Treasures of Ricardo, Day 9 {Spoiler}

[Adol]

A suggestion:

someone who's able mark a rune right by the book (I've already done this on Europa)
Someone cast gate on that rune. You should be able to go through the gate, click the book and return through it before you can be killed.
That's if there's any reds actually there. Has anyone met any yet?

I met one briefly on Europa, but I didn't see who... I ran all my characters but one naked through the event; marked my own rune and used a Rune Book with charges to get in and out... the one non-naked had so many plants set up in a specific pattern in his back pack I didn't want to waste an hour sorting them into a storage box and then back out again, so I took the risk of going in fully equipped; I didn't think it was much of one at that time though as I'd not seen anyone when I went to make my own rune, or on the 2 following characters coming in nekkid. On the fifth and final one though, a red approached with what looked like 3 maybe vollems or small white drake like things just as I was rummaging in the rune book for "Recall from Charge". He didn't attack, and might even have been stopping to say hello, but the recall process started and out I went.

As for all the complaints about people complaing about going to Felucca, I just want to say one thing... for a decade now some of you have talked about risk versus reward, without ever stopping to think of the risks of what you'll be rewarded with, for the impression you give to the wider world. Now, apparently the idea of a "Classic" shard is being debated for good, one way or another, at the current time amongst the devs; have you stopped to think that maybe this event is their way of gauging how many people want to go too, and how much appeal the older rule sets still have? So going "ha ha ha, QQ more trammie" and ganking everything that moves and generally making yourself obnoxious and driving people back to Trammel as fast as you can is just going to be shooting yourselves in your own foot. The devs, after all, already know who's stayed in Felucca. What you really need though is for events in Felucca to be well attended and described as fun, in the short term at least to make it seem like it's worth offering you something more than you currently have...

Sadly I don't think I'll be able to attend much myself where ever the final days are; I'm meeting a girl tomorrow at the bus station and we're going to start travelling the country most days for the next week and a bit, so unless it's on the "You Win That Day And Just Have To Claim" model like the houses, I can't see as I have a chance at what ever is in the vault. Good luck to everyone else though!

 

[Shelleybean]

I haven't made up my mind whether I will go to this spot. I'm thinking I won't. The only thing I'm worried about is if I don't do this part, will it screw up something later on in the quest?

 

[Tina Small]

Not going to Fel, or being interested in PvP, is a choice of playstyle - and each player makes their own, and only their own, choices on that. For people who love the Fel and PvP playstyle, it's perfectly fair part of a long event chain involves them too. Were this a central, unique and never to be repeated need to visit the site, you'd have a stronger case, but as things stand so far I've been able to run every character I have through all the locations, whereas players with red characters have had those excluded from some.

I can't for the life of me see any fairness in them not getting at clear run (under their preferred ruleset) at at least one location.... and if I don't go to the Fel one, so what? It's my choice, down to me, and certainly not something to viewed as 'boycotting' anything, or a case of being 'forced' into anything. I've hardly been alienated, or 'lost interest' - I've just looked where today's lottery draw was, and decided I'll give that site a miss.

I'll be taking a pass on today's location as well. I've already obtained sufficient rewards from the event to make it unnecessary to have to deal with the possibility of being PKd in a location where the healer is likely to be dead and there's no way off the island. And if tomorrow's location turns out to be the last location and the end of the event and set up with similar conditions, I'll treat it the same as well. I'll take a pass on it even if the reward is something "better" or something "unique."

I'm not at all surprised by this. Not one bit. It throws a bone to the people who enjoy playing the part of the PKer to grief other players by actually PKing their characters and by coming here or to in-game chat and making fun of how they're all afraid to go to Fel. Somehow the opportunity might be just enough to keep some of them paying one more month's subscription fees because they don't feel so left out of things.

PvPing for a reason (e.g., factions) is a challenge I occasionally enjoy. Being potential PK bait as the price for satisfying my greed....sorry, not going to happen.

This event's taken up the few hours I had to play this week and I'm satisfied with what I already got out of it. If not going to a location or two that end the event means also taking a pass on whatever comes next, I'll deal with that situation as it arises. If the UO team decided to take a gamble and set up the ending of this event so that there's something unique and desirable that you can only obtain by visiting all the locations, I'm sure they and the company accountants will have no problems interpreting how people felt about their design decision.

