Carts becoming abandoned after x amount of time, so there is already a feature in place to claim carts from other players if they are not in use.

So letting someone drop a totem on your cart, so they can build a box around it and prevent you from getting your cart before it becomes abandoned, so they can steal it off you, seems like a exploit more than legitimate gameplay.

My suggestion is that if a cart is active, that you cannot build anything in the tribe till the cart is removed.

If its abandoned you should be able to claim it, than drop a totem.

But if its still active, this opens up for levels of grief and abuse that shouldn't be in the game in my opinion by letting players totem drop carts and cage them.

I'm all for a raiding system, but this is not a raiding system, this is someone holding onto your carts inside of a protected tribe zone till they expire two weeks later, this is not fun gameplay and is exploiting the totem drop on alt accounts.

The two ways I can think of moving a cart off tribe area:

1) let the tribe leader move it ~ keep it locked on panel menu cuz it will be equipped ~ auto drop it 5m outside of tribe so they cant take off with it and take it to another tribe.

2) auto pushing, the game shoves the cart to the edge +5m away from the tribe area.

This has been edited and updated with a refined suggestion to avoid confusion of multiple suggestions.