Major Crafting Update

Ok hear me out on this and bear with me. First, I'm not looking for an easy button, I've been playing almost since inception and I'm confident in saying I know all of the ins and outs, and I've walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways blah blah blah. This isn't about that. It's about how my mind works while I"m playing UO. I have multiple accounts, I have all crafting skills maxed on one account, I have 7 slots on my crafting account, so there's no way for EA to make more money from me by my need to purchase another account just for crafting, I"m sure most players are the same as me. That being said I've already thought about the chance of my idea being rejected because it would cause EA to lose subscription money, it's my belief it wouldn't, which leads me to my idea. We already have crafting machines that take the place of tools, we already have repair benches that take the place of tools for repairs, and they are GM or Legendary based on the skill level of the owner. Why can't we now after 23 years, have GM/Legendary machines ?? If I could transfer my (for example) 120 Tailoring off of my soulstone via a context line similar to the one that lets you remove a skill from a stone, and send it to my Sewing Machine, it would become a Legendary Sewing Machine !! My archer can now walk up to it and craft a suit for himself. Afterall, the skills were already available to my entire account to swap and use as I wished, but the convenience given to me now is very valuable , especially based on my limited play time. I would so pay for this service, and by that I mean I would give up the SoulStone with the crafting skill on it by means of dropping it on the machine to transfer the skill. This more or less protects EA from any revenue losses due to a drop in SS purchases. If someone wants to try and exploit it, like building skills by illegal 3rd party means and selling those skills via the machines, it's going to cost them the purchase of a SS token, as well as Vet Reward .

Sorry for being long winded and not going into heavy detail. I'll let others chime in with their likes or dislikes or thoughts. I just think it's worth considering.

I'll add this, if players object to this they still have the option of doing things the old way, they aren't forced to use this new function, so they can still RP their crafters and no one is affected. Anyone walking up and using the machines (if they're set to public) or if it's the owner account, still has to have the necessary materials in their pack, and the machine still functions as a crafter would, it will fail to make and use up whatever materials, it will only make a regular item, or it will make an exceptional one. I haven't given enough thought into Talismans to see how those would remain as a usual option, although the player could simply wear a tally, or be holding an Ancient hammer just the way the current way works.

I like the idea with the exception of being able to sell the machine with the skill on it.  Make the machine account bound for ownership but give it a security menu that allows the owner to select who may use it.  You would also have to have the ability to put Arms Lore with it for the bonus and any additional skills/recipes that are required

Ya. They won't allow the transfer of the skills to another account.
They can detect linked accounts. Make this item work like sovereigns and be able to be used by all linked accounts that are tied to the account that put the skill on.

Great idea, I would buy it.

They really should allow/sell loaded soulstones i would venture the average vet level of current vets at least 5 years and do any of us really wanna grind skills we've done dozens of times..

Yes Account Bound fixes any chance of exploiting I would think...to add to it, we have the Repair Bench...new Vet Reward...Crafting Bench....a stand alone machine that has all crafting skills and is created by combining individual crafting machine deeds to it. That way vet rewards can still be sold and are only account bound once skills have been dropped on them. The Crafting Bench could only be sold if the individual machines and the Crafting bench were never tainted with player skills.

Also sounds good. I would buy a couple.

Garth_Grey said:

Ok hear me out on this and bear with me. First, I'm not looking for an easy button, I've been playing almost since inception and I'm confident in saying I know all of the ins and outs, and I've walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways blah blah blah. This isn't about that. It's about how my mind works while I"m playing UO. I have multiple accounts, I have all crafting skills maxed on one account, I have 7 slots on my crafting account, so there's no way for EA to make more money from me by my need to purchase another account just for crafting, I"m sure most players are the same as me. That being said I've already thought about the chance of my idea being rejected because it would cause EA to lose subscription money, it's my belief it wouldn't, which leads me to my idea. We already have crafting machines that take the place of tools, we already have repair benches that take the place of tools for repairs, and they are GM or Legendary based on the skill level of the owner. Why can't we now after 23 years, have GM/Legendary machines ?? If I could transfer my (for example) 120 Tailoring off of my soulstone via a context line similar to the one that lets you remove a skill from a stone, and send it to my Sewing Machine, it would become a Legendary Sewing Machine !! My archer can now walk up to it and craft a suit for himself. Afterall, the skills were already available to my entire account to swap and use as I wished, but the convenience given to me now is very valuable , especially based on my limited play time. I would so pay for this service, and by that I mean I would give up the SoulStone with the crafting skill on it by means of dropping it on the machine to transfer the skill. This more or less protects EA from any revenue losses due to a drop in SS purchases. If someone wants to try and exploit it, like building skills by illegal 3rd party means and selling those skills via the machines, it's going to cost them the purchase of a SS token, as well as Vet Reward .

Sorry for being long winded and not going into heavy detail. I'll let others chime in with their likes or dislikes or thoughts. I just think it's worth considering.

No thanks.

I am sorry to be so blunt but I have always hated, wholeheartedly, crafters being used as "mules" just to support one's own fighters....

And now we want to delegate crafting to a machine and make it the ultimate "mule" ?

No thanks, I am sorry, but this cannot find my agreement by no means....

It would be the ultimate depersonalisation of a crafter in Ultima Online which will never find me in agreement.

What I would like is instead the opposite.... which it is, make Crafters played as a MAIN character and not simply a "tool" to service fighters at is was in the early Ultima Online days.

I would also like to see the Crafting Stations be permitted, besides crafting tools up to 5,000 charges, to also be made a container that can hold a large quantity of whatever materials that crafting station would need to make what the crafter can make.....

For example, a Writing Desk could hold, besides the scribing pens, also empty scrolls, reagents and so forth that a Scribe could craft thus no longer being limited to his/her backpack and its capacity to hold materials in it.

But it would still be necessary to have the Character with the crafting skill be present, without this, the machine would be useless....

popps said:

Garth_Grey said:

Ok hear me out on this and bear with me. First, I'm not looking for an easy button, I've been playing almost since inception and I'm confident in saying I know all of the ins and outs, and I've walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways blah blah blah. This isn't about that. It's about how my mind works while I"m playing UO. I have multiple accounts, I have all crafting skills maxed on one account, I have 7 slots on my crafting account, so there's no way for EA to make more money from me by my need to purchase another account just for crafting, I"m sure most players are the same as me. That being said I've already thought about the chance of my idea being rejected because it would cause EA to lose subscription money, it's my belief it wouldn't, which leads me to my idea. We already have crafting machines that take the place of tools, we already have repair benches that take the place of tools for repairs, and they are GM or Legendary based on the skill level of the owner. Why can't we now after 23 years, have GM/Legendary machines ?? If I could transfer my (for example) 120 Tailoring off of my soulstone via a context line similar to the one that lets you remove a skill from a stone, and send it to my Sewing Machine, it would become a Legendary Sewing Machine !! My archer can now walk up to it and craft a suit for himself. Afterall, the skills were already available to my entire account to swap and use as I wished, but the convenience given to me now is very valuable , especially based on my limited play time. I would so pay for this service, and by that I mean I would give up the SoulStone with the crafting skill on it by means of dropping it on the machine to transfer the skill. This more or less protects EA from any revenue losses due to a drop in SS purchases. If someone wants to try and exploit it, like building skills by illegal 3rd party means and selling those skills via the machines, it's going to cost them the purchase of a SS token, as well as Vet Reward .

