Merchants: wrong items from vendor

[Morndenkainen]

I know this is going to sound like a joke, but I went to buy a sapphire off the vendor in the N freeport bank, and wound up with a fire emerald. You can see in the screenshot that I had the sapphire highlighted, its in the transaction box, you can see the vendor telling me what im buying and confirming the price, but when I hit the buy button to buy one, You can clearly see, that I paid the price for a fire emerald and that there's 2 lines of fire emeralds on the vendor's trade box.. Kinda hit me like a total WTF moment. Anyways, here's the screenshot cause I know nearly everyone would say im full of crap without it...

[Dersk]

I had an instance where I bought something that I hadn't clicked. I paid the price for the one I had clicked on (but did not get), though.

However, when *that* happened, the mouse could no longer open containers, move items, start transactions with merchants, or open doors. Keyboard commands still worked. Logging fixed it.

I didn't check to see if the item I wanted to purchase changed like yours did, but I was also dealing with items that only had one quantity on the vendor.

[Morndenkainen]

Thats just the thing though, I clicked on the "sapphire", clicked buy, selected quantiy of 1, hit enter, and wound up with a fire emerald... Had plenty of room in the bags, nothing else on the cursor, and no other weird issues going on. Just took me completley by suprise.

[Reiker]

a) Player A opens vendor window, wants to buy Item01
b) Player B opens vendor window, buys Item01 (vendor's offered items don't update while Player A still has the window open)
c) Player A buys item Item01, but the vendor no longer has it for sale, so you end up getting item Item02 on its list.

[Yinaltin]

had something similar . wanted to buy research words in freeport bank form the merchant . clicked and clicked and suddenly "your out of money" ... i bought some creepe iron stone bare stuff . each was like 200 pp ! sold back for 10 pp or less ! wasted about 1 k ! stupid p99 coders ![You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Xenephex]

Originally Posted by Reiker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

a) Player A opens vendor window, wants to buy Item01
b) Player B opens vendor window, buys Item01 (vendor's offered items don't update while Player A still has the window open)
c) Player A buys item Item01, but the vendor no longer has it for sale, so you end up getting item Item02 on its list.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that player A has to buy the same item that Player B was wanting. I think if he (or she) buys or sells anything that changes the number of items the vendor has, then the other player that has the vendor window open can end up 'sliding' one slot in either direction without doing anything.

Would be easy to test if I had any friends.

[mmiles8]

I'm pretty sure that player A has to buy the same item that Player B was wanting

Not the case, I had this happen to me with a pair of research words, once I realized what had happened, I went back and bought what I had intended to buy.

[Haynar]

Is this new? Or has this been happening for awhile?

Haynar

[Gorgetrapper]

This has been happening for a really long time.

[Haynar]

Originally Posted by Gorgetrapper [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This has been happening for a really long time.

Thank you. That helps considerably. I made some changes to merchants, but it should not have had anything to do with this issue. My changes screwed up the item charges. Remember those bugs? Ya, that was me. Oops.

I remember the code was a mess, and it looked like it did do some weird things. I will have to spend some time with it, and figure out what it is really doing.

Haynar