AFK Resource Gathering System

i mean who the hell fishes to sell the fish they catch, all the fish i ever caught went to a dead serpent corpse to get it off the boat

Cooked fish can be used to raise stamina if eaten. They may also be able to be fed to tames or sold, I haven't tried it out. In any event, like every single resource in the game fish steaks have their uses. Even if DarkWing has no personal interest in fish steaks or trophy fish or the leather from sandals and boots or prized fish, they're still useful resources. And even aside from all that I'd argue that a sea serpent itself is a resource. They are the source of tmaps and MIBs. So when you kill it, and you will kill it, you'll get the loot. You AFK pulled up something that takes about one minute to kill which carries rich treasure. If you were allowed to sit on your couch and watch Netflix for an hour, hop up when you hear a sea serpent's roar, and harvest an MIB in sixty seconds, that would be pretty lame.

arrgggg what do i pick!?!

yea now what if you're color blind?!

i believe u can make total refresh with below 50 alchemy. fishing for leather... :lol: most, not all, pvpers use fishers to help them keep weaps, armor stocked. i dont see what the problem is, let us do what we can how we can. why does everyone care? all i see is houses stacked with rare shit 6 months in the server, it seems to me nobody is even doing pvp, but pixelizing their trammy houses. when in the end, all that gets deleted anyways. i mean it is so much easier to kill a player with 5-10k, than to kill a monster here for 300gp.<---this alone, will create a mass amount of pks if the population goes up. but thats a whole other problem.

sorry, got off subject a bit. how about, when that afk gathering gump pops up, u just simply cant do anything until its answered, and maybe more frequently. will also fix all these dudes that walk away to get coffee, walk the dog, have a poop, goto another state, or browsing the net, from landing in jail, because thats the biggest complaint ive seen so far. easy peasy. itll be like when u try to precast a spell before u run through a gate or something?

The AFK system is just not really a problem for fishermen. I've run three fishermen simultaneously before on servers where AFK fishing was not allowed. All it requires is accepting that you'll have to do something boring and tedious for your rewards, which is what fishing has been about since I fished on OSI in 1999. The rules make fishing no more difficult than they make mining or lumberjacking, and with good reason. You might not be able to hide, macro-pull up 30 serpents, and kill them all at once anymore but why would pulling them up one or two at a time AFK be any better? The only difference is you'll have taken what the first guy did and broken it up into 20-25 segments. The total amount of time used and the end loot result would be exactly the same.

so my solution is making 3 fishers or crafters to get these jobs done?---cmon give casual players a break here.


all in favor of saying F the police, say I ! :twisted:

Got jailed today aswel, while mining. Im not going to beg for mercy but would appreciate for some understanding. I think this is really good system just the timer should be extended to 2minutes or look some of the questions. I just couldnt figure it fast enough this time, than earlier they have been quite easy ones to think fastly.


And yes, i deserve to be jailed, i werent AFK but didnt pay attention all times. I just tend to do some surfing trough net and chat on irc while i mine. This time i got booted, bad luck.

btw. is there any dev's from europe who are handling ingame issues?
I made petition ingame aswel if theres any help to shorten my jail-time.
ingame name Yerted Ironfist
Yerted @ irc


Thanks in advance.

// Yerted

I almost got Yerted once, came close to selecting wrong answer hehe.

This is just a suggestion but what is everyones thoughts on these ideas:

Make the gump much more visible, remain clear how it currently is but maybe make the gump border be a solid color?

The reason behind this is that I know people can have 2+ monitors, be looking at one monitor and have the macro going on the other, and miss the gump because they are mid paragraph reading something and not see the change of screen.

Also what if the gump is there for 2+ minutes?
60 seconds can be pretty quick, especially if you are mid sentence, mid battle, etc. on another account. Say you don't notice the gump (because its basically invis currently) for 15-20 seconds. Then finish what you're doing cause your just about to die if you don't which takes another 10-15 seconds, then go over to the gump and see what the items are another 5-15 seconds (or more if you're color blind), then go to answer...blam already 60 seconds has passed.

Now for anybody who is ATTENDED mining this will be no problem and still be able to do something else besides stare at your screen. for anybody who is "AFK" they are probably going to be AFK for those 2 minutes anyways, and will catch them. So in the end it still catches the person who is trying to be AFK but doesnt jail the person who is in front of their computer fending off the cats/kids/dogs while trying to farm balrons.