Sorry for being long winded and not going into heavy detail. I'll let others chime in with their likes or dislikes or thoughts. I just think it's worth considering.

No thanks.

I am sorry to be so blunt but I have always hated, wholeheartedly, crafters being used as "mules" just to support one's own fighters....

And now we want to delegate crafting to a machine and make it the ultimate "mule" ?

No thanks, I am sorry, but this cannot find my agreement by no means....

It would be the ultimate depersonalisation of a crafter in Ultima Online which will never find me in agreement.

What I would like is instead the opposite.... which it is, make Crafters played as a MAIN character and not simply a "tool" to service fighters at is was in the early Ultima Online days.

I would also like to see the Crafting Stations be permitted, besides crafting tools up to 5,000 charges, to also be made a container that can hold a large quantity of whatever materials that crafting station would need to make what the crafter can make.....

For example, a Writing Desk could hold, besides the scribing pens, also empty scrolls, reagents and so forth that a Scribe could craft thus no longer being limited to his/her backpack and its capacity to hold materials in it.

But it would still be necessary to have the Character with the crafting skill be present, without this, the machine would be useless....

So besides being involved in nearly every topic of gameplay that you put your opinion in, you're also a dyehard old school crafter who logs in and RPs a crafter for the masses to come to for goods huh ? Newsflash, that stopped many years ago. Players like self suffiency, the ones that don't can continue to barter for goods and services, the rest of us live in 2021. I clearly specified that materials usage remains the same, reading comprehension ?

I have every crafting station as I"m sure many players also have, I would gladly turn them all in for a single stand alone unit. By the way @popps this change affects no one that isn't on board with the idea. Those that don't like it or think it cheapens the gaming experience in any way, don't have to use it, they can carry on as usual, and so can their customers.

Garth_Grey said:

popps said:

Garth_Grey said:

Ok hear me out on this and bear with me. First, I'm not looking for an easy button, I've been playing almost since inception and I'm confident in saying I know all of the ins and outs, and I've walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways blah blah blah. This isn't about that. It's about how my mind works while I"m playing UO. I have multiple accounts, I have all crafting skills maxed on one account, I have 7 slots on my crafting account, so there's no way for EA to make more money from me by my need to purchase another account just for crafting, I"m sure most players are the same as me. That being said I've already thought about the chance of my idea being rejected because it would cause EA to lose subscription money, it's my belief it wouldn't, which leads me to my idea. We already have crafting machines that take the place of tools, we already have repair benches that take the place of tools for repairs, and they are GM or Legendary based on the skill level of the owner. Why can't we now after 23 years, have GM/Legendary machines ?? If I could transfer my (for example) 120 Tailoring off of my soulstone via a context line similar to the one that lets you remove a skill from a stone, and send it to my Sewing Machine, it would become a Legendary Sewing Machine !! My archer can now walk up to it and craft a suit for himself. Afterall, the skills were already available to my entire account to swap and use as I wished, but the convenience given to me now is very valuable , especially based on my limited play time. I would so pay for this service, and by that I mean I would give up the SoulStone with the crafting skill on it by means of dropping it on the machine to transfer the skill. This more or less protects EA from any revenue losses due to a drop in SS purchases. If someone wants to try and exploit it, like building skills by illegal 3rd party means and selling those skills via the machines, it's going to cost them the purchase of a SS token, as well as Vet Reward .

Sorry for being long winded and not going into heavy detail. I'll let others chime in with their likes or dislikes or thoughts. I just think it's worth considering.

No thanks.

I am sorry to be so blunt but I have always hated, wholeheartedly, crafters being used as "mules" just to support one's own fighters....

And now we want to delegate crafting to a machine and make it the ultimate "mule" ?

No thanks, I am sorry, but this cannot find my agreement by no means....

It would be the ultimate depersonalisation of a crafter in Ultima Online which will never find me in agreement.

What I would like is instead the opposite.... which it is, make Crafters played as a MAIN character and not simply a "tool" to service fighters at is was in the early Ultima Online days.

I would also like to see the Crafting Stations be permitted, besides crafting tools up to 5,000 charges, to also be made a container that can hold a large quantity of whatever materials that crafting station would need to make what the crafter can make.....

For example, a Writing Desk could hold, besides the scribing pens, also empty scrolls, reagents and so forth that a Scribe could craft thus no longer being limited to his/her backpack and its capacity to hold materials in it.

But it would still be necessary to have the Character with the crafting skill be present, without this, the machine would be useless....

So besides being involved in nearly every topic of gameplay that you put your opinion in, you're also a dyehard old school crafter who logs in and RPs a crafter for the masses to come to for goods huh ? Newsflash, that stopped many years ago. Players like self suffiency, the ones that don't can continue to barter for goods and services, the rest of us live in 2021. I clearly specified that materials usage remains the same, reading comprehension ?

No he is not a crafter. He was begging for a list of BODs that don't fit larges or require costly ingredients. Because he could not do that on his own.

@popps YA buy buying stuff from my vendor named crafty Carl is so personal.
And I am sure the devs chose not to allow materials in crafting machines for a reason.

On a related note to skills.  We should be able to create a Soulbot. An updated fighter like we can hire. He should take 1 slot. You can only have 1 at a time.  Using skills from our toon or soulstones; we can add and remove skills from the fighter along with dressing him.  Limit the Soulbot to 5 to 7 skills.  The AI would be built to use his given skills. Melee skills make the Soulbot go up and attack.  Magic skills would make the Bot stand back and cast.

UO and Diablo have had hirelings for many years so this is nothing new, just updated for UO, you can already do this in Diablo.

I bet we could come up with some pretty cool builds for our Soulbots. @Kyronix

@popps please you are %1000000 clueless when it comes to crafters/merchants.  Crafters/merchants stayed in their shops/stores and made/sold things to everybody and relied on hunters/gathers/miners to bring them needed goods using the barter system so they did not have to leave town.  Crafters/merchants did not go fight wars they made goods to sell/trade to the warriors so they could go kill.  You are clueless about crafting and the BOD system so please stop making a fool out of yourself.  And as far as you crafters doing anything in towns for other people that died with AoS.

I'm also not into this idea. I'd rather trade skills become 'alternate skillsets' where in a 720 point template you can designate one or two crafting skills per character as alternatives which cost no extra skill points but still allow you to craft for yourself or others. 

Especially if what you choose as your alternative skillset also makes meaningful additions to your primary skillset. With fletching as my alternative skillset I gain +5 HCI because I know how to adjust for slightly warped arrow shafts. With blacksmithing as my alternative skillset my weapons and armor decay just a bit slower because I know how to care for them.

