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In Loving Memory
CocoaPuffBunny
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In Loving Memory
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CocoaPuffBunny
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i miss my pretty MSF, and it's sooo annoying having to regrind all my skills again. I had r16 refined sp and was just shy of r15 sm on gama, The only thing that's better, now that i had a chance to learn how the game and skill system works, i'm able to rebuild again much more specialized this time without wasting skill slots. Still hate to have to spend all that time again though :/
Therefore i am not sure whether it is wise to grind what you have already grinded in the past. Such a waste of life.
I am curious about Papaya’s profitability now.
Having all of us start over has probably generated a lot of cash for papaya since many of us bought plenty of cash shop items and captains tickets. Money none of us would have spent if we all still had our top ships and gear.
I am guessing that without all this income for papaya that they would have passed on hosting the game entirely. Which would mean no game for any of us to play.
Sure it sucked to have to restart but without the wipe we would have had no game.
What I didn’t do is post on a forum to a game I’ve given up on :)
I’m sure those 40 other games have 40 other forums.
Have you thought that maybe she didn't start back in the fall like the rest of us? This character looks like it was just started not 5 months old!
Have you considered the possibility that you're just not very good at the game?
This is pretty insensitive considering she's played for 7 years and was at the top of her skills. YOU on the other hand i've seen in a various thread here asking for advice on skills and game functions.
I was just beginning to enjoy UWO. I looked forward to the server change. I had 4 Main Characters, and I had purchased extra skills and extra Bag slots. I purchased extra Nanban Certificates. I was wealthy enough to not mind Pirate Attacks. I had max Storage but no Improved Hold, except for my latest Dragon Ship I had set up for Nanbanning. I spent a lot of ducats getting that ship modded. Cocoa-Pebbles was level 9.5 Management and was grinding , to join Cocoa-Puff with Nanbanning, in her Transport Sha Chaun. By the time I returned everyone else was top level with top ships again.
I am stuck in UWO Purgatory: I cannot bear to delete my accounts and uninstall UWO, yet I cannot stomach starting over and grinding all that over again. I cannot forget the dozen top level ships I had, my 9 Farms at all 4 locations, the Company, The Colony. Yes, I suck at PvP, with my severely crippled fingers (one upright mouse to push, 1 taped down "rat" to click). I never learned how to mod, do fusion, battle campaign, epic sea food, treasure hunt. After 7 years I had barely scratched the surfaced. I cannot forget the 5 Abelam Tribe Brooches I had, the 2x 100-attack Breech Loaders, the dozen AoS I had purchased at 3.5m each. The dozen +3 Funiture I had at 5m each, the few +4 Food Racks I had at 20m. Everything else I made myself with max Casting, Handicrafts, Sewing, Cooking. Even though grinding is 100x faster with Recipes, I cannot stomach it. The 300m ducat "founders rewards" are worth about 30m in today's economy, and won't get me very far. Most of the good stuff is missing or not worth the price. All hope and Joy are gone.
The wipe has affected ALL of my game play for ALL my games. I turn 60 in June and I feel like such a FOOL to have wasted 7 years of my life grinding for this. I had never imagined in the past, when I started this game, that another player with more real-life ca$h and time and skill could just take what you worked so hard for. I certainly didn't think a Server would do that. No more grinding and leveling games for me, unless I play solo and OWN the game.
So, I haunt the forums, and read them often. It brings me comfort to know how much they ruined everything, and cater to piracy, every time I am tempted to play again. Even my ex-trader in-game friend is now doing her best to uplift piracy. I am just stunned and still dumb-founded as I fish off the Pier in Genoa; I wish I could jump off that pier.
I am going no where; I still have not gotten my real-life money's worth with my posts, and never will. Thank you, PurplePirate, but I am not worth the effort. Those are my real levels after 7 old years + 6 new months. Sail On.
We all lost it all.
But I cannot see way the game that we all loved first time is so terrible the second time.
It cannot be due to item plunder. Most decent equipment and items cannot even be plundered.
The trade ships are way overpowered and lightning fast, they have yet to release a pirate ship that can possibly attempt to catch one.
I understand it is hard to start from scratch. I still think of my old stuff. But in many ways my game and toon is even better now due to more knowledge of the game.
Go if you must, but we all wish you would stay.
I know the wipe was out of the blue but i see so many playing this game and forgetting it’s a game and forgetting to enjoy it.