Time will tell whether or not they made a smart decision to end an event aimed mostly at PvMers with a PK fest, especially as summer draws close and people have less time and perhaps less money for UO. We'll find out soon enough whether or not the UO decision makers have lately spent enough time playing and anonymously interacting with their customers to come up with an event that ends up being a win/win for all play styles or if they managed to just put out another ho-hum, bug-riddled event that leaves almost everyone grumbling and dissatisfied about something. Somehow, I think it will once again be the latter. The big question for Cal and company though is how many people will this irritate sufficiently for them to just walk away from UO for good?

 

[Sevin0oo0]

I'm glad they did it so the ones wanting UO to revert back to its 'glory days' will have a great time. I don't participate in forced playstyles, it"ll be watch tv for me, but tyvm for the information

 

[Alezi]

I met one briefly on Europa, but I didn't see who... I ran all my characters but one naked through the event; marked my own rune and used a Rune Book with charges to get in and out... the one non-naked had so many plants set up in a specific pattern in his back pack I didn't want to waste an hour sorting them into a storage box and then back out again, so I took the risk of going in fully equipped; I didn't think it was much of one at that time though as I'd not seen anyone when I went to make my own rune, or on the 2 following characters coming in nekkid. On the fifth and final one though, a red approached with what looked like 3 maybe vollems or small white drake like things just as I was rummaging in the rune book for "Recall from Charge". He didn't attack, and might even have been stopping to say hello, but the recall process started and out I went.

That was me.. Superkeke III [FEW] [Min]. There were 2 reds on the island earlier which I punished a bit. Also whacked 2 blues and an orange in Bucca when they tried to gank me. Dunno if you were the blue who I saved from a giant serpent - didn't even thank me .

 

[Lord Urza]

I just see this as being a cost to compleating the quest, really the only other spots that had any spawn had very minor spawn that allmost nobody but the newest of characters was going to die to.
I think this quest all together isnt much more then a give away, have your buddy with a rune to the node gate you, open a book, go get a prize.....
Boring!
I never go to fel, but even if all 7 of my characters die, it cost me 100k max. which isnt a big deal to compleat a quest 7 times, not to mention the tali's and cloaks i have gotten ammount to more then 100k

Off to fel to pay the piper!

 

[Uriah Heep]

I don't know why I'm surprised at some of the vehemence in this thread.

I don't PvP, have neither the skills nor the mindset for it. (read that as: old folks reaction time )
But I have PvP'd, in the early days, T2A, before Trammel. Just for survival, not as a playstyle.
Having said all this, why is everyone so mad that the Devs tossed a bone to the PvP community?
I'm going, I expect all the chars to use "stuck option" to get back to a town as a ghost. It is what it is.

During the Magincia event, at the end, we went to Fel Mag to see what was going on...promptly got our butts handed to us. Why? Because they didnt want Mag saved or cleaned up and guards re-instated there. (or so they said =))
*shrugs*
So I said okies, and left Same here, just click the book, and stuck option out. No need to rez and pay more for the rez kill insurance.

See Y'all at the Healers!!!

 

[Ender76]

there's no need to hit this spot today. just wait a few days and i'd be surprised if any reds bother to camp it. sort of surprised people feel the need to do them all each day when it's much more efficient to just wait for all 10 spots and then crank through them with just one visit to Crag/Dan.

 

[Scarst]

I've been thinking of sitting there and just killing people I mean it's so tempting especially as a blue haha.

 

[Surgeries]

Not going to Fel, or being interested in PvP, is a choice of playstyle - and each player makes their own, and only their own, choices on that. For people who love the Fel and PvP playstyle, it's perfectly fair part of a long event chain involves them too. Were this a central, unique and never to be repeated need to visit the site, you'd have a stronger case, but as things stand so far I've been able to run every character I have through all the locations, whereas players with red characters have had those excluded from some.

I can't for the life of me see any fairness in them not getting at clear run (under their preferred ruleset) at at least one location.... and if I don't go to the Fel one, so what? It's my choice, down to me, and certainly not something to viewed as 'boycotting' anything, or a case of being 'forced' into anything. I've hardly been alienated, or 'lost interest' - I've just looked where today's lottery draw was, and decided I'll give that site a miss.

Well said. I concur.

 

[Mapper]

there's no need to hit this spot today. just wait a few days and i'd be surprised if any reds bother to camp it. sort of surprised people feel the need to do them all each day when it's much more efficient to just wait for all 10 spots and then crank through them with just one visit to Crag/Dan.

Thats my plan!

I have one of each gift anyway, So doing anymore when I don't know what I might win at the end anyway is a little pointless anyway.