I also feel that crafting has become way too individual. Complete self-sufficiency, to me, isn't very fun game design. For example, I'd LOVE if there was a crafter's cart that functioned as a pet. It followed me around and where ever I am I could offer repairs.

My customer could double click the cart bringing up a gump where they drop their item and it shows percentages for the various levels of repair I could charge for. Because I'm using the cart there may even be a good chance to repair without durability loss.

Something like:

Pawain said:

Also sounds good. I would buy a couple.

Same, all sounds good to me. My friends that had 3 crafter accounts have long quit. Crafting is different now, I dont think we should be working crafting skills into more templates, the games already confusing enough.

Garth_Grey said:

I have every crafting station as I"m sure many players also have, I would gladly turn them all in for a single stand alone unit. By the way @ popps this change affects no one that isn't on board with the idea. Those that don't like it or think it cheapens the gaming experience in any way, don't have to use it, they can carry on as usual, and so can their customers.

It does affect Crafters....

The more players are self-sufficient thanking to their "mules" or "crafting machines", the less Crafters have business to do in Ultima Online....

It does affect those who like to play Crafters as a business and service to others in UO, it sure does... and a whole lot too.....

To my opinion, the Developers should, instead, make changes to crafting that would bring it back to what it was in that early Ultima Online, NOT put the final nail in the Crafters' coffin in UO...

Nice idea @garth_grey.

You know what, in today's UO, I don't think it is a rude word to say make the game "easier","less complicated", or more "intuitive", they have gone so far the other way to make the game "immersive", or mainly to fight scripters, and usually end up just making the game harder for the normal players.

So anything that goes the other way cannot be bad.

I have a crafter, he is my 2nd main, after my mage, with me right from the beginning, he has at least 15 maxed crafting related skills, I have acquired about 25 Soulstones for my characters over the years, I have a 7 characters account, I have 7/10ish of the Craft Station Vet rewards, I have the games largest castle that has so many BODS in it, I cannot physically have any Deco (not that I want to, but the top 3 floors look very bare lol - another topic), etc etc, very much the same as you.

To @popps about hating Crafters being treated as Mules, fair enough, and I respect players that play crafters as mains and in that style. My crafter is very much a mule. From the beginning when I would lose all my gear pvping, I'd have to come back to my house, and remake my entire set of armour and stocks with my crafter, before I could go out again. I loved it, going out and pvping in my crafter made armour. My ultimate aim in this game, would be to be wearing armour and equipment, made by my crafter.

Bilbo said:

And as far as you crafters doing anything in towns for other people that died with AoS.

And, with the due right changes, it could be brought back as it once was in Ultima Online.... making crafting machines would not be, to my opinion, a right change in that direction....

Crafting has always been one of the important aspects of UO, but it was taken away when it was allowed to players to become self sufficient and use crafters as a tool for their fighters...

If accounts were to be specialized, like being either fighting accounts OR crafters accounts, at least to make the good and high end stuff, then crafters would be back in business to be of service at least to those other players not having multiple accounts....

How to achieve this ?

Easy, players would need to "declare" their account either a fighting account OR a crafters account and this, if they declared it a crafters account, would "open up" new crafting options for high end items....

So, a fighters declared account could still have crafters and use them BUT, only to make mid to low end stuff.... only an account fully devoted to crafting could have access to making the good, high end stuff....

Of course, the same would be for a fighting declared account which would have access to fighting prowess that a crafters declared accounts would not have.... 

Sort of like some "uber masteries".... declaring an entire account for either fighting or crafting would enable these uber masteries in either type and, of course, a crafters account could still have characters in it capable of fighting, but not as good and as proficiently as a fighting declared account would be able to....

Needless to say, that free, Endless Journey accounts, would be made incapacitated to make such a focusing  declaration of either being a Crafters or a Fighters account and, therefore, could only have access to mid to low abilities as compared to a fully subscribed account... of course, if an EJ account was to turn into a subscribed account, then such a focused declaration that would a unlock either that fighters or crafters high end content would become available.

Sure, players with multiple accounts could still get both worlds, but they also would pay double subscriptions....  which I guess it would be good news for the upkeep of Ultima Online...

At least, those who wanted to play a focused Crafters account could still do business with those players with only 1 account focused on fighting and, thus, needing others' crafting services for the really good, high end crafting stuff...

This is only 1 suggestions, likely more could pop up with due thinking... the real point here, is whether the Developers are interested in bringing back crafting in Ultima Online as a serious and focused main activity for players, as it once was in UO....

@Kyronix , @Bleak , what are your thoughts about crafting in UO ?

Do you want it to be subject and subordinated to players who use it mainly and mostly to be self sufficient with their fighting characters or do you instead want to bring it back to the splendor and relevance which it once was, in Ultima Online ?

@popps - Crafters would be back in business if the Devs made their products able to compete with lootable gear.

I see no issue with an account being self-sustainable, some players like to play like that (me - we like to be all rounders, we like many aspects of the game and want to play them), and others don't. There are enough players who don't want to be crafters, to make it sustainable for the ones that want to play crafters.

The main issues to me, re crafters are;

• Everything is too Random - and complicated, and it is really impossible to get what you actually want (especially Greater Reforged). I want far more exact and all round Customisation
• Imbued armour is Brittle, I don't want my gear wearing out all the time while I'm playing. Gear does not have to run out, there are always so many new/returning/new built characters, there is an endless need for armour. I can barely complete 1 set of armour for my main - I currently have 16 characters on 4 accounts, many of which are completely under-geared because I cannot find any decent gear, again a very unsatisfactory result for me.
• Imbued or Crafted armour does not have many of the important armour properties. SSI, etc.
• Crafted armour comes nowhere near looted Legendry armour in terms of properties.

In my opinion, Monsters should not drop any loot at all - except the cleverly designed Artifacts of certain named boss monsters, or smaller mobs even like Raptors Claw.. They should all drop Crafting ingredients, like leathers, essences - Stygian Abyss was very well built In this sense. That would bring Crafters back. The game should be built around Crafters in that sense. Not by making them more unplayable for the average player to force the average player out of crafting, that is another very unsatisfactory own goal.

My crafter has been sat on Ice for years, not because there are not enough players to build for, but because I have nothing useful to make for my characters, and in the global context of my account, it does not make me enjoy the game. And I see Lootable armour and equipment going up into the 100's of millions that I cannot afford unless I were to go out and RMT the gold (another bone of contention for me), the whole thing is getting crazy.

Cookie said:

@ popps - Crafters would be back in business if the Devs made their products able to compete with lootable gear.

I see no issue with an account being self-sustainable, some players like to play like that (me - we like to be all rounders, we like many aspects of the game and want to play them), and others don't. There are enough players who don't want to be crafters, to make it sustainable for the ones that want to play crafters.

