2009-04-21, 04:36 AM
Uh, for what it's worth:
Every character has a gigantic invisible box around them in which players, items, and monsters will load when they come into range. When things are outside of this box, your client doesn't know they exist. This is why players don't show up on the mini map if they're too far away.
The loot block timer on dropped items starts when your client acknowledges that they exist. That is, if a monster drops some mesos and you're WAY off screen when it happens, and you later go over a minute later to pick it up, you won't be able to pick up anything until 10 seconds after the item is in your box.
I've had a lot of experience with this as I usually find a bunch of Jack O Lanterns when I hunt HH and use other characters to pick up the extras. When I move my other characters into the map where it dropped, I'll have to wait 10 seconds before I can pick up the Lantern, even if I spent a good 2 minutes getting to the spot where it dropped.
As for being loot blocked from your own items, I'd assume it's just lag.
Every character has a gigantic invisible box around them in which players, items, and monsters will load when they come into range. When things are outside of this box, your client doesn't know they exist. This is why players don't show up on the mini map if they're too far away.
The loot block timer on dropped items starts when your client acknowledges that they exist. That is, if a monster drops some mesos and you're WAY off screen when it happens, and you later go over a minute later to pick it up, you won't be able to pick up anything until 10 seconds after the item is in your box.
I've had a lot of experience with this as I usually find a bunch of Jack O Lanterns when I hunt HH and use other characters to pick up the extras. When I move my other characters into the map where it dropped, I'll have to wait 10 seconds before I can pick up the Lantern, even if I spent a good 2 minutes getting to the spot where it dropped.
As for being loot blocked from your own items, I'd assume it's just lag.