why are thieves attacking non-job players?

irishblue · Post by **irishblue** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:34 am

Why are some thieves attacking non-traders and non-hunters unprovoked? do they get points out of it?

cuchulainn · Post by **cuchulainn** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:37 am

Those are NPC thieves, not player thieves.

Xeroflair · Post by **Xeroflair** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:38 am

NPC thieves spawn for each star the merchant contains. 1 star = 1 thief, 2 star = 2 thieves, and so on.

irishblue · Post by **irishblue** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:50 am

ahh ok thanks for the info.
so it's just a random attack then.

thekwong · Post by **thekwong** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:37 pm

they attack what is the closest, but if a trader outruns them then they sometimes stay behind. Usually they go for the camel/horse first then trader /hunter

Freedom-Fighta · Post by **Freedom-Fighta** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:14 pm

you forget the random >lvl 20 standing nearby who was oblivious as to the fact of a passing merchant, particularly standing near the western docks, getting ownd by a lvl 50 thief and losing his hard earned level, which quite co-incidentally entailed switching weapons and the seling of the old weapon... forcing him to look like a nub killing yeoha's in 4-5 hits b/c he cant deal more than 20 dmg a hit.

[sarcasm] now I wonder who this happened to just yesterday? [/sarcasm]