Pay a lot less when getting caught Lock Picking?
Imagine your typical thieving self picking a door or chest lock in the city in broad daylight. This will of course immediately alarm the guards, forcing you to pay them off (always use the “30%” payoff). You can then enter the room or open the chest and start looting, having paid your debt to society, you will not have to fear any consequences. Now let us say you have over 30’000 gold – 30’000 seems to be an upper limit – then 30% will cost you 9000 gold. Some may not be bothered, others will find that far too much. Especially if you pick several door locks, you can loose quite a bit of gold. So, what to do? Kuplo found out, by testing, that the game engine always checks the amount of gold the player has on his body, and thus defines how high the fine the guards will ask you to pay. As mentioned, if you have more than 30’000 gold, they will fine you 30’000 gold, if you only carry 1000 gold the fine will be 500 gold (30% = 150 gold). Tip: Before you start “breaking the law” by picking d
