Missing ~ a million tradeskill depot items

[Daybreak Games] Re: I am missing hundreds of thousands of tradeskill items from my tradeskill depot
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Nov 28, 2023, 10:29 AM PST

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Nov 28, 2023, 12:13 AM PST

I just noticed that I'm missing hundreds of thousands of tradeskill items from my tradeskill depot. Too many to detail and I don't think I've ever done an output of my tradeskill depot. One of the many examples that I could give off the top of my head is that I should have nearly 100,000 Roots in my depot and I currently have 689. I had dozens of stacks of other items that were around 100,000 as well, Vegetables come to mind. I had dozens if not hundreds of stacks that were between 10,000 and 60,000. I've been foraging and hoarding Roots and other items for decades with a forage key tied to my movement buttons. I've hoarded tradeskill items from many expansions with help from others. I've been slowly pushing my tradeskills to 350 recently and have invested a lot of money buying tradeskill depot slots and currently have 2,610. I've heard there's been some tradeskill depot problems recently and I'm guessing my account was caught up incorrectly in a fix of some sort.

I noticed when I logged in my trader on the same account and was using the depot to resupply as I had some stacks of tradeskill items but I have no idea when the items went missing, could've been days.

Thalas
Bristlebane

PS do an /output inventory if you have a lot in the depot like I did.

PPS I have all my plat and krono still so I didn't get robbed.

How many Stormguard Root Beers did you make recently?

and you sure you amounts in ts depot dont come from the duping ?

Category: Other
Date/Time: Wed Nov 29 00:43:11 2023

Character: Level 120 Ranger (Main)
Zone: The Plane of Knowledge
Location: 441.75, 470.63, -121.87, 169.00

Description: nt

Going to also /petition in game since the bug window says to.

Welp that took me to the customer service portal which is where I went first on my own and to which I posted the response above.

Just checked in game, depot items still missing, plat still there, krono still there, hopefully they don't also suddenly disappear for no reason.

I'm not going to try to recreate this since I'm guessing that it has something to do with how many total items I had, or how many of a singular item I had.

If it's grand total, well, there's a copy of me on beta but depots aren't copied to beta. I'm still guessing somewhere above a million, maybe close to 2 million, but if I had to bet on it, 1.3 million, some of which are still there. Oddly I have 67,594 Restless Velium Fish Scales that somehow didn't shrink into the hundreds, and the only other stack currently above 10,000 is Snake Egg at 15,202. I probably had 50 stacks above 10,000 before they shrunk.

If it's a singular item total, I had gone over 100k items with various fish scales at various times and had no issue with 99,999 in the depot and 10-20,000 in bags in preparation for a massive amount of auto combines. I did max out Vegetables in the depot at 99,999 within the last few weeks and had 7 or 8 stacks of 1,000 each in bags, the stacks in the bags are still there, but my depot stack is now 112 which is becoming funnier every time I think about it, but still sucks.

It's possible this happened in multiple waves, a week or two ago someone bought the stack of Restless Ice Water I had on my trader and when I went to replenish it there was 0 in my depot which seemed very odd to me as it's unlikely that I took the last 1,000 out for my trader with nothing leftover as I detest the idea of running out of any tradeskill item. I had recently been gaining more Restless Ice Water using overseer so there's currently some in my depot.

I've been using the depot a decent amount pushing tradeskills to 350, mostly on weekends, and of course accessing it with my trader to replenish stocks in the bazaar, which have been selling briskly of late, and dumping stacks of tradeskill items from grouping, overseer reward claims, and my barter buyer, into the depot frequently with my main.

I can't currently think of anything else constructive to add. This is decades of foraging, farming, grouping, and hoarding in banks and on alts, until the depot came along and I went all in on it, purchased DB cash multiple times so I could purchase more depot slots, and was loving the feature, until this happened.

Items still missing, yipee.

The Restless Ice Water was on my trader on 11/22 at 2:50 AM PST according to my bzrlog file, and wasn't on my trader on 11/23 at 3:20 AM PST so that's around when I noticed that there were 0 in my depot when I tried to replenish them as I had sold the stack between those timestamps. It seemed wrong to me at the time that there were 0 in my depot but I don't know if everything else was missing at that time as well. It's possible all my missing depot items disappeared sometime before 11/23 at 3:20 AM PST.

i got an account with MANY tradeskill items , i just did a /outputfile inventory ** just in case **that bug hit me , if that can help .

