Tracking stolen items is beyond broken

[overtyped]

The ability to track the scent of stolen items is rarely used as intended. Instead, it’s typically used to knock out players, remove their items, then put them back on, allowing you to track the “stolen” item.

[The_Lich_King]

agreed, make it so the one who left the scent cannot track the item, so you can't cheese find peoples bases.

[Ganhart]

agreed, make it so the one who left the scent cannot track the item, so you can't cheese find peoples bases.

So he can simply give the scent to a friend? Rather just rid of the whole "track stolen item" concept

[The_Lich_King]

agreed, make it so the one who left the scent cannot track the item, so you can't cheese find peoples bases.

So he can simply give the scent to a friend? Rather just rid of the whole "track stolen item" concept

Honestly... yeah. I sorta understand the LARP value of tracking your item after its been sold off in a market scenario but its so niche a scenario it is not even close to worth the pain it causes.

[loftar]

I wouldn't go quite so far since I've tracked down stuff I've had stolen myself, but I'm afraid you may unfortunately be right and that indeed we can't have nice things.

[Austinh15]

I wouldn't go quite so far since I've tracked down stuff I've had stolen myself, but I'm afraid you may unfortunately be right and that indeed we can't have nice things.

If you do intend to remove this, perhaps make it to where placing an item back on the person isn't possible. There's gotta be a better way than butchering the mechanic of tracking theft.

[overtyped]

I wouldn't go quite so far since I've tracked down stuff I've had stolen myself, but I'm afraid you may unfortunately be right and that indeed we can't have nice things.

That's adorable. In the past Bob Dole would use it to track noobs he had ko'd all the way to their hearthfire so he can permakill them. He's never heard of anyone tracking stolen items legitimately until now. <3

For the people that know how this works, they can just put stolen items on an alt then log off. Completely avoiding the mechanic. The only real use case is noob bashing.

It's really cute in a way. Noobs who get ko'd, teleport home, and think their nightmare is over will always end up finding their horror show up at their doorstep.

[SnuggleSnail]

Some groups of low/med tier PVPbois keep their outlaw chars in vaults. I've found main bases from track item a bunch of times.

[Redell]

Whoa now, I track thieves (village mates) that steal (log off with) the villages high quality tools. Plz no remove

[overtyped]

Some groups of low/med tier PVPbois keep their outlaw chars in vaults. I've found main bases from track item a bunch of times.

Yep, there is no cure for stupidity. All they have to do is keep the items in the vault for a couple days then it's clean.