[Justice System] Pickpocketed blue items & Bounty cap

mage49 · March 2015

I've got 2 questions:

Are pickpocketed blues(or higher) useful for anything, other than fencing? Some achievements similar to Trophies, or is there somebody to bring them to other than a fence?

Anybody know if theres a bounty cap? If so how much? If theres a realistic limit, I haven't hit it yet at 60k.

kimboh · March 2015

I was also wondering about the blue items as is it asks for confirmation to fence them, like they might have some other use.

Not sure about bounty cap but I know @lumithelock got his bounty up to 500k on the PTS so maybe he could answer that one?

lumithelock · March 2015

say my name was mentioned :P as far as i could tell there was no cap got over 700k at one point but the thing is paying for that sucks you can achieve the same goal with a smaller bounty if you pickpocket carefully. but the items of blue green and purple are just for gold i never cam across one that is usable for something the whites you can usually get cooking mats.

mage49 · March 2015

Yeah, I've just been plowing through while pickpocketing. The way I figure it, I'm a v14 vampiric nightblade. If somebody sees me picking their pockets, it's THEIR fault I have to horribly horribly disembowel them. I figure when it comes time to bleed the bounty off I'll just loot a bunch of stuff without getting caught and let the guards kill me. That seems to take a decent enough chunk out of the "Lets Kill Lord Kain" fund.

The blues are what I figured, that warning/prompt throws ya off though. As far as a bounty cap, maybe its like 1 mil, or it could just be an insane number that just caps it for coding sake.

Thanks for the help

lumithelock · March 2015

yea if you want i made a video about it for my guildeys for information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOT_FzpzXU

SunnyBunny · March 2015

lumithelock wrote: »

yea if you want i made a video about it for my guildeys for information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOT_FzpzXU

This video was really helpful in understanding this. I was having a really hard time of understanding it.

Glierhuin · March 2015

I recently spoke to someone with 28 million bounty. There doesn't seem to be a cap..

Smeeboo · March 2015

I think they put the confirmation thing in for players like me who actually submitted a feedback ticket on PTS asking for some type of notification. You cannot do "buyback" on fences like you can with normal merchants. So if you make a mistake, and you actually wanted to keep something, your fate is sealed. Since this functions differently than the expectations set by normal interactions with merchants, I suggested via in-game feedback that they make that more clear to players. In fact, what I suggested was that they make it so you can buyback in the same way you do at a merchant. But, it appears ZOS's approach was instead to add a confirmation prompt.

Think about this, my first purple stolen item for the achievement was a purple racial motif I got from an owned urn. I would've been VERY sad had I accidentally sold it to the fence for a pittance while hyper-clicking through my stolen inventory, with no opportunity to buy it back. So I think it makes sense.

In answer to the OP - I don't think the stolen "lore" items have any purpose outside of fencing for cash. I do know several folks who are collecting the interesting or funny lore items - of which there are plenty.

But, I do wish the game would track them in some way - either through a collectibles achievement or perhaps through something akin to eidetic memory. They are lore pieces after all and I do wish I could enjoy them for longer without having to sacrifice my inventory and bank.

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[Justice System] Pickpocketed blue items & Bounty cap

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