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To Whoever Helped Themselves to My Things

I know my street is not really MY street.  That being said, I would have happily crafted you a piggy feeder and a meat collector if you had just asked. AND you had to do this to all of my accounts? See it is like a bicycle left on the sidewalk in front of your home. Yes it is on public land, but YOU KNOW it belongs to the kid playing on the lawn. Pretty low if ya ask me.

Posted 9 months ago by PurpleLogic Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I can make your more feeders/collectors if you'd like. 
    Posted 9 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Same thing happened to me, twice :P I just leave the critters out to be manually harvested now.
    Posted 9 months ago by Rue Bird Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am so sorry this happened to you :( If you need anything please do not hesitate to ask :)
    Posted 9 months ago by 2020smoke Subscriber! | Permalink
  • TY for your offers, I have replaced em already. Just venting here I 'spose. I have removed all names from my signposts and will see what happens next.
    Posted 9 months ago by PurpleLogic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Same here, but I figured out who it was by taking the suspected player off my friend list and revoking the key I was so kind to provide. It is happening more and more to so many players and I wish TS would make our feeders and collectors private like our Icons, stills and other items. That would solve the stealing issues.
    Posted 9 months ago by celticlady Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Purple-  I feel you and am sorry for your loss.  I really feel like housing as it currently stands is a major fail. Hopefully this will be an isolated incident.
    Posted 9 months ago by TheBoyWhoCriedRook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I know how you feel. I hadn't even learnt remote herdkeeping, when a lovely glitch left me a piggy feeder full with a note on my home street. I was so thankful it was a lovely gesture.  Any way a little while ago I go to my home street to find someone had taken the piggy feeder. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. Luckily I had learnt the remote herdkeeping by then so I could replace it. I now have no piggys on my home street I took them all inside to my backyard. I feel worse because the piggy feeder that was taken was a gift. It really does spoil the home streets because now all I have on mine is a lonely chicken.
    Posted 9 months ago by ♫Melody♫ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Revoking a key or taking names of a signpost will do nothing to keep people from visiting your home street. They are public.

    People whom you BLOCK can't access your street. But everyone else can. The key to your actual house is a separate matter.
    Posted 9 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • my suggestion would be... dont put a feeder out (as long as you have trees they can munch on :D) and throw your meet collector at the very edge away from your house--- only a suggestion :D 
    Posted 9 months ago by blackwidow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Pascale, has that bug been patched? 
    Posted 9 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sorry to hear your things were taken, I am on the gas route, so I do get a lot of traffic and the same thing happened to me. I put down another feeder w/a note asking people to please leave it and if they needed a feeder just let me know and i'd happily make one for them. After the 2nd feeder was taken i gave up on them. Unfortunately, there are some people that aren't nice out there and unless you get your friends to remove your name from their sign posts this could happen again.
    Posted 9 months ago by Gizmospooky Subscriber! | Permalink
  •  hilarious take on the same issue XDD

    Feeders/meat collectors/other non-locked down items, they will be taken even if you move them all the way to the side. Happened to my feeders, twice. Food and drinks placed next to signpost dedictated for harvesters (I am on a spice route), gone within half an hour. Two days in a row. So yeah. *shrugs*  
    Unless there are some recent changes which I overlooked, players you blocked can still visit your street.
    Posted 9 months ago by Maruchan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm sure TS will fix this.
    Posted 9 months ago by Gordon Lughsen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • " I wish TS would make our feeders and collectors private like our Icons, stills and other items. That would solve the stealing issues."

    There is no stealing issue. The problem is glitches keep dropping things on the PUBLIC street in front of their house and assuming no one is going to walk off with them. By leaving items on a PUBLIC street you are in essence gifting them to the first person that would like to have them. If you really wanted to keep those items you would have placed them in your private garden instead of on a PUBLIC street. Instead of waiting passively for folks to request your services in crafting items for them how about making lots of feeders and collectors and scattering them about willy-nilly on your street and not caring what is taken,.

    Just sayin'.
    Posted 9 months ago by Dr. Babycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want to leave collectors out front, not for myself to collect from but for anyone to take from. I want to provide an extra resource in this way for people on the gas route. I wish TS would make our feeders and collectors private. That would solve the issue of one person taking all - meat and feeder - instead of taking the meat and leaving the feeder there for others to collect from as well.
    Posted 9 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine have been taken 4 times now along with a note I left stating my dissapointment. No more feeders and collectors on what is supposed to be MY street. I find it terribly dissappointing that people are so eager for freebies.

