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I sure could use so tips on pick pocketing!!
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BSC14
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I'm only at LVL 1 with pick pocketing but every time I get caught. Are there any tips you guys would like to share?
Post Mon Jan 28, 2002 2:11 pm
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Danicek
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Do not spend a single exp. point for pickpocketing
Post Mon Jan 28, 2002 2:36 pm
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Max Killen
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quote:

On 2002-01-28 08:11, BSC14 wrote:
Are there any tips you guys would like to share?



Yeah, don't waste valuable skill points on pick pocketing. It't not worth it, you'll never be any good at it, so why waste the time?
Post Mon Jan 28, 2002 2:54 pm
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wesmjohn
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Your points are far better spent on strength, so you can just knock somebody down and rob him.

Spend 10 points on lock-picking, because this at least has some practical uses, and then NEVER waste any more points on the thieving skills.
Post Mon Jan 28, 2002 3:17 pm
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No way man. Just save your game right before youre about to open a chest. Figure out the combination, then load the last save game. The combination will stay the same after you load your last game

No need to waste skill points on lock picking either :smile:

[ This Message was edited by: Boogie on 2002-01-28 17:34 ]
Post Mon Jan 28, 2002 11:33 pm
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soltys
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You can, but it's cheating !

And considering load times it requires really great patience.

Anyway at the end of the game you will have a lot of skillpoints and no idea "what to do with them"....

Developers: RANDOM codes in Gothic 2 per game !
Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 12:08 am
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soltys
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At the end I had:
sword 1h and 2h master
bow master
str > 100
dex == 100
lockpicking master
acrobatics
sneaking

So there's no need to worry about skillpoints
Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 12:36 am
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Darian
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Fingers told me I had to learn sneeking before he would teach me pickpocketing.

If a nearby npc was looking my way he would say something like 'what are you sneeking around for?' So the secret maybe to pickpocket people while no one is looking your way? I think Fingers also mentioned that.

I think this guy already played through the game once, so maybe he is trying the things he missed the 1st time. Maybe he just wants to be more subtile than a thug who mugs?
Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 3:36 am
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wesmjohn
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quote:

On 2002-01-28 18:08, soltys wrote:
You can, but it's cheating !

And considering load times it requires really great patience.




You bet it requires patience. Some of those chests have seven or eight clicks before they will open. I'd rather spend 10 points on lockpicking than take ten minutes to open a chest because of the load times.

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Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 5:43 pm
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NecroDancer
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Hey, if you finished the game and you want to be a thief, so be it.

The trick with pickpocketing is no one can see you sneak. Which means you should do it late at night. Sleep until midnight. Then get up and rob your chests and do you stealing.
One note. Not every NPC can be pickpocketed.
But, if this is your first time, I would reccomend getting strengh and mastering 1h. This way you can rob and assault. Lure them into their huts and whack em. Plus when you pickpocket you don't get everything. When you loot their unconcious bodies you do.
Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 6:49 pm
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wesmjohn
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Becoming a "master thief" requires an investment of tons of skill points; skill points you won't see again. Imagine taking those forty skill points to master pickpocketing and spending them on strength instead.

You could go from thirty strength to seventy! And then use that strength to take people's possessions instead of subtly stealing them.

That's to say nothing of the fact that strength will also help you against monsters.
I wonder what happened to the last guy who tried to pickpocket a Shadowbeast. I think he's a pile of Shadowbeast manure somewhere...
Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 7:17 pm
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Yea, strength is the way to go. 40 strength with Silas axe will easily defeat most monsters and NPC.
Post Thu Jan 31, 2002 11:25 pm
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Joey Nipps
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It is a great shame the designers didn't make pickpocketing and lockpicking more useful - there have been very few games that did justice to these skills. There is NO experience to be gained in this game with those skills - but there should be.

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