Heya,

They activated the latest expansion on my shard this morning but the patch isn't forced. I completed a trade with someone and an error message popped up.  "error: megacliloc not found". It showed up in game as a message and on my journal which, if a GM or some type of anti-bot program looks, is right there for them to see. I only had EUO running at the time and had no scripts running at all during the trade.

Should I be worried that this is showing up in my journal?

- A player backpack can hold 550 stones maximum even if the character is strong enough to carry more

- A player can weigh 590 stones maximum when counting worn gear(550 pack plus 40 more for gear that isn't counted against the 550 weight cap if it's worn)

- A typical fully geared player with 140 strength total that is carrying the max 550 stones in his pack will weight somewhere between 580 and 590 stones and the in game status bar will say 580/590, you're not overloaded.

If you open the EUO status bar, however, it says that MAXWEIGHT is only 530 stones despite the game status bar saying 550 is available in the pack, there's a 20 stone discrepancy between EUO max pack weight and the in game max pack weight.

Scripting using maxweight results in a failed attempt at 531 stones even if you could carry 550 in your pack in total. Where is this 20 stone reduction coming from? Is this a bug? The stats being displayed for my character are accurate in EUO but the #Maxweight for my pack is not, it's 20 stone short.

Hey, I've been on my fisherman and thought sharing a few ideas about templates might be fun. If you are ONLY doing fishing at sea then you only really need a slayer bow even without GM skill and you'll be fine, this is for the total package fisherman who does dungeon fishing, quests and pulls up his own nets. Archery is probably not the way to go for the two bosses unless you're geared to the teeth, and even then you'd use a ship with cannons instead, but everything else is doable with an archer. This is my template right now...

120 Fishing
100 Archery (80 real + 20 from Hunter's Headdress)
100 Tactics  (70 real + 30 from jewels)
100 Musicianship
100 Provoke
100 Hiding
100 Resisting Spells
80 Chivalry (50 real + 30 from jewels)
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800 skill, 720 real + 80 from items

I love this template because I can handle dungeons, nets and other stuff via provoke and hiding while still doing decent damage. You may have noticed that there is no anatomy which translates into a 55% lower damage bonus to the base provided from Archery, that is intentional because, in my opinion, having cap resist and hiding provides much more utility than anatomy, especially without healing in places like Doom, and it's not always about brute force as any bard can tell you!

80 Chivalry = 100% chance that consecrate weapon does damage of the type your target is weakest to, no elemental weapon needed.

I do have anatomy on soulstone to swap out the resist if I want to do more damage to provoked targets and am not likely to take heavy casting damage or curses(doom!). The template also allows you to swap out the jewels for a set with no chivalry if you want to add more of something else, like luck. I do have a lot of high end gear on to maximize SSI, MR and other important stuff but I feel like I can go anywhere with this character and be hard to kill.

Base Stats are 100 STR, 100 Dex, 30 int with the 5 bonus. That might seem like an awfully low amount of mana/dex but as long as your armor has max mana regeneration and 10 more mana(total=40) it's not a problem, especially with high resist, hiding and provo. Note: get Stamina to 120 minimum via gear and to 150+ if you can, you can speed up the damage(SSI) with divine fury if you're not being hit too much(it lowers defense). Overall the get out of danger free card provided by having both provo and hiding with resit more than make up for not having anatomy and I find myself rarely switching anat for resist unless I'm in a group.

What does your fisherman run with?

First I want to say that I just downloaded the latest version and have been running around with it a bit and am blown away by its potential. Slick, fast, very nicely done so far! Unfortunately none of the script types I need are available on Stealth and so I have no use for it, yet, and I'd like to help change that. While I can't code Python/Pascal making me useless in that department I do know what I want from a helper program and always have ideas.

Request
What I'd like to request is a change that is, hopefully, minor to the mapping system already available in stealth without any scripts. When I run around I see player housing on the map along with yellow/blue markers for NPC Vendor and player positions. It would be extremely useful to me if a toggle option existed to turn OFF those NPC/Player markers and turn ON markers that appear above house signs and color code those by house condition. Blue for refreshed thru red for in danger of collapse. An option should exist to turn on/off the NPC markers anyway, adding one for house signs would take this to a new level for players who do IDOCs in my opinion, which is a lot of scripters in general.

Map Interaction
When I right-click the map an option appears to "go here" wherever I have my mouse over the map. If that feature existed without needing to open the drop menu forcing a mouse move and extra click that would be amazing. IE: turning on/off the ability to go into "go here" mode so a one button click is enough to go there would be perfect. Also, I noticed that when I use the "go here" feature that there is no way to stop moving until the player gets there, that might be dangerous since you can't see what's there on the map until you get there. A halt option seems needed, I already ran into a public keep and ran upstairs just to get to a spot I clicked, lol, and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

If you don't have the time to add an option to turn off NPC markers(yellow) and add house sign markers with colors based on condition can you point me in the right direction so that I can try to make said changes? I would be able to use stealth with no scripts to look for idocs using that awesome map system.

Keep up the great work!

