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gaming1355 Aug 10, 2016 @ 8:59pm
Generator keeps turning itself off.
Full of gasoline, pve, no tribe just me. When i log in its switched off and its 100% not me as there are times when i havent even interacted with the generator. Anyone know what might be causing it im losing items to spoilage.
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Myst?c Aug 10, 2016 @ 9:00pm 
other players could be trolling you somehow
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ElgarL Aug 10, 2016 @ 9:12pm 
If you dismount a dino near the generator you can also auto press "E" on whatever you are facing/looking at. You are likely turning it off yourself.
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gaming1355 Aug 10, 2016 @ 9:34pm 
Originally posted by ElgarL:
If you dismount a dino near the generator you can also auto press "E" on whatever you are facing/looking at. You are likely turning it off yourself.

No its def not anything like that its right in a corner where dinos dont ever go.
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gaming1355 Aug 10, 2016 @ 9:35pm 
Originally posted by blade.blaster56745:
other players could be trolling you somehow

How tho as far as we know no one can interact with someone stuff on pve.
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L0N RNGR Aug 11, 2016 @ 12:30am 
In PVE you can turn on or off things like generators, fabricators chemistry benchs...
Some people will do that turn on and off until all the fuel is gone. For no reason than you waste your mats. As a way to troll you. As a way to annoy you in the hopes of getting you so tired of it you never log back on.
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Charlice Aug 11, 2016 @ 12:35am 
are you mounting or dismouting near it? I can't mount or dismount anywhere near my forge or it turns itself on/off.
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VoreX Aug 11, 2016 @ 1:01am 
If its open to other players they are turning it off. Ive done it a million times to other people just for the laughs. Lock it up, problem solved
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Val "w31" Comdriver Aug 11, 2016 @ 2:57am 
Originally posted by VoreX:
If its open to other players they are turning it off. Ive done it a million times to other people just for the laughs. Lock it up, problem solved
this. pin code only protects inventory access. anyone still can turn on/off
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gaming1355 Aug 11, 2016 @ 5:18am 
Originally posted by Jamagh:
In PVE you can turn on or off things like generators, fabricators chemistry benchs...
Some people will do that turn on and off until all the fuel is gone. For no reason than you waste your mats. As a way to troll you. As a way to annoy you in the hopes of getting you so tired of it you never log back on.

Everything of mine is locked therefore they cant touch it or remove the mats etc. I know about campfires still being able to be switched on to burn the sparkpowders etc but they cannot switch off a locked generator etc.
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gaming1355 Aug 11, 2016 @ 5:19am 
Originally posted by VoreX:
If its open to other players they are turning it off. Ive done it a million times to other people just for the laughs. Lock it up, problem solved

Its locked they cant turn it on/off. This only works for wasting campfire mats etc
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gaming1355 Aug 11, 2016 @ 5:20am 
Originally posted by Comdriver w31:
Originally posted by VoreX:
If its open to other players they are turning it off. Ive done it a million times to other people just for the laughs. Lock it up, problem solved
this. pin code only protects inventory access. anyone still can turn on/off

I use the locked function pins are a bad idea as ppl can eventually guess into it over time where as something being locked is simply never accessable.
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Juni Aug 11, 2016 @ 5:25am 
It doesnt matter if a generator is locked or not, if it is out in the open other people can turn it off, lock it inside a building.
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AgeAgainst Aug 11, 2016 @ 8:01am 
Originally posted by gaming1355:
Its locked they cant turn it on/off. This only works for wasting campfire mats etc

Not true. When a structure such as the generator or fabricator has fuel in it and is locked, it only prevents access to the items inside of it. You can spam E on the structure over and over again constantly turning it off and on to drain all of the gasoline.

The only way to prevent this is to build walls around the structure so people can't access it.
Last edited by AgeAgainst; Aug 11, 2016 @ 8:01am
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Cataclisto Aug 11, 2016 @ 8:13am 
Even when locked generators, forges, industrial grills, chem bench... can be turned on and off by other players, people grief others on servers doing this by wasting hundreds of gas in someones gas using device. Fully encase the generator in a locked room.
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L0N RNGR Aug 11, 2016 @ 9:38am 
Originally posted by gaming1355:
Originally posted by Jamagh:
In PVE you can turn on or off things like generators, fabricators chemistry benchs...
Some people will do that turn on and off until all the fuel is gone. For no reason than you waste your mats. As a way to troll you. As a way to annoy you in the hopes of getting you so tired of it you never log back on.

Everything of mine is locked therefore they cant touch it or remove the mats etc. I know about campfires still being able to be switched on to burn the sparkpowders etc but they cannot switch off a locked generator etc.


Yes you can. Just because you can't get into it does not mean you can't turn it on and off.
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