Many folks have expressed shock and dismay over finding their trees poisoned or piggy feeders, etc. taken from their front yards. It is a shame people do those things to be sure. I would, however, like to share a cautionary tale. Many people on Glitch are kind and trustworthy. Let, however, the smiling little faces fool you not: some others are anything but. I had precisely 4, just 4 people with keys to my house. I logged in today to find missing:
2 old style tree poisons
5 old style tree antidotes
over 100 music boxes
roughly 90 wine of the dead
a thousand or so plain ingots
a few thousand eggs
a few hundred metal rods
10 or so diamonds
a couple dozen moonstones
over 40 crystals
all my jellisacs, fuel cells, white gas, and so on.
(Yes, I had my max SDB's full of things of even greater value except for the poisons, but using an SBD for two units seemed silly. At the time. And I mistakenly thought cabinets were secure. My own fault.)
Yep. Just four people had keys. Oh yeah. 1 of them appears not to have been on in months and the other three (all of them I gather are friends in RL) I befriended as newish players and gave 10's of thousands of currants to as gifts to get started over the past few weeks. Hows that for gratitude?
My gut would love to post all of their names as a warning to others, but I won't stoop to their level. I've been taken for hundred's of thousands of currants (not looking for sympathy - I have plenty still and I take full responsibility for handing my keys out) by some players who seemed friendly and trustworthy. I hope that TS can find a way to give us some better in-house security for our belongings, as this has just taken me permanently out of the house sharing community, which is really a shame given that it can be quite fun at times. Regardless, the fault is mine; I knew the risks and I accepted them. And I got burned badly.
It's a game and hardly worth the time it took me to type this post, but I offer it up as a sad reminder that people are not always what they at first seem to be. That not only does casual, opportunistic petty theft happen here, but that there are also players who may take the time to earn your trust and friendship and then rob you blind when the opportunity presents itself. As it is in RL, so it is in Glitch. Both the good and the bad. Caveat lector.