153 Venom, totem still standing. (Draconi?)

[Petrify]

Our guild was pooling our Venom Sacs to try and destroy one. We've lost all interest in that goal now considering Venom Sacs are selling for 1-2 million each and there is absolutely nothing to be gained by doing this. That is over 200 million worth of items to just stop a spawn that we actually want to do.

Exactly, we farmed for nearly an entire day only to hear that there is no point other than doing the right "rp" thing? What's the point, it's just going to despawn on november 17th anyway. I suppose I'm more pissed at you telling me the sacs are worth 1-2m, means we lost around 300m on this.

Anyway, I don't mean to shoot the messenger but Regine, it feels like the dev's got lazy with this one.

 

[sapphirediablo11]

That's pretty pathetic. Glad I have other things to do

Like post on Online game message boards

Never said it was me tho

 

[Kiminality]

I have news for you even if all the skull totems are destroyed in tram we can still finish the quest in tram as long as we already got the green parchment. i already did that with each of my 21 characters so now i can take my time up until november 17th.

Yes, but for collecting the shiny loots.
The book and talisman.
If the spawns are stopped in Tram, then the people who want to farm them have to go to Fel. Pretty simple, really.

 

[Maplestone]

*shakes head at the people feigning RP to complain they can't grief*

 

[D'Amavir]

*shakes head at the people feigning RP to complain they can't grief*

What grief?

 

[sapphirediablo11]

Yes, but for collecting the shiny loots.
The book and talisman.
If the spawns are stopped in Tram, then the people who want to farm them have to go to Fel. Pretty simple, really.

which may be a bad thing , 100s of trammies inside of fel makes fel un fun... since 90 GD =/> most felians :O

 

[sapphirediablo11]

What grief?

THIS ONE!!!!:gun::gun:

MUHAHAH!!!!

 

[phantus]

*shakes head at the people feigning RP to complain they can't grief*

Ahhh...Maplestone....remember this is Mythic we are talking about. RP would obviously mean Realm Play.

You should probably begin reading the dev posts with grains of salt in the future. There is only going to be more forced interaction or baiting in the times to come. The future of UO is that of proverb now.

 

[Crysta]

Will the EM thingy be requiring a PC within the next two months or so? I'd love to sign up if I could, but mine is still out of commission with no ETA on fixes or a replacement. :\

 

[Cogniac]

What I've also seen, is some people handing over their extra gossamer to help someone else complete their web deed instead of selling it for 5 mil a pop in Luna, like I've seen on my home shard.

It sounds like you just gave away your position as being on Atlantic.

 

[Petrify]

It sounds like you just gave away your position as being on Atlantic.

Would that be 5m for 10 gossamer on Atlantic?

 

[Boogieman]

If nothing is given as proof, then nothing happened....
If something is given as proof, then people remeber it.... even if that something is really nothing, but makes the person feel although they got something... like hugging a stuff dwagon :O

Uhm - take a screenshot when you turn in the venom sac? Then you have snap of the great moment when you made your contribution. Helps to you remember that you did something.
I take a lot of screenshots when playing - there are always funny or extreme situations that are worth remembering.

Att: Petrify
You got 153 venom sacs but only one spider web deed?? You must be doing something not quite right. I've done the quest with two characters (from two accounts) and gotten the spider web deed twice. The gossamer seems to spawn in amounts of 1-2 for each batch of white hued drones + dread spider that spawns in Sicarii's lair.

 

[Tomas_Bryce]

being on Atlantic.

Thats what they were selling for on Great Lakes too for a while.

 

[Lord Kynd]

"It's clearly an exploit, you were only meant to be able to do the quest once per character (as in reward) and that bypasses it."

you can get more than one reward ?
if your only able to get one reward per character but can still do it with no reward what is the issue ?

 

[Lord Kynd]

It sounds like you just gave away your position as being on Atlantic.

she was hiding that she play's on Atlantic ? lol since when ?

 

[trammelite]

quote:
to destroy all the totems and force trams into Fel to complete their quest

i still have hope that the uo players will never show any type of such anti-social behavior

 

[Nematode]

Gee, 300-odd sacs to drop 1 totem... and u have like, what, 6 graveyards x 2 facets to deal with? Just what are the devs thinking when they decided on this figure... Might as well wait for the end of event...

