Crate Despawn Bug

[Elric]

I know this is a known issue but it is hugely frustrating. Developers: please please please consider disabling the auto-maintain feature on crates. I'm convinced this is associated with the bug or at the very least that disabling it will help expose the cause.

I still suspect that the cause is a cache-sync issue where the despawn timer reset is not being persisted from the local state to the server state. The auto-maintain is obscuring this.

[Brada]

Thanks for the report, we are looking for a possible fix for this problem.

[insettoinfetto]

Originally posted by Elric:

Developers: please please please consider disabling the auto-maintain feature on crates.

+1

Originally posted by Brada:

Thanks for the report, we are looking for a possible fix for this problem.

Please consider removing despawn routine for chests, until its fixed.
Its a game breaking feature that affects all players in every kind of server or playstyle.

[Cezar]

A bug that appeared back in 0.8
One of the bugs that greatly demotivates to play.

p.s. This is the most important part of the game. Look for loot...
But the chests disappear, and cheaters also quickly find them.
I don't even know how else to say that this is very important.

[Elric]

I logged in last night to find another box despawned. I know for certain that I have clicked "Maintain" many times over the past few days. These are my observations:

1. Crates constructed outside a flag zone and moved into a flag zone appear to despawn as though have never been maintained (as in X days from construction, not X days from moving into the flag area).
   
2. Because of auto-maintain in the flag zone, the boxes always show an incorrect despawn time. Maintaining while in the flag zone does not appear to reset the actual timer.
   
3. The displayed timer is a local property and is clearly not representative of the actual timer, giving the illusion there is more time left.
   
4. The type of crate does not matter for this bug.

This particularly affects a certain playstyle. On highly competitive servers with low-loot I choose a base location and start filling up crates with building materials before placing a flag. On my server even nails are hard to find so making spare crates is difficult.

What I recommend is when building a crate, note the initial despawn date and put it in the crate name. E.g. "Clothing - 0614". When that date approaches, empty it and see what happens.

[[FILO]_Yarrick]

It seems to me when mine disappear is around 14 days from the creation date of the box ouside of a flag no mater the maintenence.. not 100% though...

[Elric]

Another observation: I took a crate constructed about 15 days ago and moved it into my flag zone about 7 days ago. Two days ago I took the crate back out the flag zone and buried it and it de-spawned yesterday while buried.

Meanwhile I have a crate constructed the same time that remained outside the flag zone and it did not despawn.

So moving crates out of the flag zone does not prevent the bug occurring.

[Chef_uk]

Crate despawned today outside of flag zone. Waiting to see if any despawn inside flag zone. Both crates have been interacted with daily.

[Brada]

There will be a fix coming for the chest problems. We found the bug where LV 2 and LV 3 chests dissapear when build outside of the flag zone no matter if you have maintained it or not.

[insettoinfetto]

Originally posted by Brada:

There will be a fix coming for the chest problems. We found the bug where LV 2 and LV 3 chests dissapear when build outside of the flag zone no matter if you have maintained it or not.

top! thanks!

[Elric]

Originally posted by Brada:

There will be a fix coming for the chest problems. We found the bug where LV 2 and LV 3 chests dissapear when build outside of the flag zone no matter if you have maintained it or not.

Thank you!!