More on the Stealing from bad guys bug

[RainingMetal]

So today when I re-entered the desecrated Church, while I waited for the bandits to get into proper killing positions, I took some of their supplies in the basement. When I got back home, my survivors were all mopey about "stealing from innocents". Yup, this horrible glitch is back, but I think it's because I didn't kill the bandits before I took their property, which turns off those private property flags on those containers.

Would be simply easier that this bug would just not exist instead of the devs trying the lazier solution.

[Bobywan]

Always been this way if I recall. The trick was to kill them and come back another so it doesnt count as stealing

[RainingMetal]

Or kill them all and then steal, so long as you never touch the private property spots. I wonder if this applies to the Hotel as well, as that place was always far buggier than the rest.

[RainingMetal]

I've always killed the bandits at the church, and people treat it properly (although when I typically kill one bandit one day and return to finish the job, both times it's treated as if I killed only one of them).

The Hotel is always the one that got me though, since whenever I come back for a return visit to loot the place, the second time people treat it as theft.

[RainingMetal]

With some testing, I can safely say that looting the Kidnappers' Hotel is fine, so long as you save the hostage, kill the bandits, and don't touch the private loot areas until you return with the place deserted, as killing the bandits won't turn the private loot spots public. So it's all in the same boat as the other evil locations.