>can you still steal from players? From:
https://elanthipedia.play.net/Thievery_skillStealing from other player characters has a hefty timer on learning and even then teaches very little of the skill.
Coins and gems on a player character can be stolen by a skilled thief. There are a few restrictions though:
Total of coins carried by a non guilded Thief must be greater than 3 silvers worth. A guilded thief is not restricted by amount when stealing from another guilded thief.
Gem must be in an open container and that container can not be in any other container.
You must have sufficiently high stealing skill in order to grab gems, general consensus is aprox. 100 ranks.
Gems may be stolen by a guilded Thief even if your coins are under the 3 silver protection
Stealing from another player character comes with an approach timer. There is a way around this with the use of a certain khri. If you cannot get by the approach timer, its entirely possible your mark will get away before you make your grab.
A general Steal (character) command will try and grab for gems first, if there are any available to be stolen, then try for coins if there are no gems. A clever person can protect all the coins they are carrying by having an open gem pouch full of glass pebbles. In response, someone with enough stealing skill is able to choose between coins or gems when they steal from a player. The syntax for this is <steal (player) coin> or <steal (player) gem>.
Stealing from PCs will result in being locked PvP open for 4 hours.
