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Idocers and scripters are both greedy. The only difference is one of them is a cheat.
The scripters greed is evidenced by what they do in resorting to a cheat to get richer. The idocers greed is evidenced by the vulture mentality that is seen when a house goes into decay.
When we desperately need gold sinks to take gold and even items out of the game why to we perpetuate with the idoc system which just circulates the wealth amongst an ever decreasing player base. A lot of that gold and items from idocs was probably duped or bought from a duper anyway. Just have done with idocs and take the gold and items out of the game.
The scripters greed is evidenced by what they do in resorting to a cheat to get richer. The idocers greed is evidenced by the vulture mentality that is seen when a house goes into decay.
When we desperately need gold sinks to take gold and even items out of the game why to we perpetuate with the idoc system which just circulates the wealth amongst an ever decreasing player base. A lot of that gold and items from idocs was probably duped or bought from a duper anyway. Just have done with idocs and take the gold and items out of the game.
Preferential to letting scripters have full rein obviously and as this latest change does just that..... Why Not?
I agree that most of these IDOC's will fall into the scripters hands but I also feel that these are the some of the same people who would have recieved the items anyways. While there is a portion of the player base who will not adapt to this change I think that those who played this angle alot will simply push play and go to bed. We all know that there is even a smaller chance that any accounts will be banned now vs last year vs 2 years back and so forth.
I think that Goldberg as come to the conclusion that those who have been posting here about the change act and sound greedy in their approach, though I can't speak for him. I feel this way and have done my best to not hide that.
All in all it's just meh.
Ok i might exagerated on the slayers, but i do have all super slayer scrappers, a magery book, a spellweaving, necromancer book, mysticism book, corgul book, ninjitsu and chivalry book, a bushido book, conjurer grimoire, yes i do have ahybrid template with alot of skills, i also carry around 5 runebooks. Now if by misfortune a looted ring fall behind one of the book, good luck finding it quick
You can't but you can push play and have your comp make a noise when the house falls, or have a set of item ID's at hand waiting to be picked up, you could use a weight check to then call a recall sub such that you arrive at a house to drop loot off into a box on the steps.
What they do ...... and I've seen it done is there is ONE guy on a paid account followed by 8 to 10 or more "young" players all named something similar like "Sally 1" ... The one player stations himself/herself in the centerish of the house and all the "youngs" are placed near where 99% of the chests are. When the house falls the "youngs" insta-grab most all the chest before they even hit the ground... Where they hold them on their cursor not in the backpack so they can stand there all day long like that with the heaviest of chests. It's not like anything "bad" will happen to them they are "young" so no monster is going to wander over and hurt them or anything... And they stand there until most everyone is gone then one by one they will "drop" the chest at the feet of the guy/girl who is the actual "played" account he goes to each one and collects what they have. If they chest is too "heavy" the bot will drop it and he'll grab something out of it and the bot picks it back up.... again holding it on his cursor until ordered to drop it again. This gives the one controlling them all the time in the world to come by and collect the stuff.
The only thing they "script" is the initial loot grab at the start of the house dropping. He obviously has some sort of script that gets them to pick up the item and keep it on the cursor. Anyone can hold a chest on their cursor for hours on end... no matter how much it weighs. Long as you don't log out or try to move your fine. Now a "real" paid player wouldn't be able to do that indefinitely someone would lure something onto you and you'd die. But since these are young characters they have no worries at all.
I've watched this happen on many occasions. Sad thing is if there are 2 or 3 IDOC's at the same time the guy will set up the "bots" and go to another IDOC and then after he finishes there he'll come back and grab the stuff from his bots at the other IDOC's. You can watch this happen over and over and over on GL's. I'm sure this person does it on any number of shards but I've first hand seen it dozens of times on GL's where I used to try to "compete" with the Bots. Can't be done.
Play Siege...no youngs here...la
I do... there is no one there.
Oh, you shove past a few on occasion while your walking around stealthily to avoid being dirtnapped by the homicidal types or being ripped off by the thieves. Being seen can be deadly or at least leave you poorer than you were a moment ago, so most of us stay hidden.
That's why I love having GM tracking and detect...la
As do I but it makes for a boring solitary lonely existence that I just don't find very appealing.
