Missing Miniature Moa Bird

SaucE

SaucE

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

OgreSlayingKnife.com

[MEEP] Biscuit of Dewm

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I noticed today that my miniature moa disappeared out of my storage. Has this happened to anyone else? I know it wasn't deleted. I never delete minis and haven't deleted any characters.

EDIT: Fixed typo.

gasp10

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2007

Italy

legio gemina

W/

i have it...put on some other char?

sykoone

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mystical Chaos

E/

It's probably on another toon. Check them all just to be sure.

SaucE

SaucE

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

OgreSlayingKnife.com

[MEEP] Biscuit of Dewm

N/

I have checked, twice. Its not there.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Go /R and bring Charmed Pet. Maybe it grew up!

You can't see me

You can't see me

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

P/W

You should report this To Arenanet.

It makes me happy I decided on a Destroyer instead for my Paragon, lol.

Skyy High

Skyy High

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2006

R/

It's a little black icon, you're probably missing it somewhere (or you were playing late and deleted it instead of something else). I really don't think your mini, and only your mini, would up and disappear without it happening to anyone else if it were a bug.

Big_Daddy

Big_Daddy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

The Big Daddy Experience [BigD]

N/Mo

Goren ate it.

Lord High Pwner

Lord High Pwner

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Arizona

KGOA Knights of GOA

D/

I dont think it will let you delete it youd have too physically drop it in your trash bin or on the ground and map out. I dont believe and mercant or trader will buy. I have a pair of Sunspear monk sandals that have disappeared and everyonce in awhile i see them on a char when im acquiring drops and forget them. I bet they are just hiding go to the Shiverpeaks thats the ebst way to search for dark objects in storage

Alexandra-Sweet

Alexandra-Sweet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

That one place with the trees, mountains and snow

Ember Power Mercenaries [EMP]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_Daddy
Goren ate it.
Ahh yes, you might want to check with Goren, or Norgu.

On topic:
I don't think items just dissapear unless Arena Net deletes them from your character, you probably got rid of your pet by accident.

holababe

holababe

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2006

Goon Squad [LLJK]

Mo/

Or his account's been hacked and someone's thieving.
But, if it's a dark mini it can be really hard to see. I crafted two sets of Sandals for my monk, because I couldn't see the first set.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

1) Check closely. Black icons can be easy to hard to find.

2) Some textures of icons of certain items can take a while to load. Give plenty of time for all your icons to load just to make sure.

Croco Clouds

Croco Clouds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Montreal, QC, Canada

Divine Illumination [LaZy]

E/A

Is it salvageable to material? never dare to tried it before

Rivix

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2007

D/Mo

Well putting animals in storage can't be healthy.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

Quote:
Originally Posted by holababe
.... if it's a dark mini it can be really hard to see.
It's not hard to see. The body of the icon is black, but the legs and beak are an easily seen orange.

Onarik Amrak

Onarik Amrak

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2007

Astral Revenants

P/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Croco Clouds
Is it salvageable to material? never dare to tried it before
LoL. Yes, you can salvage meat, bones and feathers.

I don't think you could craft a Mini Black Moa from those materials though...

Omniclasm

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Guild Hall

A/

I have him.

Meet me at LA district 3 this Thursday night. You give me 300k, I give you the bird..

chowmein69

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

i still have mines

Eviance

Eviance

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Eh I forget... o_O

Biscuit of Dewm [MEEP]

R/

Guys he posted that because I was sure I had seen someone in a town complaining about the same thing (Missing their mini black moa.) - he was kinda hoping it was a more global issue than "He sucks at searching."

Anyways thanks to those who suggested going to a lighter area to check his characters I will see that he does so. ^_^!

Sauce if all else fails I'll get ya a new birdie XD

Inger

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2007

R/Rt

something similar to this happened to me too, when I got norn armor for my ranger I had saved up a couple of black dyes over the course of about 4 months with the intention of dying any new armor i got black. Well when I finally got my armor, I opened up storage flipped to my last storage box and O_O there was no black dyes!!

That box is completely full minus the space the black dyes occupied. So i'm thinking what the heck... did I delete them..... put them on my mule? I checked my mule and zip, no black dyes, I totally did not remember moving them so I had no idea what ever happened to those dyes. Its still a mystery to me today. I thought about whether my account got hacked, but nothing else was missing and I have some items in storage worth alot more than a couple of black dyes.


If i were u i'd report it to anet, a black moa mini is definately something that I would be worried about if it went missing, especially if u created it yourself.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

I have to check on mine now...

Nope, still there. I had a theory if it was gone....and still might.

Do you have Nightfall?

Roo Ella

Roo Ella

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

Australia

Oz

E/R

NOT saying this is what happened but if it was a duped Moa
and Aanet ran there trace program "boom" no more mini moa.
just a thought about duping from reading other recent threads around here.

