Maybe I'm evil but I really hope someone steals popps Cupid.....
If you have multi accounts you can take this part again. Also this quest is on every shard and they are not shard bound. I know this as I ran every shard on my EM follower account (I have at least one char per shard that can travel and fight there) and got one every shard except Mugen. Sadly they do not have the ID of the shard with the name like previous V day rewards.
On Sonoma I ran all five accounts and killed two who attack me. Just hide or invis before you click on it, then send it to the bank or insure it.
Just remember the above and have the word "Guards" ready!
Someone should try a invis potion. They are cheap at the alchemists in Luna. There are portals in Luna to say fel yew mint.
I have done all the shards that I can transfer to. So I have no way to test the invis potion.
If it does remove your paperdoll and backpack from a thiefs view, it should work, even if you appear when you click the Cupid.
You got what ya asked for! Love for thieves! Btw, I love this, wtg team! For what it's worth, these will be for sale on vendors soon really cheap. Just buy one if ya lost it in a couple weeks.
Just go to another shard and get them, they are all the same.
They are incredibly easy to get. I created three brand new unskilled characters on Great Lakes and they had no problem getting the gifts. The process was simple:
1. Create the character so it shows up in New Haven
2. If using the EC assign the 'toggle item insurance' action to a function key
3. Drop off the 1000 gold at the bank
4. Go to the moongate and gate to Luna
5. Find public crystal portal
6. say 'fel yew mint'
7. go to heartwood
8. quickly walk around the platform looking for invisible thieves.
9. click on the clicky
10. insure the gift.
6a. Kill a cat or dog to get neg Karma.
Keep looking for reasons to continue playing this game. How about a holiday event that rewards players that prey on other players. Yea that should do it. Well, I guess you know what think you can do with your gift so I won’t waste keystrokes spelling it out.
I haven't had a Valentine card or gift RL since I was 14. My husband tells me he loves me every day, I don't need a gift in or out of game.
However, I have collected the gifts on a couple of shards and will happily give what I have to anyone who's gift was stolen. Unfortunately I don't have the 40+ accounts that cynics credit me with, but I can manage 2 on most shards. Send me the coords of your mailbox if you have one and I'll drop the gift in it.
The devs make all the decisions on what to implement or not, not the players.
What someone may or may not have said on a forum or an ingame meeting or whatever is irrelevant.
Heaven forbid they put out content that forces you to (maybe) interact with another player. All this over an item that's going to cost (maybe) 200K in a month. If you got your gift stolen, let me know, I know some folks who are "stackin' 'em deep and sellin' 'em cheap."
Just like the Christmas rewards, these require you to put out a very minimal effort to acquire. I still don't see what all of the fuss is about. Honestly, I think both awards were a step in the right direction. Christmas required you to get 5 drops in Ice, this one requires you to go to fel and click a statue. How much easier do you want it? If you can't do that, perhaps video games aren't your thing.
If this silly pixel gift is the whole reason you play, cancel your sub, take your $15, and buy something with it, I promise you will be much happier with it and you know what you are getting. I like to think that the $15 a month I pay is for the interaction between myself and either the game world or other players. Is it really too much to ask that players interact with something besides a clicky to get a gift?
I have been here Pre-Tram and getting this gift was painless on the less populated shards, it appears the only shard having a problem is, you guessed it, Atl. Go to other shards and collect you gifts and when you are able bring them back to Atl. This is brought to you by one of the most anti-fel players in the game.
GM said they didn't see it and I did the ctrl shift and it's just gone.
I have to admit my thief became a stool pigeon calling out where thieves were hidden i live by the if you are in Fel you are free game because you came here code in as everyone who is there is a volunteer. but this FORCED people to go not cool...yes i know they could have not claimed etc etc but you took away their choice
What Drakelord said: If you have multi accounts you can take this part again. Also this quest is on every shard and they are not shard bound.
I gathered 20+ on the low pop shards that I had xfer shields for, using throwaway chars with negative karma, for I think the trumpy dolls are not something I would display in my house. I got stolen from only once, on LS. I bought a horse for each char - uses Crystal transporters - dashed in, clicked & insured then ran out. None of the chars could recall so I just did a VS search and paid the 1K to teleport to a Malas vendor.
I'm hoping we can get some clean-up points for these statues ASAP... The 50 or so I've collected will just collect dust in a chest
I am a recent returnee, and played in 1998 to 2003, so I know how felucca was played. So I went to Yew, with my hiding-mining-toon, (it was common to make crafters with hiding, because there were a lot of miner-pkers around ), make sure to have "say guards" macro, and "use skill-hiding" macro on Atlantic.
went there, hide, and w-click, get the gift, insure. whew.
Then, a player came in, so I step down, and that player cursed me, called me names, and run away. I didn't do anything, no stealing skills or whatsoever, I was more like peer players who also are scared to come to Felucca side. Is this really a way we want to live in Britannia?
I remember 1999, nice players helped each other, united against pkers and thieves, kept calling for guards if someone was peeped their back pack around in town just in case, and I was even helped by some thieves too, (he stole back my scrolls that are stolen, I was really new at that time)
They could tell who were new and scared and who are tough enough and take care of themselves, so to speak. We learned that way. After stolen, killed and died about 100 times, you know how to survive, that was felucca Britannia. Many old timer agrees on that.
If they want that atmosphere back, that is okay for me, but why doing this on "once-a-year" and "one-per-account" gift? if it is "one-for-each-toon" gift, everyone has 5 chances, if one is stolen, that player will learn and more careful, go there prepared.
Not everyone can hop between shards or pay 200k gold for a gift.
I know, player-thieves want their toon for more chance to play, but this is a bit extreme for Trammel players.
If develop team do this kind of event again, do this with one-per-toon gifts, so everyone get used to the pattern, still can get one or two gifts, even stolen once or twice.
I'd steal from my mom if she willingly came through the red gate but in this case you FORCED players to come then put them in a chokehold cant recall out of fish barrel...just so not ok....
Usual discrimination against younger players. Yes players that have been playing for more than 14 years could try up to 7 times to get a Cupid. Younger players one chance period. Understand older players pay the bills. And, that a market had to be created for the thieves’ vendors. But don’t understand how this kind of thinking encourages younger players to continue playing.
I respect all persons & all opinions (well, almost all... 😂 ) but, frankly, I have the impression that this "Bad Bad Devs gave Thieves permission to stole my Trumpy Bear" is getting a little too whimpering. IMO it was mainly a prank, and a well played one too... 🙂
