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Nature's Revenge = scripters delight, auto recall and pick up coming back to a shard near you soon
Ya me to I read it the same but it’s in game
the vet reward house add-ons are great
wish they would have said the release date and what years they will be. I can’t imagine the fishing being over 1 year. But just to piss off a certain someone they might make it 26 year and account bound lol
the vet reward house add-ons are great
wish they would have said the release date and what years they will be. I can’t imagine the fishing being over 1 year. But just to piss off a certain someone they might make it 26 year and account bound lol
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that looks more like a dynamic champ spawn
but if they do return the eggs for turn ins
that would be great too
I'm getting excited for all that they showed in this sneak peak
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can't wait to test the new vet rewards too
I'd rather hang out at the Fire Island in UO than the one in New York anyway
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YES. I have a bag of 90. A player was trying to give away 100 last week because he needed space.
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I saw that and thought the same thing; so they had all 2020/2021/2022 and now half 2023 to release the Alpha (they say "middle of the year" which could be Sept/Oct technically)... which still may or may not happen on time. Don't worry though, as a show of faith we were given 3 additional pieces of artwork for NL (that looks very similar to what we already have on Prod aside from draped banners)! It's definitely a joke at this point because we should at the very least have some idea of what the shard will be aside from "it won't be classic client".... it's only been 3+ years now to figure out what you are coding.
Also thought this... after such a disaster Spring 2022 of rampant / blatant scripting they are already going back to the well? I hope it's different than it was last year but given the lack of originality by this team (pumpkins/skeletons for Halloween + Krampus/Artisan Fest for Xmas every single year for the past X years) it's really not that surprising that the annual "spring event" will be the same boring egg thing. If it's for more decoration (butterflies / hedges / etc) then I won't even bother with it. My only hope is that the rewards for whatever dynamic champ and ToT spawn they do (also super unoriginal at this point) are worthwhile.
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What is the problem with last year ? Only one fail I saw was allowing pile of macro weavers stay at one place in Destard dungeon.
Eggs gathering for me personally allowed getting slayer talismans on shards I never played before with minimum skilled toon (some magery to recall and make runes)
Later this resulted in me equipping and training fighters on those shards , buying ethy horses and soulstones there (and mythical tokens in future). Resulted me spending lots of time crafting gear for those toons (moving market for craft stuff), buying some PS to transfer there. Now I need to buy additional sub's to make/destroy houses there just to arrange my powerscrolls , interact with other players to x-fer here and there .
So even without any scripting this event gave me more fun and more things to do in this game during event and after it. I am still not finished with it , by the way.
What's bad with it ? You as shard dweller still had dungeon ToT event for your shiny gear nice trained warrior. Why bother about some (possibly my) low-gear mage recalling here and there ?
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I'm glad the egg event worked out so well for you but what others and I didn't like about it was that people were running scripts constantly with low gear mages to do the same thing as you well not at the computer. Something which could easily be replicated on all shards as it only took an EJ and as you have said a very low skill unequipped mage. Don't even have to bother with an LRC suit just carry a few reagents for recall and good to go.
gwen
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I did lots of eggs as I said and saw no scripture as you call them . recalling and gathering with scavenger is not a scripting. Scavenger is a function in EC , same as auto follow in CC. Some hours we're more popular on some shards so I was just doing it on another where I alone or 1 more player was gathering those eggs. I had fun doing that. I was sitting at the keyboard and steering my char.
And you still had possibility to go to dungeon and kill stuff. Which I done on ATL and other shard I have gear and fighters. Also on ATL (as it was so popular) I trained one more imbuer to move off-shard from 50 to 120 by unraveling loot from paragons, she never imbued anything
) . I don't see how adding something like egg hunt can destroy my experience in Deceit dungeon during last event for example. You like fighting - go on. Have peacefull crafters and low-gear mage for bank sitting? There is a possibility for you to get some gear to sell or to use(I sold nothing by the way, all for myself).
