[Thieves Troves] Bug caused by Treasure Map Uniqueness

nooblybear · March 2016

This was brought up in one of the recent feedback meetings, but I thought I'd mention it here as well: currently, Thieves Troves give lots of treasure maps. This is awesome if you like hunting down treasures (as I do), but terrible in that the maps are "stolen": you cannot mail out duplicates to another account without going back and laundering them first.

This highlights how problematic treasure maps being "unique" is, that the ideal behaviour is to mail them to an alt account as soon as you get them. In addition, they cannot be stored in guild banks.

Experimenting with the latest PTS build and thieves troves resulted in the following issue:

Two identical treasure maps spawned in the same chest. I only have the following two options:

1. Destroy one of them so that the trove will respawn.
2. Leave the duplicate in the trove for someone else to find, which, in my opinion, is extremely rude to other plays who might be opening troves.

Two potential solutions:

1. Ensure that duplicates never drop in the same trove.
2. (Ideal solution) Remove the "unique" marker from treasure maps. I can't stress how much of a relief this would be, how much of a quality of life improvement it would be for banking and storage.

SirAndy · March 2016

nooblybear wrote: »

2. (Ideal solution) Remove the "unique" marker from treasure maps. I can't stress how much of a relief this would be, how much of a quality of life improvement it would be for banking and storage.

This has been bugging me since beta. There is no reason why they shouldn't stack or at the very least, allow duplicates in your inventory.

Saucy_Jack · March 2016

The reason they're unique is because if they aren't, you probably get a situation where once you dig up that map's treasure, it will remove ALL instances of that map from your inventory, rather than just one. Solution: only allow one of each map in the inventory at a time, so that maps aren't unnecessarily "destroyed" by digging up the treasure.

That's my take on it, anyways.

nooblybear · March 2016

If that is indeed the case, which is entirely possible, simply calling hypothetical function RemoveFirstFromInventory(item_id) rather than RemoveAllFromInventory(item_id) would seem sufficient to resolve it.

Saucy_Jack · March 2016

The reason I think my hypothesis is the case is because I think in past that was happening when you had more than one identical survey in your inventory - you'd harvest it, and all instances of that survey were removed from your inventory. I'm not sure if that's the case now.

With that said, if they fixed the survey problem, they can fix the map problem (unless of course they fixed the survey problem by only allowing one instance of a particular survey in your inventory at one time.)

Ruben · March 2016

I've been calling the banker npc, storing the map and picking up the new one from the Trove. My problem is that you can be V16, get V16 loot from the Troves... and lvl42 loot from it's treasure map

staracino_ESO · March 2016

Ruben wrote: »

I've been calling the banker npc, storing the map and picking up the new one from the Trove. My problem is that you can be V16, get V16 loot from the Troves... and lvl42 loot from it's treasure map

I agree that this is a problem. Can we have Hidden Treasure chests always drop loot that is scaled to our level? This will increase the value of ALL maps, not just the ones in cyrodiil and wrothgar.