Scammed by Zebaki in Tunnel

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Losing your stuff when drop trading is a risk you take. It seems kind of silly to get GM involvement and get a name. Is it unfortunate? Absolutely. I feel for you, man. Hopefully you do get your gear back. If there was no risk though, they might as well just implement shared bank slots.

[Numbers_]

And getting outted for stealing items in a secluded area is a risk you take as well. I'm normally pretty open-minded, but I really don't see the other side of the argument of this. I mean, I wasn't in a high traffic area. It was a obscure spot.

That being said, if he gives me back my items I'll completely forget about it. I think that's pretty reasonable.

[Corro]

How does that even happen?

[Sylexis]

Next time you need a transfer just look for a Divinity tag.

[Numbers_]

Thanks! I will.

Bongs from <Taken> helped me transfer all my stuff I had on bank mule last night. I'm just going to sell stuff on my main character from now on so I have to transfer as little as possible.

[tristantio]

I should start petitioning when I drop fishing grubs in east commons tunnel and someone picks them up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Numbers_]

Originally Posted by tristantio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I should start petitioning when I drop fishing grubs in east commons tunnel and someone picks them up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you were in a out of the way, secluded area, dropping an item that actually had value, then that might make sense.

[Kekephee]

On live and on P99, I never believed the hype that drop-transferring was really a viable option. For every one person I have ever seen say "oh yeah it works, I do it all the time" I see a hundred people screaming in OOC, WHO TOOK MY FUCKING LAMMYYYYYY


I don't think there is some phantom player taking peoples' shit off the ground. People go so, SO out of their way to find the most secluded spot. To assume that there is someone who knows you're going to the middle of Paineel to drop a bag of alt gear and follows you there, lurking in the shadows so you don't see them, is incredibly paranoid. I think people are wrong about how long items last on the ground. I think they go the fuck away.

[Gadwen]

Originally Posted by Kekephee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On live and on P99, I never believed the hype that drop-transferring was really a viable option. For every one person I have ever seen say "oh yeah it works, I do it all the time" I see a hundred people screaming in OOC, WHO TOOK MY FUCKING LAMMYYYYYY


I don't think there is some phantom player taking peoples' shit off the ground. People go so, SO out of their way to find the most secluded spot. To assume that there is someone who knows you're going to the middle of Paineel to drop a bag of alt gear and follows you there, lurking in the shadows so you don't see them, is incredibly paranoid. I think people are wrong about how long items last on the ground. I think they go the fuck away.

I would like a source on that ratio.


Seriously though, drop transfers work fine. AFAIK the items will stay there as long as an NPC corpse will. I've done them between accounts dozens of times both here and live. Of course you are going to see more crying about failed drop transfers than you will people bragging about successful attempts, people don't shout in the zone that they just successfully completed a drop transfer...they do if someone snagged it up though.

Without a doubt, I would take my chances with a drop transfer over a random person any day of the week.

[Numbers_]

Originally Posted by Gadwen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would like a source on that ratio.


Seriously though, drop transfers work fine. AFAIK the items will stay there as long as an NPC corpse will. I've done them between accounts dozens of times both here and live. Of course you are going to see more crying about failed drop transfers than you will people bragging about successful attempts, people don't shout in the zone that they just successfully completed a drop transfer...they do if someone snagged it up though.

Without a doubt, I would take my chances with a drop transfer over a random person any day of the week.

Before this incident I would have agreed with you and have drop transferred many times without a problem. But this has shown me you are actually better off transferring with someone else. They can't take action against him for this, but if he had scammed me during a transfer he would probably be banned and I actually might get my stuff back. I would have been better off in this case handing it over to some random level 1 person. Crazy. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've put like 15k worth of stuff down on the ground in that same spot too, which was everything I owned at the time. Makes me cringe to think about it. That was actually one of the smaller transfers I've done there.