Guild Wars 2

One of my favorite parts of Ultima Online was the implementation of treasure hunts. The hunts were so much fun in UO that they took on a life of their own.

I won’t go into too much detail but the basic idea is that monsters sometimes dropped treasure maps. These maps had to be read by someone with a sufficient Cartography skill.

Then the person would travel to the picture they saw on the map and start digging. Digging required a sufficient mining skill or you would never find the exact spot on the ground.

Once the person found the exact spot a treasure chest would pop up and some monsters would appear to defend the chest. Again, the level of the monsters depended on the level of the chest.

To open the chest, someone had to have the lock-picking skill of the required level.

The chests had money, jewels, weapons, and armor of random quality.

The cool thing about the treasure maps is the secondary market it created. I created a character with all of the required treasure-hunting skills and I spent months maxxing out the skills. Not everyone wanted to do that so people would pay me to read their maps for them, or they would pay me to pick the lock on the chests for them. Some people simply sold their unread maps to others who took a chance on what they would find.

Can we get something like this?

I like the idea of a treasure hunt, and I’d love to spend a good amount of time on it myself, but honestly I doubt it will work out. People will just post all the treasure locations on the internet, in which case you no longer need a map (or be able to read it).

That way it just becomes easy loot:
Waypoint to a treasure location and grab those shinies, then waypoint to the next.

We do have treasure hunts in the game! There are hidden chests everywhere on every map! Also, there is a random skritt thief that gives you tons of loot if you kill him which is like a treasure hunt in itself!

Make it an event whereas locating the treasure was triggered by reading the map. Dig all you want in the location the internet gave you, but without reading the map first, nothing happens. Really neat idea.

I stopped reading after I read

One of my favorite parts of Ultima Online

I can’t believe people even seem to remember this game anymore as most players experience is in World of Warcraft lol. I support this Idea though

A couple of people are close to the way the hunts worked. It didn’t matter if you knew a spot, you had to have that particular treasure map (instance of it) with you to dig.

And to the guy dissing UO, realize that not everyone necessarily shares your taste. I have never found another game with as much to do as UO.

Sigilaea.4819:

A couple of people are close to the way the hunts worked. It didn’t matter if you knew a spot, you had to have that particular treasure map (instance of it) with you to dig.

And to the guy dissing UO, realize that not everyone necessarily shares your taste. I have never found another game with as much to do as UO.

Who is dissing UO ? Not me I simply said that not many people even remember the game is all.

Sign me up for some treasure hunts! Anything like this that adds depth and content I’m all for!

Apologies Kaimick, I misunderstood your point.

Sigilaea.4819:

Apologies Kaimick, I misunderstood your point.

NP it happens lol, yeah I use to play UO so