How to teleport items

[Rifleman]

Step 1: pick up the item 

Step 2: travel a long distance 

Step 3: hit cancel 

 

This glitch is both fun and counterproductive.

[cekivi]

Interesting. I don't know how many people would do that though let alone try to exploit it...

[Rifleman]

7 hours ago, cekivi said:

Interesting. I don't know how many people would do that though let alone try to exploit it...

I don't think it's exploitable.

[Hiemalis]

Thinking about it, if you're overencumbered and in the middle of nowhere, you can alleviate yourself of 4 kg (and thus walk faster) if you drop your rifle, right-click it and make the journey back to a safehouse. Unless the game adds the weight of items you're moving around.

Huh. Bug report?

[elloco999]

It does seem strange you could cancel picking something up after you've moved away from the place you've picked it up from. But I don't think you could exploit it.

[AHGoodwin]

14 hours ago, Hiemalis said:

Thinking about it, if you're overencumbered and in the middle of nowhere, you can alleviate yourself of 4 kg (and thus walk faster) if you drop your rifle, right-click it and make the journey back to a safehouse. Unless the game adds the weight of items you're moving around.

Huh. Bug report?

It does not account for the weight. I have used this a few times to "carry" a rope w/o having 11lbs added to my encumbrance.

[cekivi]

2 hours ago, AHGoodwin said:

It does not account for the weight. I have used this a few times to "carry" a rope w/o having 11lbs added to my encumbrance.

Ah, so less a bug, more of an exploit.

[Rifleman]

@Hiemalis The rules and guidelines for the long dark community Says that you will be instantly ban for commenting about game exploiting. I think that's a little extreme but just to be safe I recommend deleting your comment.

[Ohbal]

Since we have a monitored thread about exploits I think it should fine at the moment. The best way to get a exloit fixed is make it public anyway... the more of a problem they become, the faster they get fixed  

[Rifleman]

They need to change the rules because the guidelines say you will be banned without hesitation.

[elloco999]

That's to prevent discussions when someone gets banned.

[Patrick Carlson]

On 8/15/2016 at 2:07 PM, Rifleman said:

Step 1: pick up the item 

Step 2: travel a long distance 

Step 3: hit cancel 

 

This glitch is both fun and counterproductive.

We're aware that this happens in-game. It's a tough mechanic to take advantage of, considering it limits what you can do while "traveling a long distance" with the item. But we appreciate the heads up that you noticed it. 

The community guidelines have been the same for forever now. If they are confusing, we're happy to take feedback on them. Just message me or a moderator if you have concerns about something. Obviously "intention" counts when posting. Are you giving honest and fair feedback on something you are seeing in the game? We want to hear it.

It's only if you have other, less helpful motives when discussing a supposed "exploit" that we might have a problem. I hope that distinction is clear! 

[Hiemalis]

14 hours ago, Rifleman said:

@Hiemalis The rules and guidelines for the long dark community Says that you will be instantly ban for commenting about game exploiting. I think that's a little extreme but just to be safe I recommend deleting your comment.

Yup, I'm aware of that forum rule, but thanks for the heads-up anyway! I was just thinking aloud -- really, I didn't even know whether that exploit worked, since I never tested it, and have no interest in doing so --, but I'd gladly explain myself to any moderator if required.

[cekivi]

@Rifleman, @Hiemalis This topic (exploits) actually came up quite recently on another forum. Like @Patrick Carlson said, context is important. We won't take down posts that are trying to improve the game. Topics that are about how to abuse (rather than fix) exploits will result in action being taken though.

If you're ever unsure (or find a suspect post) either send a moderator a PM or report the post

[Rifleman]

Are the rules and guidelines up to date? I have seen a lot of people get away with permanent bans.

[cekivi]

13 hours ago, Rifleman said:

I have seen a lot of people get away with permanent ban

The rules and guidelines should be up to date. If you think they need clarification than that's something that can be brought to @Patrick Carlson's attention. To my knowledge, there's been warnings posted but since I've been a mod the only banned accounts have belonged to spammers.

[Rifleman]

6 hours ago, cekivi said:

The rules and guidelines should be up to date. If you think they need clarification than that's something that can be brought to @Patrick Carlson's attention. To my knowledge, there's been warnings posted but since I've been a mod the only banned accounts have belonged to spammers.

 

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It doesn't say that the admins and mods will give you a warning.

[cekivi]

To the best of my knowledge there's been a few warnings for inappropriate behaviour with appropriate action taken if necessary. Most of the bans have been related to Spamming.

Also, if the discussion on teleporting is complete I can lock this thread.

[Rifleman]

The guidelines doesn't say anything about warnings so I thought that's it's a instant permanent ban. 

And yes I am finished with the topic.

[Hatchet]

Don't try it with a fire and instead don't hit cancell.
Fires indoors! But like i said, don't try it, i don't condone to exploiting the game