>>This was a first for me, and it resulted in the loss of a perfect forged bastie.

:psyduck: Why in the world would you give a forged weapon (especially that one) to a Zombie?

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TG, TG, GL, et al.

I seem to recall a problem with zombies in areas being pushed out of memory (or whatever the term is). If you're the last PC to leave an area, it gets packed away so it doesn't take up resources. If your zombie is in it when that happens... no more zombie.


Elemental Lord Opieus, Expert Warrior Mage of Elanthia
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The nature of the mobs doesn't necessarily mean its the same "area". I imagine it has to do with the spawn/persistence mechanics.

>>Was hunting in one area, climbed a ledge in the same hunting area, and lost him. I didn't know that that particular climb was an area changer. After all, the same mobs are on both sides of it.

There doesn't need to be any indication that you're moving from one 'area' to the next (though there often is), and places that we would intuitively consider a single large area are often made up of multiple smaller 'areas' for technical reasons, such as reducing how much of the game world is in active memory at once.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas