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Let me give you a tiny taste of how I got so many..
I didn't always have 54 accounts,,, I had a large group of friends on a handful of shards. One by one for different reasons each left UO, which each asked me to hang on to the accounts if they didn't come back in a year take it as they wont be back.... only 2 returned and then left again!
I got them back.... some 1 account others 2, 4, 5.etc. I didn't mind as many had characters worth the time to run, and nice homes.. most now own castles. Before it was no big deal to collect the bods as we only had smith and tailor to get. So 6 bods give or take per day was no big deal.
Now add in that years have gone by and the rewards back then were not so easy to get as the Dev did a adjustment of the drops along with the new types.(ie: cooking, carpentry, etc) Back then that Val big bod was a real pain in the tush to fill. These days my crafters can collect 24 bods per round. Yes I have more then one crafter per skill... come on did you think I was the only crafter in my group of friends? Now I don't go hog wild and collect every crafter I have in bods but I do go for my mostly used characters, and that can add up real quick.
A bod book holds 500.
A vendor can hold 600 (2 books of 300).
Even though the dev made some ajustment to drops in the bods by the NPC it still is hell to get a full large in one pass... which is what your making it out to sound. Which is not the case usually.
Id love to do up as I go … but where does the time go.. these days if I can ill play on an off all day for a few minutes at a time in between other things.... Real life calls, I answer. Game is not the main theme of my life nor should it be.... or BS owes me a paycheck the size of an elephant!
Be that as it may.
I am asking for something that not just I need,, if the bod book was 1 item count the lag and clutter of my homes with vendors would clear up. My crafter would be able to work out of the books with less trouble of pulling books off and making sure I hit the esc button to save it. No I do not like to strip my lady's down to their nickers to get a bod out of a bigger count book!
There is no reason to keep them as is.. If one or more reward item say was worth over 10 mill I could see a issue... but even now as most of the rewards are turn in owner only on the real money maker items, its not worth duping.. Heck the val hammers are cheap.. so I ask for the change.
people keep asking at the Dev Meet & Greets for it and they keep turning it down...
I do tend to go overboard with the amount of BODs that I collect, but I do use the BODs.
And since the Artisan Festival began, I have gotten rid a lot of the BODs. I know there will at least be one more round of the Artisan Festival, to complete the collection... I hope after that, that they would continue to do it some more... just think of all the BODs the festivals have gotten out of the game...
some people love to collect items in game, whether its holiday gifts, statues, BODs... the list goes on and on... there is only so much storage to hold them in. And with BODs it is really easy to collect lot of them... but for those that do collect them, they use them and they take up lot of space... And when you keep running out of space, you have to store them in vendors . Its very upsetting when you go to get a deed and find a whole book gone because you forgot to hit escape... You want to throw your hands up in the air when that happens, but you go on, cause you are a UO crafter...
Placing your BODs on a vendor allowed others to see what you had and offer to trade.
4:1 for the book might be great for Ikeelu , but to answer you a good few of my castles do have the extra 60%, And to add high seas along with the 7slot/bank upgrade that runs over 30$ for each????
Just be thankful I pay for all my accounts kiddo, with 45 of my 54 on can and will dent your wallet. Before you pick up your jaw off the desk no i'm not a nut. Just one who got caught up in UO and my friends and my play that when they finally left the game I didn't have the heart to let their great characters die in some cold void. But this is about Bulk Order Books and its value.
Value is the point... the LP has a fear that if the books became 1 item a sudden rush by the dupers will rush in make up the top selling wanted bods will be duped to utter flood stage.
Lets get real.
To answer our Top God... What makes you think they have not done this already? I mean 4/1 is not that deep a turn off... get real if they have not done it now to the flood stage I highly doubt they will give a fig when they can copy the 250m EM drops.
Truly id love to have the dev give crafter of all the skills a boone too to be able to do the full gamut of bods and have the high level of skills 720 don't cut the mustard...and have enough to recall or gate your poor pet packie to safety if critters or the human critters get to bugging you...
This is only asking for the way the bulk order books should have been in the first place.
When you turn in a BOD worth 800 points but choose a reward that costs 700 points, you should not lose the extra 100 points.
No. Then you can just buy the tool each time and never need to do Large Bods.
I have been organizing my bods on Origin... none are on vendors. Reason be is that I own a lot of castles there and can spread them to the homes of my crafters.
If this was the case for all then fine... but its not fine.
There is no way in hell that a small time crafter can store and use to any efficiency the system as it sits. Period. And yes by all means put it back the other way a bod raised the level of the bods with the NPC.
It was 10 normal went to 10 exc then the 15 normal to 15 exc. and so on up the chain. You knew you had to bribe and what to expect. This made it a bit more useful and you got what you needed not a ton of junk that has now to sit somewhere till you can find its use.
I know we need a lot more work done in the game and to the major players who love pvp this is a low on the totem pole issue... but the truth is many do crafting.
I have noticed a lot of the older crafters have left the game or have stopped the trade/sale of bods.
1. You need many hundreds of BODs to fill large BODs.
2. The points you get for turning in a BOD without claiming anything are so few as to be worthless. Nobody is going to waste material doing this.
Making BOD books count as one item would encourage hoarding. Personally I have no problems with this. Hoarders make up the most devoted part of the player base (hard to quit if you can't separate yourself from all the stuff). But, if they want to make it work without hoarding - the changes need to be made to the system itself, rather than the BOD books.
As for Ikeelu, dear you need to learn to walk and chew gum at the same time... I didn't buy any of my castles and I own over 25 of them... it took foot work and determination to get them and a lot of pure luck to be at the right place and the right time. oh yea and on the right character too.
Bilbo is quite correct they are paid for and the powers that be at EA/BS care for paid accounts. To of which these castles are paid for every month.
So get off the soap box of poor me...
EZ the hint is many don't want any of us to get ahead of what they call their territory. Had a guy threaten me when I put items on my vendors he thought were under cutting him. All were cooking smith and tailor rewards.. he went bonkers that I dare to lower his market sales. I was huh?
People need to chill..
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this will benefit a lot more people than her. And will enable us to have more completed trees at artisan festival, since we would be able to store the bods until time to hand em to the elf.
If you;re butthurt by someone playing a platstyle that doesn't suit you, perhaps you need to be playing a solo game on the PS.