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Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:05 pm**

Well, everything is in the title really...

Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:13 pm**

except for whether this matches classic or not.

Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:57 pm**

It doesn't match classic, attaching a savegame, surrounded by guards.

Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:11 pm**

Ghosts in daggerfall at night aren't restored ethier. I saved a game while they were following me (they were chasing me all the way til daytime) , and they disappear when you load it, even though you can see them in the save game preview.

I'll upload a save in a few days if needed (and I remember)

Edit: 1/11/2022. I forgot. Well here is the save's picture.

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SAVE18.zip: (466.83 KiB) Downloaded 118 times

Yes, I know the question's already been answered, but I had to stay true to my word

Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:14 pm**

Does this differ from say mobs in wilderness and a save/load by any chance?

Something may have broken or been missed here.

Posted: **Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:25 pm**

This is a fairly simple scene parenting issue (i.e. the mobs aren't parented correctly for serialization). I didn't realise this was the case with guards.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll move to bug reports and fix up when I can. Same for ghosts / quest spawns in towns.

Posted: **Thu Dec 19, 2019 1:48 am**

Just watched Grimith's stream EP5 to the end, and it seems to be a little more subtle; Guards spawning after killing commoners aren't restored, but guards spontaneously spawning because of criminal conspiracy are...
So yes, probably very little is missing to get it working all the time

Some other small issues happened to him with City Guards on his first stream, for example when he flee to a different region because he was chased by guards for some crimes, he got attacked again in the first town he arrived... Probably some state that needs clearing upon fast travel?
I wanted to reproduce the issue first, but if you have any idea why this could happen, that's something that could be looked into.

Posted: **Thu Dec 19, 2019 2:52 am**

pango wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 1:48 am Just watched Grimith's stream EP5 to the end, and it seems to be a little more subtle; Guards spawning after killing commoners aren't restored, but guards spontaneously spawning because of criminal conspiracy are...
So yes, probably very little is missing to get it working all the time

Some other small issues happened to him with City Guards on his first stream, for example when he flee to a different region because he was chased by guards for some crimes, he got attacked again in the first town he arrived... Probably some state that needs clearing upon fast travel?
I wanted to reproduce the issue first, but if you have any idea why this could happen, that's something that could be looked into.

I had similar issue with the quest "Lost Artifact", i think that was it, anyway the one where you have to kidnap a kid for the witch. I got the kid and recalled to the dungeon next to witch and tons of guards spawned immediately there too. Don't know if this is on purpose, but it really does not make any sense.

Posted: **Thu Dec 19, 2019 1:10 pm**

Seferoth wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 2:52 am I had similar issue with the quest "Lost Artifact", i think that was it, anyway the one where you have to kidnap a kid for the witch. I got the kid and recalled to the dungeon next to witch and tons of guards spawned immediately there too. Don't know if this is on purpose, but it really does not make any sense.

Such quests can spawn enemies, so that's probably normal:

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	create foe _warrior_ every 15 minutes 40 times with 100% success msg 1012

So I'm talking of game behavior with no such quest running (hopefully; and that's one of the reason I would have like to reproduce the problem myself first)

Posted: **Thu Dec 19, 2019 2:35 pm**

Interkarma wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:25 pm This is a fairly simple scene parenting issue (i.e. the mobs aren't parented correctly for serialization). I didn't realise this was the case with guards.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll move to bug reports and fix up when I can. Same for ghosts / quest spawns in towns.

I've been looking at the scene caching for the corpses issue and enemies are not cached which means that even for mobs parented correctly for serialisation are not restored from a save if the player enters a building before saving. When loaded the mobs are missing. This differs from classic which reloads the outside mobs successfully even when saved inside.

I'm not familiar with the serialization system used for this, but IIRC we agreed that scene cache should not persist mobs as it was already handled. If this needs to change, the cache can handle mobs easily enough but the existing system will need to change so as not to duplicate mobs on transitions between exteriors and interiors.

Also foes created from quests are added to loose item tracking if spawned in exterior, but those created using foespawner class are not. That is not what I would expect. Anyway can pick this up with you once you get some time to dig into it.

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