Forum:Karma bug/feature?

Here's the thing. I'm playing the "good guy" helpin out the poor and defenseless and hunting down the prisoners,slavers bad guys. I do understand that stealing from a friendly town is a bad thing, which gives me bad karma, but why do I get bad karma when I loot bad guy's items? I'm not talking about the corpse looting, Im talking about when there is an ammo box or some weapons on a table right next to the powder gang members. So basicly they "own" the territory, but they did attack me, and were killed by me, so why I just couldn't take their belongings w/o getting negative karma? Same thing when Im idolised with Goodsprings and vilified w/ NCRCF, after I slaughtered the prisoners there, why cant I loot the items w/o karma loss? //sry for my bad english//Omenwww 21:06, October 28, 2010 (UTC) Stealing is dishonest, even if it's from your enemies. Schneidend 21:11, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

So why dont I get karma loss when I loot my enemy's corpse? Afterall that's stealing too. Also I remember when in fallout 2 u dug out a grave u got karma loss which was totally understandable and in FNW u dont got karma loss for that. I find it interesting that graverobbing is not a bad thing tho stealing from the dead enemy is, and also corpselooting is not. It's wierd :)Omenwww 22:49, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

Had the same problem when I helped the ghouls rocket off. They were gone and I still couldn't loot without losing karma, or when I freed Nelson. I couldn't loot there because of karma. Guess that since I had killed all the legion personnel, the loot now became NCR's? Saotendo98.19.139.39 17:49, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

The amount of negative karma you receive for stealing is nothing compared to how much positive karma you receive for killing the enemies you're stealing from. Steal away, and I guarantee you'll still have the Good Karma titles. Schneidend 18:10, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

I steal all the time from almost any faction in the game and I maintain a very good karma(I dont like it but I can't seem to lose it either)from the very beginning. 46.116.241.95 23:31, October 29, 2010 (UTC)