Hired Thugs

[Naly]

I'd really love to be a sneaky little thief, but I'm low level and when some hired thugs came after me, I promptly died. Should I hold off on stealing until I'm a higher level? What triggers the thugs -- stealing in general or only pickpocketing? Thanks for any assistance!

[wepfhwepfhp]

Hired Thugs can be sent after you both when you steal something and when you pickpocket someone. They are heavy fighters, so you will probably be able to outrun them

[Naly]

Wow... I hadn't considered running! I guess I assumed they would never stop chasing me

[Ilja]

They will not stop chasing you, that is true, but loosing them is an option.

It is worth to point out that those thugs do not only appear for crimes. Kiling certain characters from the game - despite that they became hostile on their own - can prompt them after you.

I am usually playing a some sort of thief. Those three are indeed heavy hitters, but nothing that can't be done from a good position. I do not consider things like climbing on a roof as cheating, when game send three guys in steel armor against level 1 character. :p

[Initiation]

BTW the thugs will only spawn once, once killed they will never come back again.

[Ilja]

Escrito originalmente por plastic:

BTW the thugs will only spawn once, once killed they will never come back again.

Yes. This is true in vanilla game.

(In my game they pop in every once and a while. Usually, when I am least happy to see them...)

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Escrito originalmente por Ilja:

Escrito originalmente por plastic:

BTW the thugs will only spawn once, once killed they will never come back again.

Yes. This is true in vanilla game.

(In my game they pop in every once and a while. Usually, when I am least happy to see them...)

What mod adds more hired thugs?

I usually pickpocket to level 70 pretty quickly and having only one group of hired thugs is kind of lame because I usually get them after stealing the statue of dibella in Markarth, so my pickpocketing has almost no consequences.

It would be alot more interesting if they would come for me more often.

[Valden21]

A little tip if you're still having trouble with them. The UESP on Skyrim: Hired Thugs says that they won't tagalong if you go into a city that has walls around it. So if you really need to get away from them, Markarth, Windhelm, Whiterun, Solitude, and Riften would be the places to go.

[mastarfin]

I've always just RAN like a little school girl for some distance.....stopping to pick one off as I go until they are all gone. I hate these guys. And Ilja is absolutely correct...they always seem to appear at the most inopportune moments.

[Ilja]

Escrito originalmente por Omgwtfbbqkitten:

What mod adds more hired thugs?

I complied a scripts from adult mod that does this, making it an non-adult mod for my game. It is still under testing and I have to ask from the mod author, if he allows me to use his modified scripts in a mod.

Escrito originalmente por Valden21:

A little tip if you're still having trouble with them. The UESP on Skyrim: Hired Thugs says that they won't tagalong if you go into a city that has walls around it. So if you really need to get away from them, Markarth, Windhelm, Whiterun, Solitude, and Riften would be the places to go.

As UESP says, this is un onformed and I question this information. I have fought against them in cities and dungeons several time, with vanilla scripts in my game folder.

I am not sure if they were supposed to follow you in to cities. They always seem little out of place in cities and it may take a while for them to come aggressive.

Roofs for Whiterun are very familiar to me, after my characters have been jumping around them, while trying to kill those thugs.

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I've always just RAN like a little school girl for some distance.....stopping to pick one off as I go until they are all gone. I hate these guys. And Ilja is absolutely correct...they always seem to appear at the most inopportune moments.

My secondary game uses Death Alternative. I forgot to add hotfix, so my character ended suffering from infinite bleeding, when ever they took her down.

How is it relevant? I took around seven matches against them, before giving up. I wiped saves of that game and realized only after that my installation was incomplete.

Teaches me to pay attention.

[Uncle64]

I play as casanova and I do get those thugs to. Wonder why?
It is not my fault ehum......

But they are one pain in the neck some times. One tip is when they come after you, try to take you to one town or atleast to somewhere there is guards/soldiers. They will help you.
And dont hit the guards.