Gem of Portals

[wreckognize]

I see the idea behind the original functionality. It makes a ton of sense; marketing a gold sink item to the exact players who need to sink more gold, and are likely to be no farther ahead since they're all going to find the RDA's in double fast time regardless. I think it's a great idea but perhaps it should have been put through with a little more transparency to the community to help find an agreeable way to make it work.

Why not leave the stones with the same functionality, but make them work only once a minimum of time has passed since the RDA was created? An amount of time that still gives average joe a chance if they work hard or get lucky and find it right away. I can't say I know what a good amount of time would be since RDA's really aren't my thing, and I don't know how long it takes to complete them.

 

[Young Star]

They took them down because your guild was exploiting a bug with the item (teleport to RDA) that was not intended. And you ask for a refund.

#LAWL !

How the hell is anyone supposed to know what is a bug and what is a feature when there are no patch notes to tell us what the item does?

 

[Ariakan99]

Looks like the gem is back active again. It also appears to be account bound - I tested passing to a different character who has tracking (bought it using my mage) and none of the upgrade functions would work. Just an FYI for anyone thinking of buying.

 

[Lady Macbeth]

Everyone should have a fair chance to find RDAs. This implementation gives advantages to rich people in game. I have nothing to against Duck Face. I'm just expressing my general feelings regarding to this implementation. I hope the staff would help to take this item off. Thanks.

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[SirLothar]

@Ariakan99 do you mean character bound? Would appreciate if someone can confirm. Thanks.

 

[Ariakan99]

@Ariakan99 do you mean character bound? Would appreciate if someone can confirm. Thanks.

No - Account bound - any players on the account I bought it for appear to be able to use the gem and upgrades I purchased.

 

[Guwap]

@Ariakan99 do you mean character bound? Would appreciate if someone can confirm. Thanks.

Seconded. Account bound.

 

[SirLothar]

Thanks guys

 

[Darkarna]

Another great way to remove a play-style. Ultima Online has always been great when it comes to people using their noggins to create classes/builds for all types of scenarios, RDA's had people who used tracking to explore the world and find gates, now it just requires hardly any effort. Bravo, evolution has reversed.

 

[Bromista]

Well, yes and no. They made it easier in some ways, but also opened up a whole new can of wyrms by allowing portals to spawn anywhere now. So there's still a bit of a challenge in finding them, much moreso if you are doing it the old-fashioned way.

To say hardly any effort is a bit of a stretch. It's not a total gamebreaker to have a gem but it's still an advantage that you pay for which I wholly disagree with.

 

[Darkarna]

Well, yes and no. They made it easier in some ways, but also opened up a whole new can of wyrms by allowing portals to spawn anywhere now. So there's still a bit of a challenge in finding them, much moreso if you are doing it the old-fashioned way.

To say hardly any effort is a bit of a stretch. It's not a total gamebreaker to have a gem but it's still an advantage that you pay for which I wholly disagree with.

You know me, I am all for the old ways of doing things... Kind of reminds me of the new robotics industry which is being implemented across the nation, robots are now able to do a lot of the work that people can do and they do it more efficiently, we all know where that is going to end up... *Builds an underground bunker*...

 

[Bromista]

Lol.

I think Bobby123 is a robot. Not sure about the efficiency bit but the fucker never tires.

But yes I miss the old ways. Despite a couple bugs that persisted and were fixed, there was a golden era where RDAs were as perfect as they could be. Appropriate rewards for the challenge and more importantly they were more random. Talking before the first major revamp that turned RDAs into Portals. The one that took them out of dungeons, before people even knew en masse that you could use the tracking skill, before all this fancy science and gadgetry, before the faction gate existed (total botch)...

No way to even know if they were up at all you just go out and run the map. Tracking allowed. Get to it.

 

[StrawberryInYourFace]

Lol.

I think Bobby123 is a robot. Not sure about the efficiency bit but the fucker never tires.

But yes I miss the old ways. Despite a couple bugs that persisted and were fixed, there was a golden era where RDAs were as perfect as they could be. Appropriate rewards for the challenge and more importantly they were more random. Talking before the first major revamp that turned RDAs into Portals. The one that took them out of dungeons, before people even knew en masse that you could use the tracking skill, before all this fancy science and gadgetry, before the faction gate existed (total botch)...

No way to even know if they were up at all you just go out and run the map. Tracking allowed. Get to it.

That sounds like it should of stayed that way.

 

[AssHat]

Everyone should have a fair chance to find RDAs. This implementation gives advantages to rich people in game. I have nothing to against Duck Face. I'm just expressing my general feelings regarding to this implementation. I hope the staff would help to take this item off. Thanks.

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i think you can thank Messremb for this item!!! his guild needed more gold like $ so they came up with this shiney broken thing.....

 

[Messremb]

i think you can thank Messremb for this item!!! his guild needed more gold like $ so they came up with this shiney broken thing.....

Wtf man, lol

All I asked for was a per use gold sink to know how many gates were up, never asked for and item to increase drops only for rich, out tracking range for the rich. All my ideas were geared towards helping small groups compete.

I don't know why you got this vendetta against us, or think rdas were catered to us, but we have been doing rdas the hard way all along and were successful cause of or hard work and dedication.

Changes for the most part are bad, but T^C/PCH will prevail!

 

[AssHat]

Wtf man, lol

All I asked for was a per use gold sink to know how many gates were up, never asked for and item to increase drops only for rich, out tracking range for the rich. All my ideas were geared towards helping small groups compete.

I don't know why you got this vendetta against us, or think rdas were catered to us, but we have been doing rdas the hard way all along and were successful cause of or hard work and dedication.

Changes for the most part are bad, but T^C/PCH will prevail!

i didnt even read this, its a joke man chill

 

[AssHat]

Wtf man, lol

All I asked for was a per use gold sink to know how many gates were up, never asked for and item to increase drops only for rich, out tracking range for the rich. All my ideas were geared towards helping small groups compete.

I don't know why you got this vendetta against us, or think rdas were catered to us, but we have been doing rdas the hard way all along and were successful cause of or hard work and dedication.

Changes for the most part are bad, but T^C/PCH will prevail!

i think you forget who i am sir..... lol

 

[Bromista]

Wtf man, lol

All I asked for was a per use gold sink to know how many gates were up, never asked for and item to increase drops only for rich, out tracking range for the rich. All my ideas were geared towards helping small groups compete.

I don't know why you got this vendetta against us, or think rdas were catered to us, but we have been doing rdas the hard way all along and were successful cause of or hard work and dedication.

Changes for the most part are bad, but T^C/PCH will prevail!

Changes too extreme, I'm actually thinking about throwing in the towel

 

[GluttonySDS]

Fear not Bromista.... quitting isnt the answer to your problems, Jesus of SDS is.

 

[Bromista]

Just kidding guys I'm not going anywhere.

Sorry had a Duck Face moment.