was only really apparent in perk tokens and merc coins, since those don't lose their health when they are consumed; with enemies or objects, their health would still be at zero after being consumed, and thus they would get discarded as soon as they were deserialized back from disk. But the tokens and coins would just pop back into existence. This was something that would happen as long as you left the chunk (or exited the game) within 30 seconds after picking up the item in question. If you took more than 30 seconds, it was just gone even under the last version.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Dec 20, 2012 10:22 pm	madcow	New Issue
Dec 20, 2012 10:30 pm	Gemzo	Note Added: 0029219
Dec 20, 2012 10:45 pm	madcow	Note Added: 0029220
Dec 21, 2012 2:41 pm	tigersfan	Note Added: 0029237
Dec 21, 2012 2:41 pm	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Fix Before Major Release
Dec 21, 2012 2:41 pm	tigersfan	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark
Dec 21, 2012 2:41 pm	tigersfan	Status	new => assigned
Dec 21, 2012 3:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0029249
Dec 21, 2012 3:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	assigned => resolved
Dec 21, 2012 3:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Fixed in Version	=> 0.707
Dec 21, 2012 3:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => fixed
Dec 21, 2012 4:06 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Relationship added	has duplicate 0010094
Dec 23, 2012 10:22 am	Itchykobu	Note Added: 0029285
Dec 24, 2012 11:31 am	Itchykobu	Note Edited: 0029285
Dec 26, 2012 12:46 pm	tigersfan	Status	resolved => assigned
Jan 2, 2013 8:47 am	tigersfan	Relationship added	has duplicate 0010158
Jan 3, 2013 3:48 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0029483
Jan 3, 2013 3:48 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	assigned => resolved
Jan 3, 2013 3:48 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Fixed in Version	0.707 => 0.708