Stupid shopkeepers...

Well, I've realized lockpicking is by far the best skill (imo)...

I was thinking how to get into the shopkeepers in Tarant's bedroom's to steal those items they has for sale, so I first tried to lockpick the window's... But they were too small... Anyway, so I tried in the night when he was sleeping, but the noise, plus that I got nothing in prowling waked him up... But then I got this *great* idea...

You wait until the night, follow him inside, wait until morning, lockpick chests and steal all ya want... Then wait until night, go out when he enters and wait until NEXT morning... Then you can sell his stuff back to him!

This is SOOO stupid, he doesn't recognize his own wares, and he let's you go into his bedroom...

But I'm hapy with my 20k tho :lol:

 

Yeah that is a funny exploit. It's also been posted b4 but hey thanks for sharing

 

Yeah, the first time I played Arcanum, I sold the camera to Ristezze over and over again until he went broke.

I tried to do the same thing in my recently-installed Morrowind game, but unfortunately they recognize their goods and attack you. :cry:

-Poiuyt Man

 

Hah! Well... I'm gonna buy ALOT of manuals for that money

 

That's a very interesting feature. Though in my opinion such an approach should only be possible in case of rare and unique items. Is it so in Morrowind?

 

No, unfortunately the shopkeepers recognize ALL of their stuff. In fact, if you steal a certain item, you can NEVER sell that item to that merchant again. Example: I stole a diamond from an alchemist, then sold it to someone else. A few game-weeks later, I found a diamond in a dungeon, returned to the alchemist, and he claimed it was his and attacked me! Gets annoying when you don't remember what you stole from who.

-Poiuyt Man

 

That's even stupid I would say. After all it was not even the diamond you stole of him.

 

Yeah, that's VERY stupid... He should realize OTHER'S might ALSO have diamonds... It's like if I steal a book from an buy & sell book store, and then 3 weeks later someone comes back and sells the same book... After all he doesn't kniow WHO stole it either...

 

Perhaps he assumed that he had the only diamond in Morrowind. Like he could be the sole owner of that unique, one of a kind normal dagger. How such things make it through beta tests I'd like to know.

 

Heh, yeah... He should only recognize his OWN wares, and only UNIQUE ones... And if you happen to find an identical, maybe he'd like, ASK "Hey, where did you get that from" etc.

 

Ys it would be interesting - perhaps with high Charisma/Persuasion/whatever it is in Morrowind you could convince him that you for example found that item on a body in some dungeon. Better even you could frame someone you met saying that you got it from that person. Now when our friendly shopkeeper would meet that person he would either attack him or they would talk, find out what a bloody thief you are and, in case of really valuable items, send bounty hunters after you.

Do you have Tribunal? I don't even know if it's out already but I wonder if they fixed this particualr glitch in the add-on.

 

Unless you stole it about five minutes ago, there's not really any situation where a shopkeeper could possibly argue with
'Found It In The Dungeon'

It's like a mother telling off her child
'Billy, where'd you get that?'
(looking away) '..found it?'
'Where'd you find it'
'..Dungeon..'
'What'
'Found It In the dungeon'