You're right @gwen you did it exactly the right way. You manually worked your character and recalled to and picked up the eggs. Unfortunately, what myself and it seems many others, excluding yourself, witnessed many characters who were not as upright as you. These were being run by an auto script using one of a few 3rd party programs to copy the actions you did manually without user intervention. This prevented players who, like yourself, tried to manually gather eggs from being successful. I am glad that you did not come across this and were able to successfully get everything you wanted. And yes, as you stated this had no effect on the dungeon portion of the event, but no one should be forced to take part in that.
gwen
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On ATL before Dastard started was quite tight competition cuz eggs respawn time was same as on low-pop shards. But I got 1-2 butterflies and some other deco. Just to see how it looks. But it was tough! Some camping spots , some recalling like crazy , some running . So I did almost nothing there during Deco part.
On Asuka I gathered 8 full sets of candles. Why ? No idea ! no one was gathering eggs during my playing time so I was doing this . And I had fun. I sold 2 or 3 candles , other leftover I gave to people who wanted them and missing some colors to finish their set.
Then Destard event came . There was scripting heaven(before fix). In the dungeon not in Brit farms ! Even thou I had fun : I spent 30min in dungeon to check how it work and later 2-3 days to skill and gear toon for macroing Destard , which resulted me in 1 or 2 hours farming before fix
) . I don't play 23,5/7 , lol. There is difference between ways of getting drops. In dungeon we have some hidden kill counter affected by luck . While we claim it is slow or unexplainable, we don't see what other people get. Just imagine that we will need to kill mobs in dungeon so one with drop will appear (like paragon, visible, different color , etc). And you possibly will see how someone else got to this skeleton first and killed it. You will also claim he/she is scripter or unofficial software user or whatever. Like in PvP talk on ATL where one is looser and another is scripter
Yes, lots of people saw someone picking egg they saw and were running to. Sometimes I was lucky recalling right next to one and was picking it while others player was opening door and almost got it. Sometimes it was me late for 1 second . Nothing like this happen in dungeon : while we are happy to recall in room full of skeletons, and unhappy if someone did it before you, you have no idea if that mob generated drop or not.
So Destard event was real success : when I felt like fighting I went in dungeon. Too crowdy or too many paragons - go to farm ATL. Tired of it : go loot mobs and train imbuer, feel lazy doing tgat: go to some shard to collect eggs , many people on that shard - go to another.
I was checking US shards too : some had lots of eggs(but I have Asia timezone) .
So please explain if last Deceit event will have goat droppings collector (why not) you don't know about, how it will harm you ?
To me it looks like the eggs are surrounded by guardians?
@gwen - I'm not talking about the dungeon portion of the event at all because that's just a cookie cutter ToT event. You are assuming the egg gathering is going to be at the same time as the dungeon event; I am not. I'm strictly talking about some sort of "gathering" event. There was a month or 2 period where it was just egg gathering (no dungeon) and by midway through it the scripters had a lock on it. That was also the first year of this style event so if we get the exact same this year; there will be mass scripting out of the gates because the scripts already exist from last event.
Recycled events are sort of like PvP. I do not PvP anymore because I do not want to "compete" with scripting... by taking the lazy route and simply reskinning a previous event it allows the same people to script and then others that might not scripted before might start scripting because it's the only way to really compete. So then what you get is a bunch of people scripting that ruin the fun for regular people like me who do not wish to script. The problem with competing against a scripter is that they don't care if there are another 10 scripters all running the same thing and they only get 10 eggs an hour... but for someone like me who is sitting at the computer for an hour (and might only have an hour to play) it's an issue because it's not worth the time or headache.
I'm fine with an easter egg style event again if the Devs actually make some changes that deter scripting whether it be add a piece to the event where you kind of need to do something like more of a quest chain (so it's more than just picking up something and turning it in) or Devs deploy the same EJ account logic to the things they pickup. Whatever it is, there needs to be something different than last year otherwise the same scripters are just going to suck up 75% of the eggs leaving honest players to fight for a fraction of the eggs.
