Oh Madgod, I think I'm going to be sick.

[Jamos]

I recently got the Oblivion Game of the Year Edition and completed the Shivering Isle main guest along with several side quests. Why do I make a topic about this you may ask? Well later on, to make some more room, I place like 90% of my items in a drawer at the Arcane University. Several more hours of playing I return and they are replaced with clothing. All of that hard work for nothing. I just should have left everything lying on the ****ing ground. ARGH!

Might as well make this thread somewhat productive. Talk about times in games that you were cheated out of something.

If you will excuse me, I need to lie down.

[Perversion]

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Thing that always irked me about Morrowind was that I was only able to find one place in the game that gave you anywhere close to anything in terms of money. There was some goblin or something in a house of orcs that had a max money limit of nowhere near what stuff was worth, but much better than random shops.


So I always left stuff lying around everywhere, most of it in a bedroom in one of the mage's guilds. I hated leaving crap everywhere and forgetting where I left it, even though I tended to go out of my way to "organize" the piles of crap. So I went on a major quest arc to gain a mage's tower, specifically for the purpose of storing crap. So I go through the whole process, and come to find out there were only 2 storage boxes and a few shelves, which came nowhere close to containing everything I had strewn about.

[Red Dragon]

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I think the same goes for Oblivion but in fallout 3 if somone else owns the container they're just gonna take the stuff you leave in it.

And can't you just load a previous save?

[salamander]

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Leaving stuff around on the floor is more likely to make your game freeze. That's why you should just steal a house or buy your own, and put your stuff in there.

[Jamos]

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How in the world do you steal a house? And they ask for way too much money to buy houses. I don't have anywhere near that much.

[Valkysas]

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the anvil house is cheap and very nice/huge. there's a fun quest you have to do to get it, too.

[marcus]

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If your crap was valuable enough to whine when it's lost then you're probably rich enough to buy a house.

[Translucid]

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Yeah, when playing a game, I don't think I should ever have to worry "If I leave this here, will it be gone when I get back?"
especially when their games never explicitly mention what will disappear and where.

[Kirin]

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If there's anything I've learned from playing Elder Scrolls games, it's that nearly all chests, boxes, drawers, and other storage crates are programmed to randomly reset (unless you have the level editor and can change it), so if there's something you want to keep then you don't put it in storage. In Morrowind if you dropped enough stuff down on the floor, it'd eventually be replaced with a sack that has all the items in it, but you really have to cram stuff in your house for that to happen. In Oblivion it didn't do that for me, so I ended up littering the floors with items...which would eventually get stuck in the level itself.

Unfortunately, the same thing applied for my Fallout 3 lockers too-- thanks to the glitches in my house I lost all my weapons/items/ammo several times. Thanks, Bethesda.

[salamander]

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How in the world do you steal a house?

Step 1: Find a weak looking individual
Step 2: Stalk him all day until he goes home, so you can find out where he lives.
Step 3: The next day when he's out doing whatever, go into his house and hide like snake.
Step 4: Once he gets back home, pull a ninja move and vanquish him. Ta daa! Barbaric but effective~

[Valkysas]

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and then the containers in there are still marked as someone else's, so if you put any of your stuff in there it will vanish in 72 hours, and you cant use the bed because it's owned.

whats the point?

[salamander]

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To loot? To stick it to the imperial guards?

[Ωbright]

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I did that thing that Perversion does when I played Champions of Norrath. I didn't realize that when you reached your limit of dropped items per map, there was no warning message. I think the limit is 100 items per map or something, and for each item you drop over that amount, it deletes an item, starting with the first one dropped.

I almost completely wiped out my weapon and armor piles (including my entire set of Lava Forged armor) by doing that, and before I realized what I had done I saved. I replaced it all with crappy 1-use items I was dropping just to tidy up my item inventory.

[Red Dragon]

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It should be obvious that if you don't own an object a person is gonna take your stuff. "hey look who left this for me!"

If they're dead, then a loved one or somthin' I dunno!

[Cutter De Blanc]

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Item Dupe. My floors were covered in camoflage and healing potions. Yay.