thank you for the really quick answer!
anyway, I'm glad to know I didnt have to buy the 10k suit just to try it out.
As for only being able to attack level 2+ trades, those always seemed to be followed by lvl 60 hunters!

so its unwise for a noob level 27 to even try stealing from those caravans
is this just tough luck? seems like the only succesful thieves are high level ones
and what is this NPC spawning? who spawns them? and they always kill random noobs who just happen to be around minding their own business lol.