[UO Herald] Publish 74.0 Comes to All Shards - 01/31

[longshanks]

Sorry, but the BOD changes really should be a flat rate, or per character based escalating cost; otherwise the dedicated early adaptors will shove the prices way up for the casual gamers who come late to it (such as at the weekend), which is the wrong way of tempting anyone else into playing that part of the game. And whilst I'm sitting on thousands of looted bods, and can wait to see if interest dies off in a few weeks, and bribe prices drop again due to inactivity, the design still leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth in general interests of fairness.

Yup, I agree and voiced that to the devs to no avail. No matter - I AM one of the powergamers and already have one val hammer completed and the bods to finish 6 more. I haven't spent more than a couple mil on bribing costs doing the large bods first at server up this morning taking advantage of cheap prices then upgradeing my stash of verite normal plate bods. Taking all of them to Val 20ex and some only take 10-20k of bribing due to already being high and smiths counters being set low.

I get as much as possible done today - then sit on the hammers till the bribing cost is astronmical and then sell them.

Plenty of time to bribe up POF bods later because even at a high multiple cost you are only talking Iron to DC ex.

Powergame for the win.

hurray to the mitt romney of uo.

 

[Coldren]

1hr about 2mil and ive 3 val hammers Great publish!...

Are there anymore crafting classes they can make worthless??

I've been running BoDs the legit way for a very long time.. And not everyone has millions and millions of gold to do this. I barely have 1. Not everyone CAN or WANTS to take advantage of this system.

But apparently, there are a lot of people out there with gold to burn, so rather than giving it to scripters, it's getting out of the game. That alone makes this system worth it. It's low enough that apparently most don't mind spending the money, but high enough to be an effective gold sink.

I say Kudos.. Though I do agree, bribe rates should be per individual, not overall.

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

VERY good event content thus far.

I will offer one suggestion: Have the rioters say stuff more often.

-Galen's player

 

[Fridgster]

Damn my memory is bad sometimes. I forgot you had to click on Bribe in the context menu first. Doh!

heh I get that way sometimes... Usually after a nice bowl... of coco pebbles... Ooooo coco pebbles.... AFK FAS

 

[Anon McDougle]

I dont understand how the bod change is BAD before we had 1% of the players able to get or afford a high end runic hammer now we have 10% for the average joe this really means very litte. We might se a bit more items made with these runics but all and all thats it.

 

[Ezekiel Zane]

I dont understand how the bod change is BAD before we had 1% of the players able to get or afford a high end runic hammer now we have 10% for the average joe this really means very litte. We might se a bit more items made with these runics but all and all thats it.

It'll even itself out over time. The bribe cost will increase. The runics will actually get used. The hoard of BODs will come down as players turn in more and more. I'm not sure everyone who wasn't already into BODs is gonna start now. Sure some will but I think we'll see in the beginning a lot more filled and turned in than collected. Heck half the time when I turn in a filled BOD I forget to collect a new one.

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

VERY good event content thus far.

I will offer one suggestion: Have the rioters say stuff more often.

-Galen's player

Raiders appeared last night on GL.

Not too hard but a very fun fight.

So far so good with this Publish (the parts of it I've experienced) and this scenario.

-Galen's player