 

[HD2300]

I disagree. It's ****ty decision making to force the majority of the game into a playstyle they don't want to participate in, and even worse that they set up yet anoter quest chain for everyone in the game that is once again forcing PvP on players. Regardless of what precautions or whatever a person might do, the simple ...

The majority of UO players have no wish AT ALL to participate in PvP situations, but they also have no wish to be in Fel ever. It's an idiotic, brain dead decision to allow this, and I sure hope they don't plan on making a habit of it, because if so, there will be people quitting because of it. Events should have a choice of playstyles, either PvM or PvP, and not one or the other because when that happens, players get alienated and lose interest, which is not something the game needs at this point.

LMAO. Bring out the bag balls. Tomorrows location is the Star Room.

Yay. Lets turn UO into WAR. If WAR can save operating costs by dropping from 50 servers down to 4, UO can do it too. LOL.

 

[Liquid_Ape]

For all the talk about "forced playstyles" and refusals to go click on a book in *gasp* felucca, there is a surprising lack of drama happening on the island. If go someplace and nothing bad happens, did anyone force anything on you?

I am currently camped out by the book, hidden. So far I have seen about 20 people recall or gate in, click it and leave. No sign of reds yet. Although there is someone here who I think missed his gate and now is stuck until someone gets him.

Woop! Just saw my first red. He came clicked and left like everyone else. There was a blue here that showed up at about the same time. *waves to Jack*

 

[Wolfrat]

Thank you Petra for the rune in the Angry Mongbat Tavern on Europa. I hope you (and more especially Terry) don't mind a troop of naked strange men passing through your establishment.

 

[Bullseye_of_Atl]

You can't argue either side of the coin. One side see's it one way and the other their way. It is what it is. Yeah, a player's entitled to his or her opinion, at the risk of unecessary comments.....again, it is what it is.


By throwing the reds a bone, all they did was drag out what took seconds to complete. I went buck naked ( my movie star name btw), had some clown getting off on killing.....took ten minutes, or close to it. Oh well. I did get a crappy bow out of it though!!!

 

[Mark Trail]

Good Fiction

Ricardo is a thief and that island looks like prime territory for him to hang out. Good choice, developers. That island is pure Ricardo.

Myself, I would have preferred a spot that somebody can walk to on the mainland or T2A, like Trinsic swamps, without needing special resources to get there.

It's day 9 so this spot doesn't interfere with finishing the quest. It's completely optional.

Risk vs reward: For one more item of Lt Dan's junk I will pass on this opportunity. Or do it another day when the heat is off.

 

[Tangled Metal]

Atlantic has about 3 to 5 reds and some blue support to those reds. There are also 5 or 6 wandering healers so, if you can go naked with the lantern you can get to the book. I died 5 times but I guess that is just dandy. Not sure if I will run my crafters through this one, but with the cloaks going for less than 2 mil and talismans going for 500k I don't really need to get any more.

 

[Badskidmarks]

Wow...the amount of complaining here just amazes me. I think it was a great idea to include fel in this event. It's been a freebie give away since day one, nice to see people might actually have to work for a reward for a change. For those so vehement against going to Fel? Simple answer....don't go....but to make such a big deal out of this is just sad...no one is forcing you to do anything. For a game that is supposed to be ages 13 and up...we sure have a bunch of whiney little children here...one day that actually includes a different playstyle into the event and you are waving pickett signs. Selfish much? It's all good as long as it only fits your own playstyle...and first ones to complain when something leaves you excluded. Maybe you could get over yourselves and be glad that a fairly good sized portion of the player base now has a chance to participate in this event...if only for one day.

 

[Liquid_Ape]

Atlantic has about 3 to 5 reds and some blue support to those reds. There are also 5 or 6 wandering healers so, if you can go naked with the lantern you can get to the book. I died 5 times but I guess that is just dandy. Not sure if I will run my crafters through this one, but with the cloaks going for less than 2 mil and talismans going for 500k I don't really need to get any more.

Hey, maybe someone can go dig up some level 6 chests on the island and lure the spawn over to the reds.

 

[ChReuter]

(I hate to do this as I'm not a fan of the classic shard threads but I feel someone must say it.)

Well, here's a reminder for all the folks saying this is how the game used to be. Something like this never happened much as even before stat loss, you had large groups of anti's to somewhat prevent pk's from causing such a situation. Pk's didn't hang for long in any one dungeon, they did runs. Also people forget that the heyday of the pk's only lasted a little under a year and stat loss was put in game. Once stat loss was put in place this would have been suicide to pull off for anything but a very short amount of time.