    Dr. Babycat since you are so flush, how about you supply us all since it doesn't seem to be such a big deal to you?
    Posted 9 months ago by Calamity Snood Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Dr. Babycat, your post is of course correct (perhaps a little over-emphatic) in that those are the game mechanics at the moment. There is an expectation about the new /home streets that they are, or should be, a bit more under the "owner's" control, due to the wording used by Tiny Speck (i.e. "Flowerry Pott's home street, Owned by Flowerry Pott"). There is a bit of a contradiction there.

    However, with the game back in beta, now is a good time to suggest ways the game can be changed to make a more rewarding experience. I believe that people who point things like this out are trying to make Tiny Speck aware of a change that may be beneficial for gameplay, as well as make the realities of the street more in line with the expectation noted above.
    Posted 9 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've had mine "picked up" seven times. Yes, seven--that's how long it took me to give up on the kindness of strangers. And three of those times they were replaced by my sweet friends because it disillusioned me so much. 
    I KNOW I can put the damned pigs in my smidge of a backyard, along with all their paraphernalia--I just had hoped not to.

    I can guarantee you that my 7 "visitors" knew they weren't picking up a gift from me. THAT'S what sucks--they knew they were removing something from a "public" street that I had crafted for the use of my critters. They knew they were stealing. * Take (another person's property) without permission and without intending to return it
    Posted 9 months ago by Booknerd Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm very sorry to hear this happened to you PL.
    Posted 9 months ago by Mer Maid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just really hope this doesn't escalate to community herb garden levels before we're through.  Yes, as the game mechanics stand we do not maintain ownership over stuff RHK equipment.  However, it's not inconceivable that we might get that kind of permission in the future. 

    I'm interested to hear from the devs.  Since you made a choice to make Icons, Stills, and Animal Sticks, and Machines locked to the street, did you decide specifically not to make RHK equipment lockable?  Did it not come up for discussion, or are they fundamentally a different kind of object in the game, such that we couldn't have them street-locked for technical reasons?

    I feel like this issue has come up, will keep coming up until we hear from you guys directly.  I'd prefer not to see the same kind of rancor break out that we know is more than possible in these circumstances.  Before we start putting motivations and beliefs in your mouths, could you share where you're at with this?
    Posted 9 months ago by Scarlett Bearsdale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've been wondering if they even intend the RHK equipment to work on personal streets as that equipment does not work on the existing housing blocks.  
    Posted 9 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • blocking a person does not prevent them from accessing your street, FWIW...
    Posted 9 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd like to see the collectors get locked to the streets. But until that time, if you don't want to lose them, they can't be left out. I leave a lot of stuff on my yard that I'm not too concerned about it disappearing but don't bother with feeders and collectors strictly cause for me they're too annoying to replace.
    Posted 9 months ago by Moehr Ossum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Im really sad that TS hasnt stepped in to make the feeders and collectors lockable.  I have no idea how major of an issue it would be to do this,  but it is really needed when you give someone a huge front yard,  a back yard the size of a small room at most, allow anyone on to their street,   and give those people the ability to take/steal items.  While this may not have been an "obvious" problem before launch there have been more than enough people stating the issue that something should be done.  Really sad.
    Posted 9 months ago by TheBoyWhoCriedRook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If they lock the collectors, how happy will people be if every time they or their friends go to collect, there is no meat or milk there?  

    I  don't think they're supposed to be put out at all and would rather they couldn't be, so people could stop saying things have been stolen, when they haven't been. 

    I think we need to open our minds to the idea of a semi-public  other-Ur that exists in our imaginations, created by our connections with friends.  
    Posted 9 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "blocking a person does not prevent them from accessing your street, FWIW..."

    Yet, that is a known bug.
    Posted 9 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think you should have a key to get on a street.
    Posted 9 months ago by bluesrock Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't agree with people taking feeders from home streets but I don't put mine out now as the pigs happily nibble the trees.  What is the point in putting out feeders when there are trees there for the pigs to eat? Am I missing something here?

