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Locate Object - Wonkiness?

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:42 pm
by Aldren
While casting locate object on one of my alts (Trathas), my search was for "c 'locate object' amulet with"... The results were mostly normal - some from the Corpse Conservatory, some from the Luggage Storage.. But at the tail end of it, I saw a few things that looked familiar...

a dark bronze amulet trimmed with darksteel in somewhere.
a purple gold amulet embossed with seven silver stars in somewhere.
a blue silver amulet trimmed with brushed platinum in somewhere.
an azure silver amulet trimmed with darksteel in somewhere.

Now, I recognized all of these items as belonging to one of my other ALTs (Nerian)... Except some of them were on the character, some were on his horses, some were on a horse stabled at the time (and was not online, so don't understand why it was searching for items that were not loaded in-game)?

This is, kind of odd to me? Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Re: Locate Object - Wonkiness?

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:51 am
by Harroghty
My guess is that the location was invisible to you because of something mundane (a hidden NPC carrying it or perhaps it was dark at the objects' locations). I have not had this issue.

Re: Locate Object - Wonkiness?

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:49 am
by Nylo
I did at one point have locate object show items that one of my ALTs had on his person, showing up as if the char was online but not greeted.

Re: Locate Object - Wonkiness?

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:39 pm
by Harroghty
I have seen that happen if the other player very recently logged off (in the last minute or two), but not otherwise.

Re: Locate Object - Wonkiness?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:28 am
by Gwain
Its been a strange occurrence for a number of years. It comes and it goes, I'd say its unfixable.