Well I just thought about this, if the AI is smart enough to give you housing/food if you are a friend or pick up discarded items does that mean if you own a house NPCs might break in and take an item of value? I mean if they do this they better have a way to get the items back or hunt the thief down. What do you guys/gals think?

they better only do it if im in the home

Must be in, period. Because, y'know, not having real-world realism, like, destroys immersion yadda yadda yadda.

But really- I'd rather they not, myself. I've played a game or two where thieves could get into my pack, and getting robbed and chasing my stuff down was fun about...once. If that.

Of course, it could happen accidentally too...like the glitch in Fallout 3 where a particular Brotherhood of Steel NPC would show up in your home. And help himself to any gear you had that was better than his- which was usually most anything you had on hand.

Most probably you'll be able to walk up to a guard and have a topic called "Stolen Items". Depending on his disposition, he may reply "We'll look into it". After a few days, if you talk to the same guy he'll tell you whom they suspect and where to look (Radiant Story mechanics in play), but it will be up to you to actually find the perpetrator and get your stuff back. The thief NPC can be persuaded to admit it and return the goods, intimidated by holding a drawn weapon in front of them, killed, or you can fight fire with fire and steal your goods right back.

During the development of Morrowind gamesas talked about how the NPCs can do everything the player can do, and got into the topic of pickpocketing. They then said they decided to not let any NPCs pickpocket the player, as the player would be more likely to think that it was a bug in the game that something was missing, rather than he had been pickpocketed. So it was not a feature they put in the final game, I suspect it will be the same here unless it's related to some quest.

I would love to have some soft of miniquest for this.
Like a witness that tells you what he saw and you have to find him yourself.

PS: You should give the thread a better name. BnE is very short! ^^

Well, a good way to get around the confusion is a quest message when you enter your house. It would be something like "Today, when I entered my house, I found that some items are missing. I have been robbed. I should talk to a guard about this.". Same thing for pickpocketing when you enter your inventory. That way it's pretty damn sure it's a game mechanic and not a glitch.

Ahh yes I enjoyed by MWInhabitants: Pickpockets! thats was an awesome mod, that's pity so interesting feature was not implemented in vanila Morrowind.
But see some Radiant Story quest about pickpocketing thieves will be nice, some small quest if not NPC behavior.
BTW can you explain thats story about short spears thats can be equipped with shields but not added to game and about thats tree stumps with treasures?
Thats will be awesome to know more about Morrowind development!

I loved this at the Den in FO2.
As long as it's explained in BOLD detail in thick bright none common colour blind words in the manual I see no problem with it.
I know a fair few won't get it through into their heads, and complain about bugs, or that a sword they never use has gone missing.
It still would be fun, and open up possibilities, do I live in a manor house in the posh part of town...
Or make my home in with the thieves where crime rates are lower.

Omg so true. :lmao: I had forgotton all about that until you mentioned it.

The surprised shock I was in when he first showed up in my house, out of the blue, froze me in my tracks...but then later the anger I felt when I realized he had snagged the Fat Man in the corner cost the fool his life.

I dont like the idea of NPC' stealing my stuff. Mostly because it would force me into killing everyone i could get my hands on and loot their body until i find my stolen items.

The realism effect doesnt add up for the really painfully annoying part.(No its not just a game, its Skyrim)