I know this server is still an infant and people are still getting established.





But does anyone have some shots of the server they wanna show off? Your sweet house placement or first GM skill?!





Lets see em

Let me know the price and when to pick em up !





Thanks

I'm running across escorts labeled Seeker of Adventure that won't trigger to either the 'Destination' question or the 'I will take thee' statement.

CTF isn't a small system and we want to iron out all potential exploits, weird bugs or the possibility of shard crashes before even considering putting it on live. The system has been heavily altered to be as user friendly as possible, so some thorough testing will be needed.


If you're interested in helping test out CTF, please shoot me a message on here or IRC. Testing would take place at the latter end of this week. Please let me know if you are interested and available to help.


Thanks!

Due to popular demand, we've moved the date for the PvP Tournament forward oneweek(12-06-14 - 6PM EST)so it does not interfere with Thanksgiving festivities.


All are welcome to come along, even if you're only there to watch.

How often should I be failing to detect traps if my Detect Hidden skill is 100? Because it fails far more often than it succeeds...

arrr! So ye fancy yerself a sailor on the high seas… *cough* *cough*... Ahem, sorry about that.
 
So you’d like to become a treasure hunter of the sea; Excellent! There are hordes of treasure just sitting there on the bottom of the ocean waiting to be found. Even better, fishing is one of the safer ways for players to accumulate a healthy pile of gold. There is still danger, but it’s great reward for the risk. Creager has written a fantastic leveling guide to get you started. I followed it to the letter and it paid off. I’m definitely standing on his shoulders to write this guide.
 
I’d like to focus a little more on what happens after you GM fishing and start finding those wonderful messages in bottles (MiBs). You see, I’m a noob, and I continue to stub my toe on those little details that normal players have figured out long ago. So, my noobish friends, let me draw you a line from point A to B… literally. Even if you know how it all works, perhaps this will inspire some thoughts about how to make your hunt more efficient.
 
Right, so using your diligently attended macro, you’ve hauled up a serpent. You’ll receive a system message informing you that this serpent is holding either a MiB or a treasure map. Creager helpfully pointed out that you have to kill that serpent to loot the item, but I mention it again because my early reaction was to instantly hide and wait until it wandered away. Don’t be a noob like me. Kill that serpent.
 
If the serpent held a tattered treasure map, tuck that away for later use with my treasure hunting guide. If, however, you’ve found a message in a bottle, then the fun fishing can begin! Double click the bottle to receive a waterstained SOS. Double click the SOS to read a message which will contain a set of coordinates indicating where the sunken treasure can be found. At this point you have a few options about how to go retrieve it.
 


This wooden tub is equipped with GPS?
Assuming that you’re using UOAM, yes it is! Right-click the map area of UOAM and select “Edit or Go To Labels.” Go to the “Places” tab. Click the “Add” button. You can name your spots however you’d like, but I name everything simply “A” so they all sort together if I feel like browsing. I also leave the type as “archers guild,” because it’s the default and that’s one less thing to type. The important part is that you click the “Latitude/Longitude” button and enter the coordinates you are given in the SOS.
 

 
Now that the location is entered, select it in the menu and click the “Locate” button. Right-click the new location on the map area and select “Drop or Pickup Marker.” I told you I’d literally draw you a line from point A to B.
 

Start sailing! If the treasure location is very far away, or separated by large land masses, you might consider docking and recalling to a closer location.
You’ll notice that UOAM displays the distance to the location in the number of tiles. The treasure can actually be fished up a fairly good distance away. The exact number seems to vary, but it can be up to just over 60 tiles. You’ll know you’re close enough when instead of fish, you start pulling up some interesting items. See below for more exciting details! Also, it's very important  to delete the UOAM location once you've pulled up the chest.  Otherwise you'll have no idea which SOSs you have completed.

Autopilot too?!
A neat little trick I hadn’t realized until Talia mentioned it is this:
Take a sea chart or a world map. Open it up, click <Plot Course> and drop your pins wherever you want. They will be numbered. Then you drop the map onto the tillerman -- it will drop back into your pack and be reusable since you can clear your plotted course and make another one. The commands should be as follows:

• start: Start along the charted course and continue until finished or stopped.
  
