SSE merchant chests

[MrClay]

Hi everyone. I just recently started a thief play through and I was wondering why, when I went into a some merchants stores I could only find a few things out in the open. I found it kind of frustrating that I was able to steal so little from them ( Mainly Belethors and I would love to rob him blind). I thought I remembered a mod that oldrim had that put the merchant chest in the stores. So I am asking if someone could make a mod like this again were the merchant chest is behind the merchants counter. The chest should have an extremely hard to pick lock or only openable by key or some other way to make it difficult to get into. There should be some pros and cons for stealing the place blind, like If possible when items and gold are stolen they regen at a much slower rate.

Edited May 29, 2018 by MrClay

[BenOon]

Hey there, I'm up for the idea with some balancing tweaks and don't want to open a redundant topic, so I'll explain everything here under this older post and hope some talented modder is interested.

If the chest would be simply accessable, locked via key (pickpocket the merchant) or master lock, it would be way too easy, because I don't think someone ever ran out of lockpicks and to pickpocket a key isn't complicated at all. So I'd suggest to decrease the pickpocket-chance somehow + loose the key after using, which could be interpreted as if the merchant changes the lock after s/he saw someone robbed the chest. Some merchants might be more paranoid and hide the key somewhere else (if that even works, maybe they need the key on them to access the chest for trading(?)) Also, the gold should not be in the chest and instead with the merchant. And I really like MrClays idea to lower the the restock rate of merchants tohe more you steal from them.

 

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