Manually Catching Thieves

[Polk]

Just as the title says, I have to manually catch 20 thieves to unlock the next tier of one of my science machines. I understand that you click on a guest and hit the reveal thief button.

My question is; is there a way to tell which guest is a thief? Is the best method to just click all the guests before they enter my museum? I haven't tried this mechanic very much since i have security cameras and such. Don't the "accused" guests get mad and just leave.

TIA for any and all info

[timewar]

If you have quick reflexes, you can pause when they do the whirlwind animation and reveal them before they finish....but yeah I'm stuck on 5/30 on that.

[Jaggid Edje]

You can do that in the Popup museum for thief catching. Lots more thieves there, and you can complete the goal entirely without caring about how well the museum is doing. Took me 35 minutes to get all of the required thieves there.

[therealjohnconnor]

Timewar is right, but this is a painfully slow process I'm slogging through at the moment. 2 thieves caught / game year makes this one hell of a journey..

I've seen it suggested you replay the County Archives pop-up though. More chance to tick off a lot of thieves inside six game-months.

[MrImpiz]

I just check the toilets for people that don't come from outside it. Really slow though but i have 5 right now.

[Kessra]

You can also look for those mole holes and pause the game when one appears. The mole thieves usually need like 1-2 seconds before they get active but you already can "reveal" them by dropping a buck of water over their heads.

For those toilet guys, you could place a sole toilet in an unaccessible region of your plot (i.e. were only one-way doors lead to your main area. When you see guys behind that one-way door you can be sure that these are thieves. But also, there are other strategies involving that security challenge. Some people raised prices to the maximum to prevent regular visitors coming in and then the only people that occur on your map are thieves. However, that may take 30 minutes or more till you have your thieves together.

[GhostWolfe]

Keep in mind that you can continue playing the security pop up after the trophy has been awarded. Thieves continue to appear at a high rate, and just monitoring the toilets for Boggymen will get you the required number fairly quickly.