Giving objects to others while traveling

[Arseface]

I can't give objects to people while we are travelling. Is this normal, or should it be fixed?

[wichita]

It's normal. And you need to post on the Joke (asshat) thread just so we have your forum id in with the discussion. There's a link to a great avatar for you to use.

[SekoETC]

lol Man! Go Arseface!!!

[Revanael]

CD: Moved to General Support. (Revanael)

[julie2]

Its normal and it should be fixed. Why shouldn't we be able to do this?

[The Industriallist]

...at a guess? Because the near-instant communication trick of passing a message along a line of people down a road would be seriously broken for moving items from town to town, potentially in huge quantities and with only 1 hour needed.

Or just because it didn't seem reasonable that you could toss your gear around to anyone in earshot...

[Jetlag]

I'd have though the logistical difficulties of having everybody awake would prevent it being abused. However, a possible way of implementing this without breaking anything would be to limit the range in which you can pass things to people who are "walking next to you".

So if you made a point of walking faster/slower so that you were next to the person you wanted to pass things to, you could do so without having to wait till the next town. It would solve the problem of not being able to give your starving travelling buddy some of your huge stash of carrots, but you still couldn't create a "bucket chain" to pass things along quickly, no matter how many people you had lined up along a road.

[The Industriallist]

I'd have though the logistical difficulties of having everybody awake would prevent it being abused. However, a possible way of implementing this without breaking anything would be to limit the range in which you can pass things to people who are "walking next to you".

So if you made a point of walking faster/slower so that you were next to the person you wanted to pass things to, you could do so without having to wait till the next town. It would solve the problem of not being able to give your starving travelling buddy some of your huge stash of carrots, but you still couldn't create a "bucket chain" to pass things along quickly, no matter how many people you had lined up along a road.

I could be wrong, but I don't think you can maneuver that way effectively without playing almost every hour. So that would just give (another) huge advantage to those of us who spend way more time than we ought to on the game.