    Maybe the devs didn't make them lockable on the streets as they are unecessary.
    Posted 9 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Innie, from conversations last night, it's not actually clear that this is being viewed as a bug by staff, but rather a feature that has not been developed yet, which may or may not be developed in the future. The quote from staff was, I believe, "it's a public street".
    Posted 9 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And if the collectors were locked, the forum posts would all be  "Someone is stealing all the meat from my collectors"  

    I really hope TS changes the name of the street in front of people's houses so that they begin to understand that this is a public path, not an extension of their home.  

    In my part of the country, many roads carry family names.  Usually they are named after the family who owned most of the land on either side of that road, and often the road ends at or near the original farm.  But no one believes that it is a private road or even one owned only by people  who shares that last name.  
    Posted 9 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think you misinterpreted katlazam; Jade just said it is public; there really wasn't any more discussion after that. Currently, it is. But we have stated in the forum that this is a bug so it will remain public until a change otherwise is made.
    Posted 9 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think meat collectors, piggy feeders, and butterfly milkers are all very ugly.  Surely there is a nicer way to decorate your front yard than with ugly equipment?
    Posted 9 months ago by Jewel Stoned Subscriber! | Permalink
  • it's not a garden, it's a street

    (and I'd remove the unnecessary anti-gypsy comment there... that's likely to inflame people)
    Posted 9 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't really get the need for meat collectors and milkers, it only takes a few minutes to collect the same amount manually plus you get loads of bonuses for it. And as Jewel Stoned says, they're very ugly too.
    Posted 9 months ago by Geezereth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had them outside, with all those pigs, so that others could collect from the collector.  I did it to be nice. However, it was taken and I wont replace it again. 
    Posted 9 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • nooooo Geezereth, the meat collecters are so cute! They look like little robot pigs!
    Posted 9 months ago by Lettuce Subscriber! | Permalink
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    Posted 9 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LOL Lettuce! But c'mon they look like cheap broken fridges that've been dumped by the side of the road, the milkers look like badly made fire extinguishers and the feeders are like a hamsters house ;)
    Posted 9 months ago by Geezereth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It may be called a street, but it does not behave the same way the other, truly public, streets do. Therefore, it is more akin to a front yard, garden, driveway, etc.
    Posted 9 months ago by Audaria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the clarification, kevbob. Although I did conflate Jade's comment with an earlier discussion, there was definitely some confusion over this point!
    Posted 9 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ...aaaaannnnndddd done. Those who are blocked will no longer be able to go to your street.
    Posted 9 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "I know my street is not really MY street."
    /thread.
    Posted 9 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • awesome! Thank you!
    Posted 9 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Note, this wasn't done just for the purpose of giving you reason to block someone, but entering the street by a player who *was* blocked was something we had on the fix list. 

    To reiterate what we have communicated when we started testing the housing, we're still looking at how the streets/objects/etc are being used and haven't concluded how it's going to work. For now, if there is something you don't want to worry about losing, don't put it out there.
    Posted 9 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "For now, if there is something you don't want to worry about losing, don't put it out there.".
    We've been saying this before the housing update, and is still not working, lol.
    Posted 9 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How about making the streets semi-public, i.e. only players who have mutually placed each other's names on their signposts can access each other's streets?  If you have someone's name on your signpost, but they do not have yours on theirs, neither of you can access the other player's street.   This would probably necessitate the ability to put more than 5 names on a signpost.  It would however impart a greater degree of trust and security.
    Posted 9 months ago by Berry Goode Subscriber! | Permalink
  • if it was me, I'm sorry. The only stuff i took were 2 piggy feeders, but they both had a note in front of them that said please take. If that wasn't your note, im sorry.
    Posted 9 months ago by Taco Assassin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • quote: And if the collectors were locked, the forum posts would all be "Someone is stealing all the meat from my collectors"

    Except from the people like me who put the collectors out FOR people to take the meat from.
    Posted 9 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "How about making the streets semi-public, i.e. only players who have mutually placed each other's names on their signposts can access each other's streets?"

    Please no; not this. Many players have banded together to create linked resource networks for everyone to use.

    Also, once we get the full ability to imagine our houses and front areas, I want to be able to wander around and admire other player's handiworks. It's sure to be really interesting and wonderful to see what people come up with, given the amount of talent and creativity Glitchen have.
    Posted 9 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wish they'd let you lock items on your own street so you can choose whether or not people can pick up your items. It really would solve everyone's issues.
    Posted 9 months ago by Kittn Subscriber! | Permalink
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