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The new event is so much fun!

Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
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This half an hour and counting of sitting at Luna bank with a bunch of wordless people who are probably mostly bots or something is just riveting.

Oh man, it's so exciting. At any moment the town crier might yell out a set of sextant coordinates that don't mean anything to me, and then the real fun begins. Will anyone bother to throw a gate to the rest of us, will we be allowed to participate at all, or are we literally just wasting our time?

So much more interesting than being able to log on and go to the void pool to farm hats. You could reliably get into action there at any time and work toward whatever you wanted, there wasn't any precious sitting around waiting to see if anyone else will let you play. It didn't give you any mandatory downtime to stink up the forum.

Brilliant, brilliant move gating this much content behind a single niche template like tmapper. You guys are real serious game designers full of great ideas.
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  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 393
    edited October 29
    town crier might yell out a set of sextant coordinates that don't mean anything to me,
    I mess with a sextant last month for an IDOC, I was about to give up after 15min when i spotted 2 red.. followed them and voilà.

    Before the event even start I was saying: no way i'm gonna rage on the sextant hunt event.


    As far as I know 2 manifestations were summoned on legends today.. i'm not missing much.. it was fun beating down portal trying to help tamer running for their lives casting an lor xen on the only manifestation I did.

    If I ever gonna do another one.. I'm going dual account.
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?
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  • Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
    After only fifty minutes of exciting sitting at a largely silent bank it finally happened! The crier yelled out some coordinates that meant nothing to me, but helpfully said something about the forest west of Minoc!

    Literally nothing seemed to be happening at the bank, and I don't have runes to random patches of forest, so I took the public Moongate to Minoc and ran around on my own. After ten or so minutes of not finding anything at all, I got back to Luna bank to see that no one else had moved.

    Bravo devs, bravo! Chef's kiss! You're really making the most of that limited content budget!
  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,985
    edited October 29
    LOL NOOB.  We dont feel sorry for you not knowing what a sextant is or how to use  it.  The boss sits there 5 min before it turns red.  Plenty of time to run there.

    I've done two, got the bow and some cards.

    Wallow in self pity somewhere else or take the dang gate and quit whining.

    Lots on LS think:

    The new event is so much fun!

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  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,985
    Lore page of Boss:


    Cu works fine.  Resists so high any pet would work.  I have yet to see anyone die from him or the adds.

    Warrior:  Another dismount Boss...  Disarms too, but like a pet does, not often.
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  • Arnold7Arnold7 Posts: 1,404
    If you are using EC, and in Trammel, when you get the coordinates set up a midpoint on the map and give it a name like yu.  Then look on the map for the red midpoint marked yu.  That’s where you need to go.  I keep my map pretty clean so it’s usually the only midpoint on the map.  I use a rune book containing about eight runes for various landmarks around Trammel so i can recall to quickly to be area closest to the midpoint.  I will use a gate if someone casts one, but most of the time with events like this one, I am somewhere else.  Know CC map has some kind of limitations but this method works pretty good for EC.  Will start doing this event tonight.
  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 2,254
    Excited to see how we do on baja tonight with the off sharders gone
  • Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
    Pawain said:
    LOL NOOB.

    Oh look, it's the devs personal bootlicker. Shouldn't you be on the NL forum telling people that their bug reports are actually brilliant intended features?
  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,985
    Lord_Nythrax said:
    Pawain said:
    LOL NOOB.

    Oh look, it's the devs personal bootlicker. Shouldn't you be on the NL forum telling people that their bug reports are actually brilliant intended features?
    Came here to talk about these intended features that give other templates a chance to do events.

    Kinda like u not knowing how to use a sextant, works as intended tho.
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  • psychopsycho Posts: 334

    In all fairness I think you should give it some time.  Its day #1 of the event and you complain.

    an alternative to the sextant is to use UOAM the map tool to plot in coords.



    In Eodon there seem to be a bug with missing coords:


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  • Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
    edited October 29
    This event is trash on a conceptual level. There are a billion different content systems in this game that lay around rotting because they don't drop anything anyone wants, and when they do decide to add some new items, what do they do? Invent some convoluted crap like this.

    Someone in another thread has a whole page of code you can add to the EC to have it drop a waypoint. Which is cool, good effort, but why is it even like this? What is this adding to the game?

