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[Ladibug]

Everlasting arrows!!!! YES! 

[Saturn]

Im a big fan of everlasting things. Any chance we can get the sprinkler (that waters all plants) back, or if not, and everlasting water jug? I would be willing to pay for this request with dances.

[Keeblerboy]

Not much on planting but make the suggestion as a separate post. I know this would spark some interest for our plant growers. 



            Keeb

[Flamebeau]

- Ranged Weapons will now only deal damage when the ammo strikes the target, the speed of the effect is faster when the weapon has Velocity.

As the husband of an avid archer IRL, I have to disagree with this... At 30 yards, when my wife releases the arrow, it is practically instantaneously at the target with any respectable amount of weight on the bow (say, 55lbs? I can shoot with 70 and its even faster).

I see where you are going with this, but being able to actually "see" the arrow in flight in the game is already unrealistic.... the instant hits, in my opinion, are already very accurate to how an arrow would actually fly.

My 2 cents Everything else looks great and I look forward to it!


edit: It should be noted that it is of course highly unrealistic to be able to shoot an arrow at a target right next to you swinging a sword at your face... so I guess my point is somewhat moot

[zaxarus]

- Ranged Weapons will now only deal damage when the ammo strikes the target, the speed of the effect is faster when the weapon has Velocity.

As the husband of an avid archer IRL, I have to disagree with this... At 30 yards, when my wife releases the arrow, it is practically instantaneously at the target with any respectable amount of weight on the bow (say, 55lbs? I can shoot with 70 and its even faster).

I see where you are going with this, but being able to actually "see" the arrow in flight in the game is already unrealistic.... the instant hits, in my opinion, are already very accurate to how an arrow would actually fly.

My 2 cents Everything else looks great and I look forward to it!


edit: It should be noted that it is of course highly unrealistic to be able to shoot an arrow at a target right next to you swinging a sword at your face... so I guess my point is somewhat moot

Yup, i agree from experience...

That's why this point rly confuses me.

[Cronk]

I imagine he has his reasons, but either way it's hard to knock on UO for speed rules.  People can swing swords more than once every 1.25s on the fast end, but it's there for a gameplay reason.

If there's a gameplay/balance reason for a change to archery, I imagine it has little to do with real-life physics.

[Flamebeau]

If there's a gameplay/balance reason for a change to archery, I imagine it has little to do with real-life physics.

I'd be curious to hear what the gameplay/balance reason is for the change, as it makes practically no difference in the long run unless you are trying to land two arrows in less than the minimum allowed swing speed duration (1.25 seconds).

Example: Armor Ignore from a distance, run to target after it looses, and immediately activating moving shot.  I can really only see maybe a tenth of a second shaved from the time between the two arrows landing.

Any other ideas?

[ChickeN]

wow, everything in this post is all over the road.. I try to scroll back to find the post to what ppl are replying to but geeeez... how far can a guy go back I mean really.. lol..

[Voxpire]

Because seeing the damage before the projectile hits the target is an immersion-breaker by my standards of game development and I'm anal about the small details - which always count.

It also allows us to accurately time special moves and other things that happen when a hit is landed.
It makes more sense that the damage is calculated only when the projectile strikes it's target.
Imagine if you used an instant-explode explosion potion and it appeared to explode and damage at the targeted point before you even threw it?

The travel speed of ranged projectiles is going to be much faster than currently, but it doesn't change how much time it takes between shots.

This is pretty much a visual/aesthetic decision, with future support for more accurate calculations to be done.

I've also upgraded Mystic Arc in order to make use of the new "physics".


For those pitching in about how archery works in real-life, in the middle ages, where bows weren't up to the standard of today's technology, projectiles would have been fired at a much slower velocity, but then again, it depends on many factors of the bow and ammo itself.

[Thatperson]

will the new physics affect only archery or all ranged attacks including magery? for example those times when your getting chased by a fireball or magic arrow for as long as you can keep running, then when you stop it hits but you take no damage coz it happened all the way back when it was originally fired and has been healed already.
I find it quite fun to outrun those fireballs but I know its only an animation, would be kinda cool to be able to get it to hit a tree or something and escape the damage if that's the kind of thing you have in mind

[Horns Nigel]

Or a cannon ball   hehe....Nigel

[Electo Jason]

Any estimate on when the patch will go through.

Got a couple battle necks to lvl up to make sure I don't miss bonus

[Voxpire]

Depends on if you all want the boats in this patch or not. If everyone agrees that they can wait a little longer for the boats, I'll just add it to the next patch and push this one through today.

[Keeblerboy]

Thx Vor!   Patch today please. Boats next patch sounds great.


               Keeb

[zaxarus]

Depends on if you all want the boats in this patch or not. If everyone agrees that they can wait a little longer for the boats, I'll just add it to the next patch and push this one through today.

I am very very much supporting this thought...^^

Pls patch today. Ty.