by MagicManICT » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:12 pm
Sometimes, if there's a server rollback, and certain actions occur as just the right time relative to the rollback, you can lose items and constructions this way. Note that under most cases, the starting resources would still be there after a rollback. I'm speaking of certain specific edge cases where everything is completely lost.
I'm not aware of any recent rollbacks on the server, though. As far as I know, jorb or loftar usually posts about them when they occur, but other than a post to the forums, I get no other information about such things.
Granger has the only reasonable explanation on it. I have never heard of items just disappearing without user error involved or in the relatively rare need for a server rollback. (There were a couple of issues with data corruption early on in development, but that ended up taking more than one pick and a barrel.)
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