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by **kjartan** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:52 pm

I'm certainly not going to make a faultless item tracer like 12345 suggested; I'm not really trying to stop pthieving with this, I just thought it might be interesting to be able to tell who had been handling an item. Would the odor thing as I had originally proposed be that tough on pthieves? Mostly what it would tell you is who the item originally belonged to if it was stolen. It might also tell you who stole it, although that would be pretty easy to hide by having another character sit on it for a little while.

by **Autolycos** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:16 pm

the only thing thats really going to be shown in the tracer is exactly how much krap passes through me from one time to another.

hey Kj, how about you let me buy my own shopkeeper in a town so I can start a pawn shop. I'm curious to see how much more money I can make.. And if he held money for me, like the postmaster does on stuff sent with a price, plus it wouldnt clear out on reboot/crash... that would rock. i could stock the shop, and then pull in the coins at my liesure. :twisted:

by ***juggleblood*** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:19 pm

I was sleeping at the fountain with all my eq in my inventory and now its all gone...someone help me!

[img:3fx6ybc1]http://www.geocities.com/saudixpat/wm.jpg[/img:3fx6ybc1]

by **brady** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:52 pm

LMFAO, that picture rocks! And Auto, I really don't thing anybody wants anything that passed through you. :shock:

by **Weasel** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:56 pm

by **Autolycos** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:59 pm

[quote:27xuzrcy][b:27xuzrcy][color=yellow:27xuzrcy]Brady[/color:27xuzrcy][/b:27xuzrcy] LMFAO, that picture rocks! And Auto, I really don't thing anybody wants anything that passed through you. [/quote:27xuzrcy]

i'm not selling kidney stones and plasma, ya jackass! :evil:

by **Weasel** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:02 pm

I think all rooms outside vaults should be nosteal, for obvious reasons.. or give us password access to main entrance of vaults rather than keys.

by **Blastem** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:14 pm

[quote:23umvbj8]Mostly what it would tell you is who the item originally belonged to if it was stolen. [/quote:23umvbj8]

I can see it now ..... someone gets item stolen goes running around mud yelling someone stole my item... lemme sniff your's to make sure thats not it.

*SMACK*

or
some newbie gossips - I NEED A DRUID TO SNIFF EQ FOR ME PLZ????

Funny stuff

by **Autolycos** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:21 pm

cackle..

then your really gonna have everyones nose up your ass! :twisted:

by **12345** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:25 pm

[quote="*kjartan*":1a4nvryg]I'm certainly not going to make a faultless item tracer like 12345 suggested...[/quote:1a4nvryg]

The scent thing only encourages thieves to hold onto goods longer before they sell them. For joy, they'll be pestering the mud longer before they get bored and go away.

The scent thing is also more involved than simply putting a tracer on it. It's pretty easy to work up a set of db.c utils for is_stolen and mark_stolen that can be used generically.

I doubt it's faultless, but it is tangibly more useful in my opinion...

I'm not exactly suggesting we banish pthieves... but I do think they've had it way too easy lately. Being able to quit! out of jail for example. And yes, I know it was fixed. But what's the sense in a punishment that doesn't work?

by **Shazuko** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:26 pm

#1--require that the druid(at some point) had to have been in the same
room with said thief in order to recognize the odor...

#2--make the odor on the item temporary(whether its stolen again or not)
as even the strongest smells eventually fade...

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by **Weasel** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:35 pm

limit the amount of times they can use the steal command in one day...

by **Autolycos** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:45 pm

[quote="Shazuko":8odk5hou]#2--make the odor on the item temporary(whether its stolen again or not) as even the strongest smells eventually fade...[/quote:8odk5hou]

apparently you have not spent much time around Weasel.... that little rodent has not bathed in months... I doubt his stench would fade without a ritualistic cleansing, and a few human sacrifices.. :twisted:

by **Shazuko** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:47 pm

[quote:1nblzelm]apparently you have not spent much time around Weasel.... that little rodent has not bathed in months... I doubt his stench would fade without a ritualistic cleansing, and a few human sacrifices..[/quote:1nblzelm]

heheh.....

by **Weasel** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:57 pm

heh.. it's not me, it's that damn Autolycos that keeps following me around

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