Heroes somehow drop gold at gates in home realms

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When you summon heroes in home realms (both), there is a chance that a pile of gold will appear within the area of heroes gates. You can pick gold from the sacred earth piece before the gates, but you can't pick it from the gates, and workers can't pick it too. At first I thought it happens because miners get killed by defenses right after they spawned. But then I moved away all defenses, and never attacked heroes until they move far enough from the gates. And yet it still happens sometimes, right after summoning heroes a new pile of unobtainable gold appears at the gates. My guess is when the game creates heroes and gives them random amount of gold, it may exceed their capability to carry it, so they drop it.

Game Version:
Steam Public
Platform:
Windows
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Jan - Eric Merzel
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i could reproduce the issue and i believe your idea why it happens is correct.

this does not happen on low level units but on higher level units commonly


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Stefan Furcht Programmer

When these Heroes die they drop gold on purpose.
The problem lies in game design, because gold can only be collected from claimed land but sacred ground is not claimable.
So any gold pile which did fall on sacred ground is lost forever.
I am assigning this to you Josh Bishop.

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Old Cat

A gold pile has a chance to appear even if no one dies there. Right when the gates create heroes.

So I suppose some kind of error might be there after all, not just a game design issue.

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Stefan Furcht Programmer

Oh this would be strange.
The only reason why there should be gold piles, because it is in the pockets of the empire units
and they normally won't release it until they die.
I have no idea where else gold piles could come from at this place.
Maybe some die directly after entering for some reason?


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Old Cat

Perhaps, but since I didn't attacked them, they only could die on their own. Also, I've never seen those gold piles to appear on their own outside of home realms.

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Old Cat

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Lee "Noontide" Moon Designer & Community Manager

Hi Old Cat :)

Don't worry this ticket hasn't been forgotten it's simply in a very low priority queue while our code team works on other things.


With regards to the gold pile they will certainly appear in home realm as by default whenever enemy units are spawned gold is added to their inventory when in the home realm.


Cheers,


Lee

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Stefan Furcht Programmer
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Stefan Furcht Programmer

After long back & forth about the design, we do now allow to collect items from unowned ground.
So as long a tile is not owned by an enemy and walkable by workers, they will be able to collect the item from there for you.

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Stefan Furcht Programmer
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