Did they nerf pickpocketing again?

Salvas_Aren · November 2019

Just wondering, after selling my stolen loot in the refuge, all targets in town appeared either empty or false-positive empty. Even those, that were not empty before entering the outlaw refuge.

Are we supposed to steal less than the fencing target a day?

Maggi12 · November 2019

in short, do 2 steals and use blade of woe at the end.
After changing zones (enter-exit outlaws refuge) you may notice that your virtual world is changed aswell. and targets in another virtual world may be already pickpocketed by someone, who has no dark brotherhood dlc.
I hate that guys too) they left npcs empty and i have to change the zone to make them 'filled'.

Salvas_Aren · November 2019

Maggi12 wrote: »

in short, do 2 steals and use blade of woe at the end.

Did you even read this?

I am full, have to leave targets with loot behind and go to the refuge, I come back and every NPC is empty.

I probably acquired 10k of bounty trying to fix this with the blade of woe, and they would still spawn empty.

So, pls tell me how do I pickpocket a target 2+1 when it spawns empty?

TheChinbone · November 2019

I dont know what is the issue i'm still managing to fill my fence limit (wich is maxed) doing the same old robbing routine. I may have found 1 or 2 ppl while pickpoketing that were empty but i just assumed that someone already robbed them or i did and it didnt reset yet.

Salvas_Aren · November 2019

The issue is that I was on a tour to pickpocket zone related loot, but was locked out by placing me in an environment of always empty NPCs.

I could not fix this by killing empty NPCs or porting to another zone and back, which is very strange.

Fischblut · November 2019

I probably acquired 10k of bounty trying to fix this with the blade of woe, and they would still spawn empty.

Some of justice NPCs are bugged for 6 months at least, if not more. But I talk about other bug, which prevents from pickpocketing and using Blade of Woe on some of them (which didn't have any problems in the past)...

The bug which you describe is new to me, as I have never seen any NPC respawn with empty pockets

Is this in Northern/Southern Elsweyr? I rarely do my criminal activities there, but I sometimes unlock safeboxes there and they contain only gold - no other loot at all. Yes, I mean fresh, locked safeboxes. So it wouldn't surprise me if justice NPCs could be bugged in these areas as well

Salvas_Aren · November 2019

It was Clockwork City.

Spotting a pretty high number of empty NPCs is not exactly new to me, but yesterday I had the first encounter with a 100% empty ini, even the town guards were empty.

Some citizens dropped one piece of loot upon kill, but appeared empty in the first place.

azjuwelz · November 2019

What server?

I'd personally try logging out and then back in.

NerevarineLoL · November 2019

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

Just wondering, after selling my stolen loot in the refuge, all targets in town appeared either empty or false-positive empty. Even those, that were not empty before entering the outlaw refuge.

Are we supposed to steal less than the fencing target a day?

It's a bug, though perhaps a rare one. Been farming people and safeboxes in Bal Foyen every day for a while to get the black market mogul achievement (or whatever it's called) and had it happen once - some NPCs would have no items to pickpocket and would have no items on them when killed with blade of woe, while others would have something on them, but only after they're killed.

It happened while I was switching zones (accidentally ran into the player house in that region and then came out again). At that point I called it a day. Day after that everything was back to normal, so unsure if logging out for some period of time is needed to fix it or what, but it seems to be a temporary thing.