We have severely jacked up the amount of theft skill you get from high end start up %'s for intimidation.  This will greatly benefit you on petties, felonies, OCs and anything else that uses this stat during the lower ranks. This will have a noticeable difference in OC successes if one of your members carries this high stat.

Ilyich, I am completely making up numbers here to illustrate a point, don't take any of this as actual game math.

Lets say a normal wack account has a 50% theft at start up and has 50 theft points.

That same account but with 80% theft will have a 3000 theft points at start up.

That same account but with a 100% theft will have 10000 theft points at start up.

There will be thugs running around with better OC skills than capos.

But there is a diminishing return when you compare the difference:

That 50% theft guy is now capo and has done a boat load of crimes so now he is 7050 theft points

That 80% theft guy is now capo and has done a boat load of crimes so hes now 10000 theft points

That 100% theft guy is now capo and has done a boat load of crimes so hes now 17000 theft points.

The higher theft guys will always be better, but it matters less once you are higher ranked and work with OC groups that normally succeed anyway.

I personally find other stats like info/stealth/wack a little more enticing, so I wouldn't personally use this at this moment on my own playing character, but, it does open the doors to adding in some payout modifiers with OCs or other things that may take advantage of this in the future like specialization roles for OCs (Info guy gets intel, stealth guy breaks in and checks if the coast is clear, wacker is the muscle to wave the gun around if he needs to calm a crowd, safe/lockpicker does the final deed, bla bla bla)

The better fit they are for the roles, the better chance of success kinda thing.