Inasmork wrote:When does a player would be classified as thief? I took out some major amount of bricks (39) from some Kiln to build an Ore Smelter on my first day playing Haven & Hearth (unsuccessful at the end because I needed 1 more brick and the other day I log on the building site has been destoried...
I was told later after taken out 39 bricks from random kilns (owns by no one I was thinking, since those kiln was not build on players owned land area). That I am thieving other's hard work. How can I know next time what to get and what not to get, please advice me?
Do you mean in terms of game mechanics? people's opinions? normal consciences?
Basically, there are 4 types of objects
- in someone's claim/village/etc. and/or protected by something you must destroy to get to it - you are thieving, and most of the time the game mechanics agree with you. (Not if they only had an object blocking it)
- in an area that looks like someone lives there, with a hearth fire, working tools, etc. Odds are this belongs to someone who doesn't have "yeomanry" yet, can't afford the LP to protect their whole base, or doesn't want to block public access by claiming as much land as they work. Morally, you are thieving; you are also quite likely picking on a very new player.
- in an area that someone once lived, but which has been abandoned. This can look similar to the second case, you need to think about it; being familiar with the area helps a lot
- in the middle of nowhere. In this case, the object was probably made by someone "grinding", and they don't care. Alternatively, it was lost or duplicated in a crash, particularly if it's a useful dead animal.