Scents and Tracking

[RonPaulFTW]

I don't have larceny but it let me take and destroy stuff. I guess I just wanted to be on the other side of things for once. Having my stuff burned to the ground and being to low at the time to do anything about it. I did trespass though. Do you have to be online for them to summon you?

If you don't have larceny and waste but it let you steal and destroy things then you weren't on a claim so you did not leave evidence, evidence is necessary to summon someone. You can use evidence at the criminals homestead to summon them if they are offline or in Boston, if they have no homestead you can summon kill them without having to find their base.
It sucks to be a newb and have your **** trashed but it sucks even more to have people tracking you down to kill you, just learn how to build a base with good enough defenses to keep out raiders, or find an abandoned base to squat in until you have the resources to build and claim a better one.

Do you have to break through the criminals defenses to get to his homestead? Don't you end up committing a crime in the process then?

[DarkNacht]

I don't have larceny but it let me take and destroy stuff. I guess I just wanted to be on the other side of things for once. Having my stuff burned to the ground and being to low at the time to do anything about it. I did trespass though. Do you have to be online for them to summon you?

If you don't have larceny and waste but it let you steal and destroy things then you weren't on a claim so you did not leave evidence, evidence is necessary to summon someone. You can use evidence at the criminals homestead to summon them if they are offline or in Boston, if they have no homestead you can summon kill them without having to find their base.
It sucks to be a newb and have your **** trashed but it sucks even more to have people tracking you down to kill you, just learn how to build a base with good enough defenses to keep out raiders, or find an abandoned base to squat in until you have the resources to build and claim a better one.

Do you have to break through the criminals defenses to get to his homestead? Don't you end up committing a crime in the process then?

If he has them, yes. And attacking a summoned criminal or stealing his stuff, even if it is stolen, is still a crime so make sure you are able to defend yourself before going off to get vengeance.