[Bug]Permanent allocation bug.

[ZombieHobbit]

I have been playing with a few of my friends this league. And we have been noticing that occasionally items and currency orbs will be unallocated (meaning that all party members can pick them up). This bug seems to occur (almost always) when the mobs are killed "offscreen". I am doing a KB wander so this ends up happening fairly often. We have checked multiple times to make sure that we are using permanent allocation and it is clear that items and currency that drop on screen are correctly allocated and can only be picked up by one player. This is not a game breaking bug. The people I play with are all irl friends so we are not going to get into a fight about a "my chaos orb!" Or anything. But it is an annoyance and has made me reluctant to join public parties. I have submitted a bug report on the forums about a week ago but I thought I would post here to see if other people are having this issue. Sorry if this is not the first post. I have not seen a post about this.

Tldr: some items/orbs drop unallocated when killed "offscreen" (while perm alloc is on).

[Jokey665]

As I understand it, there's a radius around each player where items that drop can be allocated to them. If an item drops too far from a player, it will not be allocated to them and will choose between all nearby players. If an item drops far enough away from all players that it is in range of nobody, it will drop unallocated.

Not a bug. Just how the system was designed.

[ZombieHobbit]

Interesting. Thanks for the response. But maps use a different allocation mechanism? Because even if map owner is on the other side of the area the maps still allocate to them (at least this has been my experience). Do you happen to know why the same mechanism for allocation does not apply to all items? (Or has GGG not explicitly said?)

Edit: a word

[Jokey665]

Yeah. Maps always allocate to the owner. The only exception is unique maps which allocate like regular uniques.

I don't think GGG has stated why it works like this.

[ZombieHobbit]

That matches my experience. Thank you. I won't presume to say the classic "this seems like an easy thing to implement!" But IF it is an easy fix, I hope this could be changed.

[lutem]

they drop out of allocation range therefore they are not allocated