 

[Lord Kotan]

My guess is 300 venom sacs then. BTW what is the reward for destroying it?

 

[Lord Kotan]

She also drops venom sac

 

[Basara]

We don't know what the rewards WOULD HAVE BEEN. They didn't make it into the publish. However, if we can convince them to hold off a publish (As theres' no way in hell most shards will even drop ONE totem by the 17th) and add them, we might see them.

 

[Maplestone]

*completes quest on principle, reward or no reward*

 

[Basara]

Maplestone, personally, I'm trying that as well - especially since 2 of my houses are the 3rd & 4th closest to Yew Graveyard on my shars' Trammel, and I am routinely having to face Shadow Fiends and Spectral armors on my doorstep (it's not safe to do BOD runs for the duration with my crafters).

 

[Maplestone]

I didn't say I wanted to succeed though

(I think I've pretty much quit BODs and harvesting for the next month or so ... although I am still growing some plants since the Minoc invasion supplyied me with seeds)

 

[Basara]

Heh - I'm perfectly willing to let the others hang - I just want my home safe.

If this was something akin to the real world (instead of people farming the graveyards for drops), that's what you'd see happening.

Yew and Vesper graveyards border housing areas - they'd be cleaned first, along with Jhelom (the only city safe from invasion). Then we'd worry about Cove, Brit, and clearign that undead from magincia.

 

[Goodmann]

One graveyard is destroyed. Unknown amount of sacs used estimating 275. Rubble of a Skull totem is left behind which can not be picked up

 

[Mr X]

 

[Katlene]

International too

awesome

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

One graveyard is destroyed. Unknown amount of sacs used estimating 275. Rubble of a Skull totem is left behind which can not be picked up

Congratulations on your victory, reward-less though it is.

-Galen's player

 

[Petrify]

One graveyard is destroyed. Unknown amount of sacs used estimating 275. Rubble of a Skull totem is left behind which can not be picked up

But you have that sense of accomplishment, right? rolleyes:

 

[ZippyTwitch]

Totem in moonglow tram on Chessy is destroyed. I didn't see any remains of the totem though. But the spawn is back to normal there.

 

[Nastia Cross]

Totem in moonglow tram on Chessy is destroyed. I didn't see any remains of the totem though. But the spawn is back to normal there.

One down... keep up the good work!! muahaha

 

[LiberatingLuT]

That sucks, I thought maybe the totem would be able to be picked up at the least. I'm still having fun with the other stuff though.

 

[Sunrise]

So much to this thread..and so little time.

Thanks for the Heads up from the Dev! big time!

For role playing. Its dead. Lets move on. Heck theres been more fights about tram and fel than there has been about role playing is it alive or dead and buried and having worms dance on its nose?

Ok..I launched 50 sacs so far on Napa..Just alot more to go. Hey we can do it.

Yeah so I dont get a reward shrugs. Do I really need more junk in me house?

Off to fight more...

 

[Maplestone]

For role playing. Its dead.

An corp

 

[FishinFool]

Just out of curiousity, why do you feel you need to be rewarded for everything you do in a game?

Frankly, I'm disappointed they're even giving out any loot at all. These halloween things were meant to be a momentary diversion and fun. Seems like a lot of you have really lost track of the real goal of a game.

Halloween is over, just end this event. Period, end of story - remove the totems. It's been the unwillingness to say No and/or end these events in recent years that has caused more harm than good.

The true Zen of this game is that it is all open to do what you wish and that it is temporary. Nothing lasts forever, just enjoy and stop being a slave to yourself.

 

[Maplestone]

I don't think there's anything wrong with people being materialistic. People who forgo role-playing to "get the stuff" are likely people we would lose anyway if there wasn't stuff to get. (exception: if event items are overpowered, it does become "work" to try to keep up with the power curve of the game)

Why rewards? I like to have a collection of reminders of the events, something ... I wanted to use "tangible", but that's a rather silly word to use for pixels. It's another tool with which people create their experience.