Maybe a bit controversial, something somewhat foreign to my usual postings, but here goes.
Break the strangle hold pvpers have on power scrolls. Put them in treasure maps?
Only Felucca level 6 and 7 maps, and only 110s and 115s.
I'm with you on this one Petra. My personal opinion is that Fel maps include 120 level and there should also be Tram maps that would include 110 and 115. I think this would balance things out nicely.
Oh I strongly agree on this one. I am sick and tired of Major pvp groups running the Scrolls. They have priced the sales of these for years and its got to end.
I'm not suggesting taking them out of Fel, far from it. And I'm not suggesting 120s, treasure hunters would have to bind them to get to 120s - but champ hunting, especially on shards such as Atlantic, it's not a 'Risk' of getting raided, it's a racing certainty. I'm not sure how they do it, they used to use 'ghost cams', but be sure if you start a spawn in lost lands, the pvp guilds know about it.
You'd still be at risk digging maps, but they'd have find you first.
the risk for tmaps is about 0...
Agree! I think more about new and returning players that cant even find a 110 anywhere. This would help some. I never understodd this forcing of ppl to play in Fel for anything. Its to cater for a few and let down the new poor and ill skilled and equipped players, that could be our future if they got a chance to advance in UO instead of going somewhere else. And people with another mindset than it takes to kill players.
I did say it was a tentative suggestion, and I'm not advocating a scroll in every box. If implemented I would replace the 'chance of a pink' in 6s and 7s with a 'chance of a 110', and just as a chest has a chance of a map, that has a chance of a bump to the next level, the chance of a 110 would have a chance of a 115. Champ spawns give a guaranteed 6 scrolls, 12 with protection, plus 105s and pinks. a Fel level 6 or 7 would have 'chance' of a scroll, not every box would have one and 115s would be as rare as fel 7s. Only a few level 7 maps spawn, and of that few only a percentage are Fel 7s.
It wouldn't give a guarantee of a scroll, merely the hope of one.
By the way, I don't have any cameos either, they're not as easy to come by as you seem to think, and, with respect, players that are bored in seconds show a lack of imagination. Too much focus on 'stuff' instead of enjoying the activity for its own sake.
Also, speaking from experience rather than theory, it is perfectly possible to get pk'd on a treasure map in Fel - I have been, several times, also abandoned a chest for a pk to loot to avoid the death.
Now I've made the suggestion, and clarified a bit. I'm done. It either happens or it doesn't. I feel no need to explain further nor to defend the idea.
I just want to add that the main reason I enjoy Fel maps is that I can get the SoTs from them far easier than farming spawns... and I enjoy the act of treasure hunting more than grinding spawns for the faint hope of an SoT (because 9.8 times out of 10 I don't get a single scroll drop from working the spawn itself)
So if they for some reason actually do add powerscrolls... maybe make it alongside the chance for an SoT? Like, one or the other will spawn instead of flat out removing SoTs from the loot table?