How do I know this? I [unlike so many others who claim this but obviously weren't due to the extreme lack of knowledge] was a pk early on, and than I played a stat pk. The separation of the lands is what caused this, with stat loss still in place the real anti's lost their playstyle and by the time stat loss was removed most had moved on. Don't listen to the bull****, this is not how UO was 10+ yrs ago. I'm sure that some people will try to say I'm wrong, but I was there and I'm not looking at it through rose colored glasses nor a memory that has exaggerated just how bad it really was.

 

[gjohnson5]

I never go to fel, but even if all 7 of my characters die, it cost me 100k max. which isnt a big deal to compleat a quest 7 times, not to mention the tali's and cloaks i have gotten ammount to more then 100k

Off to fel to pay the piper!

You'd have to run completely naked to avoid insurance costs , but then you wouldn't be able to defend yourself. However the trouble caused by having to strip naked just to do the quest is silly in the first place

Why not make the event spots in both fel and trammel mirrored. Why not make the Ish ruleset to allow both reds and blues, but no PvP. It'd be kinda kewl if the spawn preferred to attack reds and see the Paragon Greater Dragon chasing the poor red red down and breathing him, lol
They could burn off murders by killing certain Paras...

This discussion from my opinion has nothing to do with Fel or Trammel. They could have mirrored the spots in both facets if they chose. They simply chose NOT to run this event that way.

 

[Lord Chaos]

A suggestion:

someone who's able mark a rune right by the book (I've already done this on Europa)

Well, could you share? Don't have a rune for there.

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

Everyone that is refusing to go/complaining...just do what people did before the split. Find some people to go with you.

If you are on Atlantic, I can probably get a group to run interference for you.

This type of interaction is what built strong communities in old school UO. Believe it or not, there are some players out there that actually enjoy helping people, so not everyone that likes PvP is out to victimize you.

From what I have seen, reds aren't flocking to this spot anyway. If you think its a pain for you to get off an island dead...try to doing it as red.

 

[Connor_Graham]

we sure have a bunch of whiney little children here....

It seems to me the ones acting like whiney little children are the ones doing the name calling. That might just be me though... *shrug*

 

[Petra Fyde]

I already did. You missed the post on page one:
http://vboards.stratics.com/showpost.php?p=1721731&postcount=35

 

[FireKitten]

I am posting this as a player who LOVES Fel, lives there, plays there, and played back when reds had stat loss and has a red today.. [I know I am not the leetest PVP'er and never have claimed so] but have enjoyed it. Today's PVP is no way near what it used to be back then.. Today is full of exploits, speed hacking and who knows what else. Today's quest spot has turned into a Griefer's Dream.. I know there are a few Reds there and I am sure the blue cohorts with them will be by day's end. Stat Loss would definately be a deterent from this or at least give the "Trammies" as they so fondly call us, a fighting chance. As for the dev's decision to plot this quest spot in fel, would be nice for them to watch incognito what going on Get those anti speed exploit programs going. ..and yes.. there are bands getting together to fight them.. *gets out the popcorn for when I die and goes back*

 

[popps]

You'd have to run completely naked to avoid insurance costs , but then you wouldn't be able to defend yourself. However the trouble caused by having to strip naked just to do the quest is silly in the first place

What I do not understand, is the point of it.

I mean, other than annoying a bunch of players, what exactly is this supposed to do ?

Promote PvP ? Hardly, IMHO.

This will only force players to get there strip naked to avoid all insurance costs, with a runebook in backpack fully charged and run to click on the book and then leave the island.

Sure, it might take a few tries and getting ganked and rez killed a few times before managing to click on the book but promote PvP ?

This is no PvP, IMHO.

Besides, how exactly is it fun to kill easy targets strip naked characters if I may ask ?

Where is the fun in a no challenge fight ? I cannot understand.

So, I am really not sure to understand what the developers have been trying to do when designing this like that.

 

[Badskidmarks]

It seems to me the ones acting like whiney little children are the ones doing the name calling. That might just be me though... *shrug*

Yeah it most likely is just you....*shrug*

 

[Liquid_Ape]

It seems to me the ones acting like whiney little children are the ones doing the name calling. That might just be me though... *shrug*

... idiotic, brain dead ...

Just jokin' around!

(none of the following is directed at you, Connor)

I am starting to wonder if this is more of a shard thing than a UO thing. My favorite shard seems to not have any PK problems right now, whereas a different east coast shard is.

