[Discuss] Infils stealing tax gold

[Justin Licht]

On 4/4/07, Robert Croson, Jr <robert at arcm.com> wrote:
>
> On 3 Apr 2007 at 20:24, Jerry Wren wrote:
>
> > The infiltrator in question probably has a good 100% skill if not
> > close. She has been trained extensively and put through a lot to get
> > to the point where she is. What is the point of having a character
> > tortured banned and training for over a year if they get continuously
> > caught.
>
> What's the point of being able to patrol the streets if it *doesn't work*!
>
> > Ad if you if you think it is bad on BT imagine how annoying it was in
> > Perdan when the same infiltrator stole a good 5-6k if not more gold
> > from us.
>
> Umm, I was there, too, Jerry.
>
> > This was back in the click war to buy out of prison before
> > getting banned times as well. We caught her a good 10 times before we
> > got to ban her. I am part of the kingdom she terrorizes now and cant
> > help but just laugh.
>
> Unfortunately, that seems that all *anyone* can do, is just laugh. Perdan
> may
> have been able to catch this infil 10 times, but we haven't been
> successful even
> a single time in 5 months.
>
> > She has been doing this for so long that you just realize this person
> > after your gold is probably the most skilled person in the game and
> > thats why you aren't catching her.
>
> If it was one time, or two, or even 14, I wouldn't have said anything.
>
> In the past 30 days, our city has been hit *55 times*! We can safely
> assume
> that close to 50 of these have been the same infiltrator. And this has
> been
> going on for 5 months. It has been, literally, hundreds of incidents.
>
> Does it make sense for even the most skilled infiltrator in the game to
> assault
> the same tax vault 50 times over the course of a single month, and not
> even be
> identified while doing it? This isn't just a single random incident out of
> nowhere.
> I have, literally, hundreds of armed troops patrolling the streets every
> turn. Yet
> the infil can still rapid-fire rattle off 6 theft attemts in a few
> seconds, with no
> consequences. Shouldn't subsequent attempts on the same turn, or even
> successive turns, get *more* difficult?
>
>
> --
> Rob
>
> Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of
> Congress. But I repeat myself.
> -- Mark Twain
>
>
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They do, should you alert the guards to your presence. But an extremely
skilled infiltrator is a force to be reckoned with. Especially if they're
smart and keep moving between regions.
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