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Stake Your Claim- Take Posession of Containers


GenaTrius

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So, there's tons of abandoned locations in the Mojave and elsewhere, and nobody to track their ownership. What exactly is stopping you, as the player, from picking out a spot and setting up shop in it? The game engine, that's what. As we all know, containers that aren't marked as belonging to the player refresh their contents after a set period of time, so if you store anything in them it'll vanish.

 

I've been kicking around a few ideas for how to change this and make it possible to make a player home out of any abandoned location:

1. Some manner of script that allows the player to use a skill (like lockpick) to take possession of a container that is not explicitly owned by someone else. (The thought being that you change the lock on it and secure it with a nice, hefty lock so no one can get into it.)

2. Pick out a few abandoned locations and set up a mechanism by which the player can secure them (possibly using a skill check, as above), taking ownership of everything within them.

3. The cheap and dirty way, make all containers in the world that aren't explicitly owned by someone else owned by the PC, so you can just lay down roots wherever you dang please.

 

Advice? Thoughts?

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eh? Only containers set to respawn (None that I know of?), will clear there inventory after a set number of days..

 

Iv had the containers in goodsprings reset to orgional location, but they still had all there inventory, except what sunny stole for some reasons....

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eh? Only containers set to respawn (None that I know of?), will clear there inventory after a set number of days..

 

Iv had the containers in goodsprings reset to orgional location, but they still had all there inventory, except what sunny stole for some reasons....

 

Really? Then what's all this I've heard on the wiki and places about it not being safe to use containers you don't own?

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eh? Only containers set to respawn (None that I know of?), will clear there inventory after a set number of days.. Iv had the containers in goodsprings reset to orgional location, but they still had all there inventory, except what sunny stole for some reasons....
Really? Then what's all this I've heard on the wiki and places about it not being safe to use containers you don't own?

In Bethesda RPGs like recent "The Elder Scrolls" and "Fallout", putting your items in unowned containers will eventually end up with their disappearance. Sometimes when I'm committing theft in Oblivion or something, I get encumbered, so I place my explicitly desired loot into a container in the vicinity. Free up some room and go back, and it's gone. Poof. Away.

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Really? Then what's all this I've heard on the wiki and places about it not being safe to use containers you don't own?

In Bethesda RPGs like recent "The Elder Scrolls" and "Fallout", putting your items in unowned containers will eventually end up with their disappearance. Sometimes when I'm committing theft in Oblivion or something, I get encumbered, so I place my explicitly desired loot into a container in the vicinity. Free up some room and go back, and it's gone. Poof. Away.

Ahhh, thank you. In that case, there is a point to this idea.

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