Isn't it strange that the number of bots and players using bots increased since the event start?
Am I hallucinating or is this what's going on?
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Drops are still 1M on Atlantic, so the market is not flooded. Buying drops on Atl 500k each.
I will be slow to reply because I cannot log in/stay logged in to the forums.
Make this your signature if you are tired of Vendor Search being broken, over 4 years and counting.
Vendor search rendered useless after Publish 106 – Forsaken Foes on August 14, 2019.
Pro tip: You only need 15 of each cannon supply to start pirating. You will never run out of supplies once you begin.
You talk about exploiting so much that you think it is normal gameplay.
To my opinion, what needs to be looked at, is NOT whether the accounts are subscribed or not but, rather, to the TIME, real life time, that a player spends in order to get something in the game.
The real value is the time spent to get something in a game because, after all, time is money as the saying goes...
Now, if a player only needs 1 hour to get what another player needs 5 or 6 hours of their time to get in UO thanking to being able to control, synchronously, 5 or 6 characters at once, of course that the player only controlling 1 character will be at a gross disadvantage !!
That item which took to them 5 or 6 hours to get, will of course be worth proportionally to the 5 or 6 hours spent for them to get it.
YET, for the other player who, instead, spent only 1 hour to get it, thanking to the synchronous control of 5 or 6 characters (regardless whether subscribed or not), that given item will be worth a lot less, proportionally to the only 1 hour spent to get it.
Thus, what is likely to happen is that, the player who took much less time to get that item, only 1 hour, and likely got multiple of them being able to get it in much less time, will probably sell it on VS at a way below the value of the other player who instead took 5-6 hours to get it could possibly sell it.
Bottom line is, the ability for players to synchronously control multiple characters in the game with one key stroke, eventually, can drive out of the market other players who, instead, do not do the same.
That is, is my opinion, it makes it not worth it for a player who only plays 1 character, to actually play that given Event when it takes to them 5 or 6 times more time to get the same item which other players can get in 1/5th or 1/6th of the time even though those 5 or 6 characters are from subscribed accounts....
The subscribed accounts being used might well be 5 or 6 yet, the number of players and their time used up is not 5 or 6 but only 1, thanking to being able to easily synchronously controlling those 5 or 6 characters all at once, with the strike of the same key..... and this is, at least to my opinion, the crucial matter....
And the number of UO players "loosing interest" in playing the game increases because they cannot compete with other players running groups of BOTs controlled synchrounously with the same 1 key stroke thanking to some un-authorized UO Third Party application....
This is basically the same with the gathering of resources and scripters.... how many UO players actually still spend "their" time at the keyboard to gather resources and how many, instead, by them from players who script gather them thus not using their time at the keyboard ?
Do the same as those UO players who script, automatize, BOT their characters using un-authorized Third Party applications to synchronize their control with the same one key stroke to remain competitive? Thanks but no, there is players who actually think that playing by the rules is important... better perhaps just quit playing that game where many of its players do not play by the official rules, instead ?
What I am trying to say is that, to my opinion, not stopping for good players to be able to automatize, script, BOT activities in the game, basically not using much of their time to get things done in the game, makes it for the rest of players who do NOT automatize, do NOT scripts, do NOT BOT activities in the game, to not be able to compete (since they have to invest considerable much more of their time to get the same activities done) and thus abandon doing those activities in UO... the game sees more and more players losing interest in a lot of things of the game and eventually get to log less and less and looses players....
@Mesanna , @Kyronix , please, to my opinion, it is important that the ability for players to automatize, script, BOT activities in the game, perhaps using un-authorized Third Party applications, gets stopped for good (or is made available, easily, to ALL of UO players). Players wants to get things done in the game ? They need to use their time at the keyboard and to control 1 character, not a pack of characters, synchronously, using the same 1 key stroke OR, the game will provide to any and all players the same ability to be able to control multiple characters at once..., thank you.
At least, that is the way I see it.
Where you getting your info on 6 bots getting 600 drops in a hour that's 100 each in a hour maybe get half of that with a glorious potion on all of them...
Unfortunately I can no longer edit the post or I would change to the correct figure that I heard other players indicate when discussing multi-groups of characters being used all together by the same player. ( @Mariah , if possible, could you please edit my post above, changing the 600 figure mistakengly indicated into 300 ? Thanks!).
The figure is not even important, to my opinion, when a single player in 1 hour of gameplay controlling 1 character gets even 50 drops, but another player in the same hour controlling multiple characters all at once gets even "only" 150 drops, just to mention a figure for the sake of the discussion, we have 2 players who, in the same 1 hour of gameplay achieve much different results, one gets 3 times the results of the other, in the same exact time length of gameplay...
How can the player only using 1 account ever compete with another player who can use multiple accounts at once in the same time ? I do not see how they could....
A lot of different people stated different opinions in this thread. Some may not agree with me but I personally do not care about people running bots as long as it does not interfere with my gameplay.
Here are a couple pointers for devs for the next event:
- if the infrastructure allows it, please provision faster servers for events. Right now you can barely take a step at the northern part of the island.
- Please try to distribute better rewards to different sub servers. (Right now, the ice field and the rune beetles drop more items than the creeps at other parts of the event. So everyone is packed into a single subserver while event Gamans are just eating grass without anyone bothering them)
https://forum.uo.com/discussion/13480/extreme-server-lag-in-the-event-areas-due-to-bots#latest