Great Quest Idea, Could be in the game but if not... Options

[Discobiscut]

OK so I was reading through the DEV quotes, again, and they where mentioning the ability to buy houses in every town. Cool. So you stash your stuff there and think you are mister big dude with all your armour and plunder.
What if the Radiant AI happens to have a NPC who is a theif, what if they then see this house that is always empty cause the guy who owns it is always out adventuring.
You get back from a hard day adventure down some dungeon and as you enter your abode a message comes up "As you return home you notice all is not right, you have the suspicion you have been broken into".
Then you have to investigate your home and find clues that are left.
(I would imagine the selection of what was stolen from a mod point of view would be random as you wouldn't know who had what)
Then it is off to search for the theif. Added info could be included to core NPC's in the theives guild and extra NPC's can be added to help track down the theif.

I hope that something like this is actually in the game but it could make a fun mod
especially if the thing stolen was valuable and you REALLY wanted it back.
Would be good for the none Theif charecters to expose them to the seedy underbelly of the various towns.

This post has been edited by Discobiscut: Dec 19 2005, 05:02 AM

[RobRendell]

I believe that Bethesda have ruled out NPCs robbing the PC's stuff from houses, because they say that players often mistake things like that for bugs.

However, if you did it your way, with an explicit message making it clear that it's something's missing, it would be clear that it wasn't a bug.

If it was a one-off, and you got to carry out a quest-like investigation to retrieve your stolen property, it could work. Also, IMHO you'd want to limit it to only a few (or maybe just one) big-ticket things, rather than losing lots of stuff.

It would be annoying if your possessions were constantly being pick-pocketed, house being broken into and random items stolen, etc. But as a focussed, one-off event, I like it.

Also, since it would be a mod, players who don't think they'd like it would simply not download it. So, I think you've got a good mod idea here.