Items despawned by themselves or trolled?

[Baldarich]

Today i come from school and i find all my stuff gone and a couple of things on the floor i claimed it but since i just started i didnt have enough lp to claim all my land and my fence (the stuff thats gone is claimed)
Im new to hafen and im really curious if i was trolled by some assholes or does that kind of thing happen.
My base is close to the river so i can have easy acess to water. Is it worth rebuilding my stuff and just keep building on or should i move somewhere...

Edit: There are no scents so did i claim it wrong or?

[Turtlesir]

you can't always detect crime scents. yeah, it's quite common for people to wreck your shit, especially now the world is old enough to have many characters capable of destroying palisades by hand in it.

if you didn't lose too much (i'm guessing not) just move out further.

a lot of info about claiming here: http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Personal_Claim

[Glorthan]

How new was the claim? It takes a certain amount of time to activate now I think, might be 8 or 24 hours.

[Turtlesir]

How new was the claim? It takes a certain amount of time to activate now I think, might be 8 or 24 hours.

oh right, forgot about that. it's 8 hours.

[Raffeh]

Well the other day I saw a noob settlement next to a nice river the usual wicker baskets and the such and I was just like urgh this is horrible and destroyed everything. Not to troll or steal just purely because there's too much random civilisation everywhere.

I personally would not bash anything on a claim because of scents of course but it could always be the fact that someone with a higher stealth x int skill then your perc x explor did the bashing and then when you turned on your tracking, you just generally was not able to see there scents.

[Turtlesir]

i'm guilty of that as well at times, Raffeh.:p it's like you move hours away from spawn into the wild, with no claims in any direction for hours. two weeks later you're surrounded on all sides, urgh. and they don't just settle in the middle, no, they settle 2 minimaps away. from then on, whenever i saw a newbie settlement pop up in my area, i've broken it right away. mainly though because i don't know their intentions, if they would introduce themselves and stuff, i'd probably help them get set up. never underestimate the power of introductory gift baskets!

[Antaraner]

i consider myself a realy peaceful hermit, but unclaimed stuff that is useful is pretty much already in my pocket when i find it.
Unclaimed roundpol fences guard against nothing.

Last time somebody postet about rage cuz he want to kill new players to steal there stuff. He himself was a relativ new player who said himself he has lots of stuff. Random crime and looting can happen its not always tied to the location or anykind of logic.
Best check when in your vicinity are already settlement you have no contact ppl have to move. Its not only the risk of raiding but the limitet resources. In my vicinity where several attemps of unclaimed settlement. When i found them i destroyed everything i found. 1 i could even see from my base.
Now i have 1 square away a settlment in the north that makes problems. First it whas a rly compact claimed settlement maybe 15x20. Now that thing expanded, the problem it is on the landbridge between two lakes and i have to move around that stupid base. No dont build your base 2 min up north on the giant open land you have to squeeze it on that narrow piece of crap land.

[Kelody]

You didn't mention where your items were, or what was taken. Items left on the ground will decay, even if on a claim. Items should be kept in containers. Containers not on a claim can be destroyed or carried off without leaving scents.