37637598 on 26/4/2007 at 16:12
sneak. I've never played as a theif, i've NEVER successfully pick-pocketed someone... never used a probe, but i pick locks all of the time... my question; how do i improve my Sneak skill??? can i simply sneak passed someone??? or do i HAVE to pick pocket? i would like to improve this skill as i think it would be a great thing to do...
also!>!>!> is there any buildings in morrowind (no expansions, and its on xbox) that have TONS of containers>>??? i found the one in balmore, Hlaalu Manor, but i've filled them all... I want to have a building where i can keep ALL of my ingredients... Thanks!
edit: even if i have to kill someone for it...
Joben on 26/4/2007 at 22:29
Your Sneak skill improves any time you are in close proximity to a NPC/creature, and the Sneak icon is onscreen. This includes friendlies, you can for example find a guard all alone in a room and practice sneaking around behind him.
I'm not sure if it still counts if they eventualy break your cover and detect you or if you have to voluntarily come out of sneak mode for it to count...but that should be easy to check.
You can of course also pay a trainer to improve the skill, which may be a good idea until you get it high enough to be useful.
I imagine pickpocketing gives Sneak points, but i've never done that, since i use sneak mostly for setting up sniping attacks.
37637598 on 27/4/2007 at 06:48
so all i need to do is sneak by an npc??? i do that all the time and i've never seen that little popup that says (your sneak skill increased to XX).. is it supposed to come up??/ or is itr all hidden...
37637598 on 27/4/2007 at 15:05
last night before i went to bed, i went to the balmora mages guild and i hid halfway behind a room divider, hiding from that high elf lady... I when i woke up this morning, i noticed NO change. I then started walking around and my sneak skill improved all the way to 100!!! INSTANTLY!
your sneak skill increased to 41
your sneak skill increased to 42
your sneak skill increased to 43
your sneak skill increased to 44
your sneak skill increased to 45
your sneak skill increased to 46
your sneak skill increased to 47
your sneak skill increased to 48
your sneak skill increased to 49
your sneak skill increased to 50
your sneak skill increased to 51
your sneak skill increased to 52
your sneak skill increased to 53
your sneak skill increased to 54
your sneak skill increased to 55
your sneak skill increased to 56
your sneak skill increased to 57
your sneak skill increased to 58
your sneak skill increased to 59
your sneak skill increased to 60
your sneak skill increased to 61
your sneak skill increased to 62
your sneak skill increased to 63
your sneak skill increased to 64
your sneak skill increased to 65
your sneak skill increased to 66
your sneak skill increased to 67
your sneak skill increased to 68
all the way to 100!
crazy shit... crazy shit...
Pisces on 28/4/2007 at 00:49
Wow, that is weird, never happened to me. I wonder if you have any mods which alter leveling and could have delayed telling you about the levels.
I've noticed that you need about 40 sneak to start gaining it at a decent rate by sneaking around NPCs whenever possible and about 70 before it becomes really useful ie allowing you to pickpocket, steal things really close to a NPC and do sneak attacks, once sneak is useful you will level up quite quickly because you will be doing it more.
flexbuster on 28/4/2007 at 02:11
I don't remember pocket-picking working very well, actually.
Even at ridiculous levels of skill/stats, 99% of the time it would fail, he would get noticed, and so forth.
Not sure if there's a variable in the TES:CS that can fix that.
37637598 on 28/4/2007 at 04:11
WELL IM ON XBOX SO IT ISNT ANY MODS ... oops, caps lock
i read somewhere that when you sneak close to an npc, it's constantly addibng to a counter and the counter levels you up when it reaches a certain level, but maybe the leveling part only detects that your sneaking, when you're actually moving..
