Another and myself live close / next to each other and decided to clan up. Upon a clan error due to battle eye or something among that ( No response from clan ) from what I was told by the other person.
PROBLEMS THAT ARE HAPPENING:
Cannot place anything, even though the item is green.
After being kicked / leaving the clan they are no longer the original owner, the clan leader owns it and the original creator of the building / objects has no access anymore.
( Re-invited after kicking to see if this would fix the issue, it did not. )
If you kick someone or they leave their items / objects and base should be returned to the original owner / creator of that.
Thanks for looking into this in advance!
( STEAM / PC )
Sorry in advance if this is against guidelines but I think its right along the fine line, people could grief others with this badly though.
( WILLING TO WORK WITH YOU IN-GAME IF YOU ARE MISUNDERSTANDING )
( SERVER: 1562 )
That is how it has always worked in Conan Exiles. My guess would be that the game doesn’t keep a record of who it used to belong to once it becomes ‘communal property’ - when you join a clan all your property belongs to the clan - buildings followers everything. You can use the Thrall trading post to give followers back to a person after they leave a clan, and you can give them a bunch of materials to pay for the base they lose, but all property belongs to the clan, the game never automatically gives it back.
Yes, this can provide a way for griefing - it has always been possible for bad actors to steal everything someone possesses by this method. The safest way to protect yourself is to not join any clan unless you know the people in it. The safest way to make sure you can’t be tricked into a clan by accident is to make yourself a clan, even as a solo (you need to be in a clan to place a treasure coffer anyway (or to make banners), so it’s useful to do).
Not sure about the rest of it. That sounds like a bug - but maybe it’s something to do with being too close to someone else’s build who’s not in your clan?
Maybe this is the game as it is, but for PVE even PVP this could cause some serious griefing issues. They should adjust how this works, if kicked / leave a clan all possessions are back into the original owners name. Nothing personally happened here, since I know the person IRL but if I had not, or they did not it could be room for error for the game.
Attached and image to show distance between bases as well:
Yeah, that looks like it should be far enough. Like I said, sounds like the placing problems are some sort of bug.
As to the clan/griefing potential - no question the problem exists (and has cost many players). My opinion is that if it was easy to fix, they’d probably have done it by now. My guess would be that keeping a record of where each individual building, resource, follower etc came from would add considerable extra data, which would then cause extra lag (and if you’ve been reading the forums, you know no one wants any extra lag…). But there’s nothing wrong with you making the suggestion (and us discussing it will only help raise its profile so more people see it…) (and if you’ve got any expertise in how it could be achieved without needing to add an additional tag of some sort to everything owned by a clan to keep track of previous ownership as well, then I’m sure that would also be useful).
In the meantime - I suggest you try to document the actual bug (the placing issue) and report it to the link below (that’s the official place to send bug reports now for CEE - so they can be seen as soon as possible by the devs). That used to also be a link for suggestions, but now they want suggestions on the Forums and bug reports there (which used to go to the forums, lol - it’s all switching up…)
it has always been this way it even tells you when you leave you lose everything. just sayin
