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I always use it as that! He totally doesnt even know what hes talking about
It's not really a good use of their time.It's ridiculous and insulting that THIS is what the GMs will actually respond to.
If GMs are going to come down on people for using the stuck option (which hurts noone and is hardly an 'advantage') while allowing bots, speedhacks, and assorted cheating to occur...Then the entire GM system needs to be completely reworked.
Uh, they already do...?they can have my 12.99...
- I agree, ^2I have never used the 'stuck' option unless I really was totally stuck and unable to get myself out. There is, I believe, a warning about misuse in the response? It used to be that you could only use it 3 times per day.
Treasure hunters should probably aim to get 'sacrifice' virtue and/or gems of salvation to help? Although being dead on an island with no healers is a legitimate use of the function.
You're going to have to show me a screen shot of that message you weren't really stuck, otherwise I call BS. Sorry to those that have claimed to never use it unless necessary, but here's what it looks like to the rest of us...Wow, the amount of laziness is staggering.
Every time I have used the option (maybe once a year) I have actually been stuck and a GM has always either appeared or sent a message to me which gives me the impression that it's not some automated process. If a GM is actually answering each of these calls, it's no wonder legit pages have to wait so damn long. The only time I've tried to use the "help I'm stuck" option because of sloth, I got a message saying I was not really stuck and to try to find my way out again. I think the GM was right, it's not a free ride to town, people shouldn't be so lazy and try to skip the "boring" parts of the game because they want to get back to the "fun stuff" quicker.
What's next? "Training a new tamer is too tedious, the skill gain system is broken so I scripted it. It's their fault for making it too hard."?
Should I ever use that option again when I'm not really stuck, and get that message again I'll be sure to grab you a screenie.You're going to have to show me a screen shot of that message you weren't really stuck, otherwise I call BS.
Read the whole thing before you troll my post...Uh, they already do...?
I don't have a screen shot, but I too have got that response.You're going to have to show me a screen shot of that message you weren't really stuck, otherwise I call BS.
Makes you wonder if some EA beancounter didn't take a look at the GM metrics and say "gee, 50% of the GM calls we get are for people being stuck or pets being stuck. UO team, you have 30 days to put in a player and pet stuck feature because we are cutting your GM staff by 50% at the end of the month"....If the ops help stuck option took him strait to as page request and he said he was stuck when he wasnt the GM did exactly what he should have done by telling him its not a free ride to town. The whole help stuck feature was put in to reduce excessive and dumb gm pages with no merit. Unfortunately it is exploited like anything else that can be exploited in uo. Im admit im guilty of taking "free rides" to town from time to time also. All in all its a bad feature though. Logging out to save pets was also put in for similar reasons and is exploited like mad. The logging out with pets is even worse imo because stat loss for pets is avoided. Stat loss for pets is supposed to be a "feature". Logging out to save it is not.
*shakes head* Oh no he Di`int!It must take 100000000000000000000000000 hours of programming and an act of God to place a healer. After all, they said they had accidentally "lost" the healers on the treasure map islands 6 YEARS ago and still haven't replaced them. For a few months, when we asked about them, it was "we're aware of the problem and are working on a solution". Then they just started to ignore us treasure hunters when we even asked. You would think it would take like a minute for a programmer to add a line of code that places a healer in a given location, but evidently they are practically impossible to replace when they get "lost". So fat chance on getting healers in the non-PvP areas of the Abyss.
I've never gotten a message that I'm not stuck. It appears to be fully automated if you use the "help stuck" option. But GMs may be checking it from time to time, which would be a total waste of their time, when they could be answering pages about real problems. Then again, when I use the option, I am a ghost in a location with no healers and no way out other than using the option or waiting around hoping another player shows up to give me a gate to town or a rez. Also, those 2 or 3 Ancient Wyrms guarding the chest generally make short work of any helpful player who might wander by, so they have to use the "help" option too.
I have used the option 6 times on one particularly unlucky treasure hunt, when I was trying to use the EC (HUGE mistake for T hunts, even though the compartmentalized loot means you can see whether there is an item worth grabbing among the 50 or 60 pieces of junk) and the autorun/pathfinding/whatever the heck it is "feature" (more like pain in the @## that you can't turn off) caused my character to suddenly take off running in a random direction, usually right at the AWs, when I was hiding and tried to move a step in stealth mode (I finally gave up trying to use the new EC interface (maybe it should have been named PoS?) and logged in 2D to finish the hunt), so there doesn't appear to be a daily limit to the number of times it can be used.
Except no one was banned...or punished...just got told...OMG! This is sooo totally sad! The GMs would rather ban peeps for using/abusing the help-stuck feature than do something about REAL issues.
Like 99% of the time yes.Wait... isn't this automated? Do GMs actually have to manually move people?
I`m pretty sure thats correct. Like I said,I use it quite often but the small amount of times it came up with a text box to state your problem...... I hoofed it instead. I took that as "well,I used up my free rides for today" So I think that if you do write in your problem,than you are being dealt with by a real person and not just an automated port to town.I don't know if the list=automated and form=gm response is true
And don't forget lazy people who want to get all their Xshard chars to the same place ;D. I love using this "feature," bwhaha.Stuck feature is abused a lot, as in this case. Likely 99% of stuck requests now are just lazy people or wanting for whatever reason to go to town.
you were in fel rule set you could of had cursed items on you and using it to get out.he also told me he "checked on me" and i wasnt stuck. yes i was back in town by that time, but i was stuck in the abyss after gettin pked. i remember running around as a ghost in UO when I was a kid. not exactly FUN. jeez. but when he said he checked in on me I realized GMs must have some kind of world camera. That would be so fun...I think the should add a SPECTATOR MODE to UOthat would be sweet, really entertaining, I think
This ^It's ridiculous and insulting that THIS is what the GMs will actually respond to. And I abuse it too.
o i guess thats true. i was a ghost at the time that i tried to activate the feature, though. its so boring to wait for a rez.you were in fel rule set you could of had cursed items on you and using it to get out.