Tall Tales Greifing and Extending item despawn

Yeah, I wish the quest items would at least permanently float in the water. We were at the very end of the Wild Rose tall tale and had both pendants in the chest. We got hit and sunk near an island and thought the other team had the pendants. Unfortunately they didnt pick up the chest, these were a galleon full of ghost attired players so you know what they're like and what they're compensating for..

Anyway, the compass showed that the chest had sunk and it was about medium depth in the water. Unfortunately the chest with the pendants went through the ground layer and we could not get to it. This really really sucks! It was so frustrating.

It stuffed up my day, especially as this was a design problem. I was banking on the fact that we would eventually get the pendants as the galleon could not sell it. Instead the environment stuffed us.

Tall Tale items shouldn't be able to be interacted with unless it belongs to you.

@VacaHombre Yeah people are misinterpreting my comment but I've been in this community since the Alphas like the rest of them and I'm used to them by now.
My point was, I'd have less problem with it if you could get something for it. But people taking it, knowing what it is, just to dump it so you lose time is still one of the things that annoy me about this game.

My friends and I rob people sometimes. But we're all topped out, PL10's, only a few coms left, so we don't need much. If we board someone and kill them we take what we need, patch their ship and leave them with all the other stuff. Which was my point. If they created an item that the only thing you get from stealing it is the grief of the other player, that's the literal definition of greifing.

@marsmayflower I understand that part, and it was poorly developed. But the community knows that. They all have a choice and it still doesn't make it anything less than causing grief.

@scrubber89 Yes OR the other people should at least be able to do something with it other than cause greif.

@reapinglegion If they could have gotten something for it or kept it on their boat, fine. But everyone knows you can't do anything with it. That's why they dumped it in the water.
I rob people all the time and if I see tall tale stuff or something I dont need, I don't take it. There's a way to be a thief without being and utter numbskull about it.

@villieldr007 Yeah that sucks also. There's def. something wrong with the design of the tales. But if it was like my situation where I was telling them we were doing tall tales and that they could take any loot we had they were just being plain dbags.

@goedecke-michel No true stealing isnt. But stealing tall tale items when you know that the only thing you get from the other person is greif, is.

@satanicnemesis Which is greifing.

You probably had some resources or/and loot on the side with your TT item.

Everytime i sink someone i PM them afterwards telling them i left the item on a rock so they can keep doing their TT.
I recommend giving one of them a message next time asking nicely if you could get the TT item back instead of making silly threads like this one.

@nwo-azcrack "loot". The Tall tales items aren't loot. If it was loot, then both sides would be able to get money for it.

They are Pve missions. Do you know why there are no other players fighting against you while you are in the caves?

@itz-majman I told them in game chat and message that I was doing tall tales and that they could have everything from the ship but that I was on my way to turn in the soul stone. As I said in my post. They thought it was funny.

I rob people all the time and leave their TT stuff or even items I don't care about. I don't need people's regular chests/skulls and junk. It does nothing for me.

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@reapinglegion If they could have gotten something for it or kept it on their boat, fine. But everyone knows you can't do anything with it. That's why they dumped it in the water.
I rob people all the time and if I see tall tale stuff or something I dont need, I don't take it. There's a way to be a thief without being and utter numbskull about it.

And if there was value assigned to the relics, then the "griefing" as you call it would increase as people would have reason to take them from you. The current implementation is better all around as there is no incentive for them to take it unless they just want to (and there is nothing wrong with it, no matter how much you want to cry over it).

Haven't you noticed the biggest supporters of adding value to the relics in Tall Tales are those that primarily participate in PvP?

Like I said in other comments, if they had a value, I'd have no problem with it. My problem is that there isn't any value. People steal it just to be d bags.

I'm all for adding value and all for PvP or making the items inventory items. Something has to change. Doesn't make people who do it knowingly to be d bags JUST players of the game. That's a sad excuse.