    If an alternate world where they had just taken these items and slapped them on Doom bosses (or Ilshenar champs, or Abyss champs, or literally whatever) no one would be standing around going "Oh man you know what would have been badass is if this were all linked to how many tmaps people do and we all had to banksit for hours while holding sextants instead! Real missed opportunity devs!"
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 393
    Eodon manifestation? fuck me  :(
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?
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  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,985
    KroDuK said:
    Eodon manifestation? fuck me  :(
    Yup.  Wherever the map is done that brings him up.  Cant gate there either.  :D
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  • CookieCookie Posts: 1,538
    This has not been a good night for me, on Atlantic.
    3 manifestations.
    1st. I could not get there in time.
    2nd. The boss died so fast I never even saw it.
    3rd. I made it, I attacked boss, I never got looting rights. 

    Bug report - Eodon Manifestation text is so long it cannot actually give the co-ordinates so it is pure luck to find it.

    A lot of wasted time waiting around for nothing, then achieving nothing.

    At least on Europa, I'll have my treasure hunter, and be able to get around faster.
    But for a day 1 experience, this was as bad as it gets for me. Did not enjoy it, felt I should have done. :(
  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,985
    So the event is so popular, you have to do a lot of damage on Atlantic to get a drop.
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  • Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
    I no longer care about how inconvenient it is to run through the woods clicking a sextant.

    I got to one in time, and afterward I have no idea what any of the mobs even were. There was a huge crowd of people, the lag was crippling, and everything died the instant it spawned. Not only could I not hit the boss, I couldn't even tell it had spawned. I didn't know it was over until people started recalling out.

    This is like if the void pool ended after wave 10 except you had to camp a town crier for an hour and do a little run through the forest each time.

    This event is a bust. Complete crap. They would have been a billion times better off adding these as limited-time paragon artifacts or some nonsense like that.
  • Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
    Pawain said:
    So the event is so popular, you have to do a lot of damage on Atlantic to get a drop.

    Yeah it's "popular" because it's so good, right? Everyone's having so much fun stumbling around while monsters they can't see get insta-killed by script-targeters once an hour. Good job devs on making such a "popular" event.

    God you're pathetic.
  • looploop Posts: 390
    Same experience as Lord_Nythrax, more or less. Poor event thus far.
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 393
    edited October 30
    get insta-killed by script-targeters
    I feel you on that one, such a shame of fun wasted content, stupid cheat engine went mainstream cuz of mismanagement.. just had the third one on Legend.. this manifestation wouldn't stop disarming unlike the first one I did.. I just decided to deal portal on the paladin, and lure the creeps into my thief for EV's support.

    Was a solid 10 min of fun.. both satchel were disapointing tho.. I got a murder mystery cursed despair bottle.. nothing in the patch notes and i'm scared to dbl click it.  :|


    Pawain said:
    KroDuK said:
    Eodon manifestation? fuck me  :(
    Yup.  Wherever the map is done that brings him up.  Cant gate there either.  :D
    I can't enter eodon, i'm not paying for free stuff.. the infuriating part is the most worthy map are all eodon if i'm not mistaking.  :s

    I can't wait..


    Edit: imagine how could it would be if the NM heresy would be more than parade horse for collector?
    Imagine some dope ass sandbox content like the felluca special mares you could skin sexy hides!
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?
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  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,985
    Lord_Nythrax said:
    Pawain said:
    So the event is so popular, you have to do a lot of damage on Atlantic to get a drop.

    Yeah it's "popular" because it's so good, right? Everyone's having so much fun stumbling around while monsters they can't see get insta-killed by script-targeters once an hour. Good job devs on making such a "popular" event.

    God you're pathetic.
    You choose to play on Atlantic.  We all get drops every round on LS.

    So according to you, they can make an unpopular event that is so crowded that yall cant get drops.
    Sounds like genius development!  Id hate to see a popular event then.
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  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 393
    Pawain said:
    Pawain said:
    So the event is so popular, you have to do a lot of damage on Atlantic to get a drop.

    Yeah it's "popular" because it's so good, right? Everyone's having so much fun stumbling around while monsters they can't see get insta-killed by script-targeters once an hour. Good job devs on making such a "popular" event.

    God you're pathetic.
    You choose to play on Atlantic.  We all get drops every round on LS.

    So according to you, they can make an unpopular event that is so crowded that yall cant get drops.
    Sounds like genius development!  Id hate to see a popular event then.
    your so disingenuous..
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?
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  • usernameusername Posts: 843
    Not a huge fan of the recycled content of the Krampus mechanic.