I live in Fel. I generally hunt in fel when I can. I craft in fel. I train skills in fel. I bank in Malas... but I don't pvp. I haven't gotten killed by a red in a few months. And even then, when I refused to give him a count after killing me twice (no high score for you, sir!) he left.

I have actually gotten killed by miasma when recalling into Luna Bank more times than I have been killed by reds in the past 6 months.

I wonder if the people who have such negative attitudes towards fel play on shards with a bunch of a-holes, whereas the people who don't mind so much play on shards with more mature/nicer folks.

Is it Fel thats the problem, or is it the players on your shard?

 

[Llewen]

I realize this has already been said but this really is a good reminder of why Trammel was created in the first place. From what I understand in the days before Trammel the volume of complaints that EA was getting about non-consentual pvp was pretty staggering. I didn't spend much, if any, time on Stratics back then, but I can imagine there were an awful lot of threads and posts also dedicated to that topic - enough to make all the current talk of a classic shard seem like a faint whisper...

 

[Uriah Heep]

On Legends there is a rune at my house, accessible to anyone, in the "current events" book locked down near the steps.
On any shard with a rune library, the fel rune marked 118 in the t-map section will take you half a screen from it. That number, of course, is assuming they have them numbered the same as the THB site here on stratics =)

Other options, wait till tomorrow, go early

 

[Der Rock]

Why would they force people to go to Fel? Event over, idiots

they made the book in fel, to show all player that there is not such a thing like PvP in UO

how proud can be someone if he kills a tailor reading a book

 

[Uriah Heep]

I realize this has already been said but this really is a good reminder of why Trammel was created in the first place. From what I understand in the days before Trammel the volume of complaints that EA was getting about non-consentual pvp was pretty staggering. I didn't spend much, if any, time on Stratics back then, but I can imagine there were an awful lot of threads and posts also dedicated to that topic - enough to make all the current talk of a classic shard seem like a faint whisper...

In the "classic" days, the population was all in Fel. The reds didnt outnumber the blues at all. They had to pick and choose their quarry, it wasn't like today where the blues are the ones easing around trying not to be seen. Other than in their strongholds (Brit Xroads, Buc's, to name a couple) the reds were NOT in control of the whole facet...and when the whole population was on that one facet, anytime someone came to Brit bank yelling about reds at <insert place here> loads of peeps would mount up and go hunting

What I miss most tho, is the "friendlies" who were red from killing the noto's and the blue healers...for the most part, the rp and honor and attitude today is soooo far away from what it used to be

Be that as it may tho, I don't recall thread after thread after thread in those days, asking for non-con to be eliminated. Sure there were a few who lost their ingots or that nice armor they wore outta town, but for the most part, life as a whole was accepted as part of the game.
But we got the Trammel split, just like we got AoS, even tho the majority wasn't asking for it, and was satisfied with the status quo.

[/digression]

 

[Alezi]

Today's location was so much fun. I love it ! It was almost as fun as the Crimson/Platinum Dragon war at X-Roads swamp - there were almost a hundred blues to kill! More events like this please, it's really fun to kill hordes of players!

 

[Connor_Graham]

Today's location was so much fun. I love it ! It was almost as fun as the Crimson/Platinum Dragon war at X-Roads swamp - there were almost a hundred blues to kill! More events like this please, it's really fun to kill hordes of players!

I think this pretty much sums up my point perfectly.......

 

[Sevin0oo0]

>...just do what people did before the split
before the split, i played
duke nukem & wolfenstein

 

[NightRider]

But we got the Trammel split, just like we got AoS, even tho the majority wasn't asking for it, and was satisfied with the status quo.

***

You gotta be kidding...that's not the UO I remember. If you think all those crafters were happy about being pk'ed and losing their stuff over and over while trying to gather resources, you better step back and think again.

And on another post, it's also not true that the reds were spread thin. They did control the dungeons and the best hunting grounds, leaving the rest of us to forage and scrounge what little we could from the least desirable hunting places. Maybe that's one of the reasons one mil of gold was worth $25.00. Ever think about that? I didn't think so.

 

[TheGhostRaider]

It sure make it interesting to get the book today, but why put it on that stupid island with no way out. Look like entrapment to me. this is a good way for red to make money of insurance and set up trap. I don't mind going to Fel, just hate the fact that it an unfair fight to begun with. Thx to soulstone, we can move the two skill needed to get there on our mules, (hiding and Stealthing). Get your guildmate and go have fun, play the oldest game of steal the flag , on this case it's book book. Today we need to work on getting a reward.

