I just finished playing my thief build and I am having issues with the guards every where. I joined the temple of Zen as an additional faction for his cover I am role playing plus potions are helpful. I ran 4 missions to get him some faction reputation between each one I trained pick pocketing as it is raising dismally slow through use. At each town after the quest objective I would cast invisibility and use the pick pocket skill on 4 or 5 targets this of course set off the guards. I used my usual tactic of casting a speed buff and keeping invisibility up until I could run far enough away to travel back to the temple.
After I was done questing for them I went to Daggerfall to take a few quests from the fighter and mages guild as they are also a part of the cover. On my way to the guild, with out doing anything I was again attacked by the guards I used invisibility and climbing the wall to run out side so I could travel to the quest location. It took 3 or 4 days I found an NPC in the dungeon so escorted her back to the town which was a couple days away. Then back to Daggerfall to turn in the quest, guards where still after me. I decided I need to burn more time for reputation adjustment so traveled to Wayrest.
The trip took 74 days but I was still accosted by guards while going to the mage guild to get a quest. I know I can adjust things through the save text but is there any way in game other then surrendering that I can get rid of all this negative reputation? Anyone else have this happen where training seemed to moving the reputation down so much you can't even enter towns without avoiding guards?