Won't all of them disappear in 30 days anyway? The way I read it, it isn't 30 days of play time but 30 days period. I'm not sure which option is worse for multishard pvpers... Needing to rebuild suits to replace faction artis or needing to try and maintain 250k silver on each shard to buy new faction artis every month on 5 or 6 or more shards.
Your temp doesn't have to be maintained your free gear does. Gear that you bought for far far less then the real thing. Gear that is better in many ways then the real thing. So if you want gear you don't have to maintain that is easy just get it like everyone else. If you want it differently then you have to pay the price on it. Its simple and fair.
Dont use common sense!
250k Silver? So I guess you are planning on staying rank 1 every month?
Promote Cetric to UO Dev!
Its fair to you maybe but its unfair to people in factions we pay the price with stat loss for 20mins free gear?
So your also in favor of moving all the scrolls to trammel as well as there is no reason for pvmers to be forced to pvp either.
Heres a question: Are you rank 10 right now?
I am. *coughs*
the amount of silver you get from kills in pvp is tiny, you get 40 per unique kill (can't get more off the same person for some time, i forget how long, they're in stat anyways so it doesn't really matter unless you're trying to abuse it) plus once the person killed goes into a defecit you don't get any silver for the kill. In normal pvp you're talking MAYBE 100-200 silver a hour as most kills will get you 0.
are you telling me no pvmers get scrolls? because i login early mornings and despise is always full of blues....
Ok, and this new program will LET you actually get your artifacts.
They only need to purchase the artifacts once... So farming/buying the silver isn't a huge issue. Most the people that pay attention to the faction part of this game probably have their old faction gear laying around so 50% or more of the people won't need rank for anything. The only thing you gain rank for would be ego, because after you have the gear it's irrelevant.
Not true - All Faction Arties will have a lifespan of 30 days.
Guess I should read more. Is that what the moonbound thing is? I get annoyed reading pub notes, seeing new mods and getting 0 explanation as to what they do. So I quit checking up on stuff :/.
Its explained in the patch notes.
For you, perhaps, but for RP it will certainly be better to have the option for such things to be 'in game' than reliant on something completely external.Communication crystals, really? with ventrillo, skype, team speak, etc...? Welcome to Middle Ages..
You know, you can also rp by speaking, have you ever played dnd? in that game noone put over his head a piece of paper to speak
And yet they still have to come to fel. No one playstyle is superior to the other. If you want to do one and only one expect to have to trade and purchase things. Its called an economy. For to long folks were allowed to bypass that but it is a good thing everyone is being put in the same place. Honestly they should probably just drop faction arties altogether but at least this means you have to keep working to use them which is fair.
And you can RP a communication device across a distance in UO by .... err... Skype, or ICQ? Or maybe you'd suggest waving a piece of paper over your head for that tooYou know, you can also rp by speaking, have you ever played dnd? in that game noone put over his head a piece of paper to speak
Adding some way to allows EM to speak instead of write would be much better
But sorry if I live in 2012...
The existing comm crystals are not particularly helpful..
Don't read too much into it. We basically built a new public-address system for use by Event Moderators, because existing com crystals have some problems and they're a pain to set up and maintain. It was all about making sure everybody can see all the important text at large events, and building something that would be fast and easy for EMs to use.
I wonder if they'll work while in a pack animal's backpack. I'm not saying whether or not they should, I'm just curious about whether they will.
I'm interested to see how they work. I rather gathered the meaning of the use since our EM's on GL's have attempted to use com crystals in the past and haven't had much luck with them..... I think this is VERY nice. I myself have used com crystals in RP to "throw" my voice. Especially when having a "statue" speak. So this might be an even nicer crystal to use. I'm actually fairly excited about it. As for the "spy mode" the only thing wrong with the old crystals was control/shift.... allowing folk to "see" hidden ones.
If they can be found and killed before they send the silver to the bank, yes.
I'm guessing spy mode may just mean you can turn off the glow.
It will. The EM version has a "spoof mode" which barks your speech without a prefix indicating it comes from a crystal.
They'll pick up speech from inside a container or when being held by a player or a pet. Or a vendor (they can be set "not for sale" for this purpose).
ug, guessing they can use a Bag of sending, for immediate and worry free collection?
yes, and most "emergency" send it the second someone is around so there's not much you can do about it, the second you're not camping one of the tons of areas it's done in they're right back farming it again, lose nothing on death, no points for the kill :/ It doesn't have to be looted either so they do it fully stealth, generally not in the room it's being farmed in (it falls to your pack). The only time I ever actually got anything from killing one was because, hilariously, he'd forgotten to take a ship key out of his pack which led me to 3 of his accounts simultaniously scripting skills out on the tokuno waters...got 2 free ships, free armor, and a decent amount of loot from the ship holds he had in there for some reason
Moonbound items are Ephemeral when in a Trammel ruleset area. They will lose 1 point of maximum durability per six minutes spent in active combat.
Roleplayers would like a mode like this for our own events and such!
Ummm...well, not everyone gets their silver by having their pets kill opposing faction monsters while their tamer is hidden.
Tina, the amount you get from pvp and traps is so patheticly small it's not even worth considering, you get more as a side bonus when simply doing a baracoon spawn (last level has silver serps) them from hours of those. (Faction traps can only lay 15 per faction total so even if you spend all the time hunting down and diffusing them all, assuming anyone bothered to lay them anywhere you can find, you spend a good few hours to get what....300 silver or so for all of them? Same with pvp, you get very little per kill, cant get more off the same person for some time, and don't get ANY if they have a kill point defecit, amounts gotten from pvp just get tossed in the stack, and basicly amount to a free faction rune or potion every week or so.
talk about super easy mode to make a whammy champ killer on any shard u want. thumbs down
Thus negating the idea that they're "free," I would think.
Well, I never once got silver by farming it AFK or using a stealth tamer and I can't recall even bringing a BOS along either. If you wanted to find my characters, they were pretty darn easy to find and kill. But then again, I never had much silver, just enough to keep my trap removers stocked with trap removal kits and to keep up a supply of trap deeds. (When I started playing in factions, silver was mostly used to make trap deeds and trap removal kits and when someone wanted to buy a faction horse.) The only faction artifacts I've ever bought were a pair of stormgrips each for two pally faction archers on an account I later gave away to a guildmate. (I think I bought one or two bottles of the powder too.) All the changes made to factions in 2008 pretty much killed my interest in it, although I still have characters (mostly thief/trap remover/tracker/detector characters) in factions on Baja, LA, Legends, Napa, Origin, Pacific, and Sonoma. I wish the artifacts were just gone and factions would go back to being what it was, a fun team-based. cat-and-mouse, "capture the flag" type game. I don't expect that'll ever happen though. The arties ruined it for good.
It's an interesting idea, but I'd sort of say it would need to be an inverse thing. The more towns controlled, the cheaper it got for people who didn't control towns. Which is why I'd avoid it altogether.
