well since it was tested for like a whole hour on test shard there seems to be a new problem with idocs that was over looked *coughs aside from deleting vet rewards Coughs coughs* people have found a way to annoy other players already. The casting area outside the barrel fence apparently isnt restricted. so people line up mages around the outside and continually invis the players smacking the barrels. this not only tabs u out of war mode but im fairly sure u dont get loot when the barrel busts if your invised because i was smacking 6 barrels and only got loot from two, which wasnt much loot at all...... so i dunno yall might wanna widen the casting restrictions a few more squares out around the barrel fence......
Were you 2 squares from the barrel when it was destroyed? And if you are attended you can keep clicking to attack.
And the main question, were they just invising you?
i was in the middle of 6 barrels, with their lifebars within 2 squares of each barrel.... i didnt realize i was being invised because there were 9000 people there and atleast 6 of them were giant blueberrys. yes they were just invising me which was making me tab out when i was trying to hit barrels... i didnt notice my tiny white UO finger wasnt red anymore.
if you constantly invising somoene anywhere else in this game then u are harassing them, they have just found a way to exploit it at idocs now. that way their 20 bots that are smackin barrels beside you get the loot that u thought u were getting part of.....
Yup that fits Harassment. They will tell you to page on them.
Well in her defense, she was too busy to notice that someone was invising her...wtf ???...so I doubt she noticed she was also overweight ? Ahh idocs bring out the best in everyone don't they ?
Frustrating for sure.
I do find it interesting the game dynamics that are revealed through things like this. If you really understand the intricacies of the game dynamics you can really do some interesting things. For the good or evil.....
How do you attack 6 barrels an once?
No, it follows looting rights. Do enough damage, then switch targets
No, you hit one for a few hits then hit the others next to you if a lot of ppl are there. If theres not a lot you can stand in the same spot and hit til gone then hit the others. The barrels tend to spawn in clumps it seems. You can pull up heathbars on the barrels.
I can imagine it being so crowded that you may not notice you are not hitting anything.
Also some players dont understand that the barrier barrels have nothing in them. You may see players keep hitting those instead of going inside. We yelled out in chat to go inside and hit those.
And the barrels were probably concentrated in that area where the ppl still are.
She did not notice she was invised and went out of war mode. There is no need to harass her about it.
Her post is a warning about what others can do to disrupt you at an IDOC. Head the warning and move along.
at this particular idoc there was a total of 11 barrels 3 in the SE corner 2 where the guy in red is on the right middle 4 where the blue guy is on the west side and the other 2 were at the bottom where the person in green is. I STRONGLY advize startint to take pictures of the barrels while the perimeter is still grey so ppl can see how many barrels are actually there and then a picture afterwards also report how many barrels you hit and how many times and how many items you got,unfortunately i HAVE tested this and the system is DEFINETLY not balanced and heavily weighed towards certain points which I am not going to bring up publicly, the system needs to quite honestly be put on hold for a while and retested on test center and THIS TIME i suggest all of you actually go to test center and help actually test the system before it is locked in stone which im pretty sure it already is, OH and fel idocs? guess what grats to hewhowillnotbenamed that is getting EVERY BARREL at EVERY FEL IDOC, I spoke up that this sytem would not be fair in anyway for fel but unfortunately ppl were to busy calling me a scripter and blah blah instead of paying attention and actually listening.
unfortunately now certain people are definetly laughing their faces off, and no im not at liberty to say just what is going on because I dont really know exactly what is going on, i just know it is.
and BTW the backpack in the picture was loaded compared to what most people are actually getting
Except great loot isn't coming to great hunters it's coming to the few that figured out the new distribution of loot system and those few lucky enough to stumble on it, it is by no means fair it's actually worse than before in some ways. Before there was three types of players
A)those that use scripts
B)those that figured out what stuff they wanted to go for ahead of time
C)those that couldnt figure out what to grab for whatever reason.
With the old system a few were in the first category some were in the second category and most were in the third category.
Now its:
A)those who script
B)the very few that figured out the new distribution system
C)those that get nothing but trash or nothing at all
Under the old system b and c had a chance of getting something while yes scripters got a lot of it but group b got a lot as well
Now only those that get lucky or those in group b which is actually a smaller number than the scripters were are the only ones getting most of it
The great majority are now in group 3
And in fel no one can stay alive long enough to break a barrel and get anything of value other than one group who were actually the main scripter group as well you basically handed them all fel idocs.
