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[UO Herald] Publish 74 Comes to Test Center

Theo_GL

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The same thing was said about each change that upped the quantity of val runics dropped. They are still almost as rare as before. Don't forget we went from averaging one val runic per shard per year to maybe a dozen or two.

I've done BODs almost non-stop since inception. I have a BOD only account but characters only on one shard. I've had up to 14 BOD runners collecting BODs for me and I still have NEVER had a val runic hammer.
Right with ya Zeke. I have 3/6 of the bods for the Val Hammer and I've been playing/doing bods for 9 years. Thats just stupid. Finished 2 Verite hammers - sold one and other is in bank box collecting dust.
 

Pinco

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Right with ya Zeke. I have 3/6 of the bods for the Val Hammer and I've been playing/doing bods for 9 years. Thats just stupid. Finished 2 Verite hammers - sold one and other is in bank box collecting dust.
and think that actually the val hammer worth at least 1/10 of what it should :/

This patch with bribery should bring much more runics around so all became cheaper... maybe we will see val hammers at 2 mil :O
 

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I have many many venders full of bod books i have collected sense the start and i to have not gotten a val hammer
 

spoonyd

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Please reconsider the 6 hr timer on ALL BODs. Getting junk BODs to fill would be much harder this way.:cursing:
 

RaDian FlGith

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Please note... they FAILED to fix the issue with runebook dye tubs and dying books to default color that instantly go back to brown. :thumbdown:
I'm not sure what you mean...

Just in case there's some confusion (probably on my end, but just in case), brown _is_ the default color of runebooks.
 

Viper09

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Please reconsider the 6 hr timer on ALL BODs. Getting junk BODs to fill would be much harder this way.:cursing:
I think that may be referring to how often you can get them.

Bulk Order Caching

NPCs will now allow cache up to 3 bulk order deeds for players
All BODs are limited to one every six hours; this is no longer dependent on crafting skill level
The system will "cache" up to 18 hours worth of BOD give outs
Players may claim all 3 deeds in quick succession
Turning in a BOD adds a new deed to the cache (up to 3)
Example: Log in after 18 hours and receive 3 deeds
Example: Receive 3 deeds, then turn in 3 filled deeds, and immediately receive 3 new deeds
 

R Traveler

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Please reconsider the 6 hr timer on ALL BODs. Getting junk BODs to fill would be much harder this way.:cursing:
You don't need too many junk bods now, you could upgrade them for gp much faster than turning again and again
 

Crysta

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Am I the only one that finds the Wrong changes boring? They could have at least added some new floors to the place to make it interesting, and not just fill it with more monsters than should be in such small spaces and enough locked doors to annoy most people.
 

kelmo

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Am I the only one that finds the Wrong changes boring? They could have at least added some new floors to the place to make it interesting, and not just fill it with more monsters than should be in such small spaces and enough locked doors to annoy most people.
Any suggestions for the next "Extreme Makeover: Dungeon Edition"? Seems this one is geared for dungeon thieves and such. Plenty of dungeons yet to make over yet.
 

Promathia

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Has anyone found out how to get to The Prison of Nightmares?
 

phantus

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Am I the only one that finds the Wrong changes boring? They could have at least added some new floors to the place to make it interesting, and not just fill it with more monsters than should be in such small spaces and enough locked doors to annoy most people.
Any suggestions for the next "Extreme Makeover: Dungeon Edition"? Seems this one is geared for dungeon thieves and such. Plenty of dungeons yet to make over yet.
I think they already missed the chance to differentiate themselves by making the new loot tables the same for all the dungeons instead of making certain prefix/suffix items only available in certain dungeons.

It does seem this seems more like a thief dungoen(a good thing.) I think a lot of people wanted to see themed dungeons or something similar. All in all this seems to be an ok publish but as always we will have to wait and see.

I don't understand how our HP stays the same but our weapons and armor continue to get better. At some point that will mathematically not work.
 

GalenKnighthawke

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Good job.

You can tell it's a good job because it took 14 posts for someone to say something obviously negative. (Though only 3 before something that might be negative.)

While my character doesn't much like the idea of only gaining loyalty in one town but as a player and occasional writer of RP fiction it makes fictional sense and something along those lines has, as I recall, been asked for for awhile.

-Galen's player
 

Martyna Zmuir

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  • Fixed the issue with how the garland hangs in the EC client
Better late, then never...

Now can you fix the ruined tapestry from Halloween 2009 too? It sits on the wrong edge of the tile in the EC and thus floats in mid air away from a wall.

Edit: Also, please add the 'statue' art for the Platinum and Crimson dragons into the EC - it doesn't exist and we can't see them when they are used.
 
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rieley

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Thank you UO/DEV team!!!!! You're putting a lot of work into UO and it's appreciated. You're also listening to the player's wishes, trying to please all wont be possible, however you're coming close.

Seriously, there is so much to do in this game. I love UO.