There recently was a bug where people were getting dupes in the depot. Millions of TS mats. Presumably they fixed the bug and removed the excess items. You should send in a petition to tell them you got those items fairly and without exploiting. If you dont get a good response keep petitioning.

Just checked my depot and items still missing.

Svann, I replied to the petition that I already submitted, the initial response to which I posted to start this thread, and I asked directly if my tradeskill items were removed in some type of bug fix.

The initial response I posted from that petition makes it sound like my issue is a bug and wasn't part of a fix, but, I suppose it can't hurt to ask directly.

I hate the idea of just opening ticket after ticket after ticket until I get a GM who will see it my way, but, is that really how people get things done? I haven't ever stumbled into a massive problem like this before in game where decades of work was simply erased.

Got a non answer of "perhaps" from support, followed it up with a well can someone check on that instead of a bug thread about a bug that may not even actually exist?

Stacks of 100 or even 1000 were not a thing until recent years past. You would have been saving stacks of 20 up until the point where extraplanar trade satchels were added. You might even have to be the one to do the math to show how many alts would have been needed to save all that before bags with more than 10 slots were added.

1 account with 8 mules with 40 10 slot bags and 6 20 slots bags in the shared bank would equal 65,200 items in stacks of 20. 130,400 for 20 slot bags, 208,640 for 32 slot bags.

Somewhen during those decades 20 and 32 slot bags weren't available.

Gates of Discord only added more 10 slot bags. I'm losing interest at this point trying to figure out when bags with more than 10 slots were added. Start adding extra character slots that may not all be available on an account with Silver status, collectibles and all the rest that might get saved and I just don't know.

Someone will point out that the TS Depot holds stacks of 10,000. This is only possible with the TS Depot. A lot would have been being stored before it even got to TS Depot days.

Now trying to get 100,000 Jumjum stalks might be important especially if they were Nillipuss' Jumjum.

Depot holds 100,000.

Technically 99,999, but yeah.

Dude yeah. I had tradeskill components from original EQ, pelts, silks, ore, gems, and from Kunark, and from Velious, especially Velious, silks, ore, yeah, not to mention all the freaking acrylia I kept, and I could go on, and yeah I had multiple characters on my account with tradeskill stuff in their banks, and my wife also had a bunch on her accounts and she went and filled 20 housing plots with tradeskill stuff using the multiple characters on her account, and then the tradeskill depot came along and I emptied most of those houses into my depot since she had already pushed to 350 in all tradeskills, and now a bunch of it is missing.

Speaking of missing, I didn't mean to imply that I had 2 million tradeskill items sitting on my account for decades, I meant to state that I've been building those supplies for decades, that it's the work over multiple decades that has simply disappeared.

Also speaking of missing, my stuff is still missing, there's still 775,000 items in my tradeskill depot currently, thanks belated /output inventory, but most of the big stacks are gone and I probably had broken the 2 million tradeskill depot items mark before 2/3rds of it disappearing.

Items still missing.

Don't think I've stated it here but some of the massive stacks that disappeared were NPC merchant purchasable stacks from time consuming to get to NPC's that I went ahead and bought massive stacks from. Took me forever to do all those clicks to buy stuff 100 at a time too.

Still not sure if this was a bug or a fix that affected me either.

Still in a conversation with my original petition.

Still going to post here every day until someone figures out what happened and hopefully sorts it out.

Still concerned that even if I rebuild everything from where it is now that my items won't disappear again.

Items still missing.

Thinking about going out and buying a couple million cheap tradeskill items off NPC merchants and seeing if they'll disappear, buuuuut I don't want to make some of the valuable and more rare 800,000 tradeskill items I still have disappear as well.

You do know if 100 other players posted every day like you are on what they feel is a bug or whatever that the forums would be useless and filled with posts that mean nothing to no one.

You have a petition in, nothing your doing here is affecting it. If anything you might get warned for disruption of the forums or spam

Just follow on your petition and work thru that.

Disagree, petition hasn't determined whether this is a bug or not, this thread is valid until then, and if someone loses over a million items in game then I would be shocked if they weren't updating their bug thread every day.

Posting twice a day about it isn't doing anything but risking the thread being deleted.