Scripting and Powerscrolls
Let me preface by saying I don't pvp, am just a peaceful Trammy
Tamer with a dream that one day nobody see's Red, Orange or Blue just
shades of Grey. Being a tamer I need scrolls for pets, not being a pvper
its nigh impossible.
Essentially players
are extorted into paying as ej accounts cant get scrolls to drop in fel,
however once you pay you realize You still cant get a scroll because
you are raided 100 percent of the time by scripters (the
majority for RMT's).
i use this term loosely "Dev team" wont allow 120 scrolls to drop in Tram, why?
So they extort you to pay then allow RMT's to steal what you work so hard to get and expect you to pay again for the scrolls?
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That's it.
While it is unrealistic to bind 110s into 120s since it takes way too many of them (120 "matching" 110s), meaning that one needs a ridicolously high number of Treasure Maps and an unresonable time to find all those chests, fight the spawn, and dig hundreds if not thousands of Treasure Chests up, before they can bind all those many "matching" 110s into a 120.
This unreasonable and ridicolous waste of time, compares with the few minutes needed to do a spawn for those Guilds which can basically do them unarmed as they are those raiding, and hardly anyone raids them.
It is simply unrealistic and a futile attempt to try get 120s doing Treasure Maps as it is.
If, instead, 115 Powerscrolls were to finally be added to Treasure Chests, while still taking a way much longer time to bind them into a 120 as compared to doing a spawn and getting 115 and 120 drops in a matter of minutes, at least, it would now become a reasonable alternative way as to doing Spawns for players to get 120s for their characters and pets.
That is what should be done, really, to my opinion.
if enemy comes in more numbers they could win champ, if they come with less numbers, just kill them.
why does it matter if you get spotted by a bot or you get spotted by the wife?
just always be prepared.
bots will stop when town crier barks that champ is being worked same as Krampus .
complain about town crier not yet barking location instead of complaining about the bots.
tackle the cause of the crime”
But I do still have characters I'd like to create and train up so; I'm going to chime in on the above first two posts that seem pretty thoughtful and reasonable.
At this late date and at the risk of pissing off the fraction of the players who control the lion's share of PS's, I really don't see why there can't be an expansion on how we work our way to owning 120's.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to speed up a method in Trammel for gathering scrolls to bind. All I've ever heard from others is how it's such a ridiculously slow process no one bothers with it.
I realize PS's were and I guess still are meant to throw pvpers a bone, but does it really need to remain such a restricted system now? I dunno, I've never cared for the whole Power Scrolls thing to begin with. So perhaps that's another reason why I'm not very qualified to speak to it. For me they've always been a part of some of the changes that I thought were a bummer to come back to after a lengthy time away from the game.
That said, it was decided PS's would become very important to players and I guess there's no unringing the bell. But with populations as they are, is it really so important to still keep them so difficult for the average more casual player to get?
Why can't players rich with gold continue to pay what the market will bear for the 120's obtained in Felucca but truly let others invest time into a different system that will eventually lead to 120's? Why create this binding scrolls thing then go so overboard on the time you'd need to invest that it immediate becomes an unappealing and unused system?
Maybe I'm wrong on this. Maybe lots of people are enjoying the process for binding scrolls to create their 120's. I've never done it, but all I've ever heard is it sucks so no one bothers. Maybe another level of difficulty could be added that will speed up the process? Maybe add a quest that takes teamwork; the prize is a drop that's used as a component to speed up the binding.
Maybe have this component used in a way that it renders a 120 that lands in your pack as a character bound or account bound item. Then it doesn't cut into the efforts of those who hunt scrolls in Felucca and sell them on vendors.
Grimbeard said:
Now everyone loves in game vendor search.
dev needs to address issue by making town crier bark”
Powerscrolls (and some VvV rewards for use by VvV members) are the ONLY thing that we have and you want to move in on that market.
When i say town crier should bark location of champ being worked, i meant the town crier in trammel too, so everyone can read"
Champ spawns have always been a topic of contention, I even remember one pvper demanding that champion spawns should be banned during the day because he was at school! I mention no names, but maybe I'm not the only player who remembers that?
Bots need banning, no matter what they're being used for. They are a blight on the game.
1) The Tram spawns have an automatic respawn timer. I know for the seasonal events it's 30 minutes, though I don't do the other spawns often enough to know what it is for them (I assume that it's 30 minutes though.) The Easter event spawn was done in maybe 5-10 minutes on LS.
So, what are you telling me? My only options for scrolling up new characters is to magically become skilled at pvp so I can survive and or raid Felucca champ spawns? I think that ship has sailed. Better still, should I become proficient at piloting characters using multiple clients, using multiple monitors to increase my chances at getting scrolls? No thanks.
Or do I need to start playing enough hours to farm enough gold to buy scrolls off you? Or do I have to buy gold with real life monies from "players" who do have the time to farm gold, so I can buy scrolls off you? Or should I just forget scrolling up characters and miss out on pretty much all the game content that's been added, since the advent of PS's, that requires having fully scrolled up avatars to be able to survive and take part in the content?
Saying I want to move in on the market is bs. I want to invest a reasonable amount of gametime into a system that allows me to eventually earn 120 power scrolls for myself. Why put the system for binding the scrolls in at all if it's so messed up it isn't used?
Why create content that completely depends on your avatars being power-scrolled up and then watch scrolls become increasingly more and more difficult and expensive for the average casual player to obtain them? Not to mention difficult to find because of dwindling populations.
I'm not spending gold at your or anyone else's vendors to get power scrolls, because I don't have the gold to do so. So how am I robbing you if I devote playtime to a reasonably slower, but not impossible, process to earn them? You're not losing a thing. And it's not like you wouldn't be able to bind scrolls more easily too and sell them or use them for yourself. Players that want what they want when they want it aren't going to stop buying your power scrolls.
I don't feel I'm being at all selfish here, Yoshi. I truly don't.
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Have to agree Felucca trove and hoard chests should contain higher level maps. The 110’s don’t have much value. Higher level maps would get more players to go there so the needs of those players that hunt other players would be better met.
Not saying anything intended to indicate one play style is somehow better than another. Players should be able to choose the play style they enjoy but UO should not be trying to make that decision for them.
On a slightly different note one thing which would reduce this practice is to restrict EJ accounts to Tram, they can’t benefit from Champ spawns anyway so they have no need in Fel, and if they desire to pvp subscribe.
As for the pvp’ers who claim they need BOTs to be active, it’s a shame that you feel the need to cheat in order to play a 20 year old game. Of course the same cheaters, I mean pvp’ers that claim they must have BOTs also cry that they need scripts and 3rd party programs to compete in pvp. I find it disheartening that the staff of this game continues to condone such actions.
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Currency is used in exchange for goods and services, you do whatever it is you do and sell for gold, we are spending 2 million every time we cast teleport...(tele ring)
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Add in Blackthorn with a large group
BODs
Selling items from the UO Store
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Who are you? I'm making a post in someone's (not yours) thread who explicitly stated that they were a trammel based tamer who prefers to never see any hostile player. Maybe while I work on that reading comprehension you think I need, you should work on realizing that everything posted under some random post of yours in a thread you didn't start isn't directed at you, and if it were then you'd probably be quoted in that post, for example like I've done in this post.