Now to choose a town.....hmmm.
 
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Sevin0oo0

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Am I the only one that finds the Wrong changes boring? They could have at least added some new floors to the place to make it interesting, and not just fill it with more monsters than should be in such small spaces and enough locked doors to annoy most people.
that's the one with the completely empty level 3? I'll be curious to see if everything's HP will be in the 1000's with an acid effect
 

Promathia

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Some new stealables

Torture Rack : Artifact Rarity 10



 

Viper09

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Am I the only one that finds the Wrong changes boring? They could have at least added some new floors to the place to make it interesting, and not just fill it with more monsters than should be in such small spaces and enough locked doors to annoy most people.
One step at a time. What they are doing now (changing the loot system, making monsters more challenging, etc) is a bit more important than adding new areas.
 

Ludes

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I really like the fact that they are putting so much time into our game Most changes I either really like or are non-opinionated about.

However I do wonder if simply going around and making all the dungeons twice as hard is actually wise?
Have we totally given up on new players?
 

MalagAste

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OOoo I'm excited... look at all them bug fixes!


The only thing that would have made this better would have been:

Updated the housing menu to allow up to 70 co-owners.



I'll keep hoping and praying ..... and prodding and poking... and mentioning... over and over and over again.... until it's fixed.
 

Theo_GL

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Please don't make this another publish where you roll out good ideas but screw them up with the details.

Runic Tool Combining - Increase the limit to 1,000 charges

* 100 charges is too small since DC's have 50 and Spined has 45 - you can only combine 2 with 100 charges. Thats stupid.

* Why limit this to runic tools? Why can't we also combine all craft tools? It would be SO much more useful to combine up sewing kits, tongs etc. Having a 5k use sewing kit would really help filling bods instead of having a bag of kits each time I want to work on bods.

Thanks!
 

Xalan Dementia

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Runic Tool Combining - Increase the limit to 1,000 charges

* 100 charges is too small since DC's have 50 and Spined has 45 - you can only combine 2 with 100 charges. Thats stupid.

* Why limit this to runic tools? Why can't we also combine all craft tools? It would be SO much more useful to combine up sewing kits, tongs etc. Having a 5k use sewing kit would really help filling bods instead of having a bag of kits each time I want to work on bods.

Thanks!
I would have figured they would have tested out the combining of tools on the normal tools and once they saw it worked right they could move on to Runics. Hopefully if the combining runics works well they can easily apply it to all tools.

Hopefully a few good testers can Copy over runic tools to test the combining. (i would but ive burned all mine long ago)
 
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Love the bard changes. Having to redo the bard mastery quests to change bard masteries was silly....especially given how silly the bard mastery quests were to begin with. I mean, discoing goats, provoking little bitty rabbits to attack healers and die. They're funny the first time though.

Others have covered the changes pretty well. Should be a fine update.

Only gripe is, yet again, no changes whatever, no upgrades to quests or gear, no improvement at all to the new player experience. Keeping us happy is important of course but UO cannot thrive if it remains the game where you have to have been there to be here.
 

Shelleybean

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I'm amazed at all of the bug fixes. Thank you devs! I am also intrigued by town loyalty. I'm probably going to pick Skara Brae and can't wait to test that out. However, devs please don't publish Wrong with the new loot without addressing the lingering issues in Shame!
This includes: low to non existant fame/karma/honor gains, very few monsters spawn treasure maps, and the loot categories are weird. Please remove fast casting and fast fast recovery from being attached to swing speed (http://vboards.stratics.com/uhall/256539-shame-weapon-jewel-mods.html), please fix paragons from spawning in SA (http://vboards.stratics.com/uhall/255628-sa-paragons.html) and are the renowned monsters even spawning????

I did a small amount of testing this evening by searching prison bedrolls. The cells are locked and you need lockpicking to open the cells. It looks like a lot of the bedrolls are trapped, some leaving me with only 1 hp and others you can tear up but reveal nothing. The only thing I found was a hole in the ground called a mysterious tunnel, but it seems to only lead to another part of the dungeon. I haven't come across anything so far. Someone please post if you find anything! :)
 

MagicStar

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Please note... they FAILED to fix the issue with runebook dye tubs and dying books to default color that instantly go back to brown. :thumbdown:
I hope someone gets fired for this!
Lol seriously with all these fixes and updates im doin the happy dance at work wishing i could run home

And this is the first thing to pop into your mind?
I bet its real hard to shop for birthday presents for you
Lol
 

wanderer1origin

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My number one bug fix in this publish!

And don't think I'm being sarcastic; I've made bolts of cloth sporadically for over a decade, and this has always bugged me.

I don't really understand this one. I frequently go through the Cavern of the Discarded to collect spellbooks for turn-in at the Britain Library. Sorrow.

Not sure what quite what this is about, but it gives me hope that they're trying to be vigilant about actually documenting all of their changes no matter how small, which has historically been a frequent problem with dev teams.

