Which genius in ZOS thought putting stealable items beside craft writ boxes is a good idea?

Lyserus

Seriously
Many of my chars are law abiding citizens, and they work word to provide gears for the soildiers in his/her/its alliance....so one day they are turning in the writs, they misclicked, and then

"Criminal Scum! You have committed crimes against Skyrim (Somewhere) and its people, What say you in your defense!"
???

This happened many times (and especially recent days since I'm trying to get all the daily boxes of course), and prevent auto loot stolen items won't work on items that are not in a container..and there are plenty of such items right beside the writ boxes

Grendel_at_ESO

Lol, happened to me this weekend too. I wouldn't have cared so much if I didn't have about 2k worth of stolen stuff on me.

Graydon

There is a setting that will prevent you from doing this stuff. Yay

Zhaedri

This happens to me so often!

I just make sure I don't have any other stolen stuff on me when I turn in writs. Pay the dumb (92 gold) fine and go on my way.

There is an addon out there that prevents stealing if you are not hidden. If you are having a ton of trouble with your character having random sticky fingers, you may want to look for it. I don't remember its name offhand.

Banana

Yep. If ya in a hurry. It happens

zyk

They did it for Skyrim immersion. That might sound sarcastic, but it's true.

Nemesis7884

genius gold sink is what it is

The_Protagonist

Lyserus wrote: »

Seriously
Many of my chars are law abiding citizens, and they work word to provide gears for the soildiers in his/her/its alliance....so one day they are turning in the writs, they misclicked, and then

"Criminal Scum! You have committed crimes against Skyrim (Somewhere) and its people, What say you in your defense!"
???

This happened many times (and especially recent days since I'm trying to get all the daily boxes of course), and prevent auto loot stolen items won't work on items that are not in a container..and there are plenty of such items right beside the writ boxes

Maybe your characters are not really as law abiding as you think, you should understand that they are human/elf/beast after all, and every now and then, they could get a little greedy. You have to admit that you work them too hard and probably out of spite they steal some stuff every now and then.

Just re-train your characters by turning the auto steal setting off. And please make sure that your characters keep the items in the delivery boxes carefully, it takes only a second longer to put the items in gently, we have received several complaints of dented weapons and cracked bottles recently, we hope that it was not your character's doing.

MissBizz

...if you are on PC... There's an add-on for that.

Anotherone773

The other day i was doing writs in elden root and stopped to do provisioning and ended up stealing white meat instead of using the cooking fire. It cost me 1k gold all said and done to make a couple of things. Was really annoying.

geonsocal

i'm gonna take a wild guess and say all of those stealable items that are located right next to the writ turn in crates, the guild trader stalls, and merchant locations - are not there by accident...

firedrgn

Just turn off auto loot stolen items.

firedrgn

MissBizz wrote: »

...if you are on PC... There's an add-on for that.

I watched your writ add on video. Thanks

phaneub17_ESO

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A guard walked by and pushed me as I was about to talk to the vendor, I grabbed a banana by mistake and they charged me for it! The guard did it on purpose I tell you!

Morgul667

Happens to me all the time

Annoying as hell

Caligamy_ESO

This happened to me once while I was just trying to read a bookshelf (who the hell puts apples in their bookshelves anyway) and then my pets jumped the NPC who witnessed it and *boom* I became a murderer.

neverwalk

i stole a greatsword by mistake and never got a bounty, i was shocked-no bounty

Nyladreas

I gave you an awesome for making a funny title OP. Keep it up

Armatesz

Graydon wrote: »

There is a setting that will prevent you from doing this stuff. Yay

No there is not on console, maybe a mod for pc but not console players.

MLGProPlayer

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info943-NoAccidentalStealing.html

MLGProPlayer

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You need to press the interact key 37 times due to lag. It's easy to pickup something else.

Thankfully, there is an add-on that gets rid of accidental stealing.

Slick_007

firedrgn wrote: »

Just turn off auto loot stolen items.

that doesnt do what you think it does.

auto loot ON/OFF
- auto loot stolen items ON/OFF

Both of mine are set to off and you can still flog those things.

Dont look down when opening the boxes. stop moving BEFORE you click. problem solved.

Sting864

If you pay attention, it shows what you have "accidentally" selected in a dialogue box.... If I don't want to steal it... I just "CANCEL" OUT... EZPZ

Danel_Vadan

Caligamy_ESO wrote: »

This happened to me once while I was just trying to read a bookshelf (who the hell puts apples in their bookshelves anyway) and then my pets jumped the NPC who witnessed it and *boom* I became a murderer.

What else did you expect from bringing Daedra to a city?

fgoron2000

firedrgn wrote: »

Just turn off auto loot stolen items.

that works for stealable items in containers, but not for items that are out in the open gameworld

fgoron2000

Slick_007 wrote: »

firedrgn wrote: »

Just turn off auto loot stolen items.

that doesnt do what you think it does.

auto loot ON/OFF
- auto loot stolen items ON/OFF

Both of mine are set to off and you can still flog those things.

Dont look down when opening the boxes. stop moving BEFORE you click. problem solved.

the second setting, for auto looting stolen items, applies only to items inside containers but not for items in the gameworld itself

Juju_beans

Oh I click away at those writ turn in boxes in Eldenroot...until I get to the woodworking box and then make sure I click on the box, not the staff that is placed right in front of the box.

And when I don't see the staff there I smile because someone else clicked too quick.

DanteYoda

Happened to me the other day
Went to click a merchant to sell my loots.. Hey i just saw a thief lock up all your valuables... I was like wtf omfg run out of town at high rate of speed and sit in the wilderness for what seemed like half an hour...


Priceless....

Tan9oSuccka

Annoying, but not a huge deal. Casually jog away and the guard hits their tether.

Bounty goes away quickly with the TG passives.

eso_lags

Lol Same with traders. Genius i tell you.

Asardes

Happened to me a few times after I moved my chars to Riften, when CWC went live, because I wasn't used to the positions of the random boxes on the turn in containers. Pretty easy to miss those when you're in a rush to hit those boxes as fast as possible, vendor the ornates, deposit the glyphs and intricates in the bank and log in the next one. But seldom happens now, when I've learned where they are.