The main issues to me, re crafters are;

• Everything is too Random - and complicated, and it is really impossible to get what you actually want (especially Greater Reforged).
• Imbued armour is Brittle, I don't want my gear wearing out all the time while I'm playing. Gear does not have to run out, there are always so many new/returning/new built characters, there is an endless need for armour.
• Imbued or Crafted armour does not have many of the important armour properties. SSI, etc.
• Crafted armour comes nowhere near looted Legendry armour in terms of properties.

In my opinion, Monsters should not drop any loot at all - except the cleverly designed Artifacts of certain named boss monsters, or smaller mobs even like Raptors Claw.. They should all drop Crafting ingredients, like leathers, essences - Stygian Abyss was very well built In this sense. That would bring Crafters back. The game should be built around Crafters in that sense. Not by making them more unplayable for the average player to force the average player out of crafting, that is another very unsatisfactory own goal.

The problem with a single account being capable of being "self-sufficient", is that it takes business away from those players interested in playing a Crafter full time, as their main and predominant occupation in their entertainment time in Ultima Online...

I can understand a player paying for 2 accounts being able to run 1 as a fighters account and another as a crafters account, after all, he or she is paying for both.... but for all those players only subscribed for 1 account ?

If they can be self sufficient in all of their needs with only 1 account because they have both Fighters and Crafters capable of doing also the high end stuff all in 1 account, then, at least to my opinion, that creates the problem that we know..... all of those players interested in mainly and mostly playing crafters, cannot, because of lack of sufficient customers....

popps said:

The problem with a single account being capable of being "self-sufficient", is that it takes business away from those players interested in playing a Crafter full time, as their main and predominant occupation in their entertainment time in Ultima Online...

I can understand a player paying for 2 accounts being able to run 1 as a fighters account and another as a crafters account, after all, he or she is paying for both.... but for all those players only subscribed for 1 account ?

If they can be self sufficient in all of their needs with only 1 account because they have both Fighters and Crafters capable of doing also the high end stuff all in 1 account, then, at least to my opinion, that creates the problem that we know..... all of those players interested in mainly and mostly playing crafters, cannot, because of lack of sufficient customers....

Honestly @popps, it doesn't take away from them. As I said, there are enough new, returning, and new build characters for demand.

There are enough players who don't want to be crafters to maintain demand. As I said, I currently have 1 out of 16 satisfactorily geared characters. 15 characters that need rebuilding, and I cannot get the gear through lootable, or crafted means, due to the deficiencies in the Armour system

Your way of thinking, is again, and this is what we see so much, a very protective, limited way of thinking. You want to "protect" crafters, and end up boxing them in and limiting them, a bit like "shard bound". Protectionism really is not the way for an expanding flourishing game, or economy.

Cookie said:

popps said:

The problem with a single account being capable of being "self-sufficient", is that it takes business away from those players interested in playing a Crafter full time, as their main and predominant occupation in their entertainment time in Ultima Online...

I can understand a player paying for 2 accounts being able to run 1 as a fighters account and another as a crafters account, after all, he or she is paying for both.... but for all those players only subscribed for 1 account ?

If they can be self sufficient in all of their needs with only 1 account because they have both Fighters and Crafters capable of doing also the high end stuff all in 1 account, then, at least to my opinion, that creates the problem that we know..... all of those players interested in mainly and mostly playing crafters, cannot, because of lack of sufficient customers....

Honestly @ popps, it doesn't take away from them. As I said, there are enough new, returning, and new build characters for demand.

There are enough players who don't want to be crafters to maintain demand. As I said, I currently have 1 out of 16 satisfactorily geared characters. 15 characters that need rebuilding, and I cannot get the gear through lootable, or crafted means, due to the deficiencies in the Armour system

Your way of thinking, is again, and this is what we see so much, a very protective, limited way of thinking. You want to "protect" crafters, and end up boxing them in and limiting them, a bit like "shard bound". Protectionism really is not the way for an expanding flourishing game, or economy.

The more that Crafting is simplified, made easy, convenient like having a crafting machine that "does it", the more players will become self-sufficient because also those few players who, now, do not want to bother with crafting and have the gold to pay other players who, instead, enjoy playing a crafter, the less that real, focused Crafters will have "customers" to sell their services to.

The way to help Crafting, in the sense of helping out those players motivated in playing a Crafter most of their time in Ultima Online, to my opinion does not go through simplifying Crafting but, instead, of making it more complex and time consuming so that those players interested mainly in playing fighting characters, would, at that point, not be interested in bothering with crafting because they would have to spent too much of their in game time crafting and not fighting, an activity which they instead prefer...

That is, if we want to break "self-sufficiency" and make Crafting again a main activity for all those players interested in playing it almost full time, we need to change crafting, to my opinion, in a way that it would NOT be appealing (or flat out not possible in my previous example of having to declare an account either a Fighters account OR a Crafters account....) to those who prefer to spend most of their time in the game fighting, and not crafting....

This would result in Fighters again giving business to Crafters as it was back in the days in Ultima Online....

And the more complicated they make it, the less crafters will be interested in doing it.

This is a game, make it fun for the players.

Great idea! Set my mules free!!

popps said:

Bilbo said:

And as far as you crafters doing anything in towns for other people that died with AoS.

And, with the due right changes, it could be brought back as it once was in Ultima Online.... making crafting machines would not be, to my opinion, a right change in that direction....

Crafting has always been one of the important aspects of UO, but it was taken away when it was allowed to players to become self sufficient and use crafters as a tool for their fighters...

If accounts were to be specialized, like being either fighting accounts OR crafters accounts, at least to make the good and high end stuff, then crafters would be back in business to be of service at least to those other players not having multiple accounts....

How to achieve this ?

Easy, players would need to "declare" their account either a fighting account OR a crafters account and this, if they declared it a crafters account, would "open up" new crafting options for high end items....

So, a fighters declared account could still have crafters and use them BUT, only to make mid to low end stuff.... only an account fully devoted to crafting could have access to making the good, high end stuff....

Of course, the same would be for a fighting declared account which would have access to fighting prowess that a crafters declared accounts would not have.... 

Sort of like some "uber masteries".... declaring an entire account for either fighting or crafting would enable these uber masteries in either type and, of course, a crafters account could still have characters in it capable of fighting, but not as good and as proficiently as a fighting declared account would be able to....

Needless to say, that free, Endless Journey accounts, would be made incapacitated to make such a focusing  declaration of either being a Crafters or a Fighters account and, therefore, could only have access to mid to low abilities as compared to a fully subscribed account... of course, if an EJ account was to turn into a subscribed account, then such a focused declaration that would a unlock either that fighters or crafters high end content would become available.

Sure, players with multiple accounts could still get both worlds, but they also would pay double subscriptions....  which I guess it would be good news for the upkeep of Ultima Online...

At least, those who wanted to play a focused Crafters account could still do business with those players with only 1 account focused on fighting and, thus, needing others' crafting services for the really good, high end crafting stuff...

This is only 1 suggestions, likely more could pop up with due thinking... the real point here, is whether the Developers are interested in bringing back crafting in Ultima Online as a serious and focused main activity for players, as it once was in UO....

