Rune Crafting & Enchanting system

[Johabius]

Originally Posted by VindiKat

I will check into that. I am already using the XMLSpawner system anyway, but I have to admit I sort of wish there was some type of XMLSpawner for Dummies book available for it.

I think there used to be, "Trying's Beginners Tutorial", but all the links I've tried to follow are dead. I haven't done a recent search, though. Still might be floating around here on the forums.

[HellRazor]

There are quite a few tutorials available at the main support site:

XMLSpawnerFan

And also some at the support forums at Orbsydia:

OrBSydia DevNet

[Obez]

Originally Posted by Greystar

XMLSockets is just like that, it's an optional pack addon for XMLSpawner and I'm currently using it.

I checked out the XMLSpawnerFan site looking for that socket system but I couldn't seem to find it. Is there any way you could send me a link to the thread or something?

[Greystar]

Originally Posted by Obez

I checked out the XMLSpawnerFan site looking for that socket system but I couldn't seem to find it. Is there any way you could send me a link to the thread or something?

XMLSpawnerFan -> XMLSockets Releases and Updates

A copy can also be found on RunUO's site, however I'm not sure if the one here is up to date. You should do a search here for XMLSockets (it should also be near the top of the Scripts Submissions due to recent activity in that thread).

Runuo link

[Obez]

Originally Posted by Greystar

XMLSpawnerFan -> XMLSockets Releases and Updates

A copy can also be found on RunUO's site, however I'm not sure if the one here is up to date. You should do a search here for XMLSockets (it should also be near the top of the Scripts Submissions due to recent activity in that thread).

Runuo link

thanks alot man im guna go check this out.

[VindiKat]

After playing with this system for a while, it seems the only really overpowering thing is with the enhancement of clothing items. I have had many items break on the first attempt at enhancement, and some that could be enhanced many times. With a nice weapon or armor, most people won't keep trying to enhance after a point for fear of losing the item, but with clothing that is easily (and cheaply) replaced that is a different story. In order to maintain some balance without changing the whole system, I would make it so only certain clothing items could be enhanced (ie hats and robes perhaps) and only enhanced with certain runes (IN (luck) and LOR (night sight), for example).

This is really a cool system, I can tell a lot of thought and work went into designing it.

[Obez]

Originally Posted by VindiKat

After playing with this system for a while, it seems the only really overpowering thing is with the enhancement of clothing items. I have had many items break on the first attempt at enhancement, and some that could be enhanced many times. With a nice weapon or armor, most people won't keep trying to enhance after a point for fear of losing the item, but with clothing that is easily (and cheaply) replaced that is a different story. In order to maintain some balance without changing the whole system, I would make it so only certain clothing items could be enhanced (ie hats and robes perhaps) and only enhanced with certain runes (IN (luck) and LOR (night sight), for example).

This is really a cool system, I can tell a lot of thought and work went into designing it.

first i wana say thanks ur input is much appreciated

theres only so much testing I can do myself so Iv been relying heavily on what other have been saying about my system and its really awesome that you and others post tips on how i can make this system better.

I can totally see what your saying about the clothing thing and i hadn't even taken into acount how cheap and easy it was to replace.
Currently I'm working on a newer version of the system with an actual max amount of runes placed in an object.

but i can see that what u mentioned would still be a problem
and adding certain runes into many different pieces of clothing would become overpowered.

so Im deff guna take ur advice into consideration and limit what kinds of runes can be placed into clothing.

as for the system that that is out now, its pretty easy to limit the runes that can be placed in clothing:
for example, go into the file like CorpRune.cs ( Spell Damage ) or YlemRune.cs (lower reg cost ) and find:

else if ( targeted is BaseClothing )

and just delete everything until:

else if ( targeted is BaseJewel )

but of course this could get pretty monotonous and time consuming

but like I said im working on making a newer version and it'll hopefully be as balanced as possible.. so keep the tips and suggestions comin'

thanks

[VindiKat]

As for ideas, How about some rare dropped items instead of some of the reagents for crafting the runes? For example, for the Flamus rune could be crafted using dropped dragon tongues (red hued mandrake root would work) in addition to the sulfurous ash and rune stone.

Is there a way to make it so only exceptional (crafted) items can be enhanced?

Also, I was thinking that maybe the actual installing of the runes might be based off of either tinkering or armslore. That part can be easily changed.

[VindiKat]

I was trying to think up logical things for added components that might be used:

