Fake news. Another thread and multiple posters said VS does not work...
I had one the other day. I did Orc Ship on LS and all kinds of weapons and armor came up. I could understand Orc Slayer coming up, but the other stuff was weird. ( I just did it on Atl and noticed the Sorcery items showed up.)
I put in "120 scroll fishing" and also got few Fencing. But the fishing scrolls are there.
In the scheme of things, Does it really matter? You had to look at a whole 2 pages of VS.
This game has likely been doing this since 1997. Pawain’s example is what I was thinking about when I first read this post. Also, VS recognizes just strings of letters that don’t spell any word but might be found in a word. I search using those all the time. Popp’s search string has all the letters contained in the word fencing. Maybe, VS notices that too. I get a similar result from some search I do. That’s just the way UO works. I use VS all the time and usually it works just fine when it’s actually working. I very rarely have problems finding what I am searching for. Just read the UO description very carefully before you buy. I think in a game this old looking for logical answers that don’t exist anymore is going to be frustrating to some.
Another possibility could be that it did have a fishing description on it but got erased and the system still thinks it is there. I have gone to vendors that had items for very low prices and when I get there the item is there but at a higher price. How often does VS update items that are still on vendors, I know that when an item sells it take a little while to update that but does it update all items at that time.
Popps. Did you email Mesanna to get an answer or was your first port of call here ?
if you had a brain you would see that the answer to your question does NOT lay here
We're just talking about it. You're at a 11. I need you at like a 2 or 3.
pack it in Popps, did you even buy the 120 fishing?
The simple answer, popps, is we don't know. You would have to know how the coding works to answer that one. We don't, and those that do have more pressing demands on their time.
I swung by the shop with a toon to reveal and I didnt see anyone in the 10min I spent trying to reveal everything. I also checked the bag it the scroll was in on the vendor and it looks pretty legit (from the player perspective) - the scroll is in a bag of other scrolls labeled "Combat". There is a mace fighting scroll that is around the same price. It looks like they use EC though bc of the way the items are placed in the bag (there are a lot of overlapping items). This might boil down to some sort of glitch in the system. Hard to say with a Dev to confirm.
Popps after looking at all the responses to your thread, I have to conclude that everything presented points to the result of your search not being a system fluke, but a result created by a player that knows how to manipulate the system. I think that is the answer to your question. I would think behind the scenes UO would have someone looking into this. The players here have provided more than enough evidence to strongly suggest that another player influenced the result of your search.
Scamming of this type is legal in UO, UO has always been a buyer beware and even though that scroll came up in a fishing search it was clear that it was a fencing scroll and as far as getting killed in Fel while buying something off a vendor is your own fault. Take a stealther to Fel, hide and move, Use the map to open vendor. Have map ready to teleport back to last location. Buy item/teleport. Done.
Do you have to spend 1000 gold for this to work?. Do you have to teleport to the vendor first using the map?
And it's not as bad as it sounds. Once you actually start trying to use coordinates you see the patterns pretty easy. It's kind of fun, actually.