@ Kyronix , @ Bleak , what are your thoughts about crafting in UO ?

Do you want it to be subject and subordinated to players who use it mainly and mostly to be self sufficient with their fighting characters or do you instead want to bring it back to the splendor and relevance which it once was, in Ultima Online ?

No it can not because a crafter can not come close to what drops as loot.  I give away basic LRC suits to new players and I have crafted a few luck suits at great cost but all my killers wear a mixture of arties and high end loot drops.  I have a suit that is 100+ in every resist and there is now way in hell I could make that suit and until we can then crafters are nothing but low end support and no matter how many novels you write ain't gonna fix it.  With soulstones you can have as many chars as you want.  Stone off your warrior skills and replace them with crafter skills, make what ever you want, stone off crafter skills and put you warrior skills back on.  No need to do anything with warrior stats because crafters could car less but you would already know this if you really played a true crafter and any warrior class of chars.

Now I know you will write yet another useless novel proving even more than you are clueless when it comes to UO but go right ahead.  By the way did you ever figure out your BOD question, you do understand that even first year BOD collectors knew the answer you were looking for.

One thing i would like to see changed is needing mining/lumberjack to craft with ore/woods i have not used either mining or lumberjack since high seas came out...

@popps said:
The more that Crafting is simplified, made easy, convenient like having a crafting machine that "does it", the more players will become self-sufficient because also those few players who, now, do not want to bother with crafting and have the gold to pay other players who, instead, enjoy playing a crafter, the less that real, focused Crafters will have "customers" to sell their services to.

So in one thread you want to make crafting easier by increasing how many BODs we can get.  That will lead to crafters not trading BODs because they have their own BODs.  If you want crafters to interact you should want 1 BOD per day so crafters have to interact with others to fill large BODs.

You want us to choose to make our accounts crafter or fighter?  Are you not the poster who constantly wants to do Mob killing events with templates that are not made to kill? But now you want other players to choose what their account can do at start up?

I realize they will never let us put crafting skills on a machine but damn we could have a little fun and dream.

McDougle said:

One thing i would like to see changed is needing mining/lumberjack to craft with ore/woods i have not used either mining or lumberjack since high seas came out...

Real blacksmiths and carpenters do not need to know how to mine or chop wood in order to make their goods, they just need to know how to work the goods that the gathers bring to them so please no to this idea unless like arms lore you get an added bonus to having them but not as a requirement

Bilbo said:

McDougle said:

One thing i would like to see changed is needing mining/lumberjack to craft with ore/woods i have not used either mining or lumberjack since high seas came out...

Real blacksmiths and carpenters do not need to know how to mine or chop wood in order to make their goods, they just need to know how to work the goods that the gathers bring to them so please no to this idea unless like arms lore you get an added bonus to having them but not as a requirement

right not in order to craft with anything other than ore you need mining same with carp got to have LJ to use anything other than reg wood we agree this should not be 

McDougle said:

Bilbo said:

McDougle said:

One thing i would like to see changed is needing mining/lumberjack to craft with ore/woods i have not used either mining or lumberjack since high seas came out...

Real blacksmiths and carpenters do not need to know how to mine or chop wood in order to make their goods, they just need to know how to work the goods that the gathers bring to them so please no to this idea unless like arms lore you get an added bonus to having them but not as a requirement

right not in order to craft with anything other than ore you need mining same with carp got to have LJ to use anything other than reg wood we agree this should not be 

I am not sure what you are saying, my main mule does not have mining or LR and has no problem crafting anything with any ingot type or wood type.

Reforging made us start using normal materials.  Ship chests have color ingots and wood.

I understand what @McDougle is saying.  But disagree that it should not be that way. Reforging is much better than imbuing armor.

Pawain said:

Reforging made us start using normal materials.  Ship chests have color ingots and wood.

I understand what @ McDougle is saying.  But disagree that it should not be that way. Reforging is much better than imbuing armor.

But it is not on par with loot and that is the major down fall for high end crafters.  Crafting did not grow at the same rate as loot did so we fell further and further behind every year that the loot table was increased.  I don't expect to make the most uber gear but I would like to make something that people would be proud to wear and at least be competitive.

All my dexxers wear crafted armor pieces to get the highest stamina and mana possible with everything else.
Most of my jewelry is crafted or crafted from SSI pieces that were looted.
All my weapons are crafted.

Bilbo said:

popps said:

Bilbo said:

And as far as you crafters doing anything in towns for other people that died with AoS.

And, with the due right changes, it could be brought back as it once was in Ultima Online.... making crafting machines would not be, to my opinion, a right change in that direction....

Crafting has always been one of the important aspects of UO, but it was taken away when it was allowed to players to become self sufficient and use crafters as a tool for their fighters...

If accounts were to be specialized, like being either fighting accounts OR crafters accounts, at least to make the good and high end stuff, then crafters would be back in business to be of service at least to those other players not having multiple accounts....

How to achieve this ?

Easy, players would need to "declare" their account either a fighting account OR a crafters account and this, if they declared it a crafters account, would "open up" new crafting options for high end items....

So, a fighters declared account could still have crafters and use them BUT, only to make mid to low end stuff.... only an account fully devoted to crafting could have access to making the good, high end stuff....

Of course, the same would be for a fighting declared account which would have access to fighting prowess that a crafters declared accounts would not have.... 

Sort of like some "uber masteries".... declaring an entire account for either fighting or crafting would enable these uber masteries in either type and, of course, a crafters account could still have characters in it capable of fighting, but not as good and as proficiently as a fighting declared account would be able to....

Needless to say, that free, Endless Journey accounts, would be made incapacitated to make such a focusing  declaration of either being a Crafters or a Fighters account and, therefore, could only have access to mid to low abilities as compared to a fully subscribed account... of course, if an EJ account was to turn into a subscribed account, then such a focused declaration that would a unlock either that fighters or crafters high end content would become available.

Sure, players with multiple accounts could still get both worlds, but they also would pay double subscriptions....  which I guess it would be good news for the upkeep of Ultima Online...

At least, those who wanted to play a focused Crafters account could still do business with those players with only 1 account focused on fighting and, thus, needing others' crafting services for the really good, high end crafting stuff...

This is only 1 suggestions, likely more could pop up with due thinking... the real point here, is whether the Developers are interested in bringing back crafting in Ultima Online as a serious and focused main activity for players, as it once was in UO....

@ Kyronix , @ Bleak , what are your thoughts about crafting in UO ?

Do you want it to be subject and subordinated to players who use it mainly and mostly to be self sufficient with their fighting characters or do you instead want to bring it back to the splendor and relevance which it once was, in Ultima Online ?

No it can not because a crafter can not come close to what drops as loot. 

Cannot come close ?

How so ?

The Developers can Design crafting as they want and please and see as right for their game....

It is not a question of whether it can or not be done, because, at least to my viewing, it sure can be done... it is only a matter of wanting to do it or not.....

