I think it has to do with allowing multiple players to receive a roll on chests in dungeons. They stated that in the patch notes but apparently it applied to all containers.

I noticed today that I can no longer loot the over head cabinets. I assume it's because of the reduction in loot distance. :S

Vanathi wrote: »

I noticed today that I can no longer loot the over head cabinets. I assume it's because of the reduction in loot distance. :S

Shame you can't get a chair.

Tall Khajiit has no issues with high shelving!

I think they use first year programmers. Trying to save a buck is definitely backfiring Zeni.

There are a few threads on this already so I'm guessing the devs have seen them and I hope they fix it. I made my thread on day one of patch. I hate it.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/889779/#Comment_889779

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/100978/distance-to-click-on-objects-has-been-messed-up-after-patch#latest

i was very upset when i saw that my reaching distance to activate items or nodes or barrels, ect was reduced by i significant amount. im still upset about it and think it's uneccessary. please put back way it was.

I bet it was another kneejerk attempt to stop bots.

My wood elf is still having issues with looting cupboards, getting ok with jump looting. Fix ?

If this was a way to combat bots, this might be strike 2, since the dungeon boss loot / camp nerf didn't help / work and just hurt regular players more.

subecsanur wrote: »

Any plan to fix this yet?

It's getting more annoying to me all the time.
There are a lot of places that are just stupidhard out of reach overhead or with stuff in the way. I've gotten hung up in scenery a number of times wedged into a tight spot, trying to maneuver around furniture and then getting stuck behind an NPC that just wont move out of the way.

And then there are the bookcases that are stacked doublehigh. I used to be able to jump/read them for books. I could do a quick read of the upper case at the top of the arc. Now I go into the same locations and I just end up reading the same lower bookcase a 2nd time because I can't reach the upper.

I got several (many) skill upgrades on my older 'toons that way and it just aint happening anymore on my newer 'toons. I'm not saying that the skills are in the same places, but it's cut way down on my access to the places an RNG can be able to give me a skill.

Lots of places my small bosmers can't reach anymore to even look for motifs, too, and again, considering the small window on a location you can actually interact with - it's a lot harder to activate that action.
I know I've given up even trying to loot a lot of areas anymore, and I'm just not actively even trying to play that part anymore, either.

Add that to not being able to loot NPC kills sometimes without logging out between kills in the last 2 weeks, and I'm just getting more frustration than fun out of this game investment. This isn't 'more challenging'. It's just frustratingly annoying.

I'll easily play (and subscribe to) a game for years. I can see that I'm really less inclined to spend money on this game much longer if this kind of stuff is the kind of 'fun' I get in return for my sub.

A small issue? Maybe, but it speaks directly to whether I get a chance at motifs and loot in line with the next guy, and that also determines how successful my 'toons will be in the future.

My 'toons do poorly with the same investment, I'm disinclined to bother playing.

Edit for speeling.

I can confirm that it seems fixed on the PTS as of right this very minute. Don't know if it will translate to the live version of the game, but if you get a minute, hop on over and test it out for yourself.

subecsanur wrote: »

Yeah, but it works on PTS, why wait thought?

I'm not a dev or a mod. I can't explain their logic, if they even use it. Seems like most of the time, it's not applied. I'm just relaying what I've found.

I guess it was done to combat bots, when you made the loot distance so short it broke all their scripted pathing.

Have seen very few bots after probably because they think that all the hard scripting work is not worth the time.