Why do thieves auto-spawn thieves/1* popping

Draak85 · Post by **Draak85** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:07 am

Have been thinking a while about this now, and can't seem to understand the auto-spawn of thieves.
So far i've done a few trades, think i got thief-popped 1/4 of the times (not counting first 2 runs on lvl 20, thought I would be safe in a big high lvl caravan

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Anyways, it's annoying as hell to have 3-4 high level thieves lurking around you, and you can't get away, especially when riding a camel. Was lvl 26 on last run, and the thieves they spawned were red, so they have been a lot higher (i think).

Now i haven't played thief before, nor have i participated in higher level thief/trader/hunter battles (since i'm only 2x), but why do thieves spawn npc-thieves? If you would take away that ability, 1* popping would become far less commen, if not disappear?

Of course I'm realistic, and i guess this has been suggested before since it's so obvious (though i couldn't find any topics about it here lately), so this is more a question about 'what use have NPC thieves for thieves'?

Sure, it might help in killing the trader/hunters, but i doubt any of those see (equal) leveled thieves as a threat, since they occur on normal trades as well. Atm i think auto-spawn thieves are too abused for 1* popping than anything else.

Draak85 · Post by **Draak85** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:39 pm

thanks for the views, can anyone (a thief perhaps?) explain this to me by actually replying?

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:45 pm

thiefs spawn thiefs when they have stolen some goods.

supafreak · Post by **supafreak** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:50 pm

yeah, the theifs have to havesome goods from a traders caravan to sapwn theifs

zrabbit · Post by **zrabbit** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:55 pm

i supposed to be fixed on future patch called "job patch". if its true what i read about, thief will spawn hunters. npc thiefs will only attack the caravan that spawn them. it said that will be one of the changes among others. i saw a thread about the job patch but i cant find it
edited: in this threads there some info about that patch i was talking abouthttp://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=18774&highlight=job+patch

Skitsefrenik · Post by **Skitsefrenik** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:25 pm

LOL npc hunter/thief fight

Quyxz · Post by **Quyxz** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:31 pm

If playertheifs do not spawn npc thiefs it would be way too easy for thiefs.

Then you just grab 5 star goods when youre lvl 20, which lay on the ground at tiger area. You return scroll and youre done. xD

Draak85 · Post by **Draak85** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:36 pm

zrabbit wrote:i supposed to be fixed on future patch called "job patch". if its true what i read about, thief will spawn hunters. npc thiefs will only attack the caravan that spawn them. it said that will be one of the changes among others. i saw a thread about the job patch but i cant find it
edited: in this threads there some info about that patch i was talking abouthttp://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=18774&highlight=job+patch

thanks for the link

and the idea of thieves spawning hunters when they've stolen stuff sounds great to me

though you would have to make sure that traders won't stick to 1* trades as is said in the thread.. Just make 1* trades for lvl 20-26, 2* for 25-32, 3* etc, or something like that.. and only letting thieves attack traders near their own levels (and hunters as well, in a 5-10 lvl gap orso for both).. will make it a lot more balanced and fun i think/hope.

But guess we will just have to wait for that patch then

aibakaneko · Post by **aibakaneko** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:55 pm

lol. when Euro actaully come to ISRO. man... Job's gonna be so funny

Tsunami · Post by **Tsunami** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:50 pm

there's no honor amongst thieves

lilchris · Post by **lilchris** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:36 pm

Quyxz wrote:If playertheifs do not spawn npc thiefs it would be way too easy for thiefs.

Then you just grab 5 star goods when youre lvl 20, which lay on the ground at tiger area. You return scroll and youre done. xD

got it backwards i think.
if they dont spawn npcs, they cant pop
so most would return with like a 1 or 2* amount of goods which isnt much of a profit

UNLESS more ppl actually do multis, i know a few do. but not enough

zexy · Post by **zexy** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:46 am

zrabbit wrote:i supposed to be fixed on future patch called "job patch". if its true what i read about, thief will spawn hunters. npc thiefs will only attack the caravan that spawn them. it said that will be one of the changes among others. i saw a thread about the job patch but i cant find it
edited: in this threads there some info about that patch i was talking abouthttp://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=18774&highlight=job+patch

HAHAH! Fixed my ass! If it was a "bug" and joymax cared about their customers they could fix it during one of silkroads often inspections without breaking a sweat.

Its mearly a modification that might be implemented in isro a long time from now.