Pawain said:

@ popps said:
The more that Crafting is simplified, made easy, convenient like having a crafting machine that "does it", the more players will become self-sufficient because also those few players who, now, do not want to bother with crafting and have the gold to pay other players who, instead, enjoy playing a crafter, the less that real, focused Crafters will have "customers" to sell their services to.

So in one thread you want to make crafting easier by increasing how many BODs we can get.  That will lead to crafters not trading BODs because they have their own BODs.  If you want crafters to interact you should want 1 BOD per day so crafters have to interact with others to fill large BODs.

Apples and Oranges.....

I did not say to increase the number of BODs.

I only said, rather then 3 BODs caches every 18 hours to do 4 every 24 hours, period.

Already a Crafter can get 4 BODs every 24 hours NOW, as we speak.... only, they need to log at 18 AND at 24 hours, but they can, if so they wish.

I only suggested to make it that they were to log once, rather then twice, to get their 4 BODs.

Does not look to me as increasing the number of BODs received at all.... just alleviating the tediousness to have to log a second time at 24 hours... but definitively, it is no increase at all.

You want us to choose to make our accounts crafter or fighter?  Are you not the poster who constantly wants to do Mob killing events with templates that are not made to kill? But now you want other players to choose what their account can do at start up?

Variety, to my viewing, is what makes Ultima Online a great game to play.

When there is 1 Template that obliterates all others, because it gets gold, rewards etc. faster, easier and better as other Templates, then players, even if reluctantly, sooner or later get forced to get to play that Template rather then the other Templates which they enjoy playing more... and then we see only or mostly ONE Template being played in the game.... how many times have I been told to go make a Sampire and shut up even if I enjoy playing other Templates and would like to be given a way to get those same rewards and gold using thoseother Templates and not necessarily a Sampire ??

With Crafting, it is the same.... the more that Crafting is being used to service one's own Fighters and be self-sufficient, the LESS all those players who actually ENJOY playing a Crafter (how dare anyone even think of wanting to play and enjoy a character that is not a geared up and uber-killing machine Warrior ?? /sarcasm....) will be able to play those Crafters because they will hardly have any other fellow players to have business with....

I imagine, that this is what Game Designers do.... they make a grand plan of what is best for their Digital World, and make it come to life......

My question to the Developers is, do they want Crafting in Ultima Online to be subordinated and subject to Fighters (as to my opinion it pretty much is now....), with players quite unable to play a Crafter in most of their time in Ultima Online, as their MAIN character and not just one in "support" of their Fighter Characters, OR, do the Developers want to conceive and make due changes so as to make Crafting make a come back as it once was in Ultima Online, where players COULD play a Crafter most of their in game time, because Fighters would go to them for their crafting needs and services ?

@Kyronix , @Bleak , what do you want for the Digital World of Ultima Online and thus for us players as in regards to Crafting and all those folks who would like to spend most of their in game time Crafting, and not Fighting ?

McDougle said:

One thing i would like to see changed is needing mining/lumberjack to craft with ore/woods i have not used either mining or lumberjack since high seas came out...

I still use my miner, and lumberjack, I've never done High Sea's - I really need someone to show me lol, I have the boat! Just no sailors on my account 🙂

I've heard you get a lot of stuff. Maybe if this new event has good rewards I will be forced onto a boat 🙂

Pawain said:

I realize they will never let us put crafting skills on a machine but damn we could have a little fun and dream.

And yes, a lot of these ideas are just that, us throwing stuff out there, knowing it will not happen, but that's ok. 🙂 Sometimes we have a great idea, and sometimes it happens.

I think the major crafting update shouldn't really be about transferring skills as originally outlined but rather be making the skills that we have for crafting actually make usable goods (whether it be from crafting/imbuing/reforging or a combination).   As @Bilbo said, crafters cannot compete with the intensity of legendary items and it's not even close. Aside from maybe 1 imbued piece that has HP/Stam/Dex/Mana none of my characters use crafted armor (aside from cuffs and feudal grips).

@popps - If you want a crafter to be relevant as a main character, you can do so on Siege Perilous. Give it a try.

@McDougle - You don't need mining or lumberjacking to craft anything if you have the resources. The only thing mining helps with on a crafter is their ability to recover more ingots upon smelting.

keven2002 said:

If you want a crafter to be relevant as a main character, you can do so on Siege Perilous. Give it a try.

Aside from the fact that Felucca ruleset is not the cup of tea favoured by many players, me included, Endless Journey accounts are free, not even a dime a dozen... and that defies totally the 1 character per account of Siege.... one can have all Crafters they want on Siege and be self sufficient just fine... furthermore, with the very low playerbase on that Shard, one would imagine the economy to be quite stagnant...

So, I am afraid, that would not be a good nor viable solution to many players wanting or enjoying Crafting.... I would rather see Crafting be made valuable once again for Trammel ruleset facets...

popps said:

keven2002 said:

If you want a crafter to be relevant as a main character, you can do so on Siege Perilous. Give it a try.

Aside from the fact that Felucca ruleset is not the cup of tea favoured by many players, me included, Endless Journey accounts are free, not even a dime a dozen... and that defies totally the 1 character per account of Siege.... one can have all Crafters they want on Siege and be self sufficient just fine... furthermore, with the very low playerbase on that Shard, one would imagine the economy to be quite stagnant...

So, I am afraid, that would not be a good nor viable solution to many players wanting or enjoying Crafting.... I would rather see Crafting be made valuable once again for Trammel ruleset facets...

My message was directed to you and not all other players because it's my understanding that YOU are the only player that has requested consistently that a crafter be relevant as a main char. You have also been told by several others previously that Siege is NOT actually dead or stagnant. 

Once again you are directly offered a solution but rather than take the solution and give it a try, you'd rather deflect and act like your individual request speaks for the masses (and rarely do you actually speak for more than yourself or a few others). It's almost as if you don't actually care about a solution but rather just prefer to debate the topic into oblivion. 

Make a crafter as your main or don't... I really don't care either way but this will be the last time I try to help you understand how to do what it is you are asking for.

"I love what Popps has again done to a thread"...said no one ever. FYI @Kyronix if you're reading this one, Heartwood boards have stopped spawning on any ship. And while you're checking that out, would it be possible to have saltpeter spawn as loot ? It makes no sense that ore of all types is carried but not the salt peter. You're welcome.

Regarding Saltpeter, yes I know, miners like mining it up , they can keep doing it. No one sells saltpeter, check your VS and you'll see..no one is mining Saltpeter and selling it back to the NPC, check your shard, the price is through the roof because everyone is buying it up. This change of putting it in ship holds as loot hurts absolutely no one. Ships should carry black powder too, it only makes sense that they should carry everything ammo related.

keven2002 said:

My message was directed to you and not all other players because it's my understanding that YOU are the only player that has requested consistently that a crafter be relevant as a main char. 

