80 Years?????

Biggdaddy

Biggdaddy

Well-known member
Freshly re-treaded, Level 2 running slays in Korthos. Looted a rare chest and noticed the Ransack blurb in the chat window.

(Loot): Chest Information:
Quest Name: Korthos Island
Number of Times Looted: 1
Chest Ransack Resets In: 80 years 9 months 1 day 6 hours 12 minutes 57 seconds
Click to expand...

80 years is a bit long to clear the ransack. I won't even be around in 80 years! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Br4d

Br4d

Well-known member
This message occurs mostly in chests that are just there to drop a quest item that some build needs. I noticed it for the first time in the chest that drops the longbow and arrows in TTT.
 
F

Farlino

Well-known member
Biggdaddy said:
Freshly re-treaded, Level 2 running slays in Korthos. Looted a rare chest and noticed the Ransack blurb in the chat window.



80 years is a bit long to clear the ransack. I won't even be around in 80 years! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Click to expand...
Well count back to day 1 of DDO. The chests that were mandatory (keys to open next part of dungeon; item needed to complete the quest) were given a Ransack date of 99 years in the future: 1 setting for all those chests and never look at it again. If they had set it at 9 years they would have had to reset it already twice.
This way all chests get a ransack timer but the mandatary ones don't need updates.
A nice way of solving a standard problem 'permanently'.
better than the Y2K setting: "we will never need a number bigger than 1999" ... lol
 
Biggdaddy

Biggdaddy

Well-known member
Farlino said:
Well count back to day 1 of DDO. The chests that were mandatory (keys to open next part of dungeon; item needed to complete the quest) were given a Ransack date of 99 years in the future: 1 setting for all those chests and never look at it again. If they had set it at 9 years they would have had to reset it already twice.
This way all chests get a ransack timer but the mandatary ones don't need updates.
A nice way of solving a standard problem 'permanently'.
Click to expand...
That makes sense for those chests, but this was a regular rare chest in the wilderness (the mephit, I think)

Farlino said:
better than the Y2K setting: "we will never need a number bigger than 1999" ... lol
Click to expand...
I can take a little responsibility for that, I started writing COBOL code in the '70's. Then in '98-99, I made some serious coin fixing some of that code. :):cool:
 
OG DM

OG DM

Well-known member
Your head in a jar up on the shelf can smile and nod happily as that final TR gets initiated, and your grandkid is able to loot the chest one more time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top