VP armor combine error

[rmm10]

My rogue Brith was going for the Ancient Chain Greaves, item 17787. He had just looted the fourth required Emerald of the Ancients, loaded up the combine bag Big Magic Bag and pressed the Combine button. The Greaves did appear on his cursor...but the game would not let him place the Greaves in inventory (neither into a bag nor into main inventory...the the Greaves were stuck on the cursor) and there was a server error msg (see attachment...my red circle shows the Greaves being held by my cursor. I don't know why the screenshot program does not show the cursor itself but whatever...).

I logged to character screen then logged back in and I was then able to put the Greaves into inventory.

Umm...the Big Magic Bag is item 17760.

[Hazardousdrunk]

Also happens when right clicking VT tokens , Need to zone or relog to be able to put them into inventory.

[Lillu]

Interesting, I couldn't reproduce this. Tried with RoF2 client, had no 3rd party tools loaded up. Tried 10 tokens, all worked fine.

[rmm10]

I'm not sure what other variables to mention, to reproduce this.

I use mq2, but that program was not involved in the combine. I had no programs running that involve tradeskilling. I don't use a 3rd party UI.

As you can see from the attachment, I had all my other bags open. And I was not standing next to the VP trader npc, I was in a pile of corpses in a hallway.

Can you think of anything else for me to mention?

Hey, HazardousDrunk, when you say same thing happens when clicking on VT tokens do you mean something gets stuck on your cursor, or that you get that same exact red server error msg, or what?

[Hazardousdrunk]

I'm not sure what other variables to mention, to reproduce this.

I use mq2, but that program was not involved in the combine. I had no programs running that involve tradeskilling. I don't use a 3rd party UI.

As you can see from the attachment, I had all my other bags open. And I was not standing next to the VP trader npc, I was in a pile of corpses in a hallway.

Can you think of anything else for me to mention?

Hey, HazardousDrunk, when you say same thing happens when clicking on VT tokens do you mean something gets stuck on your cursor, or that you get that same exact red server error msg, or what?

Item gets stuck on cursor , can't click anything while its stuck on cursor, only way to solve it for me was to zone and it then appears in my inventory..

Its happened a few times with VT tokens and sometimes it didn't..

[rmm10]

Ok, but you didn't get the Server Error msg. Which implies that the two situations end up with the same symptom (item frozen on cursor) but are probably different errors. There is some sort of partial program freeze. I say partial, cause I was still able to push buttons and type (iirc) and your reply implies that you still could too. A complete program freeze would not have allowed us to do anything but close the EQ window from the desktop.

Hmm...or, part of the program could not "see" the item on the cursor, and so it would not know that there was an item that could be placed in inventory.

I am so out of my league here. 8-)

[peterigz]

Did you click the combine button twice? Looking at the code that generates that error message, it's basically trying to perform the recipe on a tradeskill container that doesn't exist. So thinking about how that might happen I guessed that it might be because the combine button was pressed twice before the bag dissappeared which seems to be the case (can recreate by double clicking).

So basically you click the combine button once which sends the combine packet to the server, before the client receives the packet back to tell the client that the recipe was a success and to remove the container you click combine again. This sends a second combine packet but when that reaches the server it's already deleted the container so throws the error message and returns early from the function to prevent a zone crash. This puts the client out of sync with the server so you need to reconnect.

It's basically a bug in eqemu. If you have a slow connection to the server and you click combine (or the token) and nothing happens just give it a bit before clicking again, and obviously just avoid double clicking

[rmm10]

I don't recall double clicking, but that does not mean that a second click was not seen anyways, or that my mouse did not decide to go independent and do some clicking on its own. 8-)

Ty peterigz.

[Niixnec]

When clicking tokens it seems to happen in both VT and Guild Hall. If I click the tokens in Forest everything works as expected so maybe has to do with instances.
Zoning also fixes the issue with item stuck on cursor.

regards,
Niix