Hopefully the Devs have something planned for scripters but given how much they are supposedly focusing on NL; I can see them just "turning on" the same event from last year. If that's the case, I hope you and others enjoy it but I know that I will not bother with the frustration for some random decorations.
Recycled events are sort of like PvP. I do not PvP anymore because I do not want to "compete" with scripting... by taking the lazy route and simply reskinning a previous event it allows the same people to script and then others that might not scripted before might start scripting because it's the only way to really compete. So then what you get is a bunch of people scripting that ruin the fun for regular people like me who do not wish to script. The problem with competing against a scripter is that they don't care if there are another 10 scripters all running the same thing and they only get 10 eggs an hour... but for someone like me who is sitting at the computer for an hour (and might only have an hour to play) it's an issue because it's not worth the time or headache.
I'm fine with an easter egg style event again if the Devs actually make some changes that deter scripting whether it be add a piece to the event where you kind of need to do something like more of a quest chain (so it's more than just picking up something and turning it in) or Devs deploy the same EJ account logic to the things they pickup. Whatever it is, there needs to be something different than last year otherwise the same scripters are just going to suck up 75% of the eggs leaving honest players to fight for a fraction of the eggs.
Hopefully the Devs have something planned for scripters but given how much they are supposedly focusing on NL; I can see them just "turning on" the same event from last year. If that's the case, I hope you and others enjoy it but I know that I will not bother with the frustration for some random decorations.
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gwen
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@Keven2002 you really had trouble because during that month or two someone scripted(not played , ok) several butterflies or candles? Which cost hmmmm almost nothing, compare how much gold you can make playing game if you have geared up toon (or several) on given shard. Especially if this shard is ATL where so many ways of making gold uninterrupted do exist. Like making Medusa keys (my first big money there) or farming any peerless, or pirates or imbuing essences and ingredients, or whetstones.
Don't forget that mass-scripting (or easy getting something) results in price decrease . High competition - go do other content. Or login not in peak time.
Telling that such popular event as eggs collecting was a failure - really not fair for developers who designed it. Failure is content nobody bothers to interact. But when there is competition and rewards are in demand , and players switch from doing other things to this one- it is great.
Example of failure are some mini champs in SA where artifacts are useless and essences are needed for properties nobody need to imbue. Or champion spawn in Labyrinth .
Don't forget that mass-scripting (or easy getting something) results in price decrease . High competition - go do other content. Or login not in peak time.
Telling that such popular event as eggs collecting was a failure - really not fair for developers who designed it. Failure is content nobody bothers to interact. But when there is competition and rewards are in demand , and players switch from doing other things to this one- it is great.
Example of failure are some mini champs in SA where artifacts are useless and essences are needed for properties nobody need to imbue. Or champion spawn in Labyrinth .
Exactly my point. You are basically saying "Go do other stuff to make money to buy from the scripters"; it kind of defeats the whole point of the new event if scripters are just going to take it over and the honest players support their cheating actions.
Also, I never said the egg event was a failure... I said Spring 2022 was a disaster due to rampant / blatant scripting and I stand by that (and so do many others). Like I said, if they are actually going to do something (aka different than it was last year) then I'm all for it but if not I won't bother.
gwen
Slightly Crazed
Of course. If you don't like some content at all or at some time -don't do it. Especially eggs resulting in Deco. You will not loose UO having no butterflies.
Eggs have lots of spawn location. If someone made a script to do all that and to collect them all-it is real Rain Man and you should be happy he switched from other things to this one . I saw some grief posts about it , but really never faced any toon who I can account as automated .
May be from point of view of inexperienced player who collected eggs with mouse dragging my gameplay looked like scripted : recalling , checking where are eggs (if lucky to appear next to egg, picking it at the same moment) running straight to nearest egg and picking it on the fly.