That is honestly the saddest thing I've read about a UO server ever.
How can anyone call this fun?
It adds a couple definite challenges, survival and protecting your treasures, something prodo shards lack as a rule, even in Fel these days. Life on Siege is more fun because of these qualities, much more fun. Whaffle around carelessly here and your shy unblessed goods or your life. <g>
I've yet to be killed here though I've gotten whomped on seriously. It keeps you alert and feeling very alive.
No, because I didn't take the position that an aspect of the game needed changing. I didn't say I wanted Mysticism or Magery changed. You're the only one that wanted to change something as well as keep something the same. I just wanted something many of my fellow players enjoy doing not to be ruined by changes and it was. You can't turn someone into a hypocrite just by making up a fake position for them to take in your own mind.
I finally gave in and started using the EC on a few occasions. Was beginning to be able to take it in small doses, but something in this last patch messed it up.
The icons in the hotbars continue to disappear, everytime I log in I have to reset them. It isnt hard, but it's annoying as hell to have to do it everytime.
So goodbye EC, till this gets fixed
The icons in the hotbars continue to disappear, everytime I log in I have to reset them. It isnt hard, but it's annoying as hell to have to do it everytime.
So goodbye EC, till this gets fixed
Uriah, have you tried using Pinco's new UI. It's in Beta 7 and is quite stable now. I have not experienced missing icons in Pincos...
Might have to try Pinco's then. Last time I did it was buggy, if it's worked out taht would be great!
The current build of Pinco's is really good, definitely worth a download!
In Tram Blackthorn? Here's an idea: Go to Fel, you don't have the "No pets" restriction while walking in the castle there. Or, y'know, you can use a Corrupted Crystal Portal to bypass the castle(s) entirely and warp straight to the dungeon.
I'm down in Blackthorn regularly on my sampire and I've been lured on ONCE in the past couple weeks, somebody brought a greater dragon over (and a drake one other time, but they aren't worth mentioning.) Getting them is still FAR too easy like Goldberg said.
Are you using plain EC or Pinco's? If Pinco's, post in this thread and he's pretty good about getting things fixed.
https://stratics.com/community/threads/pincos-ui-6-0-beta.326871/page-16
Sadly many are to scared to walk visible, even in town, I don't know why. It seem like all thieves left us, except Rico and all our PK's decided to go blue.
That bug happens without Pinco. I am running on it on all my accounts on the chars I don't use pinco with.
There were never any thieves to begin with
Saves us the potential hassle of having to find a healer and then replace armor and other gear.
I can imbue a new set of armor myself, unlike most, but even then I would need to go get the materials to do so or replace what I use from my stocks. Simpler to just do the slow stealth around town and avoid that hassle. <shrugs>
PK's do not kill their favorite Shop owner or if they do, it's only their way to day hello and give you a hugs.
You should try to get a steward, dress him with a spare suit, for if you get looted and a nag at his feet's, with the tools you use to carry.
This way, the suit is ready, if you ever will need it. Now lets see if you are right, and you soon will need it or it will sit there to until it breaks old age.
You should try to get a steward, dress him with a spare suit, for if you get looted and a nag at his feet's, with the tools you use to carry.
This way, the suit is ready, if you ever will need it. Now lets see if you are right, and you soon will need it or it will sit there to until it breaks old age.
Made a couple extra outfits and jewelry when I first came to Siege and their both knee deep in dust bunnies.This way, the suit is ready, if you ever will need it. Now lets see if you are right, and you soon will need it or it will sit there to until it breaks old age.
*Weeps tears of joy.*
All this does is make it harder for people who don't have a pickup script
Movetype FTW!
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Well ****. Navrey becomes almost unsoloable then. Which is pretty bad for low population shards.Just tested the Stone Shoes on Navrey and they no longer break you out of her web
She'd eat just about anyone alive in the time it takes for her web to wear off. Sampires become lunch for her, since they depend on attacking to leech back Health, and you can't attack while webbed. The only template i can think of that would stand a chance of surviving her web, is one with 120 Wep Skill/120 Parry/GM+ Healing/GM+ Anat/140+ DEX along with 150 Health and 70% DCI (good luck finding the Refinements). Even then, if you get a bad string of RNG you're gonna be lunch.
