Game Mechanics: SNEAK?

[Nocte]

You have to check for the correct success message. The one that's something like "You're as quiet as a cat stalking its prey" is the success message. The one about sounding like a herd of elephants means you need to be still until you get a success message.

[Cars]

It sounds like your just hitting the hide button. You also have to hit the sneak button. which is a skill you get at lvl 3 and need to train it before you will get the icon.

[Uberom]

Cars, you're treating me as if I never played Everquest. I know how to HIDE/SNEAK, and I know the correct success messages. Maybe you don't understand.

After success in both skills, I begin to sneak around. At random times, around random mobs, my sneak will fail. Sometimes its 10 yards away from a mob, sometimes its right next to the mob. The level of the mob doesn't really seem to affect this either. Sometimes its either red con to me, or sometimes dark blue.

[Gaaaaavin]

I've noticed no problems with my own sneak/hide. Are you accidentally clicking on things that would break hide? I know more than once while dragging a corpse I've attempted to adjust my camera and right clicked the corpse. No more hide. I've also clicked on corpses, say... adjusting my camera to swim up to bedroom in lguk. Hello frogs. I learned to start doing /hidecorpse in every zone before I attempted to sneak through... and when I'm dragging corpses I don't adjust my camera angle. Ever. The game is really sensitive about un-hiding you when it thinks you're trying to loot.

At first I thought there were some see stealth mobs around but then I realized my error.

I've never had hide break on me while stealthed unless it was through a mistake of my own.