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Due to Hawkwinds time magics, the King is present, but it is merely from a different time line.
(IE: He is there as part of an Eodon Quest line that already exists.)
Dear Game Support Team / Ultima Online Team,
As a long-time and dedicated player, I’m reaching out to express concern about the latest event and its current structure. While I appreciate the effort that goes into designing engaging content, and after WEEKS of waiting, we get this.
I understand from others who have been on the test center that it can take five hours to complete all stages, and this is very disheartening, especially when coupled with the ongoing issues of multiboxing abuse and outright cheating by SOME players. (Not to mention the inability to hide and find the hidden chests, and the number of paras.) It’s incredibly frustrating to see these players gain unfair advantages without any apparent enforcement or consequence. This not only **** UNDERMINES THE INTEGRITY OF THE EVENT **** but also significantly impacts the morale of players who participate fairly and dedicate their time to the game.
I know the team is aware of this, as multiboxing has been an ON-GOING issue for YEARS, and I hope you have plans this time to properly address the cheaters and not sweep it under the rug again. Active monitoring and enforcement of fair play are crucial, especially during time-intensive events like this one.
Thank you for your time and attention.
I care deeply about this game and the community, and I hope to see improvements that reflect the dedication of your loyal player base and not the cheaters!
Sincerely,
Z...
That is next level.
I've not been to test, but from what I am seeing.
The concept is astonishing, 5 stages - on one hand - wow Devs, you've really gone to town again.
The only thing I fear, is there are a lot of good rewards, and a lot of points players want for those rewards, will the stages, and the assumed difficulty of this, put limiting factors on getting enough items in the timescale?
Whenever players have these fears, it usually works out ok though.
I suppose 5 hours is a good enough grind session
5 hours, with how many players?
In shards that are sparsely populated or not many players doing the event, what can it be, 10 hours the whole event?
I am curious to see it, but this factor is very important, because if it is so complicated or slow, in shards where there are few players or no interest in the event, it may be a failure and the event may be abandoned.
In my personal opinion, the event should be finished between 1 to 2 hours maximum, beyond that it can cause exhaustion, boredom and disinterest in the event, because many will abandon it due to lack of time and complexity.
And the event can be completed without complications between 2 to 5 players maximum, because if there is no interest in the event for whatever reason, it will be impossible to finish it.
So I have seen in Europe many times the current event, with the two bosses out and nobody doing it, because there are no players to finish it, thus concluding the event, because there is no interest.
This is important, develop events that can be started and finished quickly and accessible to everyone, like Treasures of the Shattered Sanctum.
There is still time to develop and change all the code to avoid a failure, for that reason it is a beta.
Ahhh, it seems like I misunderstood it. I thought only the last stage gave drops. Thanks for sharing.
Also the last portion of it is to serve as an reset and can be failed immediately if the server chooses to do so or the server can take up the challenge to see how long they can last.
Our event article is up: https://www.uo-cah.com/event/rifted-crown. It's still a work in progress and we still have to add in some more pictures (some rewards and bosses) and will be updating it after the devs put up an update.
To me, that 4 hour session part is fine - it would allow easily enough time to grind drops.
The question becomes, there is a 30 minutes cooldown, and then stage 1 again, how long does that take - you suggested 1 hour, that is a repetitive down-time that may hit casual players, especially if they log in at the wrong time.
In general I think it is fine, but it would be interesting to see general opinion, but it is hard to predict before it goes live, and players get a feel for it.
Good point about the final stage, I've just twigged on that, from memory of the VP event, there was an optimum level to take the levels up to, at which point it became so hard to get those final drops it was not worth it, so was good to let it go.
I am glad to know that the drop is not limited to one phase.
If the drop is during all phases, thus allowing everyone to be eligible for a reward, then it changes the situation a lot.
So, in order not to speculate on something I haven't seen and not be swayed by negative comments, I'm going to wait for the stable release, as everything is subject to change.
To communicate with you (all), I use an application to translate and then I copy from a website what I want to say and paste it here (and have it translated decently so that it can be well interpreted).
In the game I don't have that option, if I get a quest, I can't copy and paste the text with a button, all that for me is complicated.
In my situation, putting me picture by picture simple chewing plan, saves me a lot of time copying manual text without making a mistake in the translation application, etc... or using picture translation reading applications.
If it was the same language, I wouldn't ask for it, but in my case, it saves me a lot of manual translation time, if you or violet can, great, thanks.
Anyone who doesn't (a person in general, not you I mean) want spoilers, don't read the guide.
Note: If making such a detailed guide is complicated because it is too long or time-consuming, at least a basis on which one can stand, a reference to be able to guide oneself. And if it's not possible, that's fine, I'll follow the others and eventually I'll find it.
I'm honestly really confused right now. First, there was a lot of frustration about people using multiple accounts — whether you call them bots, multiclients, or whatever. That was supposedly the reason events were getting messed up.
But now you're saying we need the help of bots to speed up this 5-hour-long event? Am I reading this right? Because it sounds like a complete shift from what was being said before.
What is your native language?
I asked an open question about that, but so far I didn't get an answer, the question was:
5 hours, but with how many players?
Because if the event requires a lot of players to be able to advance each stage, it would be appreciated if players have several simultaneous characters to advance quickly (example tamers).
As I said, you have to wait for the stable version and see it personally, that's what I think.