UO Second Age

REPORTED ISSUE:
Problem with Bones and Bodies

ISSUE DETAILS:
When cut up, bodies begin to decay more rapidly than they should.

ENVIRONMENT DETAILS:
N/A

STEPS TO RECREATE:
I paged a GM thinking my body got lost under a house add-on, but now I know that it decayed prematurely, along with all the items on it.

I killed 2 people at the same time, cut one up, and then waited. The cut body disapeared way before it should have, I imagine this is due to the server thinking the "cutting" process is the same as the "decay to bones" process.


Once a body decays into bones it becomes lootable, this leads be to believe that you can cut-up and then loot a body, suffering no noteriety penalty, but I have not tested this "exploit". When a body is cut up, it should still remain blue (if blue) and unlootable/nondecaying until the normal timer runs out, in which case it turns into "grey bones" that are supposed to decay at a rapid rate.


EXPECTED RESULTS:
Cut bodies should leave a skeleton that keeps the same timer and noteriety as an uncut body, and decay in a similar fashion.

DATE REPORTED:
July 22, 2009

STATUS:
Open

DATE STATUS CHANGED:

Oops, this didn't make it to the patch notes:

This was linked on Hemps Unofficial To-Do list, but was taken off.

Here's the source thread:
http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8719

Here's the Stratics Source:

Stratics: Decay wrote: Cut up Player Corpse: 90 seconds

Could this possibly be checked via the demo? I believe that the stratics listing of 90 seconds should refer to the parts themselves and not the skeletal remains. I don't have xp to use the demo.

MatronDeWinter wrote:Could this possibly be checked via the demo? I believe that the stratics listing of 90 seconds should refer to the parts themselves and not the skeletal remains. I don't have xp to use the demo.

I run the demo under Vista. Will verify.

Ack! I inadvertently cut my body up on a ship and it was gone before I could get anything! I was like WTF?! Now I see why.. does not seem right. I don't know about the whole verifying of when something was changed, but the link to the archive of stratics in the link that Derrick put to the forum thread blah blah blah says player bones are 7 minutes.




-- Edit, my cut up body parts are still on my boat, more than an hour after being cut up there.

Dagon wrote:Ack! I inadvertently cut my body up on a ship and it was gone before I could get anything! I was like WTF?! Now I see why.. does not seem right. I don't know about the whole verifying of when something was changed, but the link to the archive of stratics in the link that Derrick put to the forum thread blah blah blah says player bones are 7 minutes.




-- Edit, my cut up body parts are still on my boat, more than an hour after being cut up there.

Nothing decays on a boat except corpses.

MatronDeWinter wrote:... I believe that the stratics listing of 90 seconds should refer to the parts themselves and not the skeletal remains. ....

I believe you are correct. The bodies decay fast but not the bones.

I was able to loot a blue after cutting him up ftr

http://wiki.uosecondage.com/index.php?t ... atch_Notes
4/13/98 patch....
One patch says if you return the head of a killer who has a bounty on him it will kill the Murderer instantly...earlier patch

I just did it again, accidentally cut my body up while trying to loot and kill a serp and stay alive at the same time. Lost everything. What's the damn problem? The notes clearly say player bones are 7 minutes. FIX IT!

We're reverting this until we can be more clear on this. This was posted in an accuracy thread some time ago, and there was little comment on it.