You are incorrect

Garth_Grey said:

"I love what Popps has again done to a thread"...said no one ever. FYI @ Kyronix if you're reading this one, Heartwood boards have stopped spawning on any ship. And while you're checking that out, would it be possible to have saltpeter spawn as loot ? It makes no sense that ore of all types is carried but not the salt peter. You're welcome.

Regarding Saltpeter, yes I know, miners like mining it up , they can keep doing it. No one sells saltpeter, check your VS and you'll see..no one is mining Saltpeter and selling it back to the NPC, check your shard, the price is through the roof because everyone is buying it up. This change of putting it in ship holds as loot hurts absolutely no one. Ships should carry black powder too, it only makes sense that they should carry everything ammo related.

Actually, it is possible to buy Saltpeter from NPCs Alchemists at the Floating Harbour, Moonglow and Britain Docks.... doubled, in Trammel and Felucca..... enjoy.....

https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/crafting/cannons/

Resources:

Most resources are crafted (see table below) however saltpeter is bought from the alchemists at Sea Market, the docks at Moonglow or Britain,  or mined from niter deposits in dungeons or from boats. Only miners with high luck can find these deposits which can occur in 5 different sizes, miners harvesting in Felucca will benefit from a 1000 point luck bonus. Once found the miner must mine the deposit until it is consumed. The niter will decay if not mined when found.

This would be a more useful thread without the walls in the way.  @Garth_Grey , I back your idea here, because to be used, you would first have to work the skills up. after they are worked, up this idea, unless i was cornfused by all the useless crap posted by some "build the wall" poster, would work just like soul stones by holding all the crafting skills. did i get it right? if so it is a grand idea.

it used to be you got the you have no idea how to work this strange metal/wood message now keep in mind i don't craft much from anything other than iron/reg wood to be reforged and imbued..

@Garth_Grey - what's the reason you want salt peter and black powder? I'm assuming to make cannon ammo? If that's the case ships already have all 4 ammo items so aside from being just more (unmade) ammo not sure why you wouldn't just scuttle more ships or ask for the ammo to be increased in a hold.

Personally I've never had an ammo shortage once I get the first 20-30 rounds as long as I keep scuttling ships and don't pass them up for plunderbeacons.

After sinking and looting a few pirate ships you will never need to make or go get more cannon ingredients  unless:
You leave your ship public and someone takes your cannons.
You don't repair your cannon and it blows up.
You leave your ship at sea without boarding it for 7 days and it goes poof.

I have had all 3 happen.

keven2002 said:

@ Garth_Grey - what's the reason you want salt peter and black powder? I'm assuming to make cannon ammo? If that's the case ships already have all 4 ammo items so aside from being just more (unmade) ammo not sure why you wouldn't just scuttle more ships or ask for the ammo to be increased in a hold.

Personally I've never had an ammo shortage once I get the first 20-30 rounds as long as I keep scuttling ships and don't pass them up for plunderbeacons.

I'm actually thinking of the new players that get into the High Seas game. If they don't have a miner or can't stand to mine, or if they don't have the 350+ gold per single saltpeter to buy and then gather the other ingredients to craft , someone like myself that enjoys the High Seas and acquires ridiculous amounts of the stuff could keep a fair priced vendor up and make a decent UO living. It simply makes sense that NPC ships would carry anything ammo related. They spawn sand in stacks of 500...wtf ?

Garth_Grey said:

I'm actually thinking of the new players that get into the High Seas game. If they don't have a miner or can't stand to mine, or if they don't have the 350+ gold per single saltpeter to buy and then gather the other ingredients to craft , someone like myself that enjoys the High Seas and acquires ridiculous amounts of the stuff could keep a fair priced vendor up and make a decent UO living. It simply makes sense that NPC ships would carry anything ammo related. They spawn sand in stacks of 500...wtf ?

Sounds good, Ill put bags of 15 of each cannon ingredient in a bag and stick it on my Steward and players can get 15 shots on me if they say the magic word.

I love ruining event sales for other vendors.

 All set, Cannon ammo,charges,fuses 15 free on LS ask for Allen.

*searches for south park gif "theyre trying to take our jobs!!"*

@Garth_Grey - Re: Heartwood Boards what ships are you targeting and where those ships are located?

Re: your proposed idea, probably a non-starter.  The idea that the character is the container by which skills are executed is a pretty fundamental design principle of the game world.  Sure, we've pushed the boundaries by introducing QoL items, such as the ones you mention, but ultimately the character is the final conduit by which a skill is executed.  I don't see that changing.  Thanks for the input though!

Victim_Of_Siege said:

This would be a more useful thread without the walls in the way.  @ Garth_Grey , I back your idea here, because to be used, you would first have to work the skills up. after they are worked, up this idea, unless i was cornfused by all the useless crap posted by some "build the wall" poster, would work just like soul stones by holding all the crafting skills. did i get it right? if so it is a grand idea.

The main draw back to his suggestion was that it could be sold with the skills still on it and those skills could be removed by a different account thus making it possible the selling of skills in UO and that is the only draw back to his idea.

Bilbo said:

Victim_Of_Siege said:

This would be a more useful thread without the walls in the way.  @ Garth_Grey , I back your idea here, because to be used, you would first have to work the skills up. after they are worked, up this idea, unless i was cornfused by all the useless crap posted by some "build the wall" poster, would work just like soul stones by holding all the crafting skills. did i get it right? if so it is a grand idea.

The main draw back to his suggestion was that it could be sold with the skills still on it and those skills could be removed by a different account thus making it possible the selling of skills in UO and that is the only draw back to his idea.

Thanks for the Clarification. i do kinda like the idea and it could be implemented without being able to sell it with skills on it, since there would be no real difference between this machine (being account bound when skills are in it) and stoning skills around to other characters. ah well, still a great idea @Garth_Grey

Kyronix said:

@ Garth_Grey - Re: Heartwood Boards what ships are you targeting and where those ships are located?

Re: your proposed idea, probably a non-starter.  The idea that the character is the container by which skills are executed is a pretty fundamental design principle of the game world.  Sure, we've pushed the boundaries by introducing QoL items, such as the ones you mention, but ultimately the character is the final conduit by which a skill is executed.  I don't see that changing.  Thanks for the input though!

Personally i hunt Tokuno waters and i haven't seen heartwood on any of the ships lately. i'll get the good chests on them occasionally that have the valorite, Verite, Agapite ingots and then it will have just Frostwood and Bloodwood boards in multiple stacks. they used to have heartwood IIRC.  I am seeing this on Siege, Origin, and Atlantic. I was filling up the Vesper Coffers on Siege this weekend by Piratin' (Arrr!) for a couple of hours and did not see any Heartwood but did collect a couple thousand of each of the other above mentioned high-end resources. 

Kyronix said:

@ Garth_Grey - Re: Heartwood Boards what ships are you targeting and where those ships are located?

Re: your proposed idea, probably a non-starter.  The idea that the character is the container by which skills are executed is a pretty fundamental design principle of the game world.  Sure, we've pushed the boundaries by introducing QoL items, such as the ones you mention, but ultimately the character is the final conduit by which a skill is executed.  I don't see that changing.  Thanks for the input though!

