Because it’s that hard to make wooden crossbow bolts. Admittedly the sawn-offs aren’t very useful but your tent solution still doesn’t solve the problem. These clusters of traps aren’t campsites, they’re traps it makes little sense to throw one out in the middle of a field then fill it up with useful loot. “But there’s the one that’s got garbage in the middle” At a glance you can tell it’s garbage and just move on.
As far as fucking over new characters is concerned when I first started playing it was more useful to find dead military/gangsters than it was to find a trap in a field because more often than not when attempting to disarm one of those crossbows or shotguns, I wound up with a crossbow bolt or shot in me.
This thread isn’t about fucking over new players. If I wanted to fuck over new players I’m pretty sure I could come up with something more believable than yanking the traps from the middle of a field. Spitss and I are just trying to point out that a cluster of traps with drugs, bullets, wood, or garbage in the center don’t make sense from a logic standpoint. The concept of a stash of loot, perhaps with a few traps inside, isn’t unreasonable, but a stash of loot in the middle of a field with a cluster of random traps around it doesn’t make sense.
If it’s about pointing out New England became New York somewhere along the line, stick a pressure activated mine under the stuff in the middle, have it go off when loot is removed, assuming the player didn’t disarm it.
