Making money through stealing is way too easy

[BalkanBiker]

So I created a character in World's End, stole one of the large backpacks and then filled it with mostly weapons since they are worth around 30k and sell for about 5-9k.
I ran to the desert city which is quite easy for early game character, the desert is quite empty and you see foes from a long way, and sold everything for 100k.
100k for barely an hour and a half of work.
And I could steal all this all over again and just run to another city and make another 100k.

[SnugSnug]

Congratulations you have made a successful theif character and played the game in that manner.

My advice would be to continue and see where the game takes you, (no save scumming, spoils the immersion) and then when that becomes boring or the journey ends try a different approach, for a fresh experience.

[MinenSpecht]

I need 5 minutes to clear a beak thing nest, 5 more minutes to get back to town (if hunting near hive village 2 minutes) and get the same revenue from selling beak thing eggs, meat and animal skin collected. Starting investment is about 10k for a garru with backpack and abvout 5 additional people with 10 defense.

Whats your point?

[Papasaurus Rex]

so don't steal??
Fixed

[lubed_assassin]

stealing huh? so how many times did you save scum? Try an ironman thief run, its not so easy.

[finestwaliworld]

Username checks out

[Injen]

agree with @lubed_assasin

where u dont have backway, ur experience and gameplay is much stronger.

[DEADPOO]

There's a guide in the Guide section 'Zero to Hero in One Day'. Basically you hire a merc team for 2K and storm the Dust King Tower, collect the bounty 35K and all the loot you can carry. Basically, the initial investment is 2-4K for 75-100K (the guide said you could do it with one team, but since it was written I think they raised the diff, so I had to hire a 2nd team to finish the job). By day 2 I had over 100K and still with dismal stats, lol.

[Vardis]

I went to that fog area and practiced my stealth and assassination, chopping off fog prince heads, then stealthed up to the tower and took the Dust King from his bed.

Another game I did the rock bottom start as a skeleton, and just scavenged the spoils from pack beasts that were wounded in the desert. Then I bandaged them up for a point of trader rep. I think that was 40k right there, and all I did was pick up stuff outside of town.

If playing it one way makes it too easy, try something else.

[Orangemoose]

Yeah stealing is pretty easy when you savescum.

[Decagon]

Everything is easy with savescum.

Stealing isn’t hard without savescum.

[Carl Brutananadilewski]

Yes stealing is an easy way to get money, but it's up to you what you do with that information.

I think one reason people get so upset about this is because at some point they've gotten the terrible piece of advice that's commonly given: to mine copper or iron as a safe source of income early on, which gives money at maybe 2% of the rate of a reasonable stealing route, and gives you no useful skills (laboring goes up on its own if and when you acutally need it later). The game isn't about slowly grinding money. It's about telling a story, and if stealing fits into your character's story, then go for it! If not, then don't.

[BalkanBiker]

Originally posted by MinenSpecht:

I need 5 minutes to clear a beak thing nest, 5 more minutes to get back to town (if hunting near hive village 2 minutes) and get the same revenue from selling beak thing eggs, meat and animal skin collected. Starting investment is about 10k for a garru with backpack and abvout 5 additional people with 10 defense.

Whats your point?

I'd like to see you that in the first 1-2 hours of the game.
Your argument is terrible.

It doesn't matter if I savescum or not, the stealing is still too easy. In other games it's not easy even if you savescum.

[Orangemoose]

The penalty for stealing is that if caught you lose access to that shop plus also have to run from the store owner/guards/town guards.
Savescumming removes that penalty, so no ♥♥♥♥ it's easy to play the game as a thief if you remove the difficulty from it.
It'd be like fighting a bunch of enemies who don't have weapons and no ranks in MA, wow of course that's easy.

[RandomDude]

Next you could make a mining character, miner copper for hours on fast and complain that you've found a bother lane way to play.

[Zourin]

If you have a pro thief, grats on save/import scumming or happy 50th-release-from-prison-birthday. Seriously. Nobody who's ever tried to rob a house hasn't run into the insanely quirky interior guards that happen to be staring right at you the moment you step into the building and load the interior, or had that 1-in-100 grab that woke up everyone. Thieves start somewhere, and they always get caught at some point. The penalty for getting caught is really high too, since you can lose access to shops that you may need as trading partners later on, not to mention the risk to life and limb from being beaten on repeatedly by guards and the high risks of starvation if you escape alone.