Hearthless Scents

[Rift]

That would be really helpful.. i really have no idea whether to hold onto these scents on the hope there alive without a hearthfire and will log back on, or whether to toss em because that char is dead.

[Denvon]

I am also finding a LOT of scents with no hearthfire. At first it was just theft scents, but now it is everything aside from murder. All of these people couldn't have been killed, could they? So it must be a bug or people 'abusing' the system. In fact earlier today I caught somebody in the act of stealing from a settlement. Before I could engage or get a name, he logged. I tried to track his scent but he had NO HEARTHFIRE! Obviously he wasn't dead, so he must have just not had one.

[KoE]

i find a lot of scents around the world that say the player has no hearthfire and is not logged in.

While that is a definite possibility, it might also be that the perpetrator has already been killed by someone -- at which point his hearth fire goes out and he, obviously, cannot be logged in. I'm thinking of giving this condition a separate error message (or, maybe, making it track his bones).

I have to say I'd like it to point to his bones. It'd be sort of disappointing / irritating to track it down, but it'd be a fun/morbid sort of find.

[niltrias]

I am also finding a LOT of scents with no hearthfire. At first it was just theft scents, but now it is everything aside from murder. All of these people couldn't have been killed, could they? So it must be a bug or people 'abusing' the system. In fact earlier today I caught somebody in the act of stealing from a settlement. Before I could engage or get a name, he logged. I tried to track his scent but he had NO HEARTHFIRE! Obviously he wasn't dead, so he must have just not had one.

Ive been getting spammed by a hearthless theif...or two.. Eveytime i log in, for the last several days, there have been new clues at my site. At first i thought they had been killed, but now im pretty sure someone has a character that they are spawning direct from brogdar every time. same guy, keeping the same skills, no hearth fire.
I didnt want to mention it and start a fad. heh. but i guess its out now anyway.

Edit -- i like the bone tracking idea too. Might be frustrating at times, but it would give closure.