ItemCreate.ini

[Fordmondeo20]

Heya,

currently I make some experiments with fortune bags defined in the ItemCreate.ini file.
One of my bags is for sure configured in the right way (effect 42 - variant 75 - grades defined with "drop chance").

Please have a look at my entry in the

 ItemCreate.ini

[ItemCreate_75]		
	14	430
	17	560
	19	620
	27	420
	49	530
	61	430
	62	290
	63	230
	197	430
	226	100
	357	400
	433	490
	434	490
	435	490
	436	490
	442	620
	624	530
	625	530

The grades are all finely defined in database. Every drop group has got his certain items.

BUT: this bag isn't dropping any item sometimes.. You click on it and nothing appears in your inventory for some reason.

Castor said something in the past about fortune bags:

Originally Posted by castor4878

...
the rules to manage drops defined in ItemCreate.ini are the same than those for drops defined in MobItems.
...
So the fact remains that each item (from 9) has a chance to drop only related to its own percentage. The position (line in the ini. ot ItemOrder field) as the existence of drops already acquired, will not change the odds to drop the item.

Is there something to this or did this post come in a time when he was still a bit unexperienced (no offense) ? In my opinion this couldn't be a point because another example (extracted from OmegaFiles) has also more than 9 (possible) entries just at the first variant:

 ItemCreate.ini from OmegaFiles

[ItemCreate_1]		
	111	1200
	112	1200
	118	1200
	113	1000
	114	1000
	119	1000
	121	1200
	122	1200
	127	1200
	123	1000
	124	1000
	128	1000
	131	1000
	132	400
	133	100
	141	1000
	143	100
	151	400
	153	75
	154	25
	161	400
	164	75
	165	25
	171	300
	174	75
	175	25
	181	300
	184	50
	185	12
	191	200
	194	25
	195	5

Firstly I thought of increasing the chances over 100 so that every bag has to drop something in theory but this thought is also discarded.

What did I do wrong? Has anyone noticed a similar error like that? From 100 items i get only around 75 items


Cheers guys.

[[ADM]_Dephisio]

Hey,
I think one of your grades doesn't exist. Check your grades. The bag select one of this grades but as it contains nothing then you get no item.

[Fordmondeo20]

Originally Posted by [ADM]_Dephisio

I think one of your grades doesn't exist.

Definitely not. But I checked it again anyways. Every grade listed above exists and is fulfilled. And that only the first 9 grades exclusively will drop is also false. It seems to be a little bit strange...

[Fordmondeo20]

I have found the error. It wasn't any grade according to not existing items or something like that. The items that are considered in this INI file have to have a certain Type.
This grade whose items didn't appear has items in it with type 99.
Firstly I thought it could be the quest item flag but this was exposed to be as a false positive.
I changed the type 99 items to type 38 and now everything works fine again.

So if anyone has problems with fortune bags some day then change the item types to typical ones: 25, 38, 44, 100 ...
Please correct me if I'm wrong.


Cheers.