Stealth/Snooping

[nlarose85]

I recently made a thief with stealth. I found it fun to stealth upon someone, and snoop them without them knowing. This was back when I played the original UO. I know you could stealth and snoop in T2A because you could stealth, and snoop when they implemented disarming someone with arms lore and wrestling. I never made a battle thief, just a server hopping thief in Buccs Den. I wanted to make a new one on this server being I haven't played UO in a long time. I just noticed a patch update where you can no longer snoop while in stealth. I think that should be changed in order to keep accuracy. It will make my thief not as fun since I planned on building him around the stealth, snoop, and steal tactic. Please consider. Also will you implement armslore/wrestling? I am pretty sure that was also in the T2A era if my memory serves me correctly.

Thank you.

[Mikel123]

Your memory is very wrong, unfortunately. Not many people remember this aspect of snooping/stealth, but I'd imagine everyone remembers that Arms Lore/Wrestling was well past our era.

You have to stealth, then hide right next to them, then snoop.

[nlarose85]

It is possible that you are correct on this, but I am pretty sure I could snoop while in stealth. It has been so long. I can't say I have a reasonable argument other than what I remember.

[Stuck]

It is possible that you are correct on this, but I am pretty sure I could snoop while in stealth. It has been so long. I can't say I have a reasonable argument other than what I remember.

There's another thread posted recently that was discussing the snooping/stealth change.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24371

Patch notes from the target era say that: "Snooping will reveal you."

[MatronDeWinter]

You could stealth and snoop almost through UO's entirety (well, once there was stealth etc). There was a very brief period of a couple of months where snooping revealed you while stealthed, and unfortunately that tiny little window is right at the end of this servers timeframe. Even more argument for a re-evaluated "window"...

You can tolerate it now, just re-hide first, but I generally disagree with this patch. It's obvious they changed their minds after implimenting it, there's even a talk with DD on the newsgroups in which he expresses the mistake and states that it will change back (which it did).