Give us some help for the Artisan Festival
I like the event, because its a community event, but its very time consuming, expensive and with every upcoming one more exhausting and somewhat boring. And without some dedicated Bod makers you wont get far. There are just a few shards that get the last stage on all trees and even some shards that dont event get any tree to the last stage. I would like to see any help asap, because Artisan Festival 2023 will come sooner as we want. So here are my ideas to give us some help:
- The most effective one would be to change the points needed for a tree from around 25k banking to about 100k-150k turn in points. This would save us from using valuable Large Bods and excessive bribing and people not very used to the Bod system can just do single Bods and still have an impact on the tree.
- Next one would be to have for any single Bod you can get there should be a Large Bod. Like Large Bod for Smith helmets and Shields, Strength, Agility, Greater Cure, Greater Heal potions, Inscription, Tinkering and Carpentry has a lot of Single Bods which dont have a Large Bod to put them in, etc.. Especially when the first point wont come, this would be a good help to have for Large Bods with good point value to turn in.
- Lets us decide what we want to bribe, quantity, exceptional or material. Its frustrating if you need an exceptional Bod and it always jumps in quantity or material. As if bribing is annoying enough.
- Would be cool if npcs would sell any item up to 500 and instantly restock. Its annoying when you need bulks of regs or blank scrolls and have to buy up the items from npc, it takes like forever and you dont even know when the npc might restock. Also when doing trade deals and the npc item is sold out it can be frustrating. There is already items like empty bottles that work that way.
- It would be cool when a Bod would take the amount it needs from a stack in your bagpack, so you wont have to split it to the exact amount it needs. A Potion Bod for example doesnt take 20 of a stack of 100 or 21.
- Last but not least STATIC RESOURCES. I dont want to buy resources from scripters cause there is no way to get the high amount of especially ingots I need or I would have to use an enormous amount of time to get them. I made a little 30 min mining test run and ended up with 1400 iron, 303 Dull Copper, 183 Shadow Iron, 195 Copper, 127 Bronze, 115 Gold, 66 Agapite 94 Verite and no Valorite. I probably will have used around 50k Valorite when the event ends, so even if I can get 100 Valorite in an hour, I would have to spend 500 hours mining additional to the time used for collecting Bods, turning in, bribing, sorting, etc. to get this amount of Valorite i need. Not to speak of Wood, where its even harder to get the rare ones. I want to use my mining and lumberjacking and go get the exact material I need. The scripters got the monopoly, because its not worth the time for honest players. Maybe static resources would even bring some pvp to Felucca. I dont see any bad point on bringing it back. It would mostly help honest players. Even if scripters would get more rare resources than now, honest players would have enough chances to get some as well. There wasnt any better solution brought up, so pretty please bring back static resources.
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But overall I agree - dont use bank points - use bod points and raise it so you can turn in a bunch of singles with higher ores and get good points vs only being able to get good points from larges.
High ends ingots I get off pirate its the copper to gold that are a pain to get.
Just an idea....
The price you bribe should not be affected by other players bribing activity. Currently you can be DOSed by other players bribing the NPCs before you.
Well I started in June, collected, bribed and filled Bods for many many hours to have more than 700 Large Bods ready before the event. I dont want to use more of my playtime for Bods.I heard there is something else in UO than Bods
Indeed, things have changed since the Artisan Festival started and less players are around and even less players doing BODs....
Perhaps, given the circumstances, the easiest thing that the Developers could do could be to lower the Star requirement, say, down to 15,000 Bank points to compensate the lack of players and of BODs collectors ?
The devs are aware of the numbers they made, they can adjust them any time, but have chose not to.
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I do not know about others, but my day is only of 24 hours and I need to fill in that time a whole bunch of many things to have to do... all pretty much more important then spending time in a game doing the same things over and over....
What game is not doing the same thing over and over? I played craps about 30 hours in the last 10 days. Was a lot of fun doing the same thing over and over.
Together with you, I hope that the devs hear you and it would already be very helpful if they lowered those 25.000 banking points to something a bit "kinder".
It is called Artisan Festival for a reason.
As a poster would say, Leave as is, no reason to change something that works.
I am up to 8 full containers of the rewards.
Maybe more...
doubt they would change that for just one more year.
I started doing Large BODs a couple months ago
and had enough for 3 full trees before the festival started
(doesn't include what others have done too)
I do have a massive amount of Large BODs that can be filled
but having the time to fill them, is what is needed
(all these back to back events, has made that hard to do)
luckily I have a few friends that are now helping fill some of them
(maybe with their help I can get a very big head start on next years too)
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one thing I wish they would change is...
let us choose which direction the BOD bribes up
(do the DEVs know how hard it is to get an exceptional footwear BOD?
you can't bribe them to exceptional... they always jump to the other resource type)