Re: Legends and Thieving?

From: drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)

Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 16:05:46 +0000

Earlier I was dicussing the act of stealing vast amounts of crowns.  Ethan sent me
some pearls of wisdom and my last turn has shown me more clearly how things work.

Giving a thief a large mount to increase his carrying capacity so that he can steal
large numbers of crowns WILL increase his sighting modifier and increase his chance
of being caught.  The Stealth, Thief skills and DEX potions all reduce this.  The
Invisibility potion sets the sighting modifier to ZERO.  This is wonderful and I begin
to wonder if it makes my thief unstoppable?

This turn I stole 3 wagons, hoping to give my thief an extra 900 carrying capcity.  It
does not work this way, all I ended up doing was carrying an extra 100 weight units
of wagon and becoming so encumbered that my move value went to 0.0.  I then went onto
steal 70,000 crowns with my second action.  Was I caught as it took me 3 hours to drag
the wagons in and out of the guild?  The answer is NO.  Did I get the 70 grand? The
answer is YES.  Why did I succeed?  Because my sighting value is ZERO!

This impresses me as a bit silly but I'll keep thieving until my invisbility potions
run out.  It does seem to make Gaurds a little useless.  Their cahnce of catching you
must involve your sighting modifier as a multiplier somewhere along the line and with
it set to zero, they seem to have no chance.

Guild/location owners, get that detect invisibilty spell or pay the price.

Happy thieving,
		Dean

References

Re: Legends and Thieving?
drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Thu, 20 May 1993 15:37:25 +0000