Community Chest Storage Usage

SinbadSam · Post by **SinbadSam** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:30 pm

Ok I can see some issues, due to players using the community chests as temporary storage units, ie stones/planks etc being stored until player x/Character X comes and gets the stones/planks etc.

The previous contents of the community chests, ie craft ables plants, etc being sold or trashed.

Could a clarification of what the community chest uses please be restated?

Also to point out that none of my pc's here are currently crafting in any form.

Thanks

SinbadSam

Post by **terryrayc** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:42 pm

The chest should only be used to store items for community use. Meaning if you store some items there and another player comes around and needs them, he's welcome to grab them.

They should not be used for personal storage...and if you store something there and it's gone when you go back...oh well.

Post by **corwink** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:46 pm

I'm not on the team of course but the way I see it and have always done it is, anything in the "community chest" is put there for the community to use. If somebody puts something in the chests they should consider it gone. I will continue that till the team says otherwise.

If people are using it as dropoff spots for other characters then they should at least post an ic notice on the forum stating that x number of planks, stone, whatever is for so and so please no one take them. If they don't at least do that then it's their own fault the stuff gets taken by someone else and they have no room to complain.

If I was gathering material for someone for building a house or whatever, then i would either rent an inn room, or get an extra key to the room I got so that the stuff can be put in there, with only you and the intended person having access to it.

Just my 2 cents.

//edit: doh Terry posted while I was still typing

Tassels · Post by **Tassels** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:48 pm

I've been aware of characters using the chests as an "exchange point" but I would say "beware" as they are community chests, don't expect reservations on things you put there.

As a player it's a bummer if someone takes something that someone put there for you, but if it was that important it should have been under lock and key somewhere. I have no complaints about no reservations on items in the community chest...period.

Post by **Daemona** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:37 pm

*coughs*

Sonja/I was the instigator of this somewhat Arkaz unique situation. The idea came from SorBens Fine Threads in Elysia where such a chest existed. At the time there were no inn rooms or player use chests, these were the first. As we did not have a lot of characters running around like today she used them to drop off healing potions and kits for anyone to take. In those days there were a lot less resources than today. There were 4 comfry and a few tulips on the whole island and only the northern field in Nuvar had wheat or cotton. As I could not be on line enough to meet everyone it seemed the easy solution.

They were always conceived as a shared chest with anything placed in them fair game for anyone who came along.

http://www.arkaz.com/modules.php?name=F ... opic&t=429

Post by **BrunoKnotslinger** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:07 pm

Two things come to mind:

Caveat emptor

and

You get what you pay for.

Nothing at all wrong with using them as an exchange point between characters, IMO. They just have to realize that if someone gets there in the interregnum and takes the stuff, they have no cause for complaint to the team. On the flip side of that coin, if someone takes stuff in the chest that they knew was earmarked for someone or something else (a perfect example is healing kits), then they have to deal with the IC consequences of doing so. Especially if they take it just to haul it to the nearest biomerchant to sell it.

Post by **NightsMistress** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:54 am

Damned right. Leave stuff at a risk but deal with it IC if you know about drops there and take it. All players should know it's a risk. I certainly drop off stuff there. The warning is on the chests. Dropper and collector beware.

Post by **corwink** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:26 am

*Rereads Terry's post and complies with Terry's post.*

jeathrow · Post by **jeathrow** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:09 am

Jeathrow has collected all the items for a house and sending messengers (pms) have set up delivery times and exchanged the items for some one else to build a house and they payed me to do this. We did all the exchanges PC to PC IG, with-out the use of the community chest.