Rares not getting purged until login

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I'm sure this was changed a while ago but I've done a bit of testing and found that rares do infact only return to circulation when the character logs in and loses them. Bug? Anyone else have similar experiences? 

[f0xx]

That's true, if an immortal hasn't purged them manually.

For example, if the month passes, and you log in your character (that hasn't met the requirement) before the manual purge, you will lose rares. If you don't your character will keep them.

Usually, an immortal does the purge manually (i.e. simulates a global log in) within the first week every new month. This is intentionally done by hand and at different times and days to give people from different time zones more fair chances at obtaining high value rares.

 

There are some grey areas which used to be problematic in the past and I dunno if they have been fixed.

Like, if your character goes inactive, but has placed bounties and those bounties get collected he receives a bounty bag with rare items. Since the bounty bags don't count as rares they used to stay in your inventory indefinitely and thus rares would get stuck in Limbo.

[Ali_gmud]

Interesting, i never thought of the bounty bag issue.

If an Immortal does a manual global log in on a bunch of inactivate characters to assist with the circulation issue, when and if the characters logs in next, will they still receive the you've been purged 'help rare' message?

Another question, hopefully not too off topic. Rare sockets for Fel Weapons, if someone puts a glowing ember or a razor crystal into a Fel Weapon how does that affect the number of those sockets available? I assume they're not purged in the same manner.

[hotspring monkey]

59 minutes ago, Ali_gmud said:

Rare sockets for Fel Weapons

Cannot be done anymore. They take only non_rare sockets. Change was made in year wiener and stone.

[Kyzarius]

1 hour ago, hotspring monkey said:

This is productive. And here is something informative. With this dash of Hotspring madness at the end.

+2

[f0xx]

2 hours ago, Ali_gmud said:

If an Immortal does a manual global log in on a bunch of inactivate characters to assist with the circulation issue, when and if the characters logs in next, will they still receive the you've been purged 'help rare' message?

Ok I explained this in a bit misleading way.

When a character doesn't meet the time requirement he gets "marked" for rare purge. 

Immortals can either do the rare purge manually, or it happens automatically once you log in.

So, technically, an Immortal doesn't  do a global log in. He just purges all marked characters.

[Lloth]

Anume isn't a He, f0xx.

 

GOD, can't stop being misinformative...

[f0xx]

On 2017-5-12 at 6:20 PM, Lloth said:

Anume isn't a He, f0xx.

 

 

[Fool_Hardy]

So if I shelf a character, and an immortal for whatever reason does not purge them, the items they hold could in theory be in limbo until I unshelf that character?

Note to self: perform self rare purge before shelving.

My bad, I apologize, but as I never seek rare items I blame all of you for handing them to me! LOL. I will be more careful to not shelf rare items.

[Anume]

no, they will get purged with the monthly purge, anything else is a bug

[Fool_Hardy]

12 minutes ago, Anume said:

no, they will get purged with the monthly purge, anything else is a bug

Now I know why you call me annoying. lol

edit: Honestly its good to see you post something. I found myself concerned for you recently, which never happened before, so I thought maybe you were struggling IRL with something.