A Plea For Lock Changes

[overtyped]

Right now, a fresh character with 10 stealth 10 int, 10 dex can pick a wooden lock on a timber house in well under a minute.

I think this could use a change. A character with 10 stats against a wooden lock should take at least 5-10 minutes to pick on a house, but a shorter time on other objects, like chests. Although not good, people may then start considering the prospect of using one.

The juice here isn't worth the squeeze otherwise. Imagine investing in the prospect of constantly carrying a key around with you. Losing one of your precious inventory slots for a 45 second delay in being robbed? Whats the point?

[DonVelD]

this person wants to make safe palisades with no palisades - hes trying to manipulate you Jorb

[sMartins]

What if he can't?
Houses everywhere .... Neat ... A small town

[overtyped]

this person wants to make safe palisades with no palisades - hes trying to manipulate you Jorb

Wow, that's actually a really good idea for the early game. Thanks for the tip.

[The_Blode]

When i practiced picking a lock and learned that a starter lock on an unwalled house is trivially easy to crack, I figured I'd just ignore locks altogether aside from the required palisade gate locks.
I do this with a lot of the game's mechanics, sadly

[ZamAlex]

Locks are good and useble right now - good quality lock can create oppsy situation for ppl who don't expect it. If devs touched smth here, we will in situation where every birchbark basket and urn with q3 bugs inside will have unbreakble locks, that create a lot of frustration and urges to destroy everything on their sight.

[Audiosmurf]

Simple solution add consumable lockpicks and weigh lock quality against pick quality

[Robben_DuMarsch]

Simple solution add consumable lockpicks and weigh lock quality against pick quality

+1

[SnuggleSnail]

Doors should remain unlocked +/- 60 seconds after the last time somebody entered or exited. Locks are already extremely strong. This man is complaining that something made from a single block of Q10 wood isn't powerful enough because it only eats 60 seconds @ low stats. Retarded.

[magnet]

Escaping
Through the use of speed buffs and critters the escapee can create a lot of distance. Maintaining enough distance (a little below vision range) for about 20 seconds will result in aggro being dropped.

so don't you only need 20 seconds inside a locked cabin before you can begin hearthing back ??