Any info on what "Water Thieves" is?

[Kashra Fall]

Don't mind the idea, but wondering how it works. I only keep like 10 days of water on going haha. If I need to, I will farm a bit more.

[Lord-Captain Mikorius]

The Water Thieves are a group that has connections to our people. Go to the Quest/Contracts and look for a Contract called "Shifting Tide". We must save a guy who is from the Water Thieves clan, before he is interrogated. Its supposed to give us Mercenaries/Followers as a reward or something.

I didnt see anything about them stealing from us, it said we have connections, they have some sort of working relationship with us apparently, i dont know if they steal from us.

[Sweets]

ah its you, we meet on the forums again.

Pretty much just as it sounds like, they come in and try steal your water.

[Lord-Captain Mikorius]

Perhaps i simply havent encountered them raiding me yet, maybe they do, but the Quest with the same name says it takes place in Scorched Enclave.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Lord-Captain Mikorius:

The Water Thieves are a group that has connections to our people. Go to the Quest/Contracts and look for a Contract called "Water Thieves". We must save a guy who is from the Water Thieves clan, before he is interrogated. Its supposed to give us Mercenaries/Followers as a reward or something.

I didnt see anything about them stealing from us, it said we have connections, they have some sort of working relationship with us apparently, i dont think they steal from us, but from the Factions.

Interesting, so it's hireable mercs to steal water for us from other factions? I presume that hurts our relations with said factions?

[Lord-Captain Mikorius]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Lord-Captain Mikorius:

The Water Thieves are a group that has connections to our people. Go to the Quest/Contracts and look for a Contract called "Water Thieves". We must save a guy who is from the Water Thieves clan, before he is interrogated. Its supposed to give us Mercenaries/Followers as a reward or something.

I didnt see anything about them stealing from us, it said we have connections, they have some sort of working relationship with us apparently, i dont think they steal from us, but from the Factions.

Interesting, so it's hireable mercs to steal water for us from other factions? I presume that hurts our relations with said factions?

Well, im kinda confused right now, cause some say that they raid and steal our water, but i just did a quest contract with the same name to save one such water thief. I havent encountered any hostilities with them, but maybe they do raid us and i simply havent encountered that yet. I dont know why we would have to save a guy that raids us and steals from us, or a guy from that same faction.

Update: The exact Quest/Contract name is "Shifting Tide" in Scorched Enclave. It specifically says "Help the Water Thief escape in Scorched Enclave"

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Lord-Captain Mikorius:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Interesting, so it's hireable mercs to steal water for us from other factions? I presume that hurts our relations with said factions?

Well, im kinda confused right now, cause some say that they raid and steal our water, but i just did a quest contract with the same name to save one such water thief. I havent encountered any hostilities with them, but maybe they do raid us and i simply havent encountered that yet. I dont know why we would have to save a guy that raids us and steals from us, or a guy from that same faction.

Update: The exact Quest/Contract name is "Shifting Tide" in Scorched Enclave. It specifically says "Help the Water Thief escape in Scorched Enclave"

Interesting, will have to test it myself tomorrow sometime. Appreciate the update!

[Lord-Captain Mikorius]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Lord-Captain Mikorius:

Well, im kinda confused right now, cause some say that they raid and steal our water, but i just did a quest contract with the same name to save one such water thief. I havent encountered any hostilities with them, but maybe they do raid us and i simply havent encountered that yet. I dont know why we would have to save a guy that raids us and steals from us, or a guy from that same faction.

Update: The exact Quest/Contract name is "Shifting Tide" in Scorched Enclave. It specifically says "Help the Water Thief escape in Scorched Enclave"

Interesting, will have to test it myself tomorrow sometime. Appreciate the update!

No problem, bro

[PARA]

If the water thieves are a faction, I am going to kill all of them. No mercy. If they raid me I will AA-12 each one of them into oblivion without hesitation. To be honest, if the civilians and dogs I have in my base do nothing; I will do everything I can to wipe all future civilians and dogs from my base. What is the point of spending money on "Welfare" when they don't do anything to protect you from thieves...

[Deathwing]

Well, Water Thievs are also a new thing for you when you out of water

You either kill them and you saving your progress, or they kill you and previous situation with water death happens

[deadering]

The demo hasn't been updated so I can't speak from experience but the update video they posted shows the water thieves inside the Innards and a player fighting them off, so it's safe to assume they do actually steal your water.

[Lazermaniac]

Originally posted by PARA:

If the water thieves are a faction, I am going to kill all of them. No mercy. If they raid me I will AA-12 each one of them into oblivion without hesitation. To be honest, if the civilians and dogs I have in my base do nothing; I will do everything I can to wipe all future civilians and dogs from my base. What is the point of spending money on "Welfare" when they don't do anything to protect you from thieves...

You're the dude with the gun, they're the war refugees trying to stay alive. If water's running out, they'll grab what they can and get out, not fight the other, less humane scavs that roll in to get first dibs on the leftovers.

[PARA]

Originally posted by antocularis:

Originally posted by PARA:

If the water thieves are a faction, I am going to kill all of them. No mercy. If they raid me I will AA-12 each one of them into oblivion without hesitation. To be honest, if the civilians and dogs I have in my base do nothing; I will do everything I can to wipe all future civilians and dogs from my base. What is the point of spending money on "Welfare" when they don't do anything to protect you from thieves...

BASED plan of action sir. I will do the same.

Word, we will drown them in shotgun shells together.

[Panther]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Interesting, so it's hireable mercs to steal water for us from other factions? I presume that hurts our relations with said factions?

That was my guess.
While have no issue with the mechanics, always thought a scale-able solution would be for longer term self sustainability (water generating mechanics).
So once people have something to lose it becomes harder to lose it.

[JoeJoes171]

For anybody that is wondering how to complete the shifting tides quest you will find a scared hostage in the locked room in the somewhat center of the map. Do the keypad puzzle and press "e" on him and as long as he makes it out you get the quest complete.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by JoeJoes171:

For anybody that is wondering how to complete the shifting tides quest you will find a scared hostage in the locked room in the somewhat center of the map. Do the keypad puzzle and press "e" on him and as long as he makes it out you get the quest complete.

Opening that door brings all the boys to the yard though lol.