Better to steal cupboards than individual items

[ElCabron]

This been around for a long time.
I'm not sure if this is a bug but I'm sure it sounds like one.
It is way better to steal the entire container than stealing individual items, when using a wheelbarrow (thief) for example you take 1 dmg each item that the stockpile contains, which is not the case of containers you take the 1 initial dmg for lifting it and 1 for leaving the claim.
So... stealing 10 cupboards(640 items) you will leave 20 scents instead of 640
I'm sure yall are aware of this but I saw no posts about it, probably because it is a long standing bug... or not a bug at all
Plz Jorb Nerf

[AntiBlitz]

im pretty sure i have actually been knocked out before stealing stockpiles

[MagicManICT]

I'm not sure devs are considering this one a bug. It's come up before, and not much comment on what could/should be done about it that I recall (would have to look up old threads). It probably should be more expensive to take chests (including cupboard) off a claim. I'd say more a feature request/balance issue. I'll move this depending on what jorb says.

[ElCabron]

I see , I think It should have a bigger penallity, maybe a new scent for stealing objects/containers

[MagicManICT]

I'll note that I think this was, partly, a fix for some server spam crashes and slowdowns back when it was implemented--the scents left that is. I'd have to dig up a thread from w7, when this was implemented.

[jorb]

Arguably this is retarded, but I'm not sure what to do about it. Give a scent for each item in the container, perhaps.

[sabinati]

Give a scent for each item in the container, perhaps.

seems like what should happen

[MagicManICT]

But isn't that why it was "removed"? To prevent scent spamming the server? Wasn't that causing slowdowns and crashes?

[sabinati]

i thought that was why they added damage when you leave scents

[MagicManICT]

Yeah, I thought it was all part of the same changes. But thinking back, people would just dump cupboards out not bothering with stealing things they didn't want, and letting the rest rot on the ground. It wasn't until after that when people were just taking the chests/cupboards with them.