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To the person who ransacked my museum: would you please return the notes? Update: Thank you for doing so! <3

Look, I get it. It's a public street, no amount of note poles or obviousness of the nature of what's there is going to stop some people from taking absolutely everything they see. Even if it makes no sense.

However, why did you take the notes that were in the wrapped gift boxes? You can't edit them and use them. There were 12 notes, each maxed out on text because I had put entire monologues from "The Sisters-in-Law" in them. You don't even need to tell me who you are (I admit, I'd block you for being a complete dick). Just leave them on my street. Heck, you can leave them on one of my friends' streets, maybe someone with higher traffic like Boris. He'd get them back to me when they showed up. Just, I can't restore my museum without those notes. I spent weeks agonizing over which quotes to use, and I didn't copy them onto my computer, I just copied them directly into the game notes. It was dumb, I should have anticipated the kind of trollish behavior that would cause someone to take everything ever even if it had absolutely no use to them.

But please, give them back?

Posted 4 months ago by Faranae Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Wow - I am so sorry that happened. I just don't understand why someone would do that - no benefit to them whatsoever. Wish there was something I could do to help - (((HUGZ)))
    Posted 4 months ago by Chazerei Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It was probably a newbie who has been trained to pick up everything because it might come in handy later.
    Posted 4 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • awww dam that's a shame .. :(...I hope you get them back! 
    Posted 4 months ago by Cryztal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yeah, what pascale said--in most games you pick up everything you come across, and that's ingrained behavior that takes some time to retrain
    Posted 4 months ago by chilirlw Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah I'm not too sure about that theory.  Makes sense for a food item on a street, made sense for decorative items on housing blocks --not so much for a note in a player-structure.  Since they get homes immediately, anyone who thinks a tower's items are up for grabs is absolutely brain dead and doesn't deserve understanding except perhaps from player support, who only owe that patronizing understanding that comes with a slap on a wrist.
    Posted 4 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hate that this happened. I sure hope you get them back.
    Posted 4 months ago by Mollie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I completely disagree, Saucelah. Anything in a tower that's not "nailed down" by "place" command or that doesn't have a price tag—which most stuff does—is joyfully, gleefully free for the taking. I can't see why a newbie wouldn't think so.
    Posted 4 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If I understand correctly, the notes were inside wrapped gift boxes.  A wrapped gift box that can be picked up might seem like something that's intended to be a gift to whoever passes by.

    The concept of the museum seems to be that a visitor would pick up each box, unwrap it, read the notes, then re-wrap and replace the box.  Creative and original concept! -- but perhaps more than some players can grok.
    Posted 4 months ago by Splendora Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, we're never going to agree then.  I don't think it's necessarily ill in intent, but I do think it requires an absolute lack of insight and thoughtlessness that I don't have any sympathy for.  

    If it were intentional, I'd find that at least comprehensible.  I find mischief and even revenge to be motivations that can change, that someone can outgrow or move on from.  I find that forgivable.  

    But a structure, on a players' street, with items that new players are given to place in their homes, on streets that they have for themselves as soon as they leave the tutorial so must have at least half a clue that it's a player owned and not world structure -- yeah, grabbing anything in sight is thoughtless, stupid at best.  And well, stupid is just unforgivable for me.  
    Posted 4 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As far as things being "nailed down" if they are "placed"? Still not 100% true, as TS has said that it's a bit, uh, glitchy, and just yesterday someone had an entire set of Cubimals stolen from their tower in this manner.

    Sadly, people need to not leave anything around that they're not willing to have taken, and sadly, this appears to include awesome projects like Saucelah's. :(
    Posted 4 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • we need glue
    Posted 4 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • no they're mine
    Posted 4 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you do this again., perhaps put the notes on note poles?
    Posted 4 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • While I understand the pick-up-everything-not-nailed-down mentality, I have absolutely no sympathy for someone who picks up what are obviously notes written by another player for his or her own reference and simply walks off with them. That displays either sheer mindlessness--I picked this stuff up and I can't even be bothered to look at it--or active trollishness: I read the notes, they do me no good whatsoever, and I'm still taking them because that's the kind of jerk I am.
    Posted 4 months ago by Pupusas Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *sigh* this sucks. But I will keep an eye out (as I think we all should) in case the thief drops them off somewhere random. 
    Posted 4 months ago by Serenity's Mommy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just to ease some of the anger here, I don't have a tower yet, although there are lots and lots of notepoles. And they didn't take the two Freebie Jeebie notes which are on the ground next to the name post. I actually have no less than 4 notes/notepoles indicating what's "nailed down" and what's not - one to explain the museum, one for my street in general, and the two FJ notes. I really don't even care about the gift boxes (I'll just buy new ones), or the food items (they were there to be eaten!), or even the freebie pile (its "junk"), it's just the ~12,000 characters of notes...

    Splendora: That's exactly the idea! I wanted to have an "interpretive center" style museum, which are very common in Quebec. Museums where you don't just look and read, but touch, feel, hear, smell, sometimes even eat. The reason the notes weren't on poles was because the characters in the play open prize boxes, and as they do so, they give monologues. I wanted my visitors to engage in a similar experience.
    Posted 4 months ago by Faranae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Did you include instructions to put the notes back  in the box after reading?

