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Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
1) Is there a static timer on being able to extract from an area again or is it random? If static, how long is it?
2) Is there a point in using hide, ghost AND cloak? Or is it redundant and pointless?
The point of having all three is that it requires someone have BOTH lifevision and thirdeye in order to identify you
Ghost hides your name when following someone (both the follow message and on ent/group) and when entering/leaving a room, showing you just as "a ghostly figure", and also prevents you from being looked at. Seen through by lifevision.
Cloak prevents you from showing up in the room just like hide, but it's seen through by thirdeye which pretty much everyone except newbies will have at all times. It hides your movement, seen through by lifevision or hypersight, and certain actions (I can't recall what exactly it hides), some of which can be seen through with hypersight or lifevision. But like I said, hide also does all of this now.
As far as I can find, the only purpose of cloak now is to use it on others, or if there's someone in the room preventing you from hiding. If you're already hidden, then cloaking yourself doesn't seem to have any effect.
Cloak doesn't hide follow (the message or your presence on ent/group), and thirdeye is never required, lifevision sees everything that thirdeye does and a lot more.
Scripts
1. A script that will keep selfishness up if you're forced to drop it. Selfishness protects against pickpocket, so that's an important part of your anti-theft. You'll obviously need an alias to turn it off so you can drop selfishness when you need to. However, I'd suggest that alias also start a short timer to turn it back on, so that you're not left completely unprotected if you forget to do it yourself. I would suggest that the basis of this script uses the in-game curing system for the defence upkeep, as that should continue to function even if the connection between your client and the game has dropped.
2. A trigger that will put gold back in your pack if you're forced to take it out. They can only pickpocket gold if it's in your inventory, so make sure it's not in your inventory. Obviously this will not function if your connection has dropped, but the game hasn't kicked you out yet.
Items
1. A shimmering orb will prevent appraising you to see what you have in your inventory. This will make it more difficult (but not impossible) to target a specific item with pickpocket.
2a. There's a pack that's sometimes available - it's a talisman item, but I don't recall which set it's in - that can be opened and closed. Having it closed prevents taking items out of it, so that's an extra level of security against theft; you'll want a trigger to close it if forced to open it.
2b. You can put your gold inside one container, then place it in a second container, to make it more difficult for them to force you into having gold in your hands.
General awareness
1. Try not to go afk. Never go afk if you're not in a safe location. A safe location means inside your city standing on guards; most thieves are enemied to cities, and it's very difficult to rob somebody when you're getting killed by city guards.
2. Set your timeout relatively low. This will protect you from staying in the realms as a potential victim for theft for long periods of time if your connection does drop (and the game doesn't realise) or if you suddenly have to go afk. This only works if you don't have triggers keeping things that drop on a short(ish) timer up, like the mass defence.
3. If you have a lot of gold, keep most of it in the bank. There's very little reason to ever be carrying hundreds of thousands, let alone millions, of gold on you at one time, unless you're in the process of going somewhere to spend it.
Artefacts/Credit purchases
1. Make everything you might possibly care about losing non-decay and resetting. If it resets to you it can never be permanently stolen.
2. I think there's now an artefact that allows you to access your bank account(s) from any location. This removes some of the downsides associated with keeping gold in your bank (it's not immediately available when you need it as you have to walk to the bank to withdraw it).
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
1. Hypnotise you to use generosity on a timer
2. Snap you
3. Start pickpocket
4. Generosity happens just as pickpocket is about to complete
5. Pickpocket completes before you regain eq to use selfishness
This means if you react to the snap by moving or throwing yourself off balance and eq long enough to prevent the generosity (only usable if you're on bal and eq) you're fine. That's why being alert is important. You don't usually want to trigger snap to do things because of how it affects pk, but you always could if you had it toggleable for pk. If you did it right, you'd be immune to theft barring a disconnect.
Congrats on your piggybank. Probably my absolute favorite artefact. Just wait until you fill it up and watch it grow bigger!
The description changes and everything.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.