Bring back the thieving skill?

[Death]

Here's another poll for you.

Thieves have gotten the shaft for many years. Back in the day, thievery was fun, skilled and profitable. But OSI nerfed it to the ground. In fact, thieves are one of the most nerfed classes.

Here's what we propose to all the thieves out there:

-Allow stealing in trammel (Wait, don't get too excited yet). Stealing in a town or within a guard zone is 100% not allowed. So if somebody is afk at a bank and you try to steal, you get instantly guardwhacked, no exceptions. Therefore stealing is only possible in non-guarded spots.

-Just like in felucca, you have to be a member of the "thieves guild" to steal from players. This also means that you cannot be a murderer.

-If you steal from somebody in trammel, you will be a freely attackable target for a short period of time. This means that if you steal, you're going to get chased if you don't make a quick getaway.

-You cannot steal from young players (Obviously).

-Blessed and insured items still cannot be stolen.

Feel free to voice your opinions are any concerns you may have.

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[Death]

Seems people are in favor of this change. We'll see what we can do about it.

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[sliptongue69]

This would be kewl, but make it so that they ALWAYS go grey when stealing, as it would be retarded if they could get away with it in carebear land.

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[Death]

This would be kewl, but make it so that they ALWAYS go grey when stealing, as it would be retarded if they could get away with it in carebear land.

That's a given. Cept maybe at legendary skill to give a slight percent that you get a lucky pickpocket out and don't flag at all (Like 5%). Gives incentive to actually scroll your char.

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[j4bber]

Or maybe at 120 stealing 120 stealth you have like a 5% chance to not be flagged.

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[Death]

Or maybe at 120 stealing 120 stealth you have like a 5% chance to not be flagged.

Ya something to think about. That's another big skill change that we would consider doing in the far off future.

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[jrhather]

DO IT


I'm SO down for this.

how about a snooping PS so that it you can get away with snooping a char and not everybody in the whole screen sees it

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[Death]

DO IT


I'm SO down for this.

how about a snooping PS so that it you can get away with snooping a char and not everybody in the whole screen sees it

Snooping won't reveal your presence to everyone else unless you're in trammel, but now that you mention that, I'll need to check that out because I have a hunch that some hiding/stealth/ninjitsu changes might have removed that.

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[Shaggy]

This would be fun. Maybe even add a defender of the innocent... A creature that can spawn, reveal the thief, and attack him. Also would be only like a 5% chance he would spawn, and he wont agro on anything but the thief.

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[Tom]

Any thief changes would be an improvement. I found a server with an ITS thief scripet works but the rest of the server is junk

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