Summoned Pets Turn to Ghosts

[Breea]

I know its been chatted up, but it needs to be addressed. There is an issue when the owner of a pet zones out, it leaves a shadow copy of itself in the old zone, even with persistent zones turned off if there is people in that zone afking or boxing the pets can be item duped by placing tons of items on the pets, zoning back and forward till someone has enough plat and items and then kill each pet for those items. The shadow version of the pet is placed in the npc_types table as SumEarthR001 or SumFireR001 etc, so as I'm trying to track this down it seems that there is a problem or something overlooked when someone leaves the zone there doesn't seem to be a kill or depop command for the pet. I've tried writing and applying quest scripts to run sub EVENT_SPAWN { quest::depop(); } but that does not work naturally being the mob isn't a spawn from the DB itself.

Can we, the community please get to work on this code. I'd be willing to start in but I'm only 70ish % through trying to learn the code myself. Any coding I can apply or conjure I will but this bug is definitely taking the mages out of the game or at least ruining a lot of server's economies =(.