Syllable		Effect		Meaning				Extra Component


Aglo	Durability Bonus		Armor				10 iron ingots
Ahm	Spell channeling		Honesty
An	Hit dispel			Negate or Dispel		10 dispel scrolls
Arma	Use best  weapon skill	Weapon or Arms ( Paladin )
Bal	Hit leech Stam		Evil
Beh	Regen stam		Justice		
Bet	Hit magic arrow		Small					5 Magic Arrow scrolls
Cah	Mage armor / weapon	Sacrifice				3 Arcane gems
Char	Hit lower defence		Part				5 curse scrolls
Corp	Inc. spell damage		Death
Del	Resist cold		Cold					3 white dragonscales
Des	Hit lower attack		Lower or Down
Dium	Resist physical bonus	Noble ( Paladin )			3 black dragonscales
Ex	Bonus stam		Freedom
Flam	Resist fire			Flame				3 red dragonscales
Flamus	Hit Fire Area		Fire ( Paladin )			Dragon tongue (from dragons)
Frio	Hit cold area		Cold ( Pre UO )				Wyrm Heart (from Wyrm and White Wyrm)
Furis	Hit energy area		Fury ( Paladin )
Gra	Hit leech hits		Drain/Leech or Siphon
Grav	Hit physical area		Field
Hur	Resist energy		Wind					3 blue dragonscales
In 	Luck			Make, Create or Cause			7 golden ingots
Jux	Hit harm			Danger, Trap or Harm		5 harm scrolls
Kal	Hit fireball			Invoke				10 fireball scrolls
Lor	Night Sight		Light
Lum	Lower stat requirments	Humility
Malas	Hit poison area		Evil ( Paladin )
Mani	Bonus hits			Life or Healing			
Mu	Regen hits		Compassion				Troll's Blood (From Troll and Troll Slasher)
Nox	Resist posion bonus		Poison
Om	Regen mana		Spirituality
Ort	Bonus mana		Magic
Pas	Lower mana cost		After/Beyond
Por	Bonus dex			Move or Movement
Quas	Hit leech mana		Illusion
Ra	Defend chance		Valor
Rel	Self repair			Change
Sanct	Reflect physical		Protect or Protection
Sar	Inc. weapon damage		Pain
Summ	Cast recovery		Honor
Tym	Inc. weapon speed		Time
Um 	Cast speed		Shadow
Uus	Attack chance		Rise or Up
Vas	Bonus str			Great				7 strength scrolls
Wis	bonus int			Know/Knowledge
Xen	hit lightning		Creature				10 lightning scrolls
Ylem	Lower reg cost		Matter
Zu	Enhance potions		Sleep

A lot of them are scrolls that the scribe would be able to make him/herself anyway. Just a thought.

[Obez]

Originally Posted by VindiKat

I was trying to think up logical things for added components that might be used:

Syllable		Effect		Meaning				Extra Component


Aglo	Durability Bonus		Armor				10 iron ingots
Ahm	Spell channeling		Honesty
An	Hit dispel			Negate or Dispel		10 dispel scrolls
Arma	Use best  weapon skill	Weapon or Arms ( Paladin )
Bal	Hit leech Stam		Evil
Beh	Regen stam		Justice		
Bet	Hit magic arrow		Small					5 Magic Arrow scrolls
Cah	Mage armor / weapon	Sacrifice				3 Arcane gems
Char	Hit lower defence		Part				5 curse scrolls
Corp	Inc. spell damage		Death
Del	Resist cold		Cold					3 white dragonscales
Des	Hit lower attack		Lower or Down
Dium	Resist physical bonus	Noble ( Paladin )			3 black dragonscales
Ex	Bonus stam		Freedom
Flam	Resist fire			Flame				3 red dragonscales
Flamus	Hit Fire Area		Fire ( Paladin )			Dragon tongue (from dragons)
Frio	Hit cold area		Cold ( Pre UO )				Wyrm Heart (from Wyrm and White Wyrm)
Furis	Hit energy area		Fury ( Paladin )
Gra	Hit leech hits		Drain/Leech or Siphon
Grav	Hit physical area		Field
Hur	Resist energy		Wind					3 blue dragonscales
In 	Luck			Make, Create or Cause			7 golden ingots
Jux	Hit harm			Danger, Trap or Harm		5 harm scrolls
Kal	Hit fireball			Invoke				10 fireball scrolls
Lor	Night Sight		Light
Lum	Lower stat requirments	Humility
Malas	Hit poison area		Evil ( Paladin )
Mani	Bonus hits			Life or Healing			
Mu	Regen hits		Compassion				Troll's Blood (From Troll and Troll Slasher)
Nox	Resist posion bonus		Poison
Om	Regen mana		Spirituality
Ort	Bonus mana		Magic
Pas	Lower mana cost		After/Beyond
Por	Bonus dex			Move or Movement
Quas	Hit leech mana		Illusion
Ra	Defend chance		Valor
Rel	Self repair			Change
Sanct	Reflect physical		Protect or Protection
Sar	Inc. weapon damage		Pain
Summ	Cast recovery		Honor
Tym	Inc. weapon speed		Time
Um 	Cast speed		Shadow
Uus	Attack chance		Rise or Up
Vas	Bonus str			Great				7 strength scrolls
Wis	bonus int			Know/Knowledge
Xen	hit lightning		Creature				10 lightning scrolls
Ylem	Lower reg cost		Matter
Zu	Enhance potions		Sleep

A lot of them are scrolls that the scribe would be able to make him/herself anyway. Just a thought.

hey thats pretty cool, i like the scrolls idea and more than a few of the other components u mentioned. regs do seem kinda boring now ill def play around with it a bit
thanks

[Streblo]

I really like this feature here, especially for the enhancement of weapons, something I always thought was lacking in UO. I do, however, have some problems with this, and being very new to scripting I am having a tough time resolving them myself.

