Tracking random scents at Nople ain't cool.

[Moondee29]

I mean, how would they know something was stolen from a claim they've never been to before?

well, imagine having some rusty sword for sale on your stand, so old and rusty - nobody ever was interested in buying it; over the time the dust has settled in.. and the wood not occupied by the sword had became lighter due to sun and wearing off ; so once stolen.. you will see a footprint of the sword or even the silhouete .. left on wood ; you know there would be deductive and inductive methods of coming to a conclusion of what an item was there for sale and how was it taken. For example, the stand sells weapons, there are all but swords offered, so swords might have been bought out or missing? Or.. the stand of a trader famous for dealing in particular goods, one good missing -either bought already (which can be checked if the other goods are still there and if there are scents or tracks of the owner being hear and re-stocking recently) etc..

I am not the one into criminology, but there are ways Rangers (detectives) would be able to determine or narrow down the item, etc; provided we assume raising the skill their expertise in these area raises as well.

[Cajoes]

Or we could just stop outright killing thieves and other low grade offenders on their first offense. They don't have to be dead to be lootable, right?

"Life is precious."

"But you can get killed for free."

[NaoWhut]

When i take out a theif it's not for their belongings,
not for the 30k lp or so that they give, not the skele,
but the sheer fact that i know they might think twice
before stealing again.

The pants and the popping noise as black shoots from
their chest is always pretty satisfying after running
through the woods all day too.

[boshaw]

When i take out a theif it's not for their belongings,
not for the 30k lp or so that they give, not the skele,
but the sheer fact that i know they might think twice
before stealing again.

The pants and the popping noise as black shoots from
their chest is always pretty satisfying after running
through the woods all day too.

what if the thief himself is just an alt. Not that hard to grind enough lp for stealing, trespassing and vandalism and the person clearly has the time if he did it before.

[NaoWhut]

track item button is ftw.

[Oddity]

Or we could just stop outright killing thieves and other low grade offenders on their first offense.

Boring.

[rye130]

track item button is ftw.

Doesn't work so well when the items are vaulted on an alt that just destroyed their hearthfire

[NaoWhut]

*shrug* sucks to be you, get a brickwall.

[Neptjunoue]

Sometimes even that isn't enough. Had a raider group that was determine to break down my brick wall last life.

[Garlicman]

Alas, poor Trunks! I knew him.