The hour timer: Is this strictly for learning or is it for increasing\decreasing difficulty?

When you steal an item from hidden, can you (in most cases(minus the snake eyes)) relatively steal an item over and over safely until you get the "being watched" message?
I tried it a couple of times with success but was wondering why I get this message, instead of just getting caught?


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<<The timer is about difficulty. You always learn from a successful shoplift.>>


And artificially inflating the difficulty by stealing multiple times in that hour doesn't give you more experience per steal.

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Thanks for the info.....so let me get this straight, just to be clear.

I go into the general store.

I steal piece of flint

If I keep stealing over and over again I will end up getting caught eventually because each steal in the same shop gets harder unless I wait for 1 hour.....after the last steal there?

Is the timer at all forgiving for less than an hour?

For example, I steal something 4 times, wait 55 minutes and come back and steal the same thing one more time. Does this steal count as if I stole 5 things back to back to back without leaving AND ALSO restarts your timer again from 0?

Thanks again.


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<<From what I've tested, it does appear to be a decaying timer.>>

It is not, The timer resets after 1 hour of not stealing in that shop. wait 59 minutes and steal again. Timer resets and difficulty does not

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>>90% sure you're wrong there. For items I'm barely able to steal i'm guarenteed to fail if i steal again immediately, but its immensely easier 30 minutes later.

When i'm at post-wall ranks I often make steal runs every half an hour isntead of 1 hour and i can do it indefinitely jsut fine.>>

Ok, I just got done timing my stealing run gaps.....I have a script that has been running for the last several hours. It does a bunch of things, one of these stealing...

The gap between my runs was 39 minutes this last time. its pretty safe to assume all the gaps are right around that time (except probably the first).

I examined my latest log, and it ran through my stealing run 6 times so far and I just watched my latest run and I did not get caught at all.

So I am going to agree with the decaying time theory, unless I can steal something 22 times in a row that teaches without getting caught......this is at 64 ranks of stealing right now. It was 61 when the script was started.

....this is also assumiing nothing else resets the timer (like ranking up etc)



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