Gem

I finished putting together a stupidly expensive luck suit for my ABC archer that squeezed as much of everything I need into it. I saved getting a good bow for last and I thought it would be easy to pick up a Compound Bow with HML, HSL, SSI, DI and the right Slayer since every cookie cutter ABC archer needs those on their PvM bow, boy was I wrong. I did find one bow that was 4/5 of what I wanted but the guy wanted 38 million for it?!? That told me I need to add fletching to my mule asap, so I did.

Now I want to fill my archer's locker with a lot of compound bows which maximize damage vs individual monsters. What I'd like to know is how to efficiently make these and there seems to be very little online that has much definitive(or recent) value. I won't be using the enhance tool so I'll be using runics... probably an ash runic? What's the process though? I'm only needing 35 SSI to reach 1.25 ticks so I'm not too worried about max intensities.

- use normal wood and eat the fails on the enhance attempt later or use ash wood up front?
- Gears add the slayer? If so, at what stage do you use those?
- How do I maximize the chance of getting the 4 bonuses I want along with the slayer?
- It doesn't help that I want to match damage type to the slayer type(sea serpents are weak to energy damage + snake/reptile slayer for example).

This is all stuff I'll figure out eventually but I like to read up on stuff first and Google has been stingy on the subject, if you know how to make these cookie cutter ABC bows and don't mind sharing how you do it, or you know of a good resource site for fletching PvM ABC bows I'd appreciate the help if you'd share a link.

ABC archers aren't as popular as they used to be, throwers are more fun imo, and they don't hold a light to "sampy suits" in terms of what everyone is after but surely there has to be a few good places to describe the process somewhere?

As you've probably guessed from my other posts I enjoy a bit of danger while trying to get rich in UO. I prefer fel idocs over tram and I roleplay the pirate style using a character with a template that can not kill anything. I just wanted to share with you how incredibly profitable that is.

Basic skills
- Hiding
- Stealth (freedom to move anywhere is essential)
- Magery (primarily for heals, marking and recall but also for telekinisis/unlock on chests, etc, many uses)
- Snooping
- Stealing (if I get beat to an item I really want I generally try to lift it from the player, useful in other places like doom)

With just those 5 skills you are having a blast already, the thief guild disguise kit is awesome fun. At fel Idocs you can actually LET others loot good stuff and just target them, use them as a filter to find good items. It's a bit risky but with some practice there is rarely an idoc in which you don't get *something*. Not killing stuff gets better... a lot of activities require two skills to use properly so you can pair them up in sets and add them via soulstone to fit what you're doing... example

Extra skills - stored on soulstones for use when you need em
- Carto and Lockpick, you can do all of your fishing tmaps and just hide while examining loot. You can kite the mobs away and hide to leave them there if they become pesky, I find this the best source of alacrity/trans scrolls since the time involved is minimal since you're not fighting stuff. You don't need GM carto or lockpick to handle any fishing tmaps.

- Detect and tracking, great for uncovering and marking other stealthers at fel idocs, it's fun to eliminate some competition by revealing them for someone else to kill. Loot them both with stealing if you spot something good but people rarely bring good stuff to idocs.

Other characters
You can always bring in your "other" characters if you must fight something but if you haven't tried it yet I definitely recommend building a no-fight character as well, they cause more mayhem than fighters sometimes.

*note* when doing tmaps or dungeon runs to kill off time between idocs I recommend TMs claw scripts, most items in chests are junk and it's a huge timesaver.

*BONUS* if you're going to do your fishing tmaps quick and dirty for max time efficiency(hiding, leaving junk behind etc) then by all means build out a full luck suit!  Wait, what? Full luck on a character that doesn't kill anything? Yes sir - http://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/player/stats/luck/    Shhhhh! Suit building is much easier when you don't have to worry about pesky fighting stats, full luck/resists/defence/regen is easy without offensive stuff.

Hello,

Since re-subbing a couple of days ago I've been to three IDOCs (OSI official shards, 2 in Tram, 1 in Fel) and I've yet to see a "Grubber". The UO website says that these will appear when a house falls and run off with some of the loot. I've checked my journal closely and haven't been in range of one... do these mystical beings exist still? If so do they grab good loot exclusively? Hard to kill for a stealth/thief?

Also, I can't use EasyUO since coming back because new subs get client 7.0.45.8x from EA but EasyUO is still at 7.0.45.7x. I've been wondering, with the new IDOC timers of 5-10-15 hours from "in danger", if it is possible to set up a script to read the sign for a change from "Greater" to "Collapse" and to perform an action that will tell me when that happened(screenshot to get timestamp if collapse change is detected?)? I can't test it yet since I can't script but it would seem that if it's possible that it might explain why so many show up a few minutes before a house falls?

**EDIT: Woops, meant for this to be in the general forum, move it pls?**

I monitor vendor search occasionally for specific items on my "wish list" but this is becoming tedious as my list grows and so a script is in order! I did find a lot of scripts designed to check vendors but none that actually perform searches on UO's vendor search gump, did I miss one if it exists?

3rd party sites like searchUO help in finding some items but not as well as vendor search could because searchuo is limited by the fact they don't monitor ALL vendors and don't update as quickly.

If you know of an actual vendor search script that I can feed a list of items I am looking for into I'd be grateful if you could point me to it. Thanks.