Lockpicking Now Required for Merchant Ship Crate Access

[Barok]

They are good for dieing purposes if you don't have enough HP

 

[R Traveler]

LOL.. pick the lock and leave it trapped.
Must be fixed asap.

 

[Viquire]

LOL.. pick the lock and leave it trapped.
Must be fixed asap.

lol, now we are rolling old school.

 

[Jade of Sonoma]

Not sure how long you've been playing, but that's pretty much always how it goes if it's the right 1 person. Every single piece of gear in the game having incredibly complex properties and crafting being so complicated is because of one person who said he wanted UO "to be more WoW like" many years ago. Literally 90% of the community said they didn't want that, but because that one person wanted it, and was famous enough/powerful enough, the devs at that time changed the entire item system permanently.

Yes. Been there too often with changes over the 17 years. It is always like this. But now they have added a feature that requires MORE SKILLS being requirement for players whose characters are already overloaded with required new skills. LOL Have to love UO. I am repeating myself. Sorry. But please do let everyone know what worked for you when unlocking the chests and barrels.

That's why we post on Uhall. To get help and answers to problems we have in the game. Not everyone knows everything all the time or has 17 years of experience. For me, the solution is to sit on a problem until you can figure it out and talk with others after you have seriously tried for a long time to figure out a solution - which means sometimes I have solutions ready for other players that can help them.

 

[Zuckuss]

If they wanted to encourage a little cooperation or team work, they would have a better grouping system, better chat system and more abilities like the bard songs.

No offense, but most of your post is just garbage. Why should someone HAVE to multi-client? Not everyone has computers that handle that well, PLUS it IS NOT a supported option for playing. And why should people have to have multiple accounts?

Making undocumented changes like this or the changing of the decay timers is nothing just complete incompetence.

NuSair,

Gee, sorry that you are so disgruntled about my post. I formulated my opinion based on the fact that having to pick chest was only a minor setback and a possible way to increase the player cooperation involved in doing sea battles. I didn't mean to upset you over your inconvenience of having to use an additional skill to open a chest. I actually figured that this was intentionally done by the devs as a way to promote teamwork and additional interaction by the players during sailing ventures. Sorry that you consider my opinion "garbage" and I will try to do better in the future. It seems the OP was looking for an opinion on the matter as they has posted nine time alone on the first page of the thread before I had responded, so I offered my opinion. Perhaps another time my opinion will suit your interests.

I never said they "HAVE to multi-client" as you have incorrectly quoted. I merely suggested that as a means of a person soloing ship battles which if you take a step back to consider; why would any one person be able to defeat five others sailors to loot their ship, over... and over.... and over...and over? I just made sense to me that this was intentional.

I personally would have welcomed the change as this would have distanced UO away from the single player game that it has moved towards and promoted a more or a multi-player interaction experience. Again, I thought this was intended. Given the fact that that this was actually NOT intended, I stand corrected.

I suppose those who want to solo ships and the farming of their loot will find themselves at the top end of this argument.

BTW, Have a great day!

-Zuck

 

[Jade of Sonoma]

Are they good for training purposes?

BRAVO! Great Reply!!! (why didn't I think of that? *grumble grumble* .. well give me credit for testing them at least which may be what led R Traveler to think up that idea!)

 

[Jade of Sonoma]

It really would have been nice to know about this change ahead of time/clarify the amount of lockpicking required

Those questions are exactly what got me started posting here. I asked the GM on Help and also Advisors and it took a long time to get no answers advising it was deliberate surprise Development. I thought the whole thing was a bug with the latest patch.

 

[Lady Storm]

Kyronix....
There is more to this ... seems the chests in all luna banks accross the shards are showing up locked and triple trapped as if they were treasure chests... that might be the link to whats up with it. It might be in the "chest" section of any change you did to the loot table?