Quills no longer returned

[Fruits]

Yesterday my quill got eaten on a successful combine. I thought maybe I hit autoinventory and it put it in one of my bags, but nope. Tried it again. Sure enough, quills get eaten on combines now

[Lilosh]

Quills have been eaten when making swatches since they went in.


I always assumed they were supposed to be used up.


-Noish

[Anthe]

I noticed this the other day, normal 50-60 spell research combines ran me out of quills (spells not swatches). I got so used to them being returned 100% on practice research it really caught me off guard.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Quill's were returned on practice research??

OK the last time I did practice research was in late 1999, but I certainly don't remember quills being returned then. Perhaps this was a fairly recent glitch that subsequently got fixed?

As far as I remember, all research combines were and are supposed to consume both quill and parchment regardless of success or failure.

[Anthe]

Yeah, quills are returned doing practice research - just finished making a couple stacks of magi beza runes & did not consume a single quill. Making the beza/azia runes are no-fail; combining the azia & beza runes don't require quill/parchment and only then are you getting a skill-up chance.

Memory may be failing me, but I seem to recall quills & parchments were once unstackable as were 95% of the other components needed - and to aid researchers prior to stacking components - quills were changed to be consumed only during actual spell combines. I have a memory of long ago having a full inventory of non-stackable research components (5 per beza/azia rune required), quills & parchments and getting depressed that I could only attempt skill-ups 5 times before depleting my entire inventory & having to restock.