UO Second Age

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.

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.

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.

nlarose85 wrote: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."

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).