    Probably a troll...there surely aren't enough new players around yet for one to have happened onto your street.  
    Posted 4 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have avoided posting a very similar story while my feelings are still boiling mad, but I had a storyline going for 2 psycho characters "living" in my tower--one of whom I believe may have been murdered. 3 days ago someone took the notes I had devoted to that and now my tower just looks crazy with nothing to back it up.
    I intentionally and methodically placed them in decorate mode so that they couldn't be taken--or so I thought. I wrote notes to my visitors for the day and 4 were kind enough to respond that they hadn't taken them but hoped I got them back. 3 of the visitors were new players so I of course considered that they might have picked them up accidentally.
    Whoever took them can HAVE the notes, if I could just recover the text briefly enough to copy it. I don't even want to mention how much time I spent on their creation.
    PLEASE, JUST GIVE ME MY NOTES BACK! I WROTE them for your enjoyment!
    Posted 4 months ago by Booknerd Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I also have a museum that uses notes as a means for an interactive installation exhibit, and in the end, I was forced to put my notes on poles, as any other method of display (my original intent was to have the floor scattered and covered with notes), resulted in the notes being gathered up and absconded with regularly.

    I totally see your intent, Faranae, but you may have to move to a less immersive, yet more expedient, option.
    Posted 4 months ago by Cephaloplastica Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I thought that things placed in decorate mode couldn't be picked up?  

    I did notice that if you place something on your unfinished floor it can be picked up (I was going to store building supplies there).
    Posted 4 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's supposed to be that way, but it's buggy, Treesa.
    Posted 4 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • awwww, sounds like it would have been a fun experience!

    I wonder if they took them as an item to donate or sell to a vendor?  Starting out new does make one a little poor.

    And, maybe they will see this post, maybe they'll even return the notes?  I hope so.

    I prefer to think their intentions were not deliberately trying to do harm and that they just got excited about so many non-nailed-down items.  Although, if there were lots, would a new player have had room for all that?

    Still, I have hope that they notes will find their way back.  And, yes, let us all keep an eye out for them in Ur!!
    Posted 4 months ago by Minkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If it helps in spotting them, my notes were primarily addressed to a Mrs.Vlad.
    Posted 4 months ago by Booknerd Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If I'm a newbie and I see a "gift box" I can pick up, I'm going to pick it up. Castigating a player for doing that seems really harsh.
    Posted 4 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Some people are assholes just to be assholes.
    Posted 4 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Some people make paranoid assumptions that others have malicious intents and perceive slights that aren't there. 

    All kinds of people in this world.
    Posted 4 months ago by Malus Agricola Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Let me see if I understand this. Someone found gift boxes in a tower and opened them, then kept the gift inside (which happened to be a note), right?

    And that makes them an asshole?

    I have this saying that I often need to remind myself of: "Never ascribe to malice behavior that can be explained by ignorance."
    Posted 4 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If an item is in a gift box, what would a new person think?

    *gets in gift box, hides*
    Posted 4 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Janitch: They were notes, in gift boxes labeled "Stamps", along a clearly marked museum path (not in a tower). My note poles clearly indicate that handling the items is encouraged, but they should be returned prior to departing the street (except food. Food is to be eaten!) I have not called anyone an asshole, and I assume no malice. I admit, I am baffled why anyone would take them, and I merely request the notes be returned. They also took the boxes, the boxes are nothing. I know other people have successfully experienced the museum because every day I "curate" the exhibit and have relabeled gift boxes twice (since they lose their names when people pick them up).

    There is a kind of hilarious element to all this, since I chose gift boxes rather than bags to better represent the boxes from the play. In the play, several women come over to help the winner of some prize boxes sort through her boxes, and they proceed to try to steal all of the contents.
    Posted 4 months ago by Faranae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, you're saying life imitates art? Maybe it was a meta-intervention…

    I'm sorry that your display was disrupted, I know that's an unhappy feeling. But perhaps a path on a public street isn't the best venue for a highly-curated experience.

    I hope you are able to recreate your work in an environment where you have more direct control
    Posted 4 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't ever read note poles
    Posted 4 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • (or what Pascale said)

    :)
    Posted 4 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hope they haven't been sold to the tool vender!
    Posted 4 months ago by bayBi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good news, everyone!

    The individual who took the boxes of notes has returned both the boxes and notes. I've made a document on my computer of the monologues so it won't be a big deal if this happens again. The individual apologized and explained, and all is well again. And no, I'm not blocking zer. I hope Cephaloplastica's situation can come to an equally happy resolution.
    Posted 4 months ago by Faranae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yay...can I have doughnuts?
    Posted 4 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • boo happy endings for once
    Posted 4 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That's really awesome!  And very Glitchy-warms the cockles of my heart.
    Posted 4 months ago by Stormy Weather Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay! Glad to hear it!
    Posted 4 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I remember back in the dys of yor, o would go online, rob the missing floor, go offline, and then repeat. Now I'm dropping off stuff there. Though this definetly has the fingerprints of either a Newgie or Newbie, its noobish.
    Posted 4 months ago by Taco Assassin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No note recovery to report here, but yesterday an American Airlines flight attendant named Maureen Suber found my PURSE (w/ all my money, phone, Ipad, Mifi) on a tram in the DFW airport-found my business card which is under my maiden name--tracked down someone with my maiden name (which is not a common last name) at another terminal-who declined my purse--looked for my drivers license and tracked me down under my full name at a THIRD terminal to return my purse. Notes are nice, but I can live without those. The universe and I are at peace.
    Posted 4 months ago by Booknerd Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, you are lucky, Booknerd!!  Things are often found then returned without fancy things like cash!  What a nice person to have made all that effort!!
    Posted 4 months ago by Minkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sooo happy to read of the good fortune of Faranae and Booknerd! I love happy endings!
    Posted 4 months ago by Mollie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • .
    Posted 4 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So glad you got it back!
    Posted 4 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :) 
    Posted 4 months ago by Cryztal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm interested in the contents of the explaination.  
    Posted 4 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Me too, WalruZ.
    Posted 4 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glad you got them back
    Posted 4 months ago by riscy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Make a backup *now* on your computer by cutting and pasting.  And gmail it to yourself so you have a backup there.
    Posted 4 months ago by MG Botia Subscriber! | Permalink