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No fast travel with bounty, more patrolling guards with sneak detection and a prison system. Thats all i want. Oh and bounties for trespassing in all areas.

Like most things in ESO, badly thought out, simplified from it's original concept and incompletely implemented

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

OP says the worst that happens when one has a bounty is they can die. I cannot think of anything worse than death itself.

Oh, and one loses their stolen loot they may have on them.

So true. Like imagine spending an entire night grinding theft, picking up valuable items, ready to cash in big at the fence...and then you slip up while cracking open a safebox.
Next thing you know, a guard comes up, demanding that you pay them AND lose all the loot you pilfered.

You can either:
A. Obey and lose everything
Or
B. Refuse and hope you're not in a small enclosed space.

Sure, if you've built it up your passives you're less likely to get caught, but i'm pretty sure there's no guaranteed way to avoid a slip-up.

Mircat9000 wrote: »

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

OP says the worst that happens when one has a bounty is they can die. I cannot think of anything worse than death itself.

Oh, and one loses their stolen loot they may have on them.

So true. Like imagine spending an entire night grinding theft, picking up valuable items, ready to cash in big at the fence...and then you slip up while cracking open a safebox.
Next thing you know, a guard comes up, demanding that you pay them AND lose all the loot you pilfered.

You can either:
A. Obey and lose everything
Or
B. Refuse and hope you're not in a small enclosed space.

Sure, if you've built it up your passives you're less likely to get caught, but i'm pretty sure there's no guaranteed way to avoid a slip-up.

Sorry but, no, this one is a better prep sort of thing.

While you are correct there is no set of passives that makes you immune, planning and prep and common sense play comes close.

the best avoid slip up is the clemency passive which gives a character a once a day 1 minute grace on caught. So not matter how bad the screw up, short of going to full on kill on sight notorious, you get to burn the clemency one-a-day and get a minute to run or to way-port or just to log out. Its a straight up life saver.

also, the daily shadowy supplier gives you infrequent drops of bounty hiding monk cloaks that last for 5 mins or so that can be donned during that period or any period.

But, in truth the best defense is time spent casing the places and then choosing where and when to do your thefts and always having a good supply of invis potions and the like. iirc an invis and movable pot goes a long way to escaping guards as do incis plus expeditious ret.

also, of course, frequent den runs to cash out booty is good thing.

So, its a case of - like most all overland casual content - if you plan and equip ahead, odds of failure are minimal and even on failure things can still be managed.

EDIT - To be clear, the above is no way me saying i agree with the risk discussions etc... i dont agree with making the casual injustice content harder... but lets not inflate its difficulty. yes, it is the only content with any long lasting negatives (bounty) and the chance of losing accumulated goods but it is still easy.

coop500 wrote: »

Crime is a risk, yet it has zero risk in this game. If you get caught, at the worst you'll die, have to wait until heat dies down, then pay your bounty. "

So just what would you consider a real risk on a video game if death, time lost, and gold aren't enough for you?

Do you want the guards to come out of the monitor screen and slit our throats in real life?

Having a bounty is sufficiently annoying to where I try to avoid getting seen while committing crimes. So it seems fine to me.