Assassin 39;s Creed How To Pickpocket Pc
Jahed Stetter
Borgia messengers are available, but they are not nearly as numerous as in AC2. The most frequent spawn point for them is taking the tunnel to the Thieves Guild, after completing the mission with La Volpe and rebuilding the inn. It would be hugely time-consuming to travel back and forth enough times to get enough money. (The second most frequent point seems to be outside the Isola Tiberina hideout, although it doesn't happen very regularly I don't think.)
Your best bet is probably doing your own pickpocketing. The place to do that is the Centro district north of the river; that area has the most people and they are more well-to-do than other areas of the city.
The Cento Ochi are good for a fair amount of money, along with sellable items. Be sure to loot them after the courtesan mission, the one where you try to ransom the madam. They're also usually found out in the countryside at night, but sometimes will venture into the city.
Locating the treasure chests that have the largest amounts of florins in them might be helpful, although because the map only opens up gradually it could be difficult to find the large treasure chests early enough. Asaic has made maps of the whole city with the treasure chest locations shown. The shop items are listed on the maps, but not the florin amount. If you would like to have the info, I'd be glad to work on mapping the florin amounts in each chest, along with when it becomes available.
I love the crossbow, so I try to gain as much money as soon as possible so I can have it. The main thing I do is renovate as many of the shops as I can as fast as possible. I'm sure that would be too slow, however.
Here's some research on Sequence 2. I pickpocketed continuously while fast-walking whenever possible (you have to ride a horse when following Machiavelli from Augustus mausoleum to the pickpocket guy, then again from the Campidoglio to the Colosseum), although I slacked off the pickpocketing slightly whenever guards were close enough to notice. I went pretty directly from one objective to the next and pickpocketed everyone I came across while not going out of the way to do so. The same with chests; if any were in my path, then I stopped and picked them up. Except for one chest, all of these in this sequence were small - under 200 florins - so it wouldn't matter greatly if the small ones were skipped (there were only 5 total in any case).
I began Sequence 2 with 0 florins and ended this sequence with 8527 florins. It breaks down roughly like this: Mission objective rewards, chests and some special circumstances (detailed below) = 5798 florins. Thus, pickpocketing netted 2729 florins. Most people coughed up between 11-15 florins, with occasional takings of as low as 7 and as high as 25.
The special circumstances are these:
Memory 3: Loot the Borgia Captain for 918 florins.
Memory 4: Kill and loot the pickpocket after you catch him for 500 florins.
Memory 5: Kill and loot the Borgia courier after you catch him for 1500 florins.
Memory 6: There is a large treasure chest with 1597 florins in the Hall of Nero Romulus Lair. It's in the room with a circular tower in the middle and a couple of bridges built out from it; just after the very first point where Ezio knocks down some masonry that will enable him to climb back up. (We call this the "Bene point", from Ezio saying, "Bene! Now I have a way back up in case I fall".) The chest can be seen to the left at this point. Getting it requires climbing up the central circular tower, shimmying to the left and jumping onto the bridge. It can be grabbed pretty quickly, I think. I ignored the other chests in this lair.
In fact, my aim in pickpocketing is to rely on very rich people. Yesterday I had one with 981f and one with 867f in a 10 minutes period. My method was to throw money, wait a few seconds and then fast walk through the people.
So I played through Sequence 3 with the same parameters as sequence 2 (walking everywhere while pickpocketing, [except for occasionally having to run from hostile guards] etc.). I made a note of the amount of florins I was carrying at the start of play, then deducted that amount from the total at the end of the sequence. I had a net gain of 7800 florins during the sequence, for a total of 16,327 florins for those two sequences.
Memory 1: A coincidental Borgia courier showed up as I exited the thieves' guild, so I nabbed him for 1500.
Memory 2: Looting the Borgia captain = 928 florins.
Memory 3: It's required to spend 2500 florins to renovate the brothel. This was the first time I spent any florins. There was a coincidental Cento Occhi attack on my way to trigger the memory, so I took the time to fight and loot them, and I also took the time to loot the Cento Occhi on the boat who are holding the madame hostage, resulting in 2303 florins.
Sequence 3 is a bit tricky as there are only 4 memories and one of them is spent simply talking to your allies and the architect, so no money-making opportunities there. There is a lot of traveling between the memory trigger points; however fast-walking those distances is really inefficient for speed-running - in addition to having a significant portion of the traveling in sparsely populated areas of the countryside, which is inefficient for money-gathering. The coincidences of a Borgia courier or the Cento Occhi cannot be relied on.
Before beginning sequence 3, I spent some time noodling around and playing with the pickpocketing, both with just walking around and also with thowing money to gather a larger crowd before beginning the thievery. I walked around randomly for approximately 20 minutes and only encountered 4 occasions of the very rich people who had 700-900 florins. (That only occurred once during sequence 3 play, as well.) All of these were obtained while fast-walking. After scattering money first - which I did 12 times - there were no unusually large amounts of money to be had from the people. If you are able to consistently find these really rich people, then that's really groovy but it seems pretty unreliable.
Question about 2 of your expenses: Ammo in sequence 3 (-2000) and ammo along with crossbow purchase (-2000). What kind of ammo are you buying in sequence 3, and you don't need to buy ammo along with the bow? It comes equipped with 15 bolts.
All the methods we described above sum up to a time loss of 40 seconds.
The bombs don't save time at all, given I manipulate luck in S6M1.
The first knife belt upgrades, available at sequence 4 and 7, would save the same amount of time as what I loose to buy them, plus they need a tailor. And I finally don't want to speak to a tailor at anytime.
The climb leap glove, on the contrary, could save about 20 seconds, so it's worth loosing a small amount of time to have a bit more money.
Last but not least, the crossbow could save about 30 seconds in S4, and 30 other seconds in the rest of the game.
I checked it once more a few minutes ago... Yes, the shrunken head brings 11000f when sold to an art merchant. According to me, this big amount of money compensates the fact that there are only two in the game and those two are needed for a shop quest.
Edit: given the planning as is it is now, I have just enough money to begin S5M2, but I have also 6k at the beginning of S6, 10k for S7 and 22k for S8, without any use for all this money...
(S8 doesn't need weapons at all, and for S7 I have more than enough ammo for every ennemy; the amount of time saved by a knife belt upgrade wouldn't be worth it in S6)
This way, using only luck pickpocketing in S2M1, the shrunken head and a few messengers (with the luck they carry piper nigrum), I might get it right (loosing less than a total of 30 seconds). Currently working on it.
Post #10 edited. If anyone has enough patience to check the sum, go for it. By the way, I'm looking for a better compromise between time lost, money earned and luck involved; but that seems very difficult now.
I'm currently preparing a list of possible trasure chests (and their corresponding items to sell). I will test if the money will be enough. If not, I will loot two Borgia captains. And if this isn't enough, I will loot the Cento Occhi, finally.
Spoiler: Highlight to viewAs you may know from SDA forum ( _creed_brotherhood_298....), I've finished sequence 4, with enough money (I keep the exact amount secret for now), and quite a long time saved comparing to the previous runs.
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