I've encountered this today and want to fix it :
Edit :
I reloaded an older save of the same game and I confirmed the following, the Item my hero is wearing is equipped to the AI's hero as well. It gets destroyed when that one is, probably because the AI no longer needs the item. (Seems to happen at random, probably when the AI finds/buys an item of the same type?)
Afterwards the now "empty" slot gets filled by whichever item is made/found next, and as my hero is still wearing the item in that slot, it'll change to that item. This is how my Orb changed into a Chain Mail.
The item is in slot 0.
It is 1408, with my current settings the earliest the AI is allowed to cast Enchant Item or Create Artifact is turn 120, which is year 1410.
Meaning that whatever caused two heroes to wear the same item was NOT those two spells.
The slot being "0" is probably more than just a coincidence. Maybe the game sets 0 instead of -1 to mark "empty hero slot" somewhere by accident.
..speaking of which I wonder how the AI equips their heroes. I've just observed the AI destroying the item in question without putting anything else on the hero...and none of its heroes have any item either. Is it just melting the items at random or what...or did he really want mana that badly...
for the time being I'll try to make the game not use item slot 0. If that stops the bug from happening than we can confirm that it is related to that slot.
If that doesn't help my other theory : The other coincidence I observed was that the bugged item was equipped to the second hero's third item slot...for BOTH wizards. So the player equipping the item might be the other potential source of the bug, but it's way too rare to seriously suspect that.
Quote:Duplicate Items: This happens to me from time to time when I create and destroy artifacts for mana (artificier + runemaster combo), and the enemy is also crafting artifacts. In this case an item will have the properties of another item, e.g. a Plate Mail having the properties of a Sword. Destroying an item may also destroy the other item.
Edit :
I reloaded an older save of the same game and I confirmed the following, the Item my hero is wearing is equipped to the AI's hero as well. It gets destroyed when that one is, probably because the AI no longer needs the item. (Seems to happen at random, probably when the AI finds/buys an item of the same type?)
Afterwards the now "empty" slot gets filled by whichever item is made/found next, and as my hero is still wearing the item in that slot, it'll change to that item. This is how my Orb changed into a Chain Mail.
The item is in slot 0.
It is 1408, with my current settings the earliest the AI is allowed to cast Enchant Item or Create Artifact is turn 120, which is year 1410.
Meaning that whatever caused two heroes to wear the same item was NOT those two spells.
The slot being "0" is probably more than just a coincidence. Maybe the game sets 0 instead of -1 to mark "empty hero slot" somewhere by accident.
..speaking of which I wonder how the AI equips their heroes. I've just observed the AI destroying the item in question without putting anything else on the hero...and none of its heroes have any item either. Is it just melting the items at random or what...or did he really want mana that badly...
for the time being I'll try to make the game not use item slot 0. If that stops the bug from happening than we can confirm that it is related to that slot.
If that doesn't help my other theory : The other coincidence I observed was that the bugged item was equipped to the second hero's third item slot...for BOTH wizards. So the player equipping the item might be the other potential source of the bug, but it's way too rare to seriously suspect that.
