Scammed by Zebaki in Tunnel

[tristantio]

If its something worth under 1k I'll normally drop transfer it, transferred a smoldering brand at Hadden the other day (well, just south) - hmm, maybe thats a good way to lure people from the Hadden spawn point and take their camp (droppin droppables just in visible range but out of camp range haha)

[Raavak]

On Live, back when you could drop plat, I dropped my entire bankroll where my alt was parked, logged out only to find that login was down or something and I couldn't log back in for like an hour. I was so pissed off...

[Rararboker]

Moral of the story, don't drop transfer, it is a horrible method of transfering items. When you drop an item, and someone steals it, they aren't required to give it back. That is how things work here (much like Live! what a surprise!). If you want to transfer talk to one of the (50) people in EC who are in a well known guild and who are lvl 58+. I know <indignation> members are good folks.


Still don't understand why people continue to try drop transfering. Seems utterly ridiculous to me.

[Gadwen]

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

Still don't understand why people continue to try drop transfering. Seems utterly ridiculous to me.

I wouldn't drop transfer a CoF or a Fungi, but a hero bracer and a few gems? Who cares...I can lose them and replace them in less time than it takes waiting on a friend to transfer or getting my alts ported around to EC and back etc.

I've never had a drop transfer fail, but I've never done one in nro or the nexus either lol.

[tristantio]

Dropping on the ground is discarding it, it isn't really your property then - like I mentioned re: fishing grubs - should someone be petitioned everytime they pick up a ground spawn item?

Don't forget in lots of zones in EQ there are ground spawn items that the game creates as well (why should a player have to distinguish? they both look like a brown sack until picked up).

Also - I don't condone of stealing the items (fwiw) but I also do not think GMs should get involved - if you give a stranger your items that is your mistake - they should not be punished by a GM for keeping imho, but like I mentioned way earlier, if GMs did not ban a scammer in this way, there would likely be rampant scamming (more than there is) and it would be impossible to do things like MQ or get an OT hammer via puppet strings (as the "customer" could just choose to keep 300k strings for their cost of the MQ).

Edit: your real world analogy for dropping an item, would be going in a back alley in a city, dropping off a backpack of goods (maybe money? gems?) and leaving, then coming back later expecting to find it there still - if some bum happened across it, they simply found some unmarked goods (have you ever found a penny and picked it up?)

[Numbers_]

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

Dropping on the ground is discarding it, it isn't really your property then - like I mentioned re: fishing grubs - should someone be petitioned everytime they pick up a ground spawn item?

Don't forget in lots of zones in EQ there are ground spawn items that the game creates as well (why should a player have to distinguish? they both look like a brown sack until picked up).

Not trying to be a jerk here (love the site btw), but common sense says I wouldn't discard 1k worth of items in a secluded area. People drop grubs because they are obviously trash.

If I found a Fungi on the ground, it's obviously not spawned from the ground. I would be searching for the person who dropped it.

[Kekephee]

I JUST ASSUMED THIS PERSON DID NO LONGER WANTED HIS FULL SET OF DREADSCALE ARMOR AND TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO PICK IT UP AND KEEP IT INSTEAD OF LETTING IT ROT

[tristantio]

And how would you decide who dropped it (outside of GM intervention)?

/ooc Anyone leave a fungi around here? Just found one on the ground, need to know who to give it to

I'm sure you'd get lots of takers on that [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.]

And how would you decide who dropped it (outside of GM intervention)?

/ooc Anyone leave a fungi around here? Just found one on the ground, need to know who to give it to

I'm sure you'd get lots of takers on that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hehe. I actually saw that recently. Someone in EC in /ooc said that someone dropped a backpack full of stuff and if they can name what was in it they would get it back. I'm not sure if they ever found them or not though.

[Kekephee]

Could always stand there for 5 minutes knowing that if someone was transferring it, unless they are grossly misinformed about how transferring works they will be logging on a character in that exact spot within a few moments