Board Thread:Current Major Glitch Discussion/@comment-31592479-20170410155226

I did a bunch of experimentation over the weekend, while the servers were going blinky-blinky-blinky, and learned some things:

If the server is offline, and you're trying to gift, the gift often reaches the recipient even when you get a failure notice! It can be bloody slow, but if you want to gift like crazy, you can. Here are the variations I found:

- Gifting the Free Gifts:  the recipient gets one item every time you attempt to send, even though your count of gifts you can make that day does not change. The 50-items-per-day restriction does not come into play.

- Gifting Collection Items:  you can send an item, and if your count drops (to 1/10, 2/10, etc.), the recipient will receive the item. However, your own inventory will not be debited. The item effectively clones -- you continue to have, say, a hammer, but your recipient also gets one. You can send multiple clones of a given item when you only have one of them. The 10-items-per-day restriction is still in effect.

Occasionally, the item goes through anyway -- so don't try this with anything you really can't afford to give away!

This may not be the only reason people are receiving multiple items, but it's certainly part of it. I think it explains the 5 bottles of developing fluid mentioned in the other thread, but not the 137 griffin's claws or whatever it was. 