Perhaps you meant "appear?"
why would u drag drop spell books for library turn ins are u trying for a carpal tunnel, workman's comp claim at your job, gold killing decent beast turned in is higher and one clik
 

jskalski

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Thanks for all the comments everyone. Appreciate the comments on the additional bugs and feedback. I'll review with the team and pass on the kind words tomorrow.

Cheers,

Jeff
 

Crysta

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Please don't make this another publish where you roll out good ideas but screw them up with the details.

Runic Tool Combining - Increase the limit to 1,000 charges

* 100 charges is too small since DC's have 50 and Spined has 45 - you can only combine 2 with 100 charges. Thats stupid.

* Why limit this to runic tools? Why can't we also combine all craft tools? It would be SO much more useful to combine up sewing kits, tongs etc. Having a 5k use sewing kit would really help filling bods instead of having a bag of kits each time I want to work on bods.

Thanks!
Actually, I expect this is because of how much runic tools can be turned in for for clean-up, and the numbers jump rather exponentially as the charges increase. 100 charges was probably the upper limit of their comfort zone.
 

Kojak

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Actually, I expect this is because of how much runic tools can be turned in for for clean-up, and the numbers jump rather exponentially as the charges increase. 100 charges was probably the upper limit of their comfort zone.
if you turn in 10 hammers with 100 charges each or 1 hammer with 1000 charges, the turn in points are exactly the same so what are you talking about - there's no exponential curve anywhere in that equation
 

Zosimus

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This looks like a good publish. I will say I told some of you a while back that wrong would be the next dungeon :p

I'm very happy and excited for all the UO players :)
 

Theo_GL

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Actually, I expect this is because of how much runic tools can be turned in for for clean-up, and the numbers jump rather exponentially as the charges increase. 100 charges was probably the upper limit of their comfort zone.
Show me where it is noted an 'exponential' point system. I believe it is linear. IE Three 5 charge barb kits same number of points of 1x15 charge kit. You get points per charge.

I have hundreds of DC hammers I'd really like to combine and save on storage space. Same with Spined Kits. I have 150 spined kits I'd like to make into one massive kit I can just craft from. It would be SO much easier to have 3 kits with me - spined/barb/horn and thats it.
 
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Keeping us happy is important of course but UO cannot thrive if it remains the game where you have to have been there to be here.
good point, I just started back 2 weeks ago and I've been spending most of my time reading about changes to the game. it's tedious.
 
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elspeth

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[*]Removed the Fireworks wand form the clean up items accepted
whyfore this one? It was a bug that fireworks wands got accepted?

Love the Bod revamp. Love the huge list of stuff. The reforging looks a bit complicated but hopefully it won't be too bad.

Wish they could figure out why items were disappearing in Shame. I haven't really even spent time there yet in part because of this and now they are doing Wrong. But glad to see the progress. And I also just haven't done it because I'm catching up on SA content!

All in all, I'm very impressed! Nice job guys.
 

Aurelius

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Can't get to test it for myself for a few days, but does anyone know if you can enhance a re-forged item with special materials AFTER it is re-forged? Clearly says re-forging can't be done on an item made with enhanced material, but doesn't seem to mention if enhancing can be done afterwards....
 

popps

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This sounds great! I can't wait to see about the reforging things. Also looks like wrong is going to be the new place to be!

Is Wrong going to give different items than Shame or is the loot generator going to be the same for both dungeons ?
 

Petra Fyde

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Wrong will give Elven items instead of Gargoyle items as far as I have read from the notes. I have not yet ventured into the dungeon myself.
 

popps

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No longer depending on crafting skill. Doesnt that just mean all smiths..low or high skilled get just 3 BODs in a day? Instead of low skilled chars get BODs alot more often as it is now.. making BOD collector chars with low skill less useful.. if they still exist..
That's how I'm reading it. It changes the BOD timer to 6 hours regardless of skill and allows you to cache three 6 hours periods into one to collect 3 BODs at once. So all the .1 skill every hour junk BOD collectors will be no more.


Question.

Is that per account or per character ?

Personally, to stop the scripting of BODs or at least reduce the problem, I would have made it per account and only accounts that are paid for, monthly, to be eligible to claim BODs' Trial accounts would be not eligible to claim BODs....
 

popps

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Wrong will give Elven items instead of Gargoyle items as far as I have read from the notes. I have not yet ventured into the dungeon myself.

I guess it would make sense that it gives Elven items since the Notes mention Mondain Legacy's items spawn as loot........
 

Viper09

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Question.

Is that per account or per character ?

Personally, to stop the scripting of BODs or at least reduce the problem, I would have made it per account and only accounts that are paid for, monthly, to be eligible to claim BODs' Trial accounts would be not eligible to claim BODs....
Should be per character. Per account would be kind of stupid especially considering those with multiple crafters across many shards, or even on one shard. I didn't even know scripting of BODs was a problem to begin with...
 
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