Baystation12/Baystation12 — Issue #293: Item within hand; item on the map. Simultaneous.
Author: DeciusR
Created: 2012-01-19 01:56:51+00:00
State: open

(I don't care how the format is, this is how I'm reporting it so that it will be fully understood.)

I don't have a large amount of knowledge regarding this, it only happened one time, but I did end up attempting to test all that I could do it on that one time. Is hell for a player to test, so anyone who has more information is welcome. Anyway.

Apparently when entering a Ripley, it was decided that I would be sending a miner a message as to where I would leave it for him. I attempted to send a message, so I got it from the slot (ID) by clicking on it, many, many times. I am uncertain how many. It went into my hand but the interface wouldn't come up, however, the Ripley repeatedly attempted to place it into the cargo bay and was "Successful", despite it never leaving my hand. I put it back onto my slot (Again, ID), a few times before deciding to leave the Ripley when I couldn't place it in the ID slot again. I brought up the interface once out and ended up pressing Return. This closed the interface. Every single button inside of my PDA interface (Set to messages, not message list) made the PDA close down. I did what the normal person would do and admin-helped that my PDA was bugged, as I did not believe it had anything to do with me yet. I then dropped it and attempted to pick it up. This is when I knew that it was still, "In my hand", despite being on the ground also. It is because the PDA interface came on repeatedly. Spaceman or Skymarshal came and tried to pick it up, they succeeded. It was now in both of our hands. He dropped it. I picked it up with my other hand. It was now in both hands. I dropped it, I walked to the other side of robotics within the little room, and I threw it using my right hand, which was the bugged one. It flew across the room from its location on the map and landed on the floor infront of me, where I used throw. After this, I was no longer bugged and could pick it up and manipulate objects again normally.

From what I could tell, the game believed that the object was still in my hand, and it was still on the turf. My hand wouldn't pick up anything while it was on the floor, but my other hand was unaffected. Other people could interact with it as if they were holding it, but I was still able to do so from a distance. I will note that the icon was not in my hand despite the object being in my hand, and so when it was off screen, I could not pull up the interface from clicking on it.

Any more info would be appreciated.