Now I'm seriously considering quitting this game again. The devs are fucking assholes. They LIKE the griefing and exploiting that happens. And its just impossible to really get thieves. They just make alts, steal stuff, and give them to their main or hide somewhere, and let the alt die. Killing them makes no difference. And we never get our stuff back BECAUSE WE CANT TRACK INDIVIDUAL ITEMS.
And dont say palisades and walls help. Rubs 3 was happily destroying palisades and everything. Just needs a bear cape, and a few FEP points.
And jorb FUCKING SAID HE WANTS TO ADD MORE TOOLS TO HELP THE THIEVES.
No way this game is gona work like this. Its already impossible to actually get steal and silk and stuff WITHOUT the fucking thieves. Now, it will be completely impossible to do ANYTHING.
You misunderstood the devs in this case. They do not approve of griefing, but they like thievery. This is quite a difference:
A griefer tries to make the life of other players a pain with vandalism and all that.
A thief tries to maximize his own gain, per method of stealing of others.
The problem in this case are the alts, currently the fact that they can act as some sort of quantum storage for items, which would warrant the inventory overhaul so that you can force summon Mr. Quantum Storage and get your item back. But alts in general are a problem - this way, JTG and others don't have to fear getting killed and losing their progress. We'll see what the crew is going to do about that, they usually have good solutions.
And let's face it, assuming Thief vs. Item Owner, without alternate accounts involved, the Item Owner has the advantage. Thievery is supposed to be high risk, high reward, and once we fix the risk factor (or, alt problem), it will be too difficult to steal from people.