and that's why there are tents, after you get a tent the PvE becomes ridiculously easy, therefore, you'd get plenty of items stockpiling in there and only go when necessary, but the shit quality of those items will stop thieves from wasting their time on you, for example combat knives from the vault 15 squatters, i've amassed a fortune from em.
Really?
A low level thief, claiming to be a doctor, kept trying to steal the only thing I had in my inventory.
A 1 caps shovel ...
Thieving is a problem and is out of control.
The stealing countdown should be increased, I would suggest equal to FA and doctor.
I do use my tent, lov'em when it comes to make a personal vault, but I'm talking about those punk who will steal your last pair of stinky, dirty socks, they're like plague, new players who want to earn as much as possible that way stealing stuff even from each other. I saw today when some guy was robbing someone, the third guy came and started to steal from thief who didn't even finished his job. Thats madness, they sould be impaled or sth
New players aren't the problem, they have low thieving skills and will hardly steal anything.
Some players create thieving characters only to steal from thieves.
It's a good way to annoy thieves in the same way they annoy you.
I have such a character, it's fun.
Most thieves are so stupid you can see them coming from far.
Let them come and walk away.
We're coming close to a point where people need friendly players to block thieves.
At some points it's impossible to trade at NCR traders or to craft there.
Thieves are also regularly in Vault City and San Francisco.
In Vault City they like to hang around the medical terminal from time to time.
I know the opinions from some about NCR, but for new players it's a good starting point.
Better than The Hub where they're more likely to get shot near the workbench or in stores.
There are also plenty brahmin hides available at traders.
You can also buy armor and doctor level's 1 and 2 rather safely.
Nevertheless you would expect a trader like Sha Enin to have his own bodyguards.