Talk:Thief hideout/@comment-190.183.68.6-20121105165557/@comment-4115045-20121105202134

If you can keep your shop level below 30 while leveling your sorceress and thug to the required levels to check, please let us know the outcome.

So far nobody has reported being held back by shop level. That could mean this is no requirement or that nobody got it that soon that it interfered.