Talk:Commander's stuff/@comment-91.239.249.138-20190218194315/@comment-10507735-20190219141151

The problem also exists in v1.4007.

But it didn't used to be an issue in v1.4002 (which I am currently playing in veteran for old time's sake)

It may be that this is an issue that crept into the game during various 'code migrations' that were introduced during the evolution of LADC after v1.4002.

Something certainly isn't 'right'.

For example: I played the extended pack of v1.4005 (1.4006) and remember well that the very first stash that I was given was the highly irrelevant Car trunk in Forest(Lost Alpha) (previously a Bugged Stash in all versions to 1.4002)

I played 1.4007 and the very first stash coord that I got was ... Car trunk.. At that point I reloaded my most recent save and got on with the game. Later on some poor twerp stiff gave me the coords for my 'first' stash, which was - - - - - Car trunk.

From this bullshit behaviour I speculate that there is some minor algorithm that is obsessed with giving me the coords to a stash in a lonely part of a level that I will not visit for another couple of game days.

As other players have noticed, other early stash locations are 'helpfully' given in other parts of Forest, or Countryside(Lost Alpha) (which might not need to be visited at all until Freeplay if you have a bit of pragmatism in your objectives)

The logic behind such "game balancing" escapes ME. I'm more likely just to ignore stash coordinates entirely as just another distraction. ---

As for the "missing focus" problem:


 * 1) There appears to be NO solution or workaround. But it's trivial in comparison to other "stash problems"..
 * 2) As ElessarTheOnly very correctly notes: "Sometimes a stash you have used before as a loot drop becomes inaccessible as soon as you receive the coordinates. " and this is where you lose all of your loot at that location.
 * The only potential workarounds for this travesty of coding (that didn't need to exist..) is to:
 * 1) Use GIVEN flagged coordinates as safe lootdrop locations.
 * 2) Use OBSCURE rarely given known stash locations such as Loot near the stalker camp in the Rostok Bus Stop(Great Metal Factory).
 * 3) Use 'dummy' stash locations such as the pipework non-stash in Strelok's Hideout or the non-stash location where Duty disc2 spawns under relevant conditions. Some of these may not be convenient.
 * 4) From v1.4005 NEVER EVER just drop your crap on the ground "to come back for the lootpile" later on. A different, much more insidious algorithm quietly whisks your crap away and deletes it from the gameboard.

I guess I need to write some of this into the general article.