Section 5: A Thief's Guide to Production Shards
5.4: What happens when you attempt to steal an item? How is Stealing calculated?
3 things can happen when you attempt to steal an item:
- You fail to steal the item and you turn grey. Everyone within a 7
tile radius recieves a message informing them: (a) who's stealing, (b)
who they're
stealing from, and (c) what item they're attempting to steal.
- You successfully steal the item and you turn grey. Everyone
within a 7 tile radius recieves a message informing them: (a) who's
stealing, (b) who
they're stealing from, and (c) what item they're attempting to steal.
- You successfully steal the item and you remain blue. No one notices the theft.
Keep in mind:
- The difficulty to steal an item unnoticed and remain blue decreases as your skill in Stealing increases.
- The difficulty to steal an item unnoticed and remain blue increases as the weight of the item increases.
- The calculation that determines your success or failure is
rolled for every person within a 7 tile radius (including your victim).
This means that for every steal -- depending on your skill in Stealing
and the weight of the item -- you have a certain percentage chance of
being noticed.
That same percentage chance is re-rolled for every additional person in
the area.
-Chad Sexington