ZOS, please stop accidental theft just like you did with accidental murder.

Minyassa

Jeremy wrote: »

Minyassa wrote: »

I am so tired of losing bounties I cannot afford to keep paying because some dipbleep left stealable loot right in front of an NPC I need to talk to. It's annoying as bleep and I don't want to have to install YET ANOTHER addon to do what you could do in the game. PLEASE. I will take full blame for accidental Ultimates in the marketplace but ffs help prevent me from stealing when I'm not trying to!

It's annoying no doubt - and almost purposely so because they usually scatter a lot of useless items that are easy to accidentally steal in front of every guild trader and NPC market place.

Part of me actually thinks ZOS is trolling us with it.

What they should do is just give you a chance to cancel the steal like you can when stealing items from inside pots and dressers etc.

YES. Canceling would be fine too!

As for immersion, when was the last time anyone here picked up an item to look at it while shopping and got fined $250 immediately? I pick daggers up at Renfaires all the time. The vendors encourage it. They just want me to either buy it or put it back. That would be immersion, merchants acting like merchants.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

I support OP's request. I was in Eastmarch shopping and accidentally stole an item when trying to interact with a vendor. I had over 400,000 gold worth of stolen loot on me (yes, I steal that much ) when the guard standing right next to me stopped me. Luckily, I was able to use clemency to keep my loot.

Sheezabeast

i get annoyed with this sometimes too because the guild kiosk my trade guild usually has, has a weapon next to it and when I go to talk to her i grab the weapon on accident.

Nyghthowler

Slick_007 wrote: »

TheMaster wrote: »

The mechanic would naturally be one that can be toggled on and off, like the one that prevents attacking innocents. It wasn’t necessary, but convenient for players that didn’t want to get run out of town every time they accidentally left-clicked near an NPC. This should be seen under the same light.

major major difference in attacking innocents and taking a random staff. same light? not even the same sun.
take some responsibility for your actions and dare i say, learn to play. then you wont be nicking things in plain sight.
i think ZOS have far better things to spend their time on than dealing with this.

Yeah people, L2P! You should know by now that it can take several minutes for items to load. Never just assume that you are targeting the NPC and not some unrendered item. Noobs, Scrubs....

/sarcasm

MLGProPlayer

If you're on PC: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info943-NoAccidentalStealing.html

If you use the Azurah add-on, it also has an option in settings to disable accidental theft.

Slick_007

Jeremy wrote: »

What they should do is just give you a chance to cancel the steal like you can when stealing items from inside pots and dressers etc.

you dont seem to grasp the concept of opening things here.
for stuff inside containers:
open chest/box/crate whatever
steal stuff

for stuff not inside containers:
steal stuff

2 steps vs 1. thats why you get a chance to not steal from containers. because your first action isnt steal. its open.

Stormshaper

Feanor wrote: »

Isn't there an option to not auto-loot stolen items? I am quite sure there is. If you click E twice...well...

Edit: Oh you meant the items that are lying around at the merchants. Yes, those don't have a prompt like containers have. I agree with you therefore.

I swear they put those there on purpose

SydneyGrey

TheMaster wrote: »

They should make it so there’s a toggle to only steal while sneaking.

This is brilliant.
My girls have stolen a few things accidentally while trying to talk to NPCs, too. One time it was a tiny amount of gold sitting next to a bank teller in Vivec City. I got a bounty, but luckily no guards were close enough to catch me. Still annoying, though.

Beardimus

Removing all items around Guild Traders would at least help lol

Nestor

Jeremy wrote: »

It's annoying no doubt - and almost purposely so because they usually scatter a lot of useless items that are easy to accidentally steal in front of every guild trader and NPC market place.

They have removed or made static a lot of these from when Legerdemain dropped. But some markets remain, Sentinel, Stormhold (less than it was) are some that come to mind.

Myyth

yes please

my character is currently in hiding because he grabbed a quest giver's banana it was an accident!

STEVIL

Agree