Pickpocketing event

[frederik850]

I want a pickpocketing event where the player can steal something, when he presses the action button or just a random button when he faces the same direction as the NPC. I know you can do that with the conditional branch: "player is facing down/ or up...". But that won't work if the NPC has random movement. I tried the event in the picture as well, with and without direction fix, but that didn't work either. Any suggestions on a solution? 

 

[Silent Darkness]

Here's an idea.

Set an infinitely running parallel process event page that causes the NPC in question to not move when the player is one block's space away, using a move route that is literally just a wait command.

 

[frederik850]

How can you determine the player is one tile away?

 

[NoahB]

How can you determine the player is one tile away?

Through the "Player Touch" trigger, I believe. Though, it really depends on what is meant with "one tile". 

 

[frederik850]

The player touch command doesn't work because the npc automatically looks towards you hence the "You can steal" command never gets displayed. i tried direction fix, and it works, but than the npc is just walking around weird looking in the same direction the whole time.