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HOTFIX HERALDS PLEASE

Viper09

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Obviously sibble is overly passionate about this issue. However, I must point out that there are thousands of more important things in UO than people using a dang herald for trick or treating...like you know...something that actually affects peoples gameplay...
 

Vexxed

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Obviously sibble is overly passionate about this issue. However, I must point out that there are thousands of more important things in UO than people using a dang herald for trick or treating...like you know...something that actually affects peoples gameplay...

Oh... I dunno... If I had to take a guess I would say that the same people that are most likely scripting ToT with Heralds are going to be scripting other stuff when they are done... Which means that if they did something about those obviously scripting the heralds it would remove said people from the equation later.....
 

Viper09

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How would stopping people from scripting heralds stop them from scripting other things? Unless you're suggesting that they should stop scripting altogether...which is never going to happen.
 
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sibble

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Just because there are other things people script doesn't mean this should be ignored when there is such a simple fix.

But yea this is not going to fix unattended macroing and scripting all together.

I'm not overly passionate about this issue, it's just frustrating and sad that again some possible rare and cool items are being massively farmed by a small group of people. I'm helping by trading heads on my shard to get people full sets.

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Ray_Martin

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The only people I've seen doing it weren't unattended scripting... I even got two heads for saying Hey and being friendly.
 

Goldberg-Chessy

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N/T

***EDIT***
I'm pretty much tired of responding to trolls at this point and this thread should be locked...

---FINAL WORD FROM SIBBLE---

You just SHOULDN'T be allowed to do it, it doesn't make any sense. You can't ToT from escort NPCs or fighters in Jhelom, but you can ToT a summoned NPC from a token and have no wait time between doing it again. This is OBVIOUSLY not working as intended; THERE IS NO COOLDOWN BETWEEN TRICK OR TREATS TO A HERALD :wall:

I can assure you 100% that there are people who don't need to release the attendant manually and are in fact doing it AFK.

If you'd like people to continue abusing an OBVIOUS UNINTENDED method of Trick or Treating, by all means let that ball just roll on. If you think that people aren't doing unattended, you're just completely wrong.

---/FINAL WORD FROM SIBBLE---

Have yourself a wonderful Halloween!
Three words.

Get A Life.

Seriously.
 

Lady Michelle

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...you were saying?
I been doing this since its started the legal way, and I've only got 3 heads so far. So I'm asking what areas do you hit for trick or treating that you got so much heads from?
 

sibble

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Welcome to the conversation :)

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sibble

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That's another thing forget about unattended macroing for a minute what about all the people that have no idea what's going on. Fair for them, right?

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The Zog historian

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By my own standard? You're obviously angry that I'm making valid points, and you're doing nothing but bashing...
This is a non sequitur. I'd explain what that is to you, but you're clearly so self-absorbed with yourself that you consider any disagreement "trolling" and "bashing."

You're presenting your own opinion, but it's in contravention to an established approval from Mesanna. You are the one creating drama, not anyone else.

I admitted I invited opinions against? What the hell does this even mean?
Do you really have such a reading comprehension problem with your own words? You said, "It's about why it shouldn't be allowed and opinions for or against it." Ergo, you invited opinions against. I and others have given you ours. Actually, I haven't even given any opinion either way, rather, I've simply given the fact that Mesanna's told someone that the method is approved.
Why are you trolling this thread and why hasn't the Forum Admin done anything about this? This is ridiculous that someone should even be allowed to post like this.

:drama:

You're not contributing to the topic, all you're doing is posting responses to bash me.
So who died and left you as mod? Do you realize how many others are shaking their head, that you accuse anyone disagreeing as "trolling" and "bashing" you?

If your skin is so thin that you can't take disagreement, then don't post. Don't push for something despite the fact that it's been approved up on high.

And you can stop harassing me in private. You have now been "wtf told son."
 

CovenantX

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Seems a lot of people are arguing just to argue. Otherwise, wait... would it be stupid to assume half of you guys (maybe more) are defending scripting? No way, that's not possible is it?

