Scripting and Powerscrolls
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And that is a hell of a HUGE advantage since, to my viewing, the biggest asset is TIME.
Thus, having BOTs do the searching is a hell of a HUGE advantage, to my opinion.
PvPers who want to look for targets, to my opinion, should go out and ACTIVELY search for them, using their own time in the game, not through automated and scripted BOTs.
It would still require effort and time to get matching 115s to bind them into a 120, doing Spawns would still be more efficient and less time consuming.
So why not add 115s to Treasure Chests ? I see no valid arguments to oppose this change.
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Powerscrolls, are almost us just letting our hair down, and playing the game.
Why not go do spawns and get your own scrolls? You're clearly underestimating how much non-pvp content the pvp'ers in this game actually do. Before the devs fixed some of the bugs with Shadowguard, I would run it...3x a day, I believe? Each run took just over an hour, start to finish. @CovenantX was one of my guildmates at the time & he brought a few chars as well. Same when we went through the post-revamp Doom. We also ran Zipactriotl when it was added.
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That's because we approach the game differently and with different mindsets. Pvpers look at the mechanics of the game, break them down and play around them, trammies largely look at the monsters in the game, put on their biggest slayer, and AI until it dies without any further thought to it. There are very few exceptions to that generalization, for example the CAH members are some of the only trammies I've ever met who actually work around the mechanics of the game instead of being mindless drones.
if you plot a course on a map and give it to the tillerman, you’re not allowed to go afk on the boat? Your char is moving along a plotted course afk…
go report afk farmers who are killing things in fandancer dungeon and actually interacting in game.
if someone has bard following their char for buffs, that bard is performing action - giving buff to player, it’s more action than scout bot is doing that does nothing but look”
The players using hidden, stealthing free EJ BOT Cams are only able to do it because they use unauthorized, to my understanding illegal (against the TOS) Third Party utilities which permit them to run very complex scripts AND send notices to Discord Channels for players to see and Raid spawns ....
Hardly something in respect of the Ultima Online TOS, to my understanding....
Yes, but wanting players to bind 110s into 120s off of Treasure Chests is, to my opinion, an unreasonable proposition.... in order to gather from Treasure chests 120 "matching" 110s which are needed to bind a 120, not only a lot more of 120 Treasure Maps would need to be gathered, chests locations found, Guardians fought, but this would take an enormous investment of time.
So much enormous, that it makes it a futile and impossible task.
Different it would be, if Treasure Chests were to be made possible to also spawn 115 powerscrolls..... then, while binding "matching" 115s into 120s would still take a significant effort and investment of time, at least , it would become more reasonable as doing it off of 110s which is basically an impossible task, way too much time consuming...
Those players wanting 120s faster could still do Champion Spawns but at least, those players unable to do Champion Spawns could still have a reasonably feasible alternate way to earn on their own 120s through the binding of 115s.
Some might not consider those prices as high, I guess it all depends on the ingame wealth of the player....regardless though, the real issue usually is, especially for players having Tamers, that players need "multiples" of those 120s.... not just one of each, but several, sometimes many of each.... so, those costs eventually add up and can easily become hundreds of millions of ingame gold...
Or you can spend 15-30 mins per spawn trying to get the 120's you want. your call.
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
and raiding your spawn
they are probably not afk…”
Covenant, get lost with your trammies don't want to learn to pvp. And you too, gay, with your 'mindless drone' BS.
You don't know the people you're trashing. You have no idea what their history with the game is. And you don't have some deep insight into the psychological profiles of the "Trammie" player.
I'm sure I'm not the only one left who was talking to developers on the old Crossroads message boards before the game even went gold. And I'm not the only player left who started playing during beta testing. And not the only one left who...
Had to cover everything in their backpack with a pile of death robes to keep reags, weapons and housekeys from being stolen.
Had reds (a group of course, not one on one) routinely camp outside your house, trying over and over again, to kill you for your key.
Had their housekey finally stolen after getting gang-ganked at the front door, ending with their house ransacked and looted. This did not happen to me. But it did happen to many.
Had reds come and kill you repeatedly on the porch of your classic forge while you worked your blacksmithing skill. Or when you were trying to decorate with holiday art, mostly homemade. And not because they could loot anything after their mass ebolting, but just for fun.
Had to deal with cheaters pretty much right from the start. And not a small cheat. I'm talking about groups being able to recall into a dungeon and lock everyone up in freezing lag. When you could finally move again you woke up dead and looted and not a red in sight. It took devs awhile on this one. They couldn't figure it out at first. I still don't know what voodoo was used to make it happen. I remember something about 'pinging the server' repeatedly, locked everyone up, except themselves, I guess. Black magic for sure. It sucked, that much I know.
