Sleight of Hand / Stealth update

[Tiernan]

This feature adds the commands "unlatch" and "latch".  It also makes unlatch/latch (open/close), palm/slip (get/put) and steal/plant all behave the same way through command emote parsing.

Key aspects of this feature:

• 'latch' will perform a Sleight of Hand skillcheck and perform a quiet 'close' if successful.  Targets include objects on self, in room, doors, and containers on others.
• 'unlatch' will perform a Sleight of Hand skillcheck and perform a quiet 'open' if successful.  Targets include objects on self, in room, doors, and containers on others.
• latch & unlatch use command emote parsing, just like close & open.
  
• 'plant' now uses command emote parsing.
• 'plant' updated to include targeting victim's containers, mirroring how steal does. (Darn near cut & paste implementation).
• 'steal'' now uses command emote parsing.
• Delays are now applied to 'slip', 'palm', 'unlatch', and 'latch'

Helpfiles have been updated and published.

[manonfire]

Sweet.

[RogueGunslinger]

OH shit!


Time for the yearly Pickpocket app!

Seriously though this makes people with packs not walking fort-knox's now. Which is nice.

Also command emotes for plant and steal is sick, but the idea of planting things IN peoples packs now is awesome.

[Delirium]

Oh shit son.

[Is Friday]

NEATO.

[FreeRangeVestric]

Awesome. 

[Barsook]

Thank you!

[Miggy]

Oh man! Now I wanna be a roguish type again.

[JustAnotherGuy]

Very happy to hear this!  Influx of sneaky types coming soon.

[MeTekillot]

Wow thanks a lot now the paper-thin flap of leather on my backpack no longer serves as an impenetrable barrier against pickpockets

wait holy shit it works on doors too?

[BadSkeelz]

NOTHING IS SAFE ANYMORE

*begins continues PKing elfs on sight*

[Kismetic]

Ahhh, stealth overload.  Time to break out the "Rogues Do It From Behind" t-shirt.   

[Thunkkin]

Ermagerd.

[Malken]

Nice.

[Malifaxis]

[mattrious]

Shit just got real.

[FreeRangeVestric]

NOTHING IS SAFE ANYMORE

*begins continues PKing elfs on sight*

*>steal sword Badskeelz*

[Quell]

So now we can check to see if people are wearing anything underneath those closed cloaks?

Time to go flasher hunting.

[Delusion]

I saw the opening someone else's pack thing get abused so, so hard on another RPI that I'm kind of leery of this one. Then again, I habitually keep money in my characters' inventories and leave packs open, and nobody bothers stealing from them.

[BleakOne]

Will there be any defence against this from people who don't have the ability to see hidden people? Also, I hope it triggers crimcode.

I'm a bit leery of this change, and I hope that even a maxed Sleight of Hand won't allow it to succeed all the time. I don't want to see the entire bar have their packs opened, their cloaks opened and all their things taken without anyone noticing.

Nonetheless, we'll see how it goes.

[BadSkeelz]

People will probably just stop rolling guilds and subguilds without scan.

[Delirium]

I think it's fantastic that mundane skills are getting some love.

[BleakOne]

Pickpockets will probably be even more kill-on-sight than they were before. 

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I'm fond of the change, because it brings realism. As long as the severity of a thief being more intrusive has been taken into account in the code, I'm all for it.

[Reiloth]

Despite fears of abuse, I think this a good change.

Any 'Sneaky Type' character has to be about as intelligent as Hannibal Lecter when it comes to robbing people. The knowledge that you can/will break into homes or lift items from someone's person quickly gets around town, and if you are made, you are made. It is impossible to come back from that.

So I think the dumb criminals will be caught and black-listed, while you'll likely never know the good ones were even there. I would also hope that people with this sort of skill would be careful not to abuse it, lest they draw the ire of the powers that be.

And, as always, if you think someone is abusing code, a player complaint goes a long way. I've at least had mine 'noted' if not directly responded to as being pursued. I do not encourage people to play RP police when it comes to player complaints -- that is very subjective. But when it comes to someone walking into a bar and lifting a bunch of people's backpacks or spam peeking or stealing...It's worth letting Staff know, I think.