I've burned through 12 Totems with ZERO colors. I've wasted DAYS trying to find them now.
I realize other players literally HAVE ALL THE LUCK. but that isn't true for everyone. So understand YOUR UNIQUE EXPERIENCE IS UNIQUE TO YOU and not all players have YOUR LUCK.
You know what isn't fun? paying real money for something in a game you ALREADY PAY a monthly fee for, then getting LITERALLY NOTHING out of it and wasting time.
Nightmares are my favorite animal in game and have been since they were introduced. I have 6 original nightmares on my main tamer that I've had since before bonding was a thing. I have not yet tamed an enchanted origin nightmare and I have friends that have tamed multiples.
To have absolutely zero colors on 12 totems would be exceptionally rare, but still mathematically possibly. I see it's disappointing to you to not get the nightmares you want in the time frame you feel is acceptable. If the totems are not giving you the results you want, might I suggest you saving up and buying some of the ones you want? There are even some people giving away 3 slots of some of the rare colors due to limited stable slots. If you were expecting a Enchanted Origin green-purple in 12 totems, I don't think those are the average results of people farming them.
Yea, everyone with "their" purple is happy and thinks it's fine but you clearly didn't waste hours and days of your life away from your family / kids for nothing. I just wanted 1 colored nightmare.
You do realize many of these people who have farmed the enchanted origin green-purple nightmares have spent hours and days to get them, right? I know first day of the spawn there were people out there 16 hours straight and for hours and days after that.
We are responsible for prioritizing things in our life. Broadsword and the Devs didn't make the choice to play Ultima Online instead of spending time with your family/kids. These are life choices we as individuals are responsible for. Play in moderation (this is one of the reasons I do not have an enchanted origin nightmare, I can go days or even weeks without logging in because no matter how much I love nightmares, I prioritize other things in my life)
This is a game, it's supposed to be fun. This isn't fun. It just rewards the lucky few.
That's sometimes how rare drops/spawns works. It rewards the people who put in the most time or are the luckiest. This isn't something unique to Ultima Online.
At least they admit how badly the deployment was.... What has happened so far?
The deployment wasn't bad. Atlantic players were bad. Put the blame where it belongs. But also remember, the decision to play or continue to play Atlantic is your own.
The guilds with NUMBERS ADVANTAGE overwhelmed the fel spawns and DENY access, while at the same time, they sent other players to go slaughter all the spawn in tram keeping the FEW rares for themselves and then gaslighting the community "oh you can get them, they're spawning"..
Again, this is a recent Atlantic player issue. There are 2 dozens servers outside of Atlantic and many have welcoming communities.
Devs now implement a "hotfix" to admit:
1. They didn't create totems properly, allowing others to kill/grief the spawn. Now must be hotfixed.
First off, would you prefer the Devs not address bad player behavior and try to make it better? Would you prefer them not to hotfix things in the future? To me that seems counterproductive.
These totems are not a new thing and have been in the game for 7 and a half years. And they have worked on the nightmare spawn since the void/shiny (1910) mares have been introduced and this hasn't been a problem. These also wasn't a problem during the limited content spring content where you could use totems to spawn colored jack rabbits and rabbits. So it also wasn't a problem in previous content.
2. They didn't put enough Nightmare spawns in the game. Now must be hotfixed.
So before this patch there was 5 nightmare spawns:
* Kirin Passage
* Malas Woods
* Terathan Keep Trammel
* Terathan Keep Felucca
* Wind Felucca
When this patch went in Live they added 6 more spawn areas:
* Hythloth Trammel
* Hythloth Felucca
* Southern Lost Lands Trammel
* Southern Lost Lands Felucca
* Covetous Trammel
* Covetous Felucca
They more than doubled the spawn areas for this event. That's more spawns any almost any mob in game. The 4 added areas in the hotfix just gives more areas for players to farm, hopefully without player conflict.
3. The spawn rate is too low (which is why they are adding more spawn locations).
Couple things here:
* The spawn rate isn't too low, it's actually pretty snappy. Can average about 3 nightmares a minute.
* Adding more spawn would not make them spawn faster.
One great solution would be to JUST INCREASE THE RNG ON THE COLORED NIGHTMARES SO EVERY PLAYER THAT WANTS ONE HAS A FAIR CHANCE TO GET ONE. ESPECIALLY IF PAYING REAL MONEY. The event is already temporary....
Rare spawns are rare spawns. If everyone has one, then are they truly rare?
Rant over. This event made me hate uo more than any other before due to how much of my time has been wasted for nothing and the amount of frustration just trying to do a simple thing like tame a colored nightmare... I'm very disappointed as I was more excited for this publish than ANY other before it due to these nightmares but this isn't fun. It makes me hate it and brought out the worst behavior in many players to grief/troll.
Well, this hotfix will curb a lot of bad Atlantic player behavior that has emerged from this content. However, you will still have to be cautious in Felucca as you consent to pvp while on that facet. Also remember, there are 2 dozen other servers you can play on with fun and welcoming communities.