Update [Jan 08 08] - Vendor contracts + misc stuff

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:33 pm

* Vendor contracts can now be made public. A public contract can be accessed by anyone to place a vendor at the set price. To make it public, simply "offer" it to yourself. You will get a message saying it is public, and the hover text will display so. If you double click to make changes it will go back to non public.

I will be adding a bunch of public ones to the gate library and possibly in Luna. I will make the price rather high as I don't want to take away from players making their own vendor houses. The existing ones will remain free as it would not be fair to suddently start charging.

* Logs now produce 2 boards instead of 1.

* Using the runebook charges for recall now requires 0 skill. You will no longer fail as elf if you have no magery.

* It is now possible to steal non stacked items that are heavyer then 10 stones. The skill required will be that of 10 stones.

* Treasure chests now have better loot intensities, this includes fished, spawned, as well as treasure chests.

* The trash bag artifact will no longer accept insured or blessed items. Also it wont be possible to drag items directly on it, you will need to open then drag on the gump instead. This is to make it harder to accidentally trash valuables. Also the delete timer is set to 30 minutes.

* Some changes were made to Magic wands:
- They are now blessed by default. This will make them more useful to carry around. (specially the heal ones)
- They now act like mage weapons
- They now use magery skill as weapon skill

These changes are experimental, just ran accross this on stratics and thought it would make sense to implement.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:36 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: * Logs now produce 2 boards instead of 1.

That's a good idea. Seems logical that you'd be able to get more than one board out of a log. Also parallels the mining system nicely.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:49 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: * Some changes were made to Magic wands:
- They are now blessed by default. This will make them more useful to carry around. (specially the heal ones)
- They now act like mage weapons
- They now use magery skill as weapon skill

sweet... watch out for spawner and the deadly fireworks wand. FYI, the special moves on a magic wand are dismount and disarm.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:52 pm

Yeah this is very experimental since it could possibly be way overpowered, but figured, theres lot of SC mage weps out there, artys as well as looted items, so thats just a basic easy to find one with no properties, so think they'll be fine.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:54 pm

DOCTOR THUNDER wrote: sweet... watch out for spawner and the deadly fireworks wand. FYI, the special moves on a magic wand are dismount and disarm.

It's only most effective on foot. Wrestling still beats it tbh.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:07 pm

spawner spends most of his time on foot

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:15 pm

Speaking of wands anyone who plays OSI knows how to recharge these? I'm wondering if this is even implemented by default in RunUO. If not I'll implement it. If they're not rechargeable on OSI I'll consider making a special item here like a "wand recharging kit" or something.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:53 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:Speaking of wands anyone who plays OSI knows how to recharge these? I'm wondering if this is even implemented by default in RunUO. If not I'll implement it. If they're not rechargeable on OSI I'll consider making a special item here like a "wand recharging kit" or something.

Or just use runed switches like talismans to completely recharge them.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:55 pm

Yeah thats another plan unless theres already an OSI way.

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sliptongue69 · Post by **sliptongue69** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:21 pm

I thought communication crystals or something that had to do with them was how you recharged stuff.

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Dumples · Post by **Dumples** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:55 am

Don't add any vendors to the public runebook library. Let people place them at there houses.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:22 am

Dumples wrote:Don't add any vendors to the public runebook library. Let people place them at there houses.

If they were added they would be in that area to the right of the rune library and not right in the center. People would expect to pay quite a hefty sum for those vendors as well.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:29 am

Yeah I'll be charging a lot for those. The existing will remain free though.

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d. · Post by d. » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:42 am

*cough*, i posted how critical strikes /w explosion potions didnt work. i threw 200 potions at my other account with gm alchemy, 50 EP, and didnt get a single critical strike off. Im hoping to see this get fixed soon so i can get alchemy on one of my mages again, its been a few weeks and i just changed my skills rather than waiting =p.

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Dumples · Post by **Dumples** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:47 am

Red Squirrel wrote:Yeah I'll be charging a lot for those. The existing will remain free though.

I can see it as a gold sink, but it takes away from player economy a bit. Vendors are a way for players to make a little money possibly by renting, making more money by selling goods, and a way to bring people to there house. That will be more important as you get poeple wanting to build guild towns and stuff. Just seems like vendors should remain at players houses. It just seems better for the economy that way. My opinion anyway.

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Finlander · Post by **Finlander** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:19 am

I agree dumbles, i said that same thing in some previous post.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:23 am

Finlander wrote:I agree dumbles, i said that same thing in some previous post.

Hector, is that a Freudian slip?

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Finlander · Post by **Finlander** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:30 am

haha, you know, i had to google about that freudian slip

i guess i learned a new english word

...
and about calling dumples as dumbles, yes i guess you can call that freudian slip

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:35 am

Finlander wrote:haha, you know, i had to google about that freudian slip

i guess i learned a new english word

...
and about calling dumples as dumbles, yes i guess you can call that freudian slip

Freudian Slips are great. Also, going back to dumple's post, I agree with having a more concentrated aproach for player vendors in luna. The recall library vendors will be risk vs reward kind of deal. Not only will people need to keep their vendors stocked, but they can expect to pay a lot for a spot there. So even if you get the prime location, you better have the goods and funds to back it up.

Also, if you have a good vendor, chances are people will learn about it and go buy from you if you spread the word.

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d. · Post by d. » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:24 pm

A little bug i believe, or not sure if u guys implemented them. many chests are spawning in lower ends of dungeons now, but they are unlocked, and do not have anything inside. I made a lock picker and suited him up, and theres no chests in dungeons, im going to try a levathian, but i was looking forward to raiding dungeons for chests =p.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:39 pm

Those are probably some old ones, by default some spawn empty and are part of another spawn system, they've always been there even in default RunUo install. I'll have to look into them more and remove them and only have our own spawn system.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:41 pm

d. wrote:A little bug i believe, or not sure if u guys implemented them. many chests are spawning in lower ends of dungeons now, but they are unlocked, and do not have anything inside. I made a lock picker and suited him up, and theres no chests in dungeons, im going to try a levathian, but i was looking forward to raiding dungeons for chests =p.

Ya there's 2 different kinds of spawn systems. One version has been retired and one version is new. Some dungeons currently run off the first and others run off the second system.

2 of us are working on revamping all the dungeons and making the spawning systems work a lot better for new/intermediate/veteran players. Revamping also includes adding treasure chests, therefore some dungeons may still include the old style treasure chests and need to be transfered over to the new system.

Try checking out treasure maps. You can get them off ettins and such. They're fun to do and the loot's been recently bumped.

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theindigothief · Post by **theindigothief** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:03 pm

Seeing as though we have no Treasure location library I would say the loot better be more than good. It better be friggin' amazing.

So are level 1s actually worth doing now?

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Dumples · Post by **Dumples** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:17 pm

theindigothief wrote:Seeing as though we have no Treasure location library I would say the loot better be more than good. It better be friggin' amazing.

So are level 1s actually worth doing now?

I have a trammel treasure location library that is for the most part complete. I still need to get a Felucca versiond done. It is the house right next to the public runebook library next to the city walls.

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theindigothief · Post by **theindigothief** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:26 pm

Well 99% of T maps would be in Fel I would think. Between AoAs and whatnot :/

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