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Crime sprees

Khaos_Bane
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I have a Crime Spree quest in Stonefalls and I have checked every house, business, and guild and not one safebox/strongbox. Are these that rare in certain areas or have incredibly long respawn timers? This quest is just a waste of time it seems. Cannot stand it !!

Is this the only repeatable quest more than daily to grind thieves guild XP?
Edited by ZOS_Phoenix on March 7, 2023 3:16PM
  • Ackwalan
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    They have a long respawn timer, and with more people doing those TG quests it can take some time. You can delete that quest and get a new one. The other crime spree quest is to pickpocket people.
  • Selstad
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    I spent nearly an hour in stonefall, teleporting between the 3 quest locations, searching every house and store I could come over. When I finally found one, the owner stood nearly on top of it and didn't move, so I had no other choice but to pick it, and leave town in a hurry with a 250 gold bounty on my head, and very angry guard behind me :smile:
  • Khaos_Bane
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    Ackwalan wrote: »
    They have a long respawn timer, and with more people doing those TG quests it can take some time. You can delete that quest and get a new one. The other crime spree quest is to pickpocket people.

    Thank you I will try dropping it and picking up another quest. What a waste of time !

  • TheShadowScout
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    I have done several of those so far. Yeah, can be annoying to find the strongboxes... but so far, I always got one in the end. Still, the pickpocketing quest is easier...
  • Dharmon
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    Slight thread necro, but I found that people are somewhat lazy and dont bother picking locks of private houses.
    There tend to be a safebox there since its some effort to get to it.
    From a limited dataset of 3 boxes in less than 15 minutes.
  • Hapexamendios
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    Dharmon wrote: »
    Slight thread necro, .

    7 years is a slight necro? This thread is so old it could be in elementary school.
  • TaSheen
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    Dharmon wrote: »
    Slight thread necro, .

    7 years is a slight necro? This thread is so old it could be in elementary school.

    Actually, the mummy wrappings have disintegrated on this one.....
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  • phaneub17_ESO
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    Dharmon wrote: »
    Slight thread necro, but I found that people are somewhat lazy and dont bother picking locks of private houses.
    There tend to be a safebox there since its some effort to get to it.
    From a limited dataset of 3 boxes in less than 15 minutes.

    Back then NPCs didn't report you for being inside their homes if you overstayed your unwelcome. I don't know when that mechanic was added, but you could stay inside a home as long as you liked waiting for the safeboxes to respawn. Now if you did that, you rake up bounty for being idle in there.
  • ZOS_Phoenix
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    Greetings,

    We have closed this topic as it was originally created in March 2016. In many cases, it's better to create a new thread on a topic that you want to discuss as opposed to bumping one that is rather old.

    Thank you for your understanding!
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