Why would anyone try so hard to derail the thread so bad?

How would stopping people from scripting heralds stop them from scripting other things? Unless you're suggesting that they should stop scripting altogether...which is never going to happen.
You're right, but the point is (since this is temporary) scripters are gaining much more over the honest players. makes no difference to me... I've gotten about 7 heads (4 of which came from a scripter in fel (ty guy)) so I benefited from the script (indirectly) so, thanks to (can I say his name here?) for the extra heads on spikes.
 

petemage

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I usually just read here and don't post.

But i feel very disappointed about this. It's my second halloween and i worked hard to get a decent beggar up before october. Now it's not that i had not expected the usual scripters (anyone noticed the guy in doom killing dark guardians on Atl?) to do their dirty work. But as i worked hard to aquire about 10 spikes until now i feel sad how easy it actually is made for the scripters with the heralds.

As for the EC, it is also possible to macro selecting the attendant, TrT him, open the context menu and activate the dismissing option. All done just with the normal EC macro system and some lines from the UI code. I fear it's even worse for the CC.

I hope at least the prices will drop to nirvana after i sold my overpriced last couple :p

Or the evil twin could at least always teleport to a fel moongate. I live in fel and got teleported away while playing with my herald a couple of times. Always gives thrills to land up at Atl fel yew gate for a sec :) (just kidding here)
 
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Winker

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I just spoke to a friend who has been scripting these drops without the herald, he has been recalling around the world ToT'ing he tells me its much more profitable than the Herald. So i guess all this crying about the herald is useless. Scripting will never be stopped and the scripters will always find a way to AFK something
 

The Zog historian

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Seems a lot of people are arguing just to argue. Otherwise, wait... would it be stupid to assume half of you guys (maybe more) are defending scripting? No way, that's not possible is it?

Why would anyone try so hard to derail the thread so bad?

You're right, but the point is (since this is temporary) scripters are gaining much more over the honest players. makes no difference to me... I've gotten about 7 heads (4 of which came from a scripter in fel (ty guy)) so I benefited from the script (indirectly) so, thanks to (can I say his name here?) for the extra heads on spikes.
I am in fact not defending scripting, nor do I script. As I said, I'm not even presenting my opinion, just pointing out that Mesanna gave the OK. There's nothing more to discuss!

The task can't be automated via legal means. So go after scripters, and leave everyone else be.
 

Vexxed

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I am in fact not defending scripting, nor do I script. As I said, I'm not even presenting my opinion, just pointing out that Mesanna gave the OK. There's nothing more to discuss!
Oh really.....? Bc I had her tell me it WASN'T ok.... So I guess maybe people should make up their own minds or perhaps it should have PUBLIC clarification?
 

The Zog historian

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Then I'd like to see some confirmation, please. I'd absolutely like her to state things one way or another in public.
 

Felonious Monk

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Oh really.....? Bc I had her tell me it WASN'T ok.... So I guess maybe people should make up their own minds or perhaps it should have PUBLIC clarification?
Messana's quotes have been posted in thread. I'm not going to link it for you. This horse has been beaten into a pool of goo. You can navigate the goo yourself. Many are just posting because they love the sight of their own text(love the sound of their own voices).
It is Public(PUBLIC). Might be a good idea to wipe this thread and only leave Messana's quote to be perused and locked.
http://stratics.com/community/threads/lets-all-lighten-up-a-little-ok.300545/
 

sibble

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I just spoke to a friend who has been scripting these drops without the herald, he has been recalling around the world ToT'ing he tells me its much more profitable than the Herald. So i guess all this crying about the herald is useless. Scripting will never be stopped and the scripters will always find a way to AFK something

ss or it didnt happen.
 

The Zog historian

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None but a couple of people who Mesanna supposedly told. But if there's really an e-mail, let's see it.

Word of mouth is one thing, but I'm justifiably skeptical of someone who claims to have an actual document but won't bother to produce it. That, and no mention on uo.com, makes me lean toward the belief that Mesanna did ok it.
 
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