secure rowboat cargo

[Granger]

Marginal. Won't change. I get that this is a bitch when it happens, but keeping and maintaining this mechanic for all vehicles is a bit of work

Meh, work. I heard of that but watched others do it for whole days, didn't look that bad from a distance. Better excuse, please.

and there are also a lot of strange cases. What if someone steals my boat? It would then be nice if I could steal the stuff back from the boat, &c&c.

Then the someone either drives away with it (you're left behind and can't reach it anyway) or hearts away with it (dito).

Lots of question, marginal situation.

This answer tempts me to automate a fleet of self-replicating fresh-spawns that cruise around in dugouts to grab stuff from boats and hearth away (and then destroy the loot to not be burdened with it, make a new dugout and repeat), overdoing it hard enough to force your hand...

[wonder-ass]

IMHO: Taking cargo from a manned (someone sitting in the middle) boat should be theft, destroying a manned boat should be vandalism at minimum.

so youre telling me i can jump in someones boat with an alt and to get his animals back they are forced to either theft it vandalize it or ko me to get it back? great idea!

[Granger]

IMHO: Taking cargo from a manned (someone sitting in the middle) boat should be theft, destroying a manned boat should be vandalism at minimum.

so youre telling me i can jump in someones boat with an alt and to get his animals back they are forced to either theft it vandalize it or ko me to get it back? great idea!

Now you can pluck their cargo and they have to rage to get it back. What's better?

[wonder-ass]

IMHO: Taking cargo from a manned (someone sitting in the middle) boat should be theft, destroying a manned boat should be vandalism at minimum.

so youre telling me i can jump in someones boat with an alt and to get his animals back they are forced to either theft it vandalize it or ko me to get it back? great idea!

Now you can pluck their cargo and they have to rage to get it back. What's better?

idk just make it so it takes a few seconds to take anything out of a boat and moving in said boat cancels the timer.

[Mr_Bober]

+1
It's kinda dumb that u can steal something from a manned boat, but can't take something being lifted.
Right now it's more convenient to keep your precious cargo lifted on your head, rather than stored in the boat, which makes no sense.

Even more, I hate that it's so easy to destroy a rowboat with someone on it. It didn't use to be a huge deal before oceans, since rivers were not that wide and you could follow the lake coast if you were worried about drowning, but with oceans it's a whole different story.
To get around you can't always follow the coast, and that makes you a super easy target if someone manages to block your boat and attack it.

So while cargo-theft is nothing more than an inconvenience, bashing boats has become a much larger issue. Please make it vandalism!