Patch 41: July 15th 2013 Item Identification, Mining Fixes

• Bounty Board
  • Bounties can now only be given to players with at least 5 long term counts at the time of the kill.
  • Heads can only be turned in for a bounty if a player has 5 or more long term counts at the time of the carving.
  • The bounty board will now only show players with at least 5 long term counts.
• Explosion Potions
  • Adjusted the way in which explosion potion timers are handled.
  • Made a minor adjustment to the time in which the potion is in transit from thrower to the target.
    This system is still under review & may potentially see further changes going forward
• Factions
  • Adjusted the passive speed of faction guards to resolve problems with their constant movement frequency.
    This has no bearing on the attack & active speeds of faction guards, this change only comes into play when faction guards are out of combat.
• Help Stuck
  • Resolved a problem in which red players were not able to use the help stuck system.
  • Added Buc's Den as a travel location for using help stuck.
  • Fixed a minor typo on the help stuck menu.
• Item Identification
  • Allowed use of the itemID skill on containers.
  • Having 100 skill in itemID & targeting a container will automatically identify all items with magical intensities within the container.
  • A message will be shown indicating the amount items identified.
  • This will work on any item classified as a container: chests, bags, treasure-map chests, message in a bottle chests, monster corpses, or player corpses.
    Note: This will not work on locked or trapped containers.
    Note: This will not work on containers located on a player vendor.
    
• Mining
  • Resolved the line of sight problem that was affecting miners attempting to mine certain wall tiles.
    Note: This will remove the "Cannot be seen" error players have been experiencing when trying to mine mountain walls.
  • Adjusted the maximum amount of ore available from any one bank to 16, confirmed by the UO Demo.
  • Re-added the various world tiles that mining was disabled on.
    Note: All mining banks will updated in a future patch to provide a relative amount of ore based on the mine-able tiles in the 8x8 bank. This will only affect locations that contain 4 mine-able tiles in a 8x8 64 tile resource bank.
• Monster AI
  • Adjusted the method in which breath attacks by monsters function to require a random delay before triggering if this attack has not been used recently.
  • Breath attacks from monsters will no longer linger in a "charged" state once the cool-down has expired.
  • This only applies to creatures with breath attacks which have recently been engaged in combat.
    Note:Any creature which has not recently been in combat will not be affected by this change & will always use its breath attack at the moment the cool-down expires.
• Reporting Murders
  • Players may only add a bounty to a player if they have 5 or more long term murder counts.
  • Players will only be listed on the bounty board if they have 5 or more long term count
  • Heads will only be able to be turned in for a bounty if the head is take from someone with 5 long term counts
• Spell Functions
  • Made a minor adjustment to spell recast timers (delay period between targeting Spell1 & casting Spell2) which will net a more authentic feel & overall accuracy towards the mechanics in place during the OSI Renaissance era.
    This change should effectively resolve all of the discrepancies about the spell-casting mechanics which were in place prior to this patch & should also help to place the spell damage delays in line with how they were utilized in era.

Re: Patch 41: July 15th 2013 Item Identification, Mining Fix

I'm looking into the board issue at the moment, the general assumption was that mining and lumberjacking pulled from different resource banks. This is what i get for assuming the RunUo code handled this correctly.

Looking into a solution now.

Re: Patch 41: July 15th 2013 Item Identification, Mining Fix

That's to be determined but that would be a reasonable request since mining in a cave would have the highest density of ore bearing tiles.

16 large ore weight about 190 stones so much more than that and you cannot carry it.

Re: Patch 41: July 15th 2013 Item Identification, Mining Fix

The reason for this change was an abnormal amount of a single type of ore was collected by a single player in an extremely short amount of time. Upon researching this we found that this was becoming a more common problem because of the sheer amount of ore that could be collected in a single spot, not iron, but colored ore.

This led us to review the RunUO code, which was determined to be defaulted to post Renaissance era resource quantities. Mining resource banks are still in 8x8 sections, so if you can hold more ore, just move to a spot nearby.

Anytime an oddity is detected in the ingame economy the Renaissance staff will take action to make sure that the issue is addressed and balance is maintained with the least effect on players who are playing the game.

Under our current system players actually always obtain the maximum amount of ore from each vein regardless of their mining skills. During the Renaissance era when you failed to collect any viable ore that would actually depreciate the ore vein by one. So someone with 60-65 mining working a gold vein, could only get 4-7 pieces of ore. Under our current mechanics you would still get 16 ore from that vein, even if it took 65 attempts.

Re: Patch 41: July 15th 2013 Item Identification, Mining Fix

We have found the cause for this problem and a solution is up on test center.

Before the patch each 3x4 bank of logging resources was holding 20-45 logs, patch 42 should increase this a decent amount. (Currently we are testing around 60 logs per tree)