May 2004

• Thief class (was: MUD-Dev Digest, Vol 11, Issue 23) Ghilardi Filippo
  From:: Alex Chacha
  
  > I don't remember any successful game where thieves were able to
  > steal from players directly and retain any appreciable playerbase
  > (stealing from NPCs is done in many games with varied risk). Such
  > games no doubt exist, but how big is the playerbase?.
  
  Ultima Online is one of them.
  
  A thief can steal from other players one item a time (also money is
  an item).
  
  Since start a thief (while robbing) was marked as a criminal and
  could be killed (and item taken back along with any other
  possession). This criminal flag was lasting a couple minutes or
  so. If a thief is seen in town while robbing or flagged, anyone
  could call guards to have him killed without having to kill him
  directly. (towns are seen as almost safe place).
  
  For this reason all players on this game had tendency to try to stay
  2-4 tiles away from any other player while doing bank business.
  
  This tendency was so famous that was even created a song:
  http://www.digiphobia.com/ultimasongs/html/bank.html
  
  If interested on all parody songs of Ultima Online (all great
  quality):
  
  http://www.digiphobia.com/ultimasongs/html/songs.html
  
  Then after don't remember how many years UO changed and world got
  basically duplicated into two almost identical facets. One evil
  (where pvp and thiefing was allowed). The other is good and
  pvp/thief isn't allowed.
  
  ciao
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