Thomas Sailskull
Honorable Pirate
How color change bug works, and how to fix it.
NOTE: Loot Color referrs to the color it shows in loot, and True Color refers to its color in inventory.
There are two ways it can occur:
1) Two of the exact same clothing item in a single sailing run, (aka sack vests, cotton corset, linen trousers, etc) If this happens, the Loot Colors can swap between the two items, while its True color remains the same. For example, the game drops a red sack vest, and a bright green sack vest in the same sailing loot haul. The red sack vest will appear in loot as the bright green sack vest, and vice versa. This is why you need to take and trash ALL versions of an item, regardless if they are bright or not.
2) The second way color change can happen, is if an item is not taken in loot, it can pass on its actual color to the next version of that item to drop. This can chain together one after another, in a string, allowing you to recover the item. So Freebooter goes sailing, and a brown sack vest drops in loot, and its the only one. But Freebooter got a loading screen/crash, and could not get his brown sack vest. On the next run, loot had what appears to be a Bright Red Sack, but it turned brown when he put it into inventory, as it inheirted the color of the sack that was not taken.
This can chain sequentially, like a video out of sync with its sound track. As the brown passed it's color onto the green one, the green one will pass its color onto the next sack vest to drop in loot, provided it drops on the same server.
Note that this only occurs at sea.
TLDR: DO NOT leave a plain version of an item you would take a bright version of in loot for any reason. The color change issue goes BOTH ways.
NOTE: Loot Color referrs to the color it shows in loot, and True Color refers to its color in inventory.
There are two ways it can occur:
1) Two of the exact same clothing item in a single sailing run, (aka sack vests, cotton corset, linen trousers, etc) If this happens, the Loot Colors can swap between the two items, while its True color remains the same. For example, the game drops a red sack vest, and a bright green sack vest in the same sailing loot haul. The red sack vest will appear in loot as the bright green sack vest, and vice versa. This is why you need to take and trash ALL versions of an item, regardless if they are bright or not.
2) The second way color change can happen, is if an item is not taken in loot, it can pass on its actual color to the next version of that item to drop. This can chain together one after another, in a string, allowing you to recover the item. So Freebooter goes sailing, and a brown sack vest drops in loot, and its the only one. But Freebooter got a loading screen/crash, and could not get his brown sack vest. On the next run, loot had what appears to be a Bright Red Sack, but it turned brown when he put it into inventory, as it inheirted the color of the sack that was not taken.
This can chain sequentially, like a video out of sync with its sound track. As the brown passed it's color onto the green one, the green one will pass its color onto the next sack vest to drop in loot, provided it drops on the same server.
Note that this only occurs at sea.
TLDR: DO NOT leave a plain version of an item you would take a bright version of in loot for any reason. The color change issue goes BOTH ways.