three GM fishers?
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:04 pm
Wondering if I should go with just one.
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Is the shipwreck stuff really worth that much?SighelmofWyrmgard wrote:When I take the ship out, I triple-client with two fishers and my IDer.
One fisher each at bow and stern, with IDer at the mast, the ship 'trawls' ("slow left/right") from SOS to SOS. Each fisher fishes to the same side as we go (target "by relative location" in Razor), and I've pretty-consistently recovered 2 new MiBs per hour with them ('leftovers' are for the next trip). However-many hours later, I bring the ship back home, stuffed with ID'd loot. The IDer is also a 3rd 'security bot'.
Easy-peasy, and good gold/loot, but such an expedition needs to be organized, beforehand, and is time-consuming to execute: I haven't done it in a long, long, while.
With 3 clients, maybe you could have the ones at and bow and stern fish 45-degrees fore and aft, with the 3rd at the mast fishing straight over the side.
NB: the ship must always 'trawl' so that any/all 'side-fishers' are fishing foreward, respective to the direction of travel of the ship.
That is all.
SS
I didn't say anything at all about shipwreck stuff. You can only get MiB's by fishing in deep water, so I harvest MiB's for the next trip while I fish-up the SOS's from the last; understand?randale wrote:Is the shipwreck stuff really worth that much?
Yes, but that's what I'm asking, MIB's tell you locations of shipwreck stuff where you can fish it up. And, no, I don't quite understand what SOS's are. I know about SOS's in real life, is that maybe the location of the shipwreck itself? I'm guessing there aren't people on islands in UO, marooned, trying to get rescued, or at least I never heard of them.SighelmofWyrmgard wrote:I didn't say anything at all about shipwreck stuff. You can only get MiB's by fishing in deep water, so I harvest MiB's for the next trip while I fish-up the SOS's from the last; understand?randale wrote:Is the shipwreck stuff really worth that much?
SS
No, but I'm wondering what kind of macro I should use for fishing. I thought of a for loop, say fish 30 times over, but I'm wondering what I'm going to do when I get the "the fish aren't biting here" message, at that point my macro will get stuck and have to time out/lag before doing the rest of the macro, this is what I want to avoid. I know that when fishing from land it takes a different amount of attempts in different places before you will get that message, sometimes it can take 20, sometimes 30 before I get it, so I didn't know what to put. I don't know about how fishing in deep water water works before you get that message. I also don't want to run the macro afk because of fishing up sea serpents, but maybe I could put a few drags as bodyguards set to guard my fishers.SighelmofWyrmgard wrote:Apologies: I did not realise that you aren't familiar with how MiB's/SOS's work. "MiB" = "Message in a Bottle", SOS = kind of like a Treasure Hunter's treasure map, this is a piece of parchment with coordinates, it's what "comes out of" a MiB.
At the coordinates, the fisher will fish-up a treasure chest: the chest is exactly the same as a lvl1-5 Treasure Map chest (level is random), except no lock, no trap, no guardian-spawn; just loot. A GM fisher will haul up the chest very first try, if exactly at the proper coordinates; lower-skill fishers may need multiple attempts, any attempt that "fails" (to recover the chest) will haul-up shipwreck stuff, or (possibly? It's been so long, I forget) a Deep-Sea Serpent.
Higher-skill fishers will start to pull up shipwreck stuff several tiles away from the proper coordinates (and, I think, can even recover the chest at a small distance: kind of like how Mining influences Treasure-Map recovery).
Additionally, any GM fisher continuously fishing in "deep water", should recover approx. 1 MiB/hour.
So, at the end of my expedition, I'll have several chests filled with gold/gems/magic, some shipwreck stuff (some of which can be sold as rares), and another collection of new MiB's for the next trip.
Have I left anything out?
SS
What do you do about fishing up sea serpents? Do you have anyone there to defend them (or maybe they themselves can)The reason I have my ship 'trawl' from SOS to SOS, while fishers fish, is to keep all fishers constantly fishing in fresh, deep water: I will never see the Sysmessage, "The fish don't seem to be biting here"; using Razor to control the fishing 'target'-tile "by relative location", it's simply a continually-repeating loop.
Aside from non-afk resource gathering rule, why wouldn't it possible if you could have the ship go in a square pattern, taking four lefts and ending up back where it started, even if you needed to tell the tillerman what to do, couldn't you have it in your macro?You can't (and even if you could, shouldn't) try to do this AFK, as you need to give course-commands to the Tillerman.
You never said this explictly.You keep mentioning shipwreck stuff, which baffles me. Get it through your head: shipwreck stuff is garbage
I'm guessing the stuff from the sea chests isn't as good as land-buried treasure, or at least it seems like it wouldn't be, considering that comes with more problems to get the treasure than a lvl 4-5 sea chest.; SOS's return CHESTS STUFFED WITH TREASURE. That's why GM Fishers fish-up MiB's: to extract the SOS's that lead to CHESTS STUFFED WITH TREASURE.
No, I mean simplicity is best way to go when learning something, making it complicated just makes it harder usually, I'm doing this unintentionally. It's just sometimes you may say to do something and I don't know how, I don't know the steps- then I need more detail.Sig's way to good too. Its not compliced, though I think sometimes reading your posts, you try to make some things that way. Fishing isn't one of them.
I hear ya man! All good.randale wrote:No, I mean simplicity is best way to go when learning something, making it complicated just makes it harder usually, I'm doing this unintentionally. It's just sometimes you may say to do something and I don't know how, I don't know the steps- then I need more detail.Sig's way to good too. Its not compliced, though I think sometimes reading your posts, you try to make some things that way. Fishing isn't one of them.
I also farm elder gazers and get good treasure maps, if those are usually better.Orion GM B^D wrote:I hear ya man! All good.randale wrote:No, I mean simplicity is best way to go when learning something, making it complicated just makes it harder usually, I'm doing this unintentionally. It's just sometimes you may say to do something and I don't know how, I don't know the steps- then I need more detail.Sig's way to good too. Its not compliced, though I think sometimes reading your posts, you try to make some things that way. Fishing isn't one of them.
Evenually you will want all 3 to be GM fishing/magery/eval/med/resist. 1 I added Item ID for the loot in the chests. You can do a music/peace on one and run it as you go.
With win 10, you can mouse over the toolbar and show all 3 accts to monitior the other chars.
You will make a shit ton of gold doing chests. Sell the low end weps etc.
I set up bags to save the good stuff, like force/power/vanq/charged and sell as a set.