Herbs forgetting how to regenerate again ?
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Topic: Herbs forgetting how to regenerate again ?
Posted By: Eddy
Subject: Herbs forgetting how to regenerate again ?
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2014 at 19:27
I've just seen some cotters come home early from a herb plot they (and larger teams) have routinely harvested in the past, leaving no plot behind  I know we've had past incidents where the system has had transient glitches during which herb plots forgot how to regenerate (also grapes and rare herbs; not sure how minerals fare). Has that happened again ? ------------- Eddy. |
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2014 at 20:14
| It's Friday. I think it's at least possible that this is not a bug but a feature, since it always happens on Fridays. |
Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2014 at 20:25
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I'm seeing rare herb plots regenerate, at least, so I may be jumping to conclusions. Something went wrong on one herb plot, but I've not seen the same anywhere else. Yet. I'm checking, though ! ------------- Eddy. |
Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2014 at 06:50
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No further signs of plot-loss; either I misremembered how many harvesters that plot could handle or, if there was any kind of glitch, it was transient and over by the time I started checking ! ------------- Eddy. |
Posted By: Samalander
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2014 at 18:02
| I think they did something have a NPC that have killed 10x in last to days, Sometimes instant regeneration others if park army on it as soon as leaves. |
Posted By: Tatharion
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2014 at 23:15
Do herbal patches observe shabbat, Rill? ------------- Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. |
Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2014 at 02:48
| I guess they would fall somewhere on the Conservative spectrum? |
Posted By: Trentonus
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 15:06
| The curse of Friday is back with us !!!! The rare herb and mineral patches haven’t regenerated for at least the past 4 hours. Be warned and make sure you're not killing the rare herbs near your cities!!!! |
Posted By: Lagavulin
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 15:15
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I had three herb patches go away in the last 8ish hours. Two grape and one Queens Hair Leaf. None were over harvested by the normal measure. two were in my soved space and one was in an occupied but not soved space. I have other herb harvesters that were going at the same time as these that have not had the same problem. I.E. they are either still harvesting (if grapes) or got back safe and the plot is still there. None were harvested by other players.
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Posted By: Lagavulin
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 15:23
Another Grape spot. Full expected amount delivered but spot now depleted. (sat account) But just to confuse matters.
More Grapes. Full expected amount delivered and spot STILL there. |
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Posted By: Epidemic
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 18:20
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I've lost a lot of common herbs, rare herbs and even a mineral from this glitch. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!! |
Posted By: Daefis
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 18:50
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Same with mines ------------- http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/a/p/37796" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 18:57
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It really does seem like a Friday bug - interesting. Can anyone confirm if it happens every week or just on the 3rd Friday of the month? ------------- "This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM "a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |
Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 21:10
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Yup - I can confirm 15 separate rare herb plots, each of which I harvested with a team smaller by 1 than its size last night, each of which reported one left on the plot as usual when last night's team left, each of which has regenerated promptly after such harvesting for many months up until now, each of which has today yielded 1 to a team that repeated the earlier size (while I was out at work, so in no position to notice this thread or reports from any scouts, had I had any good reason to send them), each of which is now devoid of herbs; and a grape plot that I have routinely harvested with teams of size 12 for months, and shared with a neighbour whose team of size 11 was, today, harvesting when the spot vanished under its feet. No harvesting regime is safe against turning out to have been unwitting vandalism when the plots' ability to regenerate is subject to random whim :-( ------------- Eddy. |
Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 21:21
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... and, in case anyone involved in development thinks this is a cool way to push us to pay more attention to the game ... well, nothing has happened for months (new magic ? dark continent ?) and one of the few things that was keeping me coming back twice a day was to catch all my small-plot harvesting teams on their ways home and send out their successors. I now have to actually make a choice about whether I'd sooner do something else with my spare time or spend a bunch of time establishing new harvesting patterns for my herbalists, after they unwittingly destroyed their own livelihoods. Knowing that this happens at random (yeah, sure, usually on a Friday, when I'm not home as early as I might otherwise be, to notice problems and prevent their turning into disasters) is one more reason to just ditch the routine and find something else to do with my too little free time. ------------- Eddy. |
Posted By: Epidemic
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 23:01
| I agree Eddy, the routine of gathering is what keeps me logging back in more than once every few days. This friday glitch has seen all of my rare herbs destroyed, every common herb destroyed and even every common mineral destroyed that I sent a harvester to. No way am I putting up with a feature like this. |
Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 23:59
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I doubt it is a "feature" per se. Maybe someone is rash enough to think it's an unimportant bug, but I don't suppose it's intended ! My guess is that your mines shall recover; but I fear herbs shall be randomly regenerated according to the usual process. It'll take me months to restore normal order to my harvesting, starting with lots of long-range harvesting, changing haphazardly as clumsy oafs over-harvest those spots when I'm in no position to interrupt them (I have a day job ...) and maybe I'll be lucky and get a source of something I presently lack (or, even, something useful), but I'm still left questioning whether it's worth the effort. ------------- Eddy. |
Posted By: BetaMatt
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 00:51
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For the past 10 hours or so I have had cotters, miners and herbalists clear out various squares on the map. I log in to the game several times a day, every day to stay on top of the timers of my harvesters. Please fix this!
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Posted By: Daefis
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 00:59
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did they switch the game off after 4 years? :) ------------- http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/a/p/37796" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Lagavulin
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 01:20
| I have lost: Three Grape patches, 1 each Iceheart, Goldstone, Preystone, Queens Hair, Rahan Wood and who knows what I have forgot to check on? |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 01:56
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Thanks for the info and petitions. Will pass this along to be investigated. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk 
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Posted By: Trentonus
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 12:13
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Hello Luna Thanks for your response. The one thing you never tell us every Friday that this happens is whether this is a bug or deliberate feature to move the herbs around. This incident went on much longer than usual (at least 12 hours by my reckoning – they usually last for only 1 hour). |
Posted By: Alcie
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 19:35
If it were purposeful it would be pretty darn cruel... people build towns in certain places just for the herbs or grapes... you may as well have towns randomly catch on fire. >.< |
Trentonus wrote:Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 22:41
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The issue has been resolved and items respawned. GM Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Epidemic
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2014 at 01:32
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None of the herbs I lost respawned at the spot they were before this major glitch, and what is to stop it from happening again and again? |