    However, it sure beats the mind numbing killing of stuff for turn in points, aka the TOT mechanic.

    Best part though is all the "press play and go to sleep" bots are incredibly salty they can't afk farm this content. That's priceless, and for that alone, A+ event
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  • Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
    Pawain said:

    You choose to play on Atlantic.  We all get drops every round on LS.

    So according to you, they can make an unpopular event that is so crowded that yall cant get drops.
    Sounds like genius development!  Id hate to see a popular event then.

    Who cares what you and the other five people on your dead shard get? Are they paying you to be a stooge or something? They could attach limited-time items to any piece of garbage content and get a bunch of multiboxers to show up on Atlantic.
  • KingKing Posts: 54
    @Kyronix on atlantic the Boss die in less than 5 secs

  • Lord_NythraxLord_Nythrax Posts: 394
    How did the person who thought of this system even pitch it to everyone else?

    "So tmappers do all the work, right? Everyone else gets enforced banksitting if they expect to participate. Then when the boss pops, we don't put it at a fixed location or offer gates, we have everyone run there on foot. Running and clicking a sextant counts as fun gameplay, right? Yeah so anyway we have everyone on Atlantic converge on like one boss per hour tops so that it's a total trainwreck where the boss dies in one second, while dead shards barely see the boss at all."

    They probably envisioned this as some grand collaborative effort, but they have a very difficult time predicting how their designs will actually translate into human behavior, because they're not very good at this. When one of these events turns out to actually be fun, it's basically a coincidence.
  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,985
    edited October 30
    Instead of banksitting, I kill butchers and Grimms. Then go to town when they make gates for the boss.

    Maybe think out of the box. And not just copy what others do.

    How did the person who thought of this system even pitch it to everyone else?

    "So tmappers do all the work, right? Everyone else gets enforced banksitting if they expect to participate. Then when the boss pops, we don't put it at a fixed location or offer gates, we have everyone run there on foot. Running and clicking a sextant counts as fun gameplay, right? Yeah so anyway we have everyone on Atlantic converge on like one boss per hour tops so that it's a total trainwreck where the boss dies in one second, while dead shards barely see the boss at all."

    They probably envisioned this as some grand collaborative effort, but they have a very difficult time predicting how their designs will actually translate into human behavior, because they're not very good at this. When one of these events turns out to actually be fun, it's basically a coincidence.

    Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
  • Petra_FydePetra_Fyde Posts: 1,454
    @Lord_Nythrax I saw at least one treasure hunter on Europa ask for volunteers to help with the spawn on his Trove map. You could offer to help with spawn? You don't have to be a treasure hunter to help kill the guardians any more than you are forced to sit at the bank with your glass of wine.

    @KroDuK I'm really tired of reading your nasty comments about Boardsword. Learn the name of the damn company! it's BROADSWORD. B R O A D not B O A R D. 
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 393
    edited October 30
    @ KroDuK I'm really tired of reading your nasty comments about Boardsword. Learn the name of the damn company! it's BROADSWORD. B R O A D not B O A R D. 
    The elf imbuer is pissed! I wonder why?  <3

    PS: mocking dyslexia ain't cool  :*
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?
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  • RinerRiner Posts: 379
    I agree bank sitting is boring, so I don’t do it. Personall, I take my trapper out. Complaining about not having one to take part is sort of like whining you can’t get drops without a sampire. It’s been said in other events not everything is fo or every template. Just because you choose not to have a tamper doesn’t mean others aren’t enjoying the change. So take part or don’t but for gods sake stop whining.
  • FenriswolfFenriswolf Posts: 67
    Petra_Fyde said:
    @ Lord_Nythrax I saw at least one treasure hunter on Europa ask for volunteers to help with the spawn on his Trove map. You could offer to help with spawn? You don't have to be a treasure hunter to help kill the guardians any more than you are forced to sit at the bank with your glass of wine.

    @ KroDuK I'm really tired of reading your nasty comments about Boardsword. Learn the name of the damn company! it's BROADSWORD. B R O A D not B O A R D. 
    that was me, ive spawned 4 bosses so far on Europa and will always open gates for anyone wanting to join in
  • FenriswolfFenriswolf Posts: 67
    edited October 30
    Lord N, you can also use this site - it has rough co-ordinate maps for each facet also - https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/world/facet-maps/
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