  
• continue: Resume plotted course after stopped.
  
  
• furl sail or stop: Stops current ship movement.
  
  
• goto #: Sail directly to pin # on map, then continue on remainder of plotted course.
  
  
• nav: Asks tillerman which pin # you are heading to on map.
  
  
• single #: Sail directly to pin # on map, then stop.
  

• Hiding is an incredibly handy skill to have as a fisherman. There are many wandering serpents and water elementals on the seas, and I’ve lost count of how many I’ve casually slid by without incident because I’m usually hidden while underway.
  
  • Also, you can issue a quick command or two and rehide without aggroing them.
    
• Archery is my favorite method of fighting from ships. Creager already mentioned it, but I’ll mention it again because it’s so important. Serpents can’t melee you if you’re on one of the ship’s middle tiles, and that goes both ways.
  
  • They will still use fire breath and minor spells (including poison! see next tip)
    
  • Magery works just fine, but it’s expensive to train and doesn’t give you that satisfying *thunk* with a hit.
    
• Everything on the water can poison you. Be sure to prepare for it with potions, bandages with 60 healing/anatomy, or spells.
  
  
• You can fish, fight, and bandage all at the same time. In the middle of fishing for a chest and pull up a serpent with a bottle? Keep fishing! It doesn’t save all that much time, but it’s funny to be doing everything at once...especially when you pull up a second serpent.
  
  
• For the love of Poseidon, do not leave the ship with a chest in the tile directly aft of the mast. That’s the spot you will recall to when recalling on your ship key, and a chest will block the location. I’ve done this a couple times, and heading out on another ship to troll for your original ship is a royal pain and will make you feel dumb.
  
  • The chest will often appear at your feet when you fish it up because of its weight.
    • If you don’t stand behind the mast when you fish, you won’t need to worry about it.
      

Not a large update in terms of mechanics changes. This one is mainly to get platinum rewards up and running. Enjoy!


Platinum Rewards

• Platinum rewards are now available. To read how the system works, click here.
  
• This, and all the newly created items for this system, introduces a lot of new functionality. If you have any issues with this functionality or notice bugs, please let me know.
  

• Clothing previously did not break, and did not have any hit points. Upon server restart, all previously created clothing will load with hit points between 20-30 hits. Currently there is no bonus for exceptional or low quality items.
  
• NPCs will no longer detect hidden players.
  
• Vendors will no longer buy from or sell to players who are of the lowest level of karma.
  
• Fixed a bug where vendors would nearly always tell players "Get out of here, scum!".
  
• Fixed a bug which caused mounts to never respawn if they were mounted before being taken out of spawner range.
  
• Bounty boards now display the number of bounties when single clicked. Currently 0
  
• The player death sound is now T2A accurate. There is 1 for male, 1 for female.
  
• Minor change to escortables. They will face north until they are accepted, no movement.
  

How does the despawn timer on these work? I've tried a few when I've seen them, but the camp either despawned while I was fighting the mobs, or while I was picking the lock on the chest. Are they set on a timer that isn't affected by the player, or do they start to tick down when someone interacts with them? I actually saw one spawn right near my house last night, and before I could run over and whack the bejesus out of the mobs, it disappeared.

So here is my list of things that I've seen in game that are a little off/incorrect. I'll add to, remove, or tweak this list as I find more or as things get fixed.







Minor things


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Stable master NPC missing in Moonglow outside the inn. (Sextant coords: 39o 43'N, 144o 0'W)

Lizardmen should drop either a war mace or a short spear(based on graphic)

Bales of cotton should sell to NPCs for 41 gold, not 51.(This is how I got cash on new characters, trust me on this. XD)

Spawn north of Brit graveyard inaccurate(Needs ogres, couple less trolls.)

Moonglow needs mongbats

Moonglow graveyard spawn incorrect

Brit Graveyard spawn inaccurate







Major things


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Large amount of spawns missing around Despise dungeon valley(Am willing to work with GM to recreate what I remember)

Spawns in general need to be tweaked. (I'm seeing very very large clusters of mobs. Some clustering is to be expected, but this goes beyond 'normal' clustering)