Yeah well perhaps you're giving most players too much credit here, or I don't give them enough. Track at champ spawns all you want, never effected me, waiting an hour for some guys to kill a champ so I could take a handful of plat was never worth my time, but I could see how that would be a negative for thieves. I had no problem with anyone tracking, just the occasional PK or scout, and even then it wasn't a big deal at all. Everyone is going to have different experiences in game.
Exactly, I didn't wait an hour. I stole their random plat drops from low tier spawn, which revealed I was there as the act of stealing makes the thief visible (which I think is BS, but is UO). They'd then track, constantly... then - they tracked from tier 1 start, before I even stole.. after only 2 or 3 champs of my presence. My thief was completely shut down by a side job of tamers. That's fixed now. Hint.
Now that you mention it, I totally support a 'true success' check being re-defined here as a stealthy steal where it doesn't reveal you. But I would definitely reduce the off chance down from 66 to 44
If you're not gonna fight back then that's your own bag. Just like if a player attacks you and you don't fight back. If you're gonna be walking around town or the bank where you can get stolen from, bank it. Or you can drop them in your house and keep them under lock and key...
If you're gonna be brazen enough to steal in a public crowd you should be subject to said crowd's wrath. IRL, it doesn't work where a thief cops someone's wallet, the person realizes it and cries for help, and absolutely no one helps them because it wasn't they who got their wallet stolen. IRL, someone's gonna help you more often than not because thieves are a public menace that are universally reviled and loathed. In fact, most of the time IRL thieves prefer to steal from the slow, old, weak, and the dim witted. This further encourages a public crowd's wrath. This is why you see so many videos of IRL thieves on the web getting tracked down and stomped out by group of angry people. It's common place and should be common here too.
