Dead Bodies - corpse Ankh (summons your body)

Hanamichi · Post by **Hanamichi** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:13 am

I was doing a champ spawn earlier today and he pretty much one shot me, and I was having a super difficult time finding my body, because I had died multiple times and just could find it before something would whack me, I was hiding of coarse so I would try clicking everything around me, cause I didn't want the champ boss to die w/o me whacking it a few times. So I was thinking, this itself would probably help with the server as well.

So here is the suggestion:
If someones body has NOTHING on it, don't even spawn a corpse for the person, I mean just doing that in a champ spawn would make someones life easier just finding the body. So if I died 20x and only one of those bodies had my gear, I would clearly see the one that had gear, and there wouldn't be 19 other bodies that have nothing with them. I mean, I have this happen quite a bit when I solo champs cause my gear is just not that great yet. But I also see new players having the same issue dying multiple times during the champ, and they are so busy trying to loot their body that they miss the chance to even whack the boss and thus lose getting a powerscroll.

So I see two benefits:
1: You don't have to dig around for your body.
2: Cuts down on server having to count corpses etc

Now I had an issue with the corpse ankh and it not summoning my body (well the one with stuff)
So with the additions of my corpse count proposal I think this is necessary as well:
1: Corpse Ankh will summon all your bodies that have loot and combine them into one and place it on the ground in front of you, or in your bag whichever is fine.
2: If you fail to summon/find your body before it disappears the corpse ankh will hold it for X amount of hours/minutes etc so you can then pay to get it back. You might say why? Well, I get d/c'd sometimes and it's not the servers fault it may just be in fact my internet, thus this safety feature will allow me to retrieve my corpse if my internet fails to do it's job. Sure, I insure all my items, but can you insure 50 Oints on your coprse? Or how about all your stackables?
3: Corpse Ankh will prompt you to retrieve your items with X amount of time or it will be deleted via a Private Message.

Negatives:
I don't really know what this would do to server performance so, this is something the coders would have to figure out.

Thorgal · Post by **Thorgal** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:26 am

For starters, when looking for your body hold ctrl + shift, you will find your body(s) easely.
Second, the corpse stone will only bring your last body, so if you died a few time and never retreived your body in the first place, your screwed!

That's why everyone should raise their sacrifice virtue and insure your stuff, better to lose 100k has opposed to your gear!

FYI, for those who dont know about it, sacrifice will give you 3 free rez per week when maxed! All you have to do is sacrifice fame, read about it on the wiki.

Brotherwolf · Post by **Brotherwolf** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:23 pm

One good thing I remember being lost in Tokuno somehwere when I died and thought wow this is gonna be a long walk back to my body but ran like 100 feet into a wandering healer. After that if I am soloing for a bit I will tool around and spot out the possible wandering healers and you would be surprised at how many are out there. Sure saves you money from the stone and the long walk

Wolf

krystol · Post by **krystol** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:34 am

i like how everyones says insure your stuff, heres a fun story about 20+ deaths in an attempt to loot a pets corpse. it took me the entire decay timer and i still didnt get everything. this is probably because its corpse was right next to mel and when i would drag her she would just go back to the same spot. when i said i lost stuff i was told i shoulda insured my items. this made me laugh because it was loot on a pet that i died 20+ times to get. say i did insure my items and it happen to be like 20 or so with renew insurance. i think ill call that a double whammy. tho i never use insurance unless i feel i need it, keep in mind in a normal day of playing i die like 20+ times doing random things. 20deaths, 20 items-insured/auto renew = 240k i can rack that up in 10 minutes.

so it can work for ya or against ya

i have to say i like you corpse system idea, and i dont know why anyone wouldnt. other then having to be the one to write it.

Side · Post by **Side** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:13 am

I've never had a problem with the current system.

If you can't afford to lose the loot, go to the bank. If you're greedy and want more, you do so at the risk of losing what you have on you (or your pet).

Edit: Bags of sending are farmable.

If you can't afford to lose the gear, insure it.

If you can't afford the insurance at a spot you know you will be dying a lot, then you probably aren't ready to be hunting there.

Every time there's any type of "risk" vs. reward on this server, someone's gotta cry and ask to remove what little challenge there is. I would have loved to see you guys play on an original server for a day, lol.

Thorgal · Post by **Thorgal** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:32 pm

Hehe, that is why i had 2 sets if not 3 of everything back in the days on OSI shard!

Nelapsi · Post by **Nelapsi** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:40 pm

Insure, I hated that personally. I cannot even count the number of times I accidentally clicked the menu and uninsured everything. This of course I would find out the next time I died. I still remember one time at Kronus getting pounded by him and died a few times, the body with all my equipment buried under countless other corpses from myself and monsters, at this point the corpse stone was not effective but what was effective.. having friends. One of my guild mates found my body and let me know prior to losing everything (it was close too, down to bones at that point).

Changing how the server works isn't the answer because you can solve this problem in one of 2 ways.

1. Have friends, for some this might be a struggle but try it.

2. Bless everything, instead of buying pets, GoC, new house or eds, how about a bless deed. Sure it is expensive but when you die and everything is blessed, rather then a rush to get back to your body.. you can enjoy that moment of calm away from combat to get something to drink.

In conclusion, Kronus is almost legendary for the cause of someone losing equipment. Since day 1 I have heard storied and almost was a story myself. Combat isn't for girl scouts though, with reward comes risk.

Post by **debeza** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:04 pm

Nelapsi wrote:2. Bless everything, instead of buying pets, GoC, new house or eds, how about a bless deed. Sure it is expensive but when you die and everything is blessed, rather then a rush to get back to your body.. you that the moment of calm away from combat to get something to drink.

Good point!

krystol · Post by **krystol** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:37 pm

blessing items is a great idea, tho it will take the avg (gold)income player 1 week to bless 1 item.

seriously tho i think Hanamichi is just trying to create a new idea that would negate pages of players losing their stuff, or leaving.

Nelapsi · Post by **Nelapsi** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:34 pm

krystol wrote:blessing items is a great idea, tho it will take the avg (gold)income player 1 week to bless 1 item.

seriously tho i think Hanamichi is just trying to create a new idea that would negate pages of players losing their stuff, or leaving.

In my opinion doing that idea then you might as well just have it so if you tough the alter it gives you a powerscroll.

But let me see if I get what you are saying, rather then you spend your gold on bless deeds someone needs to code it so you never lose your stuff? I mean if you are leaving because you lost your stuff let me say this, UO isn't the game for you in the first place then. You lose pieces in checkers......

People wonder why the money/gold is so out of wack here, it is because you don't have to spend it on anything really. Why buy bless deeds, you have 20 minutes to get to your corpse (I can run just about anywhere naked with 20 minutes) and using the corpse stone is 60k. If you are spending either 21 days or 6+ mil on GoC, 1 mil to bless it in my opinion is a small price. Just another reason the entire GoC process needs to be account bound in my opinion, this way you will have the money to bless it rather then buy it.

krystol · Post by **krystol** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:37 pm

no need to challenge me on losing my stuff - i think ill win that one here, ive lost more then you can count

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Nelapsi · Post by **Nelapsi** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:27 pm

krystol wrote:no need to challenge me on losing my stuff - i think ill win that one here, ive lost more then you can count ...

See, had you of had blessed your equipment then these things would not of happened

krystol · Post by **krystol** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:44 pm

yea lemme tell you, i really could do that at the time i just figured screw it, balls to the walls right?

Excelsior

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