Patch 118 Preview: House/boat item visibility

[Derrick]

We've had this feature on the shard before (Patch 108), but there were some issues with it and we had to pull it.

It's back corrected and available for preview

• Items in houses and boats are not sent to client until the house is entered.
  • OSI Patch Mar 28 1999: "A major optimization was done to houses and boats. You will no longer receive the objects that are on or in houses and boats until you step on them."

This feature is live on our test center:
Server: test.uosecondage.com
Port: 2593

[Downs]

bye bye roadkills t2a runes library and easy access to vendors from brit boats

[Sum_Mors]

bye bye roadkills t2a runes library and easy access to vendors from brit boats

Oh lord! Now i actually have to enter the house to use some other persons hard work!

[Krats]

I can see it now, Towns are littered with runes to ranom vendor houses and people will start selling runes to vendors (which i havent seen here yet)

[Sum_Mors]

I can see it now, Towns are littered with runes to ranom vendor houses and people will start selling runes to vendors (which i havent seen here yet)

Maybe selling, but ground trash decays in like 30 min.

[Mikel123]

I haven't been able to get onto test center for the last 12 hours or so. I can log in, I get to the point where I select the shard, it says Connecting, and then crashes/freezes

[Derrick]

This should be fixed. Thanks for the report.

[Downs]

bye bye roadkills t2a runes library and easy access to vendors from brit boats

Oh lord! Now i actually have to enter the house to use some other persons hard work!

take it to trash talk retard. im talking about boats. its era accurate tho so im good with it.

question. do ppl show up in houses and on boats without setting foot on them?

[Faust]

Pretty sure they do Downs.

[Derrick]

Aye, players, npc's monsters, animals, guildstones, corpses, and anything on the front steps will be visible.

[fatmagic]

Just to confirm my understanding of this change -- this means players won't be able to see what is sitting on the deck of any boat we see sitting in rivers/ports, unless we physically step onto the boat - correct?

[zzyzx]

Just to confirm my understanding of this change -- this means players won't be able to see what is sitting on the deck of any boat we see sitting in rivers/ports, unless we physically step onto the boat - correct?

A major optimization was done to houses and boats. You will no longer receive the objects that are on or in houses and boats until you step on them.

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[Hoots]

Just to confirm my understanding of this change -- this means players won't be able to see what is sitting on the deck of any boat we see sitting in rivers/ports, unless we physically step onto the boat - correct?

This question made me think... Would this be the end of boat looting? I was never aware of boats becoming 100% secure during the t2a period..

Are we sure this is an accurate change? Im assuming you wouldnt see stacks or items ragardless of z axis?

[fatmagic]

Just to confirm my understanding of this change -- this means players won't be able to see what is sitting on the deck of any boat we see sitting in rivers/ports, unless we physically step onto the boat - correct?

A major optimization was done to houses and boats. You will no longer receive the objects that are on or in houses and boats until you step on them.

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Yep seems like a dumb question -- but I'm making sure this is true. Because if it is - this makes boats more secure than they were before. And I think once this change kicks in, many people will cry foul when they can't see the recall runes sitting in Brit & other Rivers. Just confirming my thoughts ;)

[Derrick]

Just to confirm my understanding of this change -- this means players won't be able to see what is sitting on the deck of any boat we see sitting in rivers/ports, unless we physically step onto the boat - correct?

This question made me think... Would this be the end of boat looting? I was never aware of boats becoming 100% secure during the t2a period..

Are we sure this is an accurate change? I'm assuming you wouldn't see stacks or items regardless of z axis?

This does make boats somewhat more secure, but is 100% osi accurate.

Any piles that are added to or removed from or moved will become visible, and all items will be visible if the ship moves.

In era you could tell what veins someone was boat mining, because those are the only piles or ore you would see if the boat was stationary.

I'm sure this mechanic persists on OSI (EA) to this day.