So many of my old comp would grind endlessly to gain max skills but then not take time to enjoy the and burn themselves out.
I grind a bit, then I game a bit. I’ve been a trader, a pirate and now I’m into dungeons. Soon I’m gonna rare item plunder since I’ve gained those skills.
If the game got wiped now would I be sad? Hell yeah!
Would it be a waste of my past 6 months? Hell no!
Why? Because I took time to enjoy it and took it for what it really is...a computer game that is fun to play.
Go away you sour old hag
I was just under 2 years on OGP and didn't have anywhere near the wealth you had but still understand and respect the commitment you and other vets made. My character is much better off now but that was mostly due to spending money on uwc to accelerate my development. I didn't do that back on OGP, i played it out and bought astro stuff with earned in game money. Mostly it's only a few skills that annoys me to redo and the only ship i miss is my MSF which i will rebuild again when/if they are re-released.
As i see it, us girls gotta stick together and if you decide to try again, I would be more than happy to help you out with ships/gear and quick acceleration to your lvl's as well as get you your port permits so you can at least be partially caught up again. I'm online in the evenings and weekends if you want to pm me but look for my main Samantha99. The game has already lost so many good people, i hope you won't be another casualty.
But your comment about me is no better and you have no more the right to say that about me than what I said about her.
But there is no excuse for a grown woman to find comfort in a game failing because she is hurt by what’s happened. It’s Nasty which is why it annoyed me.
Some still enjoy this game, so why find comfort in its issues/failures.
Yeh I played 6 months and she played 7 years.
Many many people on here played 7 years, an now they are into their 8th.
If people look at this anything other than a time filler or what it is ‘a computer game’ then they are going to be left disappointed.
Cocoa I apologise for my comment,
From a British point of view it’s said with a huff of breath and a rolling of the eyes, and isn’t as nasty as it probably reads. But it was still unnecessary.
Over the years there were certain names of complete strangers that always stood out - they always made me a little bit happier than I was before noticing them run/sail by.
Cocoa was one of those!
I can understand checking the forum without playing (or very limited play.) It's not about wanting the game to fail. It's more like holding onto a bittersweet memory of all the hours spent in the UWO world.
For a long time I did not enjoy this game, and I played because a friend gave me many well-modded ships. That reason has vaporized. I did not enjoy the grinding, and once in a blue moon leveling. Doing my first wide-eyed Pepper Run, full of hope and joy, as a low level noob that struggled to get Spice Trading, I was sunk 3 times in a row trying to use lifesavers to get back to port. Sunk by high level vets in bullet-proof ships. Trying to get back to Europe with my 200 pepper, I was sunk twice in a row using my lifesavers by that famous CA Pirate. "Just don't sail, stay in safe waters"; That shaped my view of Player Pirates forever. Blame me for helping to change the Rules of Piracy. I had dreams of helping stranded players, that was all shattered.
Yes, CPC, I made a few billion helping you with auctions, and managed to hang onto it, and slowly grow it with farms and making everything, but that was all for NOTHING. Yes, you donated your time and did an epic mod on my Dragon Ship, setting it up for Nanban, adding my first Improved Hold (oops, maybe I should not tell that). I never got a chance to take my Dragon Ship and Festive Caoyun with the rainbow sail paint anywhere, because they wiped out 7 years of my game-life. All our work, my billions, your trillion from auctions, did not mean JACK SHEET. I cannot get all that back now. I have never insulted or hurt a single player in this game, even those who deserved it. When I was helping with auctions, I treated everyone, regardless of how they played the game, or how many times they sunk me, with courtesy and respect . . . Whatever, it's JUST a game, right? Who gives a damn about the real person behind the keyboard? I will never lose my Integrity. * Drops Mic and squeaks away into oblivion on a rollator *
I started pirating after the nerf when all I ever could plunder was 1-2m and some trade goods.
Even then many would send endless tells cursing and threatening me (some threats towards me in real life). Others would thank me since I often returned their goods, rescued their crew and towed them to port. The ones that offered the cursing I did not give such pleasentries.
It is windows and x-box. Your computer can play it.
Click on microsoft store under your star menu and search it.
Hugs CPC.
No Play I. Keep Post. Useful Post. Make SpudsMcCannon President; Hate Club. Do Petition; Block Old Hag.