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

I said this before in another thread, and I will say it here again, but what is the difference if you die to say, 5 paragon Balrons, or 3 red players?

- You are still dead.
- Insurance costs the same.
- In the end, you lose the same stuff.

The only difference I can see is difficulty.

If the reds are talking trash...put them on ignore. Besides, Juka Lords talk trash, no one complains about that.

I understand that most UO players don't want to PvP...that's pretty clear. And rather than insulting people that don't want to PvP, or those that do, I am just simply posing the question...what difference does it make what it is that kills you?

 

[Lord Chaos]

With the Balrons you can at least recover some of the stuff you can't insure. You can run away from Balrons, you don't really get anything out of running from a PK if they follow.

 

[Beastmaster]

I think this is best summed up as

"fish in a barrel"


No sport what so ever.

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

With the Balrons you can at least recover some of the stuff you can't insure. You can run away from Balrons, you don't really get anything out of running from a PK if they follow.

Exactly...more difficult. That's what I said.

 

[Vaen Swiftar]

It really amazes me sometimes how much people will complain about the happenings in a video game that take up no more than 5 minutes of someone's time.

And to be honest, if it takes up more than 5 minutes, it's your own fault.

 

[Shelleybean]

I said this before in another thread, and I will say it here again, but what is the difference if you die to say, 5 paragon Balrons, or 3 red players?

- You are still dead.
- Insurance costs the same.
- In the end, you lose the same stuff.

The only difference I can see is difficulty.

If the reds are talking trash...put them on ignore. Besides, Juka Lords talk trash, no one complains about that.

I understand that most UO players don't want to PvP...that's pretty clear. And rather than insulting people that don't want to PvP, or those that do, I am just simply posing the question...what difference does it make what it is that kills you?

For me it's not about death, it's about staying away from a playstyle and a mindset that I don't enjoy. As a paying customer I have that right. If people don't get this by now, they just don't want to get it and they never will. And it's pretty tiring to have to come here and defend the nonpvp playstyle over and over again after all of these years.

 

[Babble]

What I don't understand though is why a PvM quest or a roleplay quest is sort of handed in a pvp event?

I doubt any pvper is going with the lamp to explore the story?

What interests me is what is the thinking of the developers behind it.
Let the trammy roleplayers know pvp? Show them danger and there is a facet with pushthrough? Only go in groups? Or just **** happens do or don't do it?

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

For me it's not about death, it's about staying away from a playstyle and a mindset that I don't enjoy. As a paying customer I have that right.

You have no 'rights'. You have access. There is a very, very, big difference.

And it's pretty tiring to have to come here and defend the nonpvp playstyle over and over again after all of these years.

Who told you that you have to do it?

 

[Tazar]

I just wish they had been honest up front and told us this was coming. I have no intention of being a fish in a barrel for a gank squad so it seems I have wasted 8 days running characters through the event - only to find out that I will never be able to complete the quest.

Makes me wonder if I will even bother with the next event... probably not...

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

What I don't understand though is why a PvM quest or a roleplay quest is sort of handed in a pvp event?

I doubt any pvper is going with the lamp to explore the story?

What interests me is what is the thinking of the developers behind it.
Let the trammy roleplayers know pvp? Show them danger and there is a facet with pushthrough? Only go in groups? Or just **** happens do or don't do it?

I can't speak for the devs, but I think what they are trying to do is add a little bit of risk to anotherwise risk-free game. With insurance, there isn't even any real risk either.

The lesson that should be taken from today is that the developers are actually looking in to adding more challenge into UO, and that if you want to collect uber-rare pixels, you might actually have to earn it for a change.

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

I just wish they had been honest up front and told us this was coming. I have no intention of being a fish in a barrel for a gank squad so it seems I have wasted 8 days running characters through the event - only to find out that I will never be able to complete the quest.

Makes me wonder if I will even bother with the next event... probably not...

Risk outweighs reward.

See? That's how it works.

Someone else might say, 'You know, I have put the time into completing this quest so far, and I am not about to quit now'. Others will simply blow it off because they don't think that the reward will be great enough to face the challenge in front of them.

 

[Storm]

I did the quest 7 times on one account and had no problems at all!
I have no problem with pvp being in the game at all !
I do have a problem with it if the majority of the game is turned to pvp
especially IF the majority of the people don't pvp!

Dont bite the hand that feeds the game is all I am saying!

As for the quest it was easy most people are just getting in and out as fast as they can ! I imagine later on it will be camped ! but if you go at the right times of day it should be ok!