Rather than having to change things, which always ends up hurting the honest players, the Devs could always, BAN THE PEOPLE WHO BREAK THE RULES! A novel idea to be sure, for UO Devs anyway. FYI, to the people who say "the scripters/cheaters never affect me" think about all the changes that were made, JUST to "combat" the scripters, and how it DID affect you. Just sayin'.
The egg bots were not a conspiracy theory, I know someone who was doing it.
it was also a fairly simple script to run from what I’ve heard.
Did you know, there are 4 guilds with the script to send a stealthed animal formed thief to the active VvV town. Find the sigil, go out of animal form, steal the sigil, stealth, back in form, return to priest.
Buy and insure royal forged pardon when reached 10k points.
collecting eggs way way simpler.
it was also a fairly simple script to run from what I’ve heard.
Did you know, there are 4 guilds with the script to send a stealthed animal formed thief to the active VvV town. Find the sigil, go out of animal form, steal the sigil, stealth, back in form, return to priest.
Buy and insure royal forged pardon when reached 10k points.
collecting eggs way way simpler.
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I'm thinking thats a dynamic champ spawn
(the return of the alchemist abomination...
eggs look to be circling the bog thing
and I see a small abomination rabbit in the pic)
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There will be housing but you won't just be able to place anywhere, there will be quests you'll need to do to prove your worth to whatever town you want to live in, and there will be upkeep of your house.
I'd assume your bank box. You have to keep in mind that the shard is temporary (and sounds like more simplistic); most of the hoarding people do will likely be pointless because they've only confirmed porting of characters to a Prod shard,, not all of their items. I'm guessing people will only be able to take a handful of things with you. Since the design is for limited play, if your "legacy" is a renown macer warrior there won't be a need for you to keep swords/daggers etc (at least that's the way the make it sound).
gwen
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How to trade stuff then ?
I'd like if they will make some SoHo condo with unlimited houses (you enter some moon gate and go to your own one). Where you can place vendors. Or use banker as vendor and also can buy from him . Take ticket from VS , drop on minter(or special trader NPC) and get your item.
This will also be awesome for prodo shards, at cost of banking space , sure .
Lots of things are unknown so many things are just speculation at this point but I'd imagine people would use their bankbox as storage to hold 125+ items like has been the case since day 1 of UO. I understand that hoarding is ingrained deep into the fabric of UO given it's been 25 years to amass "stuff" so the idea of not having 3k lockdowns is probably not popular but if the shard is supposed to be simple and "classic feel" then I don't see a need to have 3k lockdowns when most stuff is going to be deleted at the end of the season anyway.
If people build houses they will not want a shard wipe if they get shiny stuff they will not want a shard wipe its the PERMANENCY that makes UO we have a seasonal shard it's called test the developers just totally out of touch with the player base and have not a clue what it would take to bring UO to the largest audience ever
They have modified that in the newsletter.
"In September of 2020 we announced a bold project called Ultima Online: New Legacy with the goal of rekindling the magic of Ultima Online and delivering it to the largest audience we could."
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Frost Mite Ethies are a surprise. I know they said they'd look into making actual Frost Mites ridable, but then they didn't do it. Hopefully actual Frost Mites become ridable. Frost Mites are ****ing ridiculous with the stats they can have. As you can see, this one has reached the total stat cap and full regens, with enough TP left to fully 120 all his skills, with 25 TP left and literally nothing left to spend it on.
who is BG?
why does he have a fishing pole named after him?
what does it do.... just not pick up footwear?
is it imbueable?
does it have any other properties?
why was it the only thing not shown out of all the stuff?
does anyone else remember when at one of the Meet and Greet someone asked about being able to ride Frost Mites and Lions and Tigers and they said it should be do-able and they would look into it....
and nothing.
yet since then we have ethys of all those animals to ride.
someone needs to find out where we are in being able to ride the real animals once more!
and nothing.
yet since then we have ethys of all those animals to ride.
someone needs to find out where we are in being able to ride the real animals once more!
I would Say BG is either Grimbeard's Backwards initials, or who the hell knows.
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I had no expetation