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I just build my own large house, and decided to see what the ballot box does, so I placed it (stupidly in the middle of a room) and took a look at it. Then I noticed something, the is NO pick up option. Please, if anyone know how to remove it, let me know. I tried to do /pickup and it said I do not have permission to access that container (even though I am the house owner and owner of the ballot box) and besides the voting options, there is only Use Bank.

If you can help, please post an answer, it looks really dumb sitting in the middle of my room

Thank you in advance.

You can bank with a Ballot Box? Does that include the safety depost box?

As for getting rid of it, I am not sure. You may just have to destroy the house, destroying the box with it and then place your house again.

I have a slightly different problem but related.

I droped two factory crates in my house, now I cannot pick them up. The only option I get is to examine them. Any ideas how I can pick them back up? It was dissapointing to have more than 10k of ore in finnished product just sit there

I"m not sure if this will help, but it happened to me about a week ago. I dropped a container of water near my crafting station and was not able to pick it up. I noticed (after days, lol) that it seems to have "slid" next to the crafting station where they were overlapping. After picking up the crafting station, the pickup option was again available on the water.

O joy then i guess i have the best of both worlds ... i have a crate that i cant pick up and I too accidently or stupidly (depends on your point of view) placed the ballot box in the center of the room ... and I too have no measn by which to pick it up or move it.... in fact im not even sure at which skill this ballot box came up .. all of a sudden i just noticed that could build it.

Also, not sure if you guys noticed it but not only cant you move ... but ANYONE can stop your vote ...edit your vote ...and create a new vote... can you say bugged?

The ballot box, I'm pretty sure you can't move, it is also almost completely useless because it resets itself after about 4 hours. As far as the crates that you can't pick up, try moving them with teh /moveforward/back (1-50) command; then try to pick them up =)

The factory crate problem (or any other problem) you can just use /movefurniture forward/back # (there is also a /rotatefurniture left/right #degrees, just FYI) and once they aren't overlapping, you can pickup... also, there is a /pickup command.

However... the ballot box...well, I have the same problem... you can move it around with the furniture commands, but you can't pick it up, which means you can't get it out of that room... ever, until you destroy the house. It is very useless too... not only does it have bugged commands (it is listed as a bank terminal, and has a Use Bank option, but it doesn't actually DO anything)... its interface is horrible, useless as a voting tool (even if you DID want that for some reason), and EVERYONE has admin access to it, so anyone can stop, start, change, edit, or do anything that you can do with it, any time...

Man, that's useful!

Thanks for the replies.

I guess I can use the /move commands to atleast get it out of the way.

If anyone does find a way or removing it (without havnig to destroy the house), let me know.

Thanks

Orbai Avack.

I cannot believe this is STILL an issue today!! We are in the process of moving our PA Hall and this stupid ballot box is preventing us from redeeding the hall. I can't believe this garbage. We have tried to /pickup, /unstick, /eject....everything we can think of....

Any help out there?

Eniha
Master Architect
Master Tailor
RIP

Ki'ki Da'O
Master Dancer
RIP

/bump

Same ballot box problem. We're trying to move our guild hall to our new player city, but need to get the dumb ballot box out first.

Poor Solmyr, that's what you get for not reading my bug lists... Tsk tsk.

I placed one myself to test the bug that you can't pick it up, and it is still there, hiding in a corner (I tried to move it into a wall, but no success). I wish there was something I could do for you, but all I can do is post my sympathy and wait for it to be fixed. I think the only solution is to post a CSR ticket.

Oh yeah.. please don't bump posts on bugs that are already in the bug list. If you're bored, read the bug list that way you'll know what posts not to bump

Yeah, this is pretty annoying since ppl are trying to move their houses to Player City limits

I (unknowingly) put a ballot box in the basement of our PA hall. I never bothered to look at it until we needed to move the PA hall to our player city and it wouldn't let me pick it up. I thought we were done for, because we needed to take the PA hall up to get one of our players over to the city to become a citizen before the City Hall was destroyed (need 5 citizens within 24 hours).

In short, I put in a CSR ticket (categorized "I am stuck" and "performing an action") and explained the offending piece of useless furniture. Shockingly, a CSR contacted me within 5!!! minutes. He popped into the room after a few and made it disappear. I was really shocked at their responsiveness over what I had heard about them.