And thank you for the response - Logical. Nice idea though.

@Kyronix, i had opportunity to play this weekend and dusted off the pirate ship for some fun.  I was in Tokuno and scuttled 100+ ships of all type.  not one of them had any hardwood boards. I have enclosed a typical container on a merchant vessel (this includes both types of ship.) you would think that these would have at least one stack of heartwood boards.

@Kyronix - I'm also wondering if it's possible to consolidate the same type resources that are in the same box (ie pic in above post would have 1 stack of bloodwood (150) / 1 stack frostwood (150) / 1 stack verite ingots (250) / etc)?

Having to click and drag the above pic 24x for just 6 actual resources is tedious for items in the same box and doesn't really make sense from any perspective (aside from maybe making it take longer to loot by having to click 4 times more than needed); you would think sailors would want thing condensed for onloading and offloading. 

Victim_Of_Siege said:

@ Kyronix, i had opportunity to play this weekend and dusted off the pirate ship for some fun.  I was in Tokuno and scuttled 100+ ships of all type.  not one of them had any hardwood boards. I have enclosed a typical container on a merchant vessel (this includes both types of ship.) you would think that these would have at least one stack of heartwood boards.

Same experience, I've also noticed that Dread Pirates have completely stopped their random Legendary piece. It wasn't very often, but it was almost guaranteed every 5 or 6 Dreads, over the last week I've killed 300 or so, not a single Legendary piece.

We haven't changed anything so any "all of a sudden" scenario is likely the side effects of RNG.  That's not to say there couln't be an issue, but it'd require quite a bit of digging and right now, heartwood on ships isn't a very high priority.  

Garth_Grey said:

I have every crafting station as I"m sure many players also have, I would gladly turn them all in for a single stand alone unit.

I had all the stations but they take up more space than I have set up for my crafting area so I sold them all.  It would be great if we could combine them into multi units and they do save space when storing kits to craft with.  20 - 250 use crafting kits per skill vice one station of 5000 uses really isn't my problem.  Now if they could store all my runics at 5000 uses each per type now that would be an upgrade, those take up a lot of room/lock downs.

Pawain said:

Reforging made us start using normal materials.  Ship chests have color ingots and wood.

I understand what @ McDougle is saying.  But disagree that it should not be that way. Reforging is much better than imbuing armor.

Do you have links to how to reforge that you have written and or use all the time to get what you want.  Could you provide screen shoots of some of your items.

@Mariah could we get a sub category under Skills and Stats just for Reforging / Imbuing How Tos

I'm really sorry, but I am unable to make changes of that nature. Best I can do is make a thread into an 'announcement' (ie sticky) or create a page in the wiki as I have here: https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/skills/imbuing/runic-reforging/runic-reforging-for-specific-properties/

Kyronix said:

We haven't changed anything so any "all of a sudden" scenario is likely the side effects of RNG.  That's not to say there couln't be an issue, but it'd require quite a bit of digging and right now, heartwood on ships isn't a very high priority.  

Understood just wanted to bring the lack of heartwood to your attention. And thanks for taking a moment to reply, I would imagine you and the team are on a tight schedule currently. 

Victim_Of_Siege said:

Kyronix said:

We haven't changed anything so any "all of a sudden" scenario is likely the side effects of RNG.  That's not to say there couln't be an issue, but it'd require quite a bit of digging and right now, heartwood on ships isn't a very high priority.  

Understood just wanted to bring the lack of heartwood to your attention. And thanks for taking a moment to reply, I would imagine you and the team are on a tight schedule currently. 

I have today gotten 25 heartwood logs from a Tokuno style merchant boat in Felucca on Europa. It's not many, but they were there.

Mariah said:

I'm really sorry, but I am unable to make changes of that nature. Best I can do is make a thread into an 'announcement' (ie sticky) or create a page in the wiki as I have here: https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/skills/imbuing/runic-reforging/runic-reforging-for-specific-properties/

NICE

Petra_Fyde said:

Victim_Of_Siege said:

Kyronix said:

We haven't changed anything so any "all of a sudden" scenario is likely the side effects of RNG.  That's not to say there couln't be an issue, but it'd require quite a bit of digging and right now, heartwood on ships isn't a very high priority.  

Understood just wanted to bring the lack of heartwood to your attention. And thanks for taking a moment to reply, I would imagine you and the team are on a tight schedule currently. 

I have today gotten 25 heartwood logs from a Tokuno style merchant boat in Felucca on Europa. It's not many, but they were there.

I just went check my boat - I have 150 logs of heartwood. I'm on Chessy and have been looting garg merchant ships in Tokuno. It's only been about 2 weeks that my boat has been out on the water so it is recent that I got the boards.

Those are logs, not boards. I"ve gotten logs too.

Petra_Fyde said:

Victim_Of_Siege said:

Kyronix said:

We haven't changed anything so any "all of a sudden" scenario is likely the side effects of RNG.  That's not to say there couln't be an issue, but it'd require quite a bit of digging and right now, heartwood on ships isn't a very high priority.  

Understood just wanted to bring the lack of heartwood to your attention. And thanks for taking a moment to reply, I would imagine you and the team are on a tight schedule currently. 

I have today gotten 25 heartwood logs from a Tokuno style merchant boat in Felucca on Europa. It's not many, but they were there.

But do you agree or disagree that the amount Heartwood is too low? in my picture there were 150 of Frostwood and Bloodwood. the other 2 chests on that ship were very close in amounts to that one. over that weekend I put several thousand each of Bloodwood, Frostwood, Agapite,Verite, Valorite and Barbed leather. I put 0 Heartwood. Does this sound right to anyone? 

Victim_Of_Siege said:

Petra_Fyde said:

Victim_Of_Siege said:

Kyronix said:

We haven't changed anything so any "all of a sudden" scenario is likely the side effects of RNG.  That's not to say there couln't be an issue, but it'd require quite a bit of digging and right now, heartwood on ships isn't a very high priority.  

Understood just wanted to bring the lack of heartwood to your attention. And thanks for taking a moment to reply, I would imagine you and the team are on a tight schedule currently. 

I have today gotten 25 heartwood logs from a Tokuno style merchant boat in Felucca on Europa. It's not many, but they were there.

But do you agree or disagree that the amount Heartwood is too low? in my picture there were 150 of Frostwood and Bloodwood. the other 2 chests on that ship were very close in amounts to that one. over that weekend I put several thousand each of Bloodwood, Frostwood, Agapite,Verite, Valorite and Barbed leather. I put 0 Heartwood. Does this sound right to anyone? 

No, and typically "logs" only come in stacks of 25 never more than that, boards would be as many as 150 in a stack. I like someone elses post asking why these aren't just single stacks in the chests. I think the overall thought process for what items appear in the chests wasn't thought out very well, or coded well. Or maybe it's just me and I don't realize the importance of stacks of 550 sand being more valuable than the rarest of boards or ammo supplies.