Question about traped boxes?

[Streets]

So as recommended by many here on the forums I am using tinker traped boxes as a defense.

My question is: why is it that some times players trip the box just picking them up other times players can? I have seen multiple situations of this either off my corpse watching as a ghost, a player will pick up my box and drop it for telekinesis. Other times I'll drop it on the ground and will see the player just pick it up and move on to open it later.

I know the boxes are traped as I test them periodically by trying to trade them with my alt (traped boxes can't be traded and give you a message so I know if a trade window appears it has gone off some how)

I have also tried the normal lock and unlock as well as lock and had my lockpick unlock for me but I am getting totally mixed results.

Any suggestions or am I not understanding the mechanic?

 

[drasked]

So as recommended by many here on the forums I am using tinker traped boxes as a defense.

My question is: why is it that some times players trip the box just picking them up other times players can? I have seen multiple situations of this either off my corpse watching as a ghost, a player will pick up my box and drop it for telekinesis. Other times I'll drop it on the ground and will see the player just pick it up and move on to open it later.

I know the boxes are traped as I test them periodically by trying to trade them with my alt (traped boxes can't be traded and give you a message so I know if a trade window appears it has gone off some how)

I have also tried the normal lock and unlock as well as lock and had my lockpick unlock for me but I am getting totally mixed results.

Any suggestions or am I not understanding the mechanic?

From my understanding they are mainly to prevent thieves from snooping/stealing what is inside, if you snoop a trapped box there is a high chance you will insta die as the thief.

If you die and someone loots the box, it is super easy to disarm the trap without dying.

 

[Streets]

From my understanding they are mainly to prevent thieves from snooping/stealing what is inside, if you snoop a trapped box there is a high chance you will insta die as the thief.

If you die and someone loots the box, it is super easy to disarm the trap without dying.

Ok I was under the impression if you died and someone lifted the box it triggered. Thanks.

 

[Young Star]

Some people have a feature turned on that auto-searches new containers that are looted. It comes in handy to account regs and other resources. The thing that some people forget is that they dont properly set their exemption list for this feature. If looting a trapped container that isnt on the list you automatically try to open it and it blows.

There are still plenty that are impatient or careless and just open it themselves without using telekinesis.