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The most formidable cannon to come to the High Seas! The Blundercannon comes to the Black Market on April 1st!

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[EvilPixieWorks]

Sounds like another April Food.

 

[GarthGrey]

Sigh, this worries me.

 

[GarthGrey]

For those of you that don't read UO.com, Kyronix say's it's purely a cosmetically enhanced cannon. Which is good to know, purely my opinion, but with ammo easier to make and cannons easier to fire, we didn't also need them to be more powerful than they already are.

 

[Faeryl]

I assume they mean it's formidable in appearance only. I don't know know about anyone else, but I'm imagining comically large cannons on the orc ship and giggling up a storm.

 

[GarthGrey]

I assume they mean it's formidable in appearance only. I don't know know about anyone else, but I'm imagining comically large cannons on the orc ship and giggling up a storm.

Yeah they do look a little Super Mario Bros...

 

[railshot]

For those of you that don't read UO.com, Kyronix say's it's purely a cosmetically enhanced cannon. Which is good to know, purely my opinion, but with ammo easier to make and cannons easier to fire, we didn't also need them to be more powerful than they already are.

While I agree that current cannons are strong enough, I very underwhelmed by either purely cosmetic, or cosmetically new versions of existing stuff. I can understand having some deco, but all of the existing to date rewards?!

 

[HippoRedux]

I would much rather have a Jolly Roger flag or a figurehead for my ship if they are going to offer purely cosmetic items.

 

[GarthGrey]

I would much rather have a Jolly Roger flag or a figurehead for my ship if they are going to offer purely cosmetic items.

I would almost bet my last doubloon that ship colors are on the horizon.

 

[Pawain]

I would almost bet my last doubloon that ship colors are on the horizon.

Oh Ya! Wind Azul for mine!

 

[Riyana]

I would almost bet my last doubloon that ship colors are on the horizon.

You can already paint the deck. You mean for the sails? Sail colors would be nice. The ability to customize ship deck/sail combinations and maybe some new options for each would be pretty neat too.

A Jolly Roger flag with some customization options would be great.

 

[railshot]

I would almost bet my last doubloon that ship colors are on the horizon.

Sigh, you are probably right. And that's just lazy. Of course, with deco, they don't need to deal with balance. And you won't have ppl screaming - "Magenta is so OP and needs to be nerfed NOW! Or at least boost Purple to be better than Magenta! Blue is used to blend into the ocean and it's a game breaking exploit! I will cancel all 12 of my subs if the blue paint is not fixed!"

 

[GarthGrey]

Sigh, you are probably right. And that's just lazy. Of course, with deco, they don't need to deal with balance. And you won't have ppl screaming - "Magenta is so OP and needs to be nerfed NOW! Or at least boost Purple to be better than Magenta! Blue is used to blend into the ocean and it's a game breaking exploit! I will cancel all 12 of my subs if the blue paint is not fixed!"

By ships "colors" I was referring to flags.

 

[PlayerSkillFTW]

Could at least make the new cannons have higher durability than the baseline cannons, and it wouldn't be unbalanced. If i remember correctly, Kyronix had posted screenshots of Valorite Carronades in a thread where we were discussing the cannon revamp. I wasted 1,800 Valorite Ingots making a Carronade when the publish went live, just for it to be a normal iron looking Carronade

 

[GarthGrey]

Could at least make the new cannons have higher durability than the baseline cannons, and it wouldn't be unbalanced. If i remember correctly, Kyronix had posted screenshots of Valorite Carronades in a thread where we were discussing the cannon revamp. I wasted 1,800 Valorite Ingots making a Carronade when the publish went live, just for it to be a normal iron looking Carronade

I thought you had to make them out of dull copper and then dye them, so I did that, made dull copper culverin, dyed it shadow dancer black, it turned black, I was like YES !!...placed it on the ship, normal color, redeeded it, normal color..fail/fail.

 

[It Lives]

I thought you had to make them out of dull copper and then dye them, so I did that, made dull copper culverin, dyed it shadow dancer black, it turned black, I was like YES !!...placed it on the ship, normal color, redeeded it, normal color..fail/fail.

You can make them with iron ingots then place the cannon, once placed dye it with the metal dye tub.

 

[GarthGrey]

Hrm

 

[EvilPixieWorks]

How about new ammo vs. an April Fool joke?

Like a "Cannon NET" that would tie up a boat coming after you... or the crew, so you can ravage them?

OR… a flame ball that actually does something cool vs. the lame one we already have. Like sets the boat on fire. Muhahahaaaaa

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[celticus]

Could at least make the new cannons have higher durability than the baseline cannons, and it wouldn't be unbalanced. If i remember correctly, Kyronix had posted screenshots of Valorite Carronades in a thread where we were discussing the cannon revamp. I wasted 1,800 Valorite Ingots making a Carronade when the publish went live, just for it to be a normal iron looking Carronade

Ouch..Thats a lot of val..

 

[Pawain]

I thought you had to make them out of dull copper and then dye them, so I did that, made dull copper culverin, dyed it shadow dancer black, it turned black, I was like YES !!...placed it on the ship, normal color, redeeded it, normal color..fail/fail.

Yup he discussed making them out of other than iron. Our tester made one and it went normal when he placed it.

They dye with a metallic dye tub when on the ship. If you remove them they go back to normal color.