Weaponsmith Archive

This is a major bug/failure, and it's been fixed 4-5 times... and it's back. tonight I tried to pick up three stacks of resources offerred to my vendor that i had purchased, and i got the message "The item you were trying to retreive no longer exists. Your bank has been reimbursed for the amount you have spent".

"The item you were trying to retreive does not exist. Your bank has been reimbursed for the amount you spent on this item".

This is the message i got when i went to retreive resources placed that same day on my vendor from my resource supplier... i buoght them then i went to pick them up and they just vanished...plenty of space in my inventory.

Re-imbursed? Well, that's nice and all, but what about a gun offerred to my vendor for 1 credit so that i can repair it? or the $12,500,000 skilltape I am now mortally terrified of losing... so what if i get the cash for these items back, in one case it's 1 credit, in the other it's a unique item.

I just lost 300k resources...that's 5 days of production from one of my suppliers...those resources are going to shift out...how do you reimburse me for running out of a critical resource and crippling my business?

This HAS to be fixed.

The vendor/trade system and the protection of our possessions from random deletion should be the 3rd highest priority in the game, after 1) Gertting the game to run and 2) keeping character files from being deleted or corrupted.... actually hell, it should be 2, and char deletion/corruption 1st.

Thanks for your prompt attention.

This bug is actually fairly terrifying especially given the irreplacable fixes, unique items, large amounts of resources (or consumable resources like power) and full crates of items.

I haven't encountered this bug yet, but... it's a scary thought.

I lost 10 krayt tissues to the vendor bug where if you select multiple items at once, and try to retrieve them all at once but don't have the inventory space, the items you don't have room for are deleted. I lost a pack full of tissue that way.

CSRs response? "Oh, we can't reimburse you." I find it amazingly suspicious and annoying that an acknowledged, known bug costs me things, but I can't get even the credits I spent back. Not to mention we KNOW they track everything that goes on with our vendors because of the great item restoration of 2003.

This specific instance happened to me.

Granted it was only a piece of art, and 2 laser carbines I had made myself, but had someone offer them to me so I could repair them.

They were offered to my vendor, I bought them within 10 minutes, and then when I tried to retrieve them, I got that exact message as stated above.

They were only 1 credits each, so I couldn't really tell if the money was refunded, or simply eaten up in the process, I didn't really mind either way. What really shocked me was that they completely dissapeared. The person who offered them to my vendor got the standard message that they were bought. I got the standard e-mail that I had bought them, but they dissapeared during the retrieval process, whenI had plenty of room. I also retrieved them one at a time.

Now - I read somewherethat this now occurs due to the devs fixing some type of credit duping loophole. Thats good and all, but when things offered tend to dissapear as a consequence of this "fix" it should be at least acknowleded. Maybe their is a some type of timer between when something gets offered and to when it can be retrieved - dunno. But at least let us know so that we don't go out and destroy irreplacable things by doing what we normally do.

That's my rant, nothing concrete, but just what happend to me.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

That's a confirmation, that's part of what I was looking for.

What is the dev response?... That's the other thing I'm looking for... when is this going to be fixed? When am I getting a csr to grab the 11 itmes on my vendor so that they won't be destroyed?

Out of curiosity Strife, did you get a csr response?