Any changes to hide?

[some guy]

Have there been any changes to the hide skill recently? More specifically, anyone notice a succesful hide sometimes "wearing off" for no good reason, or people noticing you when you believe they shouldn't?

[Synthesis]

Some commands will unhide you, counterintuitively.

"eq" for example, is notorious for this.

If you have to check your gear, use "l self" instead of "eq."

[BuNutzCola]

Also just possible you're not as skilled as you think, or they are more skilled at spotting folks than you think.

[some guy]

I know which commands normally break hide and how to gauge my character's proficiency fairly accurately, but thank you

I'm talking about, say, standing around hidden in a tavern while listening for half an hour, noone noticing you and no commands typed besides thinks and semotes (to which noone responds, another hint that you're hidden), when suddenly three people look up at you. Or knowing that you're succesfully hidden (there are ways to know) and then having a guy in starting equipment fresh off the Sanc look up at you in passing. Hide has always been very reliable, and these are things that I have never noticed to an excessive degree until just recently. Could be a fluke, which is why I didn't go OMG HIDE IS BROKEN, but it has happened enough lately that I thought I'd ask.

[Rhyden]

Also just possible you're not as skilled as you think, or they are more skilled at spotting folks than you think.

[Maybe42or54]

Maybe, they didn't care to look at you when you first walked in and it sparked their interest when they saw you do something shady?

Doesn't sound like you were hidden.

But hell, maybe you were. I don't know.

[Shiroi Tsuki]

Weekly Update for week of February 4 to February 10, 2008
Code:

Steal/Hide fix -- Morgenes.

[Agent_137]

perhaps things were made more realistic and you aren't hiding as well as you used to due to various reasons

[Akaramu]

Woot, if that is the case. I always thought hide was more overpowered than invisibility, and more unrealistically so. 

[some guy]

I would gladly accept "realistic" hide if I get a way for my PC to stay somewhat anonymous.

But about this topic, I suspect that some command now breaks hide where it didn't before, though I don't know which. That is if I haven't just been imagining things.

[psionic fungus]

Based on some of my experiences in the last month, I'd say it's possible something changed.

It's also possible that we've ran into some bad luck.