Bethesda Said NPC's would Fight over valuable stuff you drop : V

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:49 am

Well here I am, I drop Dragon bone right in front of people, Everybody ignores that, sometimes a person would come and return it to me, but most of the time the NPC's don't react.

Todd Howard said that the NPC's would fight over valuable stuff you drop. Didn't happen.

Only once I dropped some iron armor and a guy came up to me asking if he could use the armor I dropped, still no fights though.

Im guessing this was just another hype?

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:37 pm

Todd Howard = Peter Molyneux

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:12 am

Howard said that NPC's would react to you dropping items. Fighting over it was but one possibility. The fact that all that other stuff happens is pretty much proof that they didn't lie in this regard.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:40 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-E1lXgE_TM

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:21 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-E1lXgE_TM

Check and mate to mr Howard

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:05 pm

I've tried dropping flawless gems and maybe weapons, but that still hasn't happened. Someone else got people to fight over a bucket.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:17 pm

it might depend where you drop them as well. i tried some weapons in whiterun and nothing happened but it looks like that video was taken in riften which is full of thieves....makes sense they would all fight over it there.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:51 am

"That armor you just discarded, I can have it yea?" "Mighty decent of ya." ~Farkas

That was the first time an NPC wanted something I dropped. First time an NPC reacted was when I was encumbered and attempted to pull an Oblivion by stashing my stuff in the corner. An old woman came running up to me from down the street, picked up the warhammer at my feet, and said "I think you dropped this."

I've also tried giving the caravans jewels and stuff, but they ignore them. Seems to only work with weapons and armor. Wish someone would give me the shrouded gloves I lost...

Haven't seen anyone fight yet. Is it to the death? Might try it in a bandit camp (stealthily).

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:26 am

Every time I drop an item in my Markarth house as a decoration, Argis walks up and says "That thing you dropped, can I have it?". It's actually quite annoying.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:47 am

Todd Howard = Peter Molyneux

-100

No one is as bad as him as giving out false hype.... NO ONE

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:08 pm

Every time I drop an item in my Markarth house as a decoration, Argis walks up and says "That thing you dropped, can I have it?". It's actually quite annoying.

Oh, that's right. I tried decorating my mantle in my kitchen with the ox's head from Sovngarde. Then Ysolda took it down and told me I dropped it

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:43 am

Someone came up to me and asked if they could have it before they took it. Never dropped anything valuable enough for anyone to fight over though.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:15 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-E1lXgE_TM

hmm, well i tried it in the middle of whiterun, not some drunken bar

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:01 am

I dropped a pickaxe in a mine and they were killing eachother over it. lol

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:26 am

NPCs do fight over items.

I dropped some glass armour in the inn in Riften and a guy ended up dead on the floor over it.

I've also seen npcs looting corpses.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:57 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0CVuSpXvM&feature=youtu.be
fighting over cheese xd

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:13 pm

Of course it will be rare. Dropping stuff and people kill eachother over it..?

Free frenzy spell.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:08 pm

I found that if you drop anything in the Bee and Barb Mjoll and that old drunk will fight over it. Saw that big beast of a woman brain him over a tomato I did.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:50 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-E1lXgE_TM

OP makes claim.

Video proves claim to be false.

/thread

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:54 pm

I've had people pick up my items right after I drop them before. Doesn't happen everytime but it happens. And just now I dropped some weapons and the guard told me not to because someone could get hurt.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:50 am

Yea doesnt happen everytime, seems like item value doesnt have anything to do with it either o.O

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:09 pm

I was decorating my room in the College and I dropped a bunch of flowers on the ground to put them in a basket, and Brelyna comes up and is all like "Here, you dropped this, lucky I found it instead of someone else!" and then gives me one of the Dragon's Tongue I dropped on the floor. I bet she was referring to J'zargo, who was leering at us from the hallway. I wouldn't trust that cat as far as I could throw him.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:23 am

it might depend where you drop them as well. i tried some weapons in whiterun and nothing happened but it looks like that video was taken in riften which is full of thieves....makes sense they would all fight over it there.

I couldn't get the clowns in Riften to fight over weapons, armor, or precious gems. Nor would they return in. Whatever I dropped remained on the floor, forever.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:07 am

I've had guards lecture me about dropping weapons and when I dropped a sword I couldn't sell in Riften, two NPC's brawled over it.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:47 pm

Look at the massive difference between the 2 videos, at least in the second the brawl starts properly with back and forth between the 2, although still the barman is too busy staring at you to notice. The what happened line is so annoying though...You killed him, 2 seconds ago you fricken goldfish, over that sword still left on the floor.