Btw I actually like
A)no packies in the idoc locale
B)the perimeter system around the idoc
I despise the removal of the main point of the idoc gameplay since day 1 which was maybe get something u normally wouldnt be able to afford/get. Vet rewards for example
And the current loot distribution system it is not rng in any way and very one sided. there are a few ppl bragging that they figured out the new distribution system and that are actually getting most of the decent stuff
What makes you think others know what is in what barrel?
Because certain individuals who knew how to test on test center bragged that they figured out how exactly to get the stuff that is of any value and because the vast majority of ppl who enjoyed idoccing before for fun not for cash gains are now scratching their heads going wtf. AND me and my wife have done the majority of every idoc on every server since the system was put in and we are using multiple PAID accounts like always and are literally coming away empty handed idoc after idoc. That tells me the system is definetly not working properly.
If we were getting less stuff I would say ok but nothing but trash?sorry there isn't a chance in hell the system is working properly
Something is definitely unbalanced
And you trust these random ppl on TC? They probably said that to get under your skin. They know their lies will bother you and they did. There could be thousands of items in an IDOC. Of course you will get a lot of junk. Look at the crap ppl keep. I have over 1000 armor pieces in one house. then I have 3 EM drops. Most ppl would get the other things besides the 3 EM items.
If you think they know which barrels to hit, go hit those and see how your luck improves.
Idocs have been killed for me, truth be known I have not liked them since I came back 2 years ago, wont discuss the reasons as we all know him. Dasilva, you speak of the distribution system? So the loading of barrels is not random? how on earth can players know where the good stuff is?
Again I dont know what exactly is going on but I do know the system is definetly unbalanced and the discord and test center where this was being discussed and where links to what they are getting is posted definetly isn't with the intentions of getting under my skin all I'm saying is right now the system definitely needs to be put on hold and further testing done
I doubt it will happen but it is needed.
The ppl stating that they have verified that the distribution system is unbalanced are VERY reputable and long standing members of the community I tend to believe/agree with them as my findings are the same
but but.. they know which barrels have the good stuff... 😂 So they get the good stuff... I saw it on Youtube so it must be true!
Nice to see so many players having a good time in game at a community activity :-) Imagine the hunt that could take place next!
for the record since i see it keep popping up EJ accounts cannot loot items at an idoc and have not been able to since before I came back to game at least not right away so if someone is multiclienting (NOT illegal) they are PAID accounts
I was a returning player 4 years ago and found every thing that I needed way way out of my price range. I was sitting on a few k and everything was millions and millions. The ONLY way I could get anything starting from this position was putting in hard work at IDOCs and it was hard work and it did take some skill to sort out what was good and valuable and what was not. I did most of them on Europa spending many nights sleepless to the detriment of my mental health but I did reap the rewards. Now the system is such that there is no skill in doing them and all the effort of finding out fall times is gone. They honestly couldn't find a way to just ban people who are cheating or find a way to detect cheating ? The life and soul of the IDOC is gone now with no reliable way to get good items by using SKILL. They might as well just get rid of them altogether as they are practically pointless now, deleting all the good stuff before they even get put into the barrels. The devs just don't seem to care about the economy whatsoever and are just happy to take stuff out of the game rather than reward hard work, effort and skill. If they want to fix the economy they should hire an economist to help stimulate the game, not just use gold sinks and deleting items. Anyway that's another point but you see what I'm getting at, the game is dying a slow death at this rate.
I don't know if this is true, but... What system is it that when it packs up your belongings it puts them in containers in accordance to their location in your home? It seems to be that system and then the barrels are placed in those same locations with the items in them from those locations.
"ate the NPC cryer to 24/7 tell about fallin houses. As it is now if you run upto the NPC he will at some points during the day have 0 houses falling, then 8 hours later he suddenly have 30houses falling."
And according to some peeps, he also has a habit of giving out coords that don't have a house anywhere near them falling.
I think it would be interesting to be able to "bribe" the NPC crier and get a rune to the location. I would imagine that could be a pretty good gold sink.
