WP

The intent of this post is to understand some of the policies and procedures on Whispering Pines and to offer a suggestion or two for consideration. I am not trying to create discord or discontent.

First, why would we players not be allowed to use gold and selected item loot bags that automatically transfer that loot to the bag? Talking with Falker last night, who was very accommodating, I could not identify the reason for this exclusion. The loot bag system works fine on other shards. The only thing that is currently allowed on WP is the check book, which costs 2 million gold (OUCH!) and must be manually loaded with gold. While I understand that I am not viewing the rationale and decision-making from the designer or owner point of view, I AM viewing it as a player whose play time would be improved if the system were properly implemented.

Secondly, there does not seem to be a lot of information that I've found on the forum or by perusing the in-game resources that explains the bio-pet system here or the custom pet opportunities. In discussions with the owner and staff, I've been told that such information is intentionally sparse to encourage player interaction and discovery. I will say the players on WP have been superb and are extremely helpful. For understandable reasons, some players are reluctant to reveal the location of good spawn areas and so the uninformed player has the opportunity to search the broad and expansive world and its dungeons to discover those locations. Of course, many of the spawns are rare, so the uninformed player could stand on a spawn point and not know it.

Finally, I would like to suggest that the entries made to this forum be sorted and displayed in order of the most recent to the most aged. This would allow the player to quickly see what's new on the forum.

Thank you for viewing this post. Again, I mean no offense to owner or staff, but do want to express my questions and view. Thank you and Good Hunting to all.

Shadow Walker

The auto-loot system with loot bag was originally disabled due to exploits. It was decided that instead of forever tracking down future exploits of the system we would just do without it. The [grab command gathers gold and tokens automatically. Everything else must be picked up by hand or by using a loot script if you're handy with EasyUO. After all, there was no auto-loot in the game during the era represented by our shard. Making the first 2 million to get the checkbook may be difficult but making the next 2 million after having it is far easier since you no longer have to unload your gold at the bank.

Before someone says "Just get a newer loot bag script," remember that we are limited by the version of RunUO we are using. Upgrading to a newer one is also not feasible because they changed the format of saved data files, meaning everyone would have to start over from scratch. That idea has been floated before and was met by a resounding NO vote.

Rare pet spawn locations are tough to find. They must be searched for, sometimes for months, and that is on purpose as well. If everyone had every rare within their first two weeks, what fun would it be then? WP's learning curve is far easier than other shards I have experienced. It doesn't take a flock of special pets to take down most mobs; a trained dragon is more than enough to get you started. I've seen a single level 30 chicken take down some serious creatures! Some people sell the special pets on their vendors. That is how most people obtain them until they locate them in the wild.

The forums are already sorted by date. Except for the few posts at the top of each section that are "stickied" to stay on top, each section is sorted chronologically by default.

Thanks for your reply, Falkor.