Questions about stealing

Discussion in 'Strategy' started by Wulf, Nov 17, 2011.

  1. People seem to be confused about recent changes in the mechanics of how stealing works.

    There are situations in which you can be stolen from if:
    1. 1) You have gold out and your attack troops are 20% or higher.
      or
      2) You have no gold out and ANY spy troops and your attack troops are 20% or higher
      1. (even though your gold is at 0 if you have spies they can be killed and looted.) Even 1 spy troop is enough to allow for a successful steal.)

    Therefore there are only 2 ways to be DTW from steals:
    1. 1) Have your troops below 20%
      or
      2) Have 0 gold AND 0% spies.

    Now for the PureSpy (OSF) builds:
    1. Pure Spies (OSF) have no troops to pin so they can only go DTW from steals if they have 0 gold AND 0 spies.
      So unless the pure spy build has 0 gold and pin spies every 5 minutes it will ALWAYS be open for steals.

    Another Limitation to PureSpies (and I am not sure if this is a system glitch or intentional)
    1. If you are a pure spy you will not be able to steal from targets with 0 gold out regardless of the targets troop level.
      I guess there is honor amongst thieves because while ANY other build can steal from 0 gold targets by killing and looting the spies the PureSpy build cannot.
     
  2. Nice Guide! :D


    ~Maxfactor
     
  3. Max remove the link to 3rd party content from your signature.
     
  4. Thanks wulf been wondering exact game mechanics on stealing for a while. 
     
  5. Max, must you always be causing trouble? xD

    Nice explanations Wulf :) Thanks for this.
     
  6. Interesting, so Hansel's can still steal farm inactives but OSFs can't -- right?
     
  7. Good to know......
     
  8. No aqua-d, need to be higher than a certain attk to spy ratio to steal from attk builds with 0 gold out.
     
  9. Won't inactives eventually be bankrupt? With all those people hitting them
     
  10. I found this to be false.

    If I assassinate to pin I can still steal. Assassinate takes to under 20% then dtw to spy assassinate or attack but I can still steal.

    However, if they self pin I can't keep stealing. Perhaps the % are not correct somewhere?

    We noticed this first when one of our inactives got stripped about 6 months ago. It didn't used to be that way, and we were able to pin by assassination before that point.