Wish they'd add Bone Helmets to the list of Blackthorn Artifacts.
Yes, Mesanna must had found out there was still a popular boss left in the game, so they better work on getting him back in row with that true MMO feeling you get at dreadhorn, blackthorns, grizzle and the like. But hey, that 5 PVPers that found it too hard to get a pair as well are happy now.
I've solo'd her a few times with my archer/bushy/chiv template.... Yep sometimes I die... but there is the fountain nearby and if well.... I die more than once I either call a friend or I hop on one of my other accounts dual client and run down and rez myself.... or go ghosting back to the entrance to the rez spot at the gravestone. But I try not to die... I've never used the stone boots. Even though I have a few pairs. Never really considered them useful. She really isn't that horrible... The "trick"...... well never mind. I'm keeping that one to myself.
The big difference between para and when Navrey webs you is that when you take damage while para'd you get free, but Navreys web doesn't end when you take damage, so you die. The stone boots/shoes at least gave you a chance. Para in PVP isn't going to kill you unless you are ganked by more than 1 person when you get paralyzed. When I tested this with Navrey on TC1, every time I was webbed I died. Oh and my char has 110 Resist and it was absolutely no help at all with Navrey.
Can confirm, my Tailor alt soloed Navery just to see if he could.
Tiny population and the people that are there stay hidden to avoid conflict.
Sounds like the opposite of Perilous to me.
Why in the world would anyone want to play in such a true carebear land?
Lack of insurance is no risk at all if you aren't engaging anyone and aren't even wearing anything of real value.
Being able to solo a boss intended to be fought by a group was/is never a good thing regardless of shard population.
If you unfortunately happen to play on a shard unable to sustain itself you should maybe rethink your play style instead of abusing unintended workarounds imo.
Or simply move if fighting a group based boss is what you like to do.
its not that hard. just use pots / confidence / evasion when webbed. i never used stone shoes for it, honestly dont think many players even realized these worked. that was years ago in a MUCH lower quality suit than is available now with recent gear / loot increases. Remember, we got stone shoes with high seas, after Navery. Im not sure their effect on the webs was ever intended either.
As an archer I can't "evade" anything... I don't use Pots either. I just simply kept a level head ........ don't panic heal through it. Trick is to keep a good distance. And move around. Don't just stand there.... that's suicide. Sure sometimes you get caught a little too close. But many a time she just bounces up and down while your webbed and moves pretty slow. So often the effect is over before she jumps you. More often than not I was able to heal through her damage, with nothing but bandages. Getting all jumpy and panicky everytime she webs you is the downfall.
And I agree with many others.... there should be stuff in the game NOT meant to be Solo'd. I get irritated when I hear folk cry about not being able to solo crap... this game is an MMO it's meant to be played with others. Learn to do that.
Didn't even realize you could use Confidence/Evasion during her web, since Stun effects usually keep you from doing anything. I usually "solo" her with a Chiv Thrower while my Bard/Mage sits back running Disco on Navrey. I'll just have to swap to my Bard/Mage and heal up my Thrower when he gets webbed then, and hope the heals don't aggro Navrey onto my Bard/Mage.
Yeah, if she tries to web you while you're in the middle of a spellcast, the web fails because technically you're already "paralyzed" while casting the spell.i also noticed if you spam chiv spells like heal over and over .. if your casting while being webbed you don't get caught up.. don't work everytime but i guess its an option.
Navrey does make a noise a split second before she tries to web you, so you could try to cast Close Wounds as soon as you hear that noise. Spamming Close Wounds though, won't do much good, since you can't swing a wep while in the middle of a spellcast, and would end up butchering your damage output by trying to spam Close Wounds.
Mages on the other hand, can keep their distance and spam away on her with Flamestrike, the long cast time can protect you against most web attempts. I have a Bard/Mage friend with 100%+ SDI, and he hits her for 300+ damage Flamestrikes while she's Discoed, and on the rare occurence that she does land a Web on him, he just area peaces during it.
Not everyone stealth's around. quite a few of us prefer to be visible and could care less about losing a suit, or anything else.
You tried this on TC1 or Origin?