Items disappear

[The Cunning Fox (raZoleg)]

So I was trading with a merchant, using the freed sector inventory as my "stash". I put a rifle in the inventory of the sector and it disappeared..

It happened twice, now I don't know if the game allocates it randomly across the map into stashes and now I've to look for it, however, all the dropped items are in a "suitcase" icon under my troops usually when I place their stuff into the "sector inventory".

However, the rifle is not there - it just vanished. This is not cool, any ideas?

EDIT: As far as I can see, it's not just the rifle. I was organising the ammo on the inventory page, switched the merc and it all went "POOF!". Like there was nothing there, only two clips of .45 ACP are left from a newly cleared sector where there were like three pages of stuff.

Sigmund and Roy indeed.

[StrangeLittleMan]

Are you using "combat evolved" mod by any chance?
I never noticed this issue but I had it happen in "crossfire" 2 days ago.. Had to reload even because it was my one and only grenade launcher..
Mine dissappeared after dropping it on the ground because I was repairing other guns (so they are worth more in the store).
Other equipment drops on the floor and I pick them back up, but I don't dare to drop the grenade launcher again.. (I should test if it happens again tough)

[wboson]

Yes, have happened to me also. Though it doesn´t bother me much, bc I save frequently and use drag and drop between mercs.

Edit: Don´t use any mods...

[Edwin]

Items disappear in "Combat Evolved" mod, but not always. You can safely drop items to the ground, when still fight in location and (when location is in yours hands) when you put items to this "green boxes" which are permanent (created by game makers). Be careful when connetcting two items (like ammo), beyond mercenary inventory. When you do that in a sector inventory, items will be lost. Sorry for my English.

[player]

Yes,I have same bug,they not fix this 9 years! You must save game and reload then search sector and items are back on the flor. D sry for my INGLISH

[Aldo Sambrell]

Yes, I agree with player : just save and load and you should retrieve your items.

It happens in vanilla game too, not only in combat evolved.

[Edwin]

I don't understand anything. I keep playing Combat Evolved and at the moment my items don't disappear anymore. I save the game often, but without loading items stopped disappearing. At vanilla they never disappeared for me, which is why I thought that this was only in mod. But now it has fixed itself. Strange. But I will remain vigilant;)

[Doug]

I know this is a bit of a necro of this thread, but...

I had this happen to me a few times. I got tired of it, so I 'fixed' it. I never simply drop something into the sector inventory willy-nilly anymore. I place it in a container that already exists on the map. Never had anything disappear once I did that.

In fact, now my quasi-OCD has kicked in and I frequently pick up all the random items in the sector inventory and stick them in one container on the map. That's probably overkill. But I've been specifically tracking the items in each sector in a document, and nothing's gone missing since I started doing so.

[Butterside down]

I experienced only the car wreck in Cambria and a weapon chest at the sam site causing a weapon or item to disappear. Other than that, everywhere else seems safe to drop stuff and then return to find it there on the ground. I use CE and Rebalance mods.