I believe it's a mechanics issue (broken system issue).

If wolf is gone too long, just log out and back in. This will free it from wherever it's stuck. Crappy fix, but that's what we got.

Thanks for the heads up on the issue. There's not much that we can do to prevent this stuff right now, but it is helpful to know what the weird-ities are for troubleshooting purposes. In this case, I found Purnay's wolf, so all's well that ends well :-)

GameMaster Audacia

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

>>In this case, I found Purnay's wolf, so all's well that ends well :-)

Does this mean you found it.. alive.. still grown.. and gave it back?

If so wow.. that's a first. How many years of "sorry, it's gone for good, we can't find it" have we heard about every cause of a lost wolf with never once a success story? Heh, first time is awesome.

If not.. I'll shut up and go hide.

Lot of issues with wolves. Lotta rooms they don't like to follow into. Some if you go into with wolf awake, wolf magically poofs in < 20 seconds. Always had bad luck with wolves and trails too. I lost like 20 wolves before I gave up keeping them awake, and started only using wolf to learn AL (which got me to 350) - and got me a young wolf too, after 300 ranks of waking it only to lock AL. Now I only ever wake it if I have meat in my hand, to send it to find someone so I can track em down.

Looks like they may well be in good hands though.

I still recommend you use all of your precautions - when I play, I am afraid to even move with my wolf, which of course is why it never grows :-P

While I did replace Purnay's wolf at the age it was when it was lost, realize that had he 40 hours on it at that point, that time would have been lost. I can only give you a replacement companion who is at the beginning of that general life age.

I realize that companions have been buggy a long time and are overall a very frustrating system that has SO much potential. We'll get it fixed someday (I'm not going to use the dreaded "soon" word .. yet.) but in the meantime, I am going to try to make it as tolerable as possible within the weird-ities it has.

Companion replacements are going to remain very rare, but in an obvious buggy situation that my research shows there is nothing the player could have done to avoid it ... then we may think about it. This does not mean that if you go in a building and leave your raccoon outside so it runs away that I'll replace it. I still will not do so :-P It just means that in extremely weird cases, I'll do my best.

Please continue to post your questions here as they come up and we'll look into it.

Thanks!
GameMaster Audacia

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Full-grown wolves have the most use. In addition to being possible to track to a target (like young), they will sometimes pull someone out of hiding. I wish there was a way to force them to do that, however.