>Here are my wild guesses. If you can exit the house from any room, then you need to leave when you hear the footsteps. If you need to sneak back through the house to leave, then hearing the footsteps probably means you've waited too late. This would make searching only the entry room the safest approach. But this would not be desirable since there are specialty rooms, so the key would possibly be just to speed through - search, change room, search, change room, etc - and then leave the house immediately.

You don't have to sneak back through the house, just book it for the kitchen and go out the window as soon as you're out of RT after you hear the footsteps. I can seem to get two rooms fairly consistently going solo.

Jalika

>This is an issue we're investigating how to fix. The intention was for most of the stuff to be pawnable.

Would it be helpful to compile a list of things which can and can't be pawned?

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Javac,
Found out that items stolen more than a few hours are hit or miss when binning. A bear I know one character received while B&Eing was not binnable, yet a stove/fabric received in the same timeframe was binnable. Same with a mortar B&E'ed in the same time period, that run was last nite, around 7pm est (I cant remember for sure on hour but it was last nite).

This was by a guilded thief around 25 circles.

I have some changes in Test to how pawning stuff works. You should now be able to pawn things more regularly.

Javac
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>>You should now be able to pawn things more regularly.

It's much better now. I spent about an hour or two burglarizing and I was able to sell the majority of the stuff I found.

Stuff I couldn't sell:

Sieve from the kitchen. (Other crafting tools I found sold fine.)
Lunchbox from the kitchen.
Cube from the bedroom. (Fragile <material> cube with image of <blah blah>. Appraisal value of nothing.)
Length of fabric from the bedroom. (Too valuable. This one was velvet. Appraisal value: 62500 Kronars.)
Anatomy compendium (Guide, manual, etc.) from the library. (Couldn't sell the charts individually or the compendium once empty.)
Contract case from the work room.
Memory orb from the sanctum.
Brigandine hauberk from the armory. (I could sell chain hauberks. Brig hauberk's look: "10/12/19 Winna made T4 Chest/Back/Abdomen/Legs/Arms Brigandine Armor for B&E Prizes. QC: Tullie")

Also, towards the end of my testing I went from being able to perform 3 searches before the warning message down to 2. I was arrested and Hounded repeatedly, though, so that may have something to do with it. Same buffs/full health/no death's sting.

I thought I had posted what the cooldowns will be once it rolls to our live instances, but I can't find the post so I'm posting it now.

Keep in mind, your entire group uses the shortest cooldown.

F2P are 1 hour cooldown, regardless of skillset.
Survival Tertiary characters have a 50 minute cooldown.
Survival Secondary characters have a 40 minute cooldown.
Survival Primary characters have a 30 minute cooldown.
Thieves have a 25 minute cooldown.
One or more premium characters will provide a five minute reduction for the entire group.

So, as an example, a Premium Warrior Mage and a Standard subscription Thief are in a group and BURGLE. The cooldown for both characters will be 20 minutes.

Javac
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Before this is released to Prime can you please make sure all the items generated in it are actually pawnable? That would really be awesome and make Thievery a somewhat useful skill in terms of actually generating revenue outside of player theft.

I put some changes in Test for pawning stuff, that should make the vast majority of the items in B&E pawnable. It should also make more items you steal from shops pawnable.

Javac
That one guy

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>I put some changes in Test for pawning stuff, that should make the vast majority of the items in B&E pawnable. It should also make more items you steal from shops pawnable.

Pawn shop tweak?? <runs to test> I pretty consistently make 1.7 plat dok on my run in Ilithi. Same run just run in test I got 3.4 plat at the pawn shop.

Grabbed two items B&E, which were less impressive.


>You sell your anlora-avtoma stove to pawnmonger Aelik.
>Pawnmonger Aelik takes your anlora-avtoma stove and gives it a quick but thorough examination. After pausing for a moment, he hands you 112 dokoras for it.

>You get a fragile bloodwood cube with the image of Belirendrick I burned into it from inside your climbing pack.
>Aelik shakes his head and says, "That's not worth anything to me."

Jalika

Can we get a command in test to tweak our reputation? It would be super helpful for testing BINing of the B&E items to see how they impact our reputation. I assume we should get a much higher rep boost from B&E items given how it works wrt timers.

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"Disagreement with the fundamental plan at this point is akin to supporting Richard III vs the Tudors." -Raesh

Also also, mana regen in test doesn't exist. Once you hit 0% you're there forever.

Breaking and Entering is now live in all instances. Enjoy your Thievery!

Javac
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Is there a command to check whether we're still in the cooldown period before we can burgle again? Given that trying again too soon results in an auto-failure and hefty fines, it would be nice to have a way to double check.

>> Is there a command to check whether we're still in the cooldown period before we can burgle again? Given that trying again too soon results in an auto-failure and hefty fines, it would be nice to have a way to double check.


There is messaging to tell you when you are able to reenter.

>>You can now use BURGLE RECALL

Thank you, Javac! Enjoying the system so far.

Thanks Javac, great job on the system!

This might have been suggested already, but is there any way we could get some sort of CHECK BURGLE command (or similar), to get either a specific, or even just a general idea on how much time is left on our cooldown?

~*~ Kythryn ~*~
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

>You can now use BURGLE RECALL to determine how long you should wait.

Any chance this could be RECALL BURGLE instead? I can see myself doing BURGLE RCALL and getting pinched because I have fat fingers.

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TG, TG, GL, et al.

"Disagreement with the fundamental plan at this point is akin to supporting Richard III vs the Tudors." -Raesh

So a question on the loot you end up with. Is it considered "stolen" as far as system mechanics go? I'd hate to drop a bunch of alchemy tools on the empath shelf and end up sending a bunch of young empaths to jail when a guard saw them with the stuff...heh.

~*~ Kythryn ~*~
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

>So a question on the loot you end up with. Is it considered "stolen" as far as system mechanics go? I'd hate to drop a bunch of alchemy tools on the empath shelf and end up sending a bunch of young empaths to jail when a guard saw them with the stuff...heh.

Yes. The disappear mechanic goes away after a little bit, so just hold on to them before putting on the shelf.

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Note: you will receive this experience for the action; it is not dependent on finding an item to award the EXP.

Cool system. I hope this has some spillover into other areas of the game. If exp is fun and fast to get, perhaps more people will RP or talk