Do you have to be seen to get tagged gray?

[Salohcin]

It is tempting to loot a player bag, do you get off free if you loot a players/pets bag unseen?

 

[Jackdstripper]

If the bag is blue you automatically go grey ( criminal) and guards will attack you.also any player will see you as grey and can attack you and kill you without repercussions.
It has nothing to do with people seeing you commit the offence. You just get the criminal debuff and will stay grey until its gone.

 

[manure]

It is tempting to loot a player bag, do you get off free if you loot a players/pets bag unseen?

The bullcrap on this game is that even if you loot and hide yourself on an alley or any place that you know noone will EVER go, the system does teleport a walking guard nearby, and it walks toward you, no matter how well hidden you are, and insta kills you.

Its pathetic and ridiculous... kills immersion totally.
Cant go gray inside town and stay alive for more than 10 seconds, in ANY occasion.

 

[Jackdstripper]

Its almost impossible to be grey in a city and not get killed by guards.

 

[Salohcin]

The bullcrap on this game is that even if you loot and hide yourself on an alley or any place that you know noone will EVER go, the system does teleport a walking guard nearby, and it walks toward you, no matter how well hidden you are, and insta kills you.

Its pathetic and ridiculous... kills immersion totally.
Cant go gray inside town and stay alive for more than 10 seconds, in ANY occasion.

Wow, that is not fair. If you are lucky enough to find a place to hide until you go blue again, you should be fine. In Legends of Ultima, I stole many times by pick pocketing a guard when he was walking away & wasn't killed.

 

[Xunila]

Thievery will come into the game and worked in MO1 like you described: You can walk behind another player and steal items.

 

[Salohcin]

Still if you loot a bag/kill a pet then loot & manage to hide a guard should not just appear & kill you.