Thieving

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   iirc largest amt 1 thief can hold is 74, the orc t2 thief
does the city have significant amounts of sov/diplo stuff that might be sucking out the gold?

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Bobtron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Wordsmith Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Location: Canton Status: Offline Points: 123	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bobtron Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Thieving Posted: 08 Oct 2016 at 03:10
	iirc largest amt 1 thief can hold is 74, the orc t2 thief does the city have significant amounts of sov/diplo stuff that might be sucking out the gold?
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Virus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 12 Aug 2016 Status: Offline Points: 49	Post Options Post Reply Quote Virus Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Oct 2016 at 02:43
	Apparently then it is not reasonable to think it is a theft problem as one thief can carry 300 gold max. Bigger players who can afford mountains of thieves wouldn't bother with the gold showing in my report and why should they having mountains of gold themselves. So i don't know the answer but maybe the devs will address it. Ty

Rill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Player Council - Geographer Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2016 at 21:37
	The cities that I have heard this reported for have been fairly widely geographically distributed. There are not that many folks with 50k plus thief armies, and counting travel time unless they are all coordinating with each other it seems unlikely that a lot of 50 million gold cities would be cleared before a siege ends, often within a matter of a day or two after the scout report. But it's still a very small sample, so I think it's early to conclude that it's a coding thing.

DeathDealer89 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster Joined: 04 Jan 2012 Status: Offline Points: 944	Post Options Post Reply Quote DeathDealer89 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2016 at 20:25
	To take 5M it would require something like 80k thieves which would require something like .3M/hr in upkeep. So you would need to use them every week or so otherwise it would cost you more to just have all the thieves.

Gragnog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster Joined: 28 Nov 2011 Status: Offline Points: 598	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gragnog Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2016 at 18:25
	Well, with basic thieves cleaning out the res followed by advanced thieves you can milk 4-5 million in gold per hit. Hit it a few times and 50 million goes away fast.
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Tensmoor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Joined: 07 Apr 2015 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 1579	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tensmoor Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2016 at 18:15
	Perhaps the residents have squireled it all away.

Hyrdmoth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Wordsmith Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Status: Offline Points: 164	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hyrdmoth Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2016 at 17:22
	Maybe the spy reports are not always entirely inaccurate.

Rill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Player Council - Geographer Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2016 at 16:47
	I've heard a lot of reports of "missing" gold after a successful siege, where it was reflected in spy reports. In most cases it seems like more gold is missing than could be explained by thieves (tens of millions of gold). I suspect something has changed in the coding. Or maybe there are just a lot of thieves out there. Would be interesting if the devs would comment if indeed there is something in the coding that somehow limits the gold captured from a long inactive city.

Virus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 12 Aug 2016 Status: Offline Points: 49	Post Options Post Reply Quote Virus Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2016 at 13:21
	I have had a couple of asst'd sieges already. I noticed that my scout/spy reports showed a lot of gold before the siege but not so much after i took the city. So, my question is: is a siege a big ole target for thieves? Who would know since the player is inactive and the city abandoned. Since no one is at the controls anything can happen. Right?