1.) Is there a way to make a hard cap of one spell on an item? I like how you can apply multiple runes to an item and have their effects stack, but is there a way to make that effect not go above 50, or else have a 1% chance of success when trying to go over that?

2.) Some of the runes seem to add a lot of bang for the buck. Just a few runes and I had a hit fireball 50% weapon. Where can I edit the intensity range? I'd like to mainly use this script on my shard to enhance loot weapons that have, say, hit lightning 38%, to increase it to be in the 40's solidly, making it a more reliable weapon.

3.) Is there a way to alter % chance of success? I saw some things in your script that I *think* would do it, but I am afraid to alter too many numbers, and my shard takes 10 minutes to boot up, so testing through trial and error is a pain. If you could point me in the right direction it'd be helpful.

Again, this is an awesome script, but if I put it in it would create HUGE balance problems amongst the pvpers. Can't have insane weapons too easily accessible!

-Streblo, EternityUO

[Obez]

Originally Posted by Streblo

I really like this feature here, especially for the enhancement of weapons, something I always thought was lacking in UO. I do, however, have some problems with this, and being very new to scripting I am having a tough time resolving them myself.

1.) Is there a way to make a hard cap of one spell on an item? I like how you can apply multiple runes to an item and have their effects stack, but is there a way to make that effect not go above 50, or else have a 1% chance of success when trying to go over that?

2.) Some of the runes seem to add a lot of bang for the buck. Just a few runes and I had a hit fireball 50% weapon. Where can I edit the intensity range? I'd like to mainly use this script on my shard to enhance loot weapons that have, say, hit lightning 38%, to increase it to be in the 40's solidly, making it a more reliable weapon.

3.) Is there a way to alter % chance of success? I saw some things in your script that I *think* would do it, but I am afraid to alter too many numbers, and my shard takes 10 minutes to boot up, so testing through trial and error is a pain. If you could point me in the right direction it'd be helpful.

Again, this is an awesome script, but if I put it in it would create HUGE balance problems amongst the pvpers. Can't have insane weapons too easily accessible!

-Streblo, EternityUO

well first i wana say thanks, i put alot of time and effort into making this, and im glad to see u like it.
but i have been getting alot of feedback saying its too easy to make weapons overpowering. I'v been working on making some kind of cap to try and fix this but its extremely tedious because i have to edit every rune individually.
if u wana manually add some kind of cap at 50% u could do something like this:
( example for the Kal rune)

		else if(Weapon.Attributes.HitFireball <= 50 )
SendMessage( "You cannot enhance that any further.");

u could try putting that right below the "You cannot enhance that in it's current location" line. but again u'll have to do that for every rune and can get annoying.

the intensity can be changed where it says 'int augment' or i'nt augmentper'
augmentper if used for runes that add a percent to the item.

and to answer ur last question, the sucess chance can be altered by changing the DestroyChance. its sort of a misnomer because it actually displays the chance of sucess. i think the version i have up here the chance is utility.random 5 or 10 (?) not sure. either way , the lower the number, the lower the chance of sucess.

it also says 'if ( DestroyChance > 0 ) // Success'

its like rolling dice each time u try to add a rune, only the chance includes rolling a 0. if DestroyChance is 5, u have a chance to roll 0 to 5 if u roll anything > 0 u suceed, if u roll a 0 u fail. so u can change both of these factors to increase or decrease the chance of sucess.

but once again u'll have to do this for every rune :/.
anyway,
hope this helps

[Streblo]

Awesome, thanks for the reply! I think this is enough info to get me started on it. Again, love the idea!

-Streblo

[Nikoru]

Originally Posted by Obez

well first i wana say thanks, i put alot of time and effort into making this, and im glad to see u like it.
but i have been getting alot of feedback saying its too easy to make weapons overpowering. I'v been working on making some kind of cap to try and fix this but its extremely tedious because i have to edit every rune individually.
if u wana manually add some kind of cap at 50% u could do something like this:
( example for the Kal rune)

		else if(Weapon.Attributes.HitFireball <= 50 )
SendMessage( "You cannot enhance that any further.");

u could try putting that right below the "You cannot enhance that in it's current location" line. but again u'll have to do that for every rune and can get annoying.

the intensity can be changed where it says 'int augment' or i'nt augmentper'
augmentper if used for runes that add a percent to the item.

and to answer ur last question, the sucess chance can be altered by changing the DestroyChance. its sort of a misnomer because it actually displays the chance of sucess. i think the version i have up here the chance is utility.random 5 or 10 (?) not sure. either way , the lower the number, the lower the chance of sucess.

it also says 'if ( DestroyChance > 0 ) // Success'

its like rolling dice each time u try to add a rune, only the chance includes rolling a 0. if DestroyChance is 5, u have a chance to roll 0 to 5 if u roll anything > 0 u suceed, if u roll a 0 u fail. so u can change both of these factors to increase or decrease the chance of sucess.

but once again u'll have to do this for every rune :/.
anyway,
hope this helps

Has this thread been discountiued?. . I was really hoping to get the new system with the caps in place. I tried to put the cap in place like you said but i just got errors, can anyone help here? Thanks agian