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Gadzooks · 01-04-2002, 08:54 PM

When any player leaves a network game, all quest items that he/she has are dropped at that spot. Any magical instances associated with that player (like magic doors, fire golems, etc.) are also removed from the game. When you restart the game, you will always restart in town (not where you were in the game) - this is the nature of a network game. By restarting in town, all the monsters you've killed and rooms you've explored will still be marked as 'visited' - you'll just have to start back out from town.

Please also note that when you leave a game, DS verifies that the items you are leaving with are unique (each DS item contains the machine name and a serial number to uniquely identify the item). Any items that DS believes are duplicates are removed from your inventory. If you, by chance, have the same machine name as another network player, then you risk the possibility of DS incorrectly detecting a duplicate item and deleting the extraneous copy.

(Note: be very careful about changing machine names as they are also embedded in the save games and characters.lpl file.)

FYI,

01-04-2002, 08:54 PM	#3
Gadzooks Elite Waterdeep Guard Join Date: March 4, 2001 Location: St. Petersburg, FL - USA Posts: 40	When any player leaves a network game, all quest items that he/she has are dropped at that spot. Any magical instances associated with that player (like magic doors, fire golems, etc.) are also removed from the game. When you restart the game, you will always restart in town (not where you were in the game) - this is the nature of a network game. By restarting in town, all the monsters you've killed and rooms you've explored will still be marked as 'visited' - you'll just have to start back out from town. Please also note that when you leave a game, DS verifies that the items you are leaving with are unique (each DS item contains the machine name and a serial number to uniquely identify the item). Any items that DS believes are duplicates are removed from your inventory. If you, by chance, have the same machine name as another network player, then you risk the possibility of DS incorrectly detecting a duplicate item and deleting the extraneous copy. (Note: be very careful about changing machine names as they are also embedded in the save games and characters.lpl file.) FYI, __________________ Gadzooks AKA Mogadon<br /><br />If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to view every problem as an Orc.