Had to fight and die over and over again, trying to hang on to ore and ingots being gathered.
Had to endlessly deal with players for whom the harassment and griefing of others was the fun bit for them.
This list could go on and on and on. My real point is, I had a butt ton of fun regardless. I'm not saying I didn't often hate these things happening to me. I did; it was often very frustrating. Particularly when you had x-amount of time to play and you wanted to get something accomplished but pvpers had other plans. Sometimes it was enough to make you cry! lol But sometimes that was a big part of the fun too. And nothing from the list above is what made me leave UO. What made me leave was when they split the world in two.
I wanted a different solution to dealing with a long list of things that were driving players away from UO. I hated what the split did to the player population. More than that I hated how it changed gameplay. Very particularly I hated how, if you wanted to live without some of the things from the bummer list, you had to go live where a push-through code was added that completely took the challenge out of PvE. Something about how...well, if we don't let you push through everything there'll be players who'll keep griefing by blocking egress with crates and blah blah. Boooooo!
But the real capper for me was, and maybe this does speak to my psychological makeup, I couldn't take what had happened to the Felucca landscape. I really was so sad to see the trees die. That seemed like such a wicked punishment that wasn't deserved for those that wanted to stay in Felucca. So, I quit.
When I came back years later, I did return to Felucca but kept an eye open for a particular area in Trammel to open up. I wanted to live in a green UO landscape again.
You guys don't know me or other players living in Trammel like you think you do. We're a long way down the road now with many changes and additions to UO having come along. Like I said before, I'm really no fan of power scrolls. And it's not that I don't agree with idea that concentrating on gameplay instead of complaining is often very good advice.
That said, sometimes it's not a bad thing to be a squeaky wheel. I think how difficult and expensive it is to acquire power scrolls for your pets or for avatars with skillsets you've yet to explore. Or if you're just trying to effectively take part in PvE, PvM and the limited time events that come along, can be very frustrating.
I think there's a big disconnect between players, like me, who for many weeks might not log in for anything other than refreshing ships, and players who play UO almost every day. Often for a large number of hours.
I mean, telling someone all they need to do, in order to get power scrolls, is take the time to make 7xs GM's on multiple shards. So, they can take part in all the EM events. So, they can sell their prizes for lots of gold. So, they can go buy their wanted PS's, is pretty funny! And a huge disconnect from a player that just told you they can't devote that kind of time to UO.
I chimed in because, yeah, I think a change should come to getting these scrolls. I think the system for binding scrolls could be called broken, if it sucks so bad no one bothers to use it. Seems like it could use a tweak. Or something altogether new should be added. A time sink, an additional method of cooperative play that doesn't include bots and pkers. I don't care.
One thing I know for sure. If, for a myriad of valid reasons, a change does come, I'm not going to worry one bit about hurting the feelings of pvpers who want to keep complete control of most of the scrolls and want to call me, or anyone else, weak minded, lazy and selfish, because we think it's time for a change.
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If you are only logging in once, every few weeks, you are going to find it hard. End of story. Do you think the game should be revolved around you, and give you free and easy powerscrolls? How is that going to effect everyone else, and the game itself?
You see, when you get down to it, this is basically what you are asking for. You may be asking for it for all the right reasons - "You can play 1 hour a month, how can you make this easier for me?" - but really, should the game be catering for you? Can it cater to that playstyle? So basically, we are right, from our perspective, you are asking for it to be made a lot easier - what will this do to the rest of us, if we log in for 1 hour a month, achieve everything, then have nothing else to do?
I've got no issues the game trying to cater for your playstyle in certain areas, but is powerscrolls the place to do it?
LilyGrace said:I think there's a big disconnect between players, like me, who for many weeks might not log in for anything other than refreshing ships, and players who play UO almost every day. Often for a large number of hours.
Join one of the Felucca guilds, who hunt the powerscrolls, it is usually a team affair, it is not about holding or controlling as you portray it. Yes, for sure, we are prepared to fight, raid or defend for what we earn as such.
As you interact, and get to know players, make friends, and "trade" socially, it is highly likely you will be given whatever powerscrolls you need, if for personal use.
Don't be trying to play a team game, solo, from Trammel, with no community help, you are making it hard for yourself. Then from such a position of weakness, you are asking for the whole game to be made easier, to suit your playstyle of say 1 hour per month.
Yes, I play this game around the clock, it is integrated into my life, I talk to my guild in Discord the whole time, yet still somehow, I manage to have a life