I suddenly noticed just now today that my Pickpocketing crime percentage has been reset back to 1%?? I have already made some progress with this crime with 550 successes already recorded so why is my progress bar back again to 1 percent??
Pickpocketing Crime Bug
Started by Powerstormer [4007876] on in Bugs & Issues.
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Not a bug - this is how the crimes work.
Crimes have 3 outcomes:
Success (green) - you gain Crime Experience and skill
Fail (yellow) - nothing happens other than flavour text
Critical Fail (red) - you lose up to 20 times as much CE and skill as you would have gained on a success.
With pickpocketing all targets are available from the start - so there can be some much harder ones that you are highly likely to fail or critical fail on. Have a look at the pickpocketing guide, and if you are still losing all progress then you're not quite ready for that crime, and maybe build up more CE in one of the lower crimes (such as grafitti which you have barely touched?)
You lose skill level and crime experience every time you critically fail a crime. If your level keeps resetting, you are doing something wrong or you are attempting crimes which are more difficult compared to your current Crime experience. Try doing easier crimes and build up your Crime exp before attempting harder crimes.
Thanks!