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Strange behavior with grouped tokens

Hi! Playing around with grouped tokens, I noticed a number of strange behaviors. I do not believe these are intended: First strange behavior Group any number of tokens. Deselect the group. Click one of the tokens to select the group. The clicked token jumps, changing its position inside the group. This seems to happen, as long as the top left corner of the group's outer boundary is not aligned with the grid. The problem is much more noticeable, if the tokens are rotated 45° before grouping, as the bounding box is larger. Second strange behavior Create 4 individual tokens and place them into a group: { A , B , C , D } Create an empty character sheet, press edit . select the group and press use selected token . Drag and drop the character onto the map. The newly created token E will be a copy of the oldest token in the group (not the one you clicked on): in our case token A . Now if you click on the tokens to select the group, you will notice that: Tokens A , B , C and D do not consider E a part of the group. Token E , however, does consider the grouping to be { A , B , C , D , E }! If you use Advanced -> Ungroup , all currently selected tokens no longer consider themselves part of the group. If you had clicked on and selected only { A , B , C , D }, E still considers itself part of { B , C , D , E } (without A ). If you drag an new token F onto the map, it will consider itself part of the group { B , C , D , E , F }... ... while clicking on E still only selects { B , C , D , E }. Dragging the character onto a new map to create one or more tokens does nothing, none of the tokens are grouped. Hope this can be fixed, Thank you!
Hey Bob - Thanks for the report! I went ahead and forwarded this to the dev team for further review and investigation. Happy gaming! 
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I am having a similar issue, but it can be worked around as long as the gm and the players know it. Having selected one token out of a token group and then dragging them across the map works nicely. Having nothing selected and just start dragging one item of a group, will change the position of this specific token inside the group. To correct for this, maybe unwanted movement, the player has to deselect the group and then click-drag that wild token back into place. Here a gif example of a mage with aura:
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Working with grouped tokens is a bit tricky, but it does give you some flexibility. To move the single member of a group, click and drag it. To move the entire group, click to select, and then click and drag (second click). Took me a while to work out, but it gives you a method of moving either the single token or the group without ungrouping,