view magic item by name question

[Hyder]

hello,

I have a silver exceedingly accurate heavy crossbow of vanquishing that I wanted to hang on the wall of my padio house... I have a mule that has I.D. and I also have an I.D. wand.. everytime he I.D.'s the item with either of those, I look at it with another player and it still says "a magic crossbow".

How can i make it so everyone can tell what it is when they click on it??



thank you

[Kefka]

You cannot. Universal identification no longer works. From what Derrick told me, I believe that each magic item contains a list of the last 50 identifiers. You must identify the item yourself in order to view its properties. Once the list reaches 50 people, it begins to bump off the oldest identifier, who must identify it again, thus, bumping off the next oldest, etc etc.

[Hyder]

Kef are you sure??


I have been by a number of houses that have weapons hanging on the wall and I can view what they are...

maybe those were grandfathered in before the code was changed..

[Derrick]

Aye, those are gradfathered items.
Global idenitifcation was (i belived) introduced in AOS, but it was on this shard when it opened. It was corrected quite a while ago

[Kaivan]

Global identification was something that was introduced during early to mid UOR around the time of the introduction of the unicode text and the re-design of how a magical weapon listed its properties. There is on thing about our current system that does need to be changed. The old "identifier list" didn't actually bump the oldest person off the list when a new person identified the item, it instead filled the list up, and any new players would only see the item identified when the item identification skill was used or when an item id wand was used. Beyond that initial identification, items would retain their generic "a magic ____" title. Here is a link to the merchant page from 2001 (although probably not updated in a while) that has the change to the item list as a wish list item. I'll try to see if I can't find a working version from in-era (all the links are currently returning database errors).

[ArchaicSubrosa]

I am not sure it will work but try identifying in a trade window. Can vendors identify items?