Buzzer

Buzzer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Australia

Quote:
Originally Posted by Roo Ella
NOT saying this is what happened but if it was a duped Moa
and Aanet ran there trace program "boom" no more mini moa.
just a thought about duping from reading other recent threads around here.
Didn't that duping thing happen well before the moa was available?

Viruzzz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzer
Didn't that duping thing happen well before the moa was available?
details.. details..

Ghost Recon

Ghost Recon

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzer
Didn't that duping thing happen well before the moa was available?
Yes.

12 chars

Longasc

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

Check your mules.

You could have put another item over it, and then it swapped into the inventory of your mule.

This often happens to Urgoz Flatbow, and the Moa is a bit dark and if your monitor is dark, too, and you do not look properly this might have happened.

peterchen620

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

Lion Arch Guards

W/Mo

You put the Moa Bird in your storage? Man... You are so cruel to animals. Probably ran off when it had the chance. /endjoke

Check your other characters.

Roo Ella

Roo Ella

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

Australia

Oz

E/R

As i said before these are recent threads saying the Duping is still going on.
Game and Dev tracker sub thread has a new one Gaile is looking into apparently.
I will reiterate I am NOT saying this happened in this case
you prolly just misplaced it somewhere.

dont feel no pain

dont feel no pain

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Uk,Wales

Quote:
Originally Posted by Croco Clouds
Is it salvageable to material? never dare to tried it before
you win, that made me rofl,

Salvage = 20 feathers, 12 bones and 1 monsterous claw +1 consumable chicken wing

Bale_Shadowscar

Bale_Shadowscar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Manchester, England

New Dragons [NDR]

if you are 100% sure you haven't deleted it, I think the most likely explanation is that someone got access to your account and stole it. I'd change your password if I were you.

Estic

Estic

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mongoose United

Do you have any preorder items?

I'm asking because I have the pre-order factions/nightfall/EotN/1mln upgrade. That gives me 13-14 weapons in the inventory when I type /bonus. I caught myself deleting normal drops because I was busy deleting all the bopnus items. Maybe that happened (although the green text would probably have stopped me).

Mork from Ork

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bale_Shadowscar
I think the most likely explanation is that someone got access to your account and stole it. I'd change your password if I were you.
I think if someone got access to the account they would take something more valuable than the moa.

It may be the texture for the icon got messed up and is not loading properly. Try running your mouse over every inventory slot in your storage and on your characters. If the icon did not show up and you moved something from a character to storage into the slot where the "invisible" chick was it would switch it to your toon without you realizing it.

Something similar happened when I first got the chick. I was in FS and the incubator disappeared but no chick showed up. I thought there had been a glitch and I had wasted all my work. A day or so later, there it was in my pack. The icon had simply not downloaded when it was supposed to and so it had not shown up even though it was really there.

Chik N Nuggets

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2007

calgary, alberta, canada

The Crimson Knighthood [CRIM]

W/

that happend with a necrid horseman a while ago..

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

I checked mine....yep still there....will check my mini-mule and see if all of the other minis are still there (though if they do go awol I wont cry since they are all whites).

headcarb

headcarb

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

England/Shing jea

Rt/

if u ever find me ill give you mine

Fhlamin Scythe

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

Slovenia

Shiros Disciples

P/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Croco Clouds
Is it salvageable to material? never dare to tried it before
Using a hammer on a poor birdy ?! SHAME ON YOU!

Linksys

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

It's happened to my black bandanna. It's almost impossible to see in the inventory and found it on a mule character.

Have you ever tossed a bulk number of items in the trash or dropped in an explorable area? I accidently trashed a bow along with a bunch of /bonus weapons by doing that.

Molock

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Qu??bec

Legacy of Angels [Halo]

E/

You might simply be overlooking it.. I know I have had black armor pieces "disappear" and appear sundenly when I would be selling stuff to merchant.

Lykan

Lykan

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

StP

R/

IM guessing its lost or misplaced, stop saying he was hacked lol, im sure they'd take something better then a single minipet...

Fitz Rinley

Fitz Rinley

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Rusty Rose

W/Mo

I had a perfect fiery dragon sword disappear on my original monk, maybe a year and a half ago. I think I even inquired about it, but I got the same old stuff of "We can't do anything about lost items in scams, etc." Except it vanished off my character, and I had placed it behind my kits so I wouldn't sell it. The sword was the first I ever had drop of that type and it came from a wurm in Lornar's Pass so it was highly notable to me. I gave it up as a loss. But it disappeared for no reason, and was replaced by some worthless rune (or something). My biggest concern at the time was that GW was being hacked - but no one cared about it except me.

edit: Not sure it was a rune, may have been some other prefix or suffix. It was a year and a half or so ago.