Items disappearing in town frighteningly fast?

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It LOOKS like your items are safe on the ground only if someone can actually see them.

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So the moral of the story is that a watched pot never vanishes?

Nope, I was wrong.

I was hosting a game while making supper. One player dropped off a bunch of low level gems in from of the Act 1 stash, then went to Act 4 to kill stuff. When I came back to the 'puter, I watched as the chips evaporated, and as I moved toward the stash everything else went poof. Everything was on my screen the whole time.

I don't think I like this very much. It does nothing for the players. Maybe it will cut back on the loading of the Realm servers, where there could be millions of discarded items at any time. But, when I'm hosting the game, it's MY cpu getting loaded.

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