[smoke]

Yes I could leave the PC on 8 days straight but there are other people that live in my house who use the computer so I can't leave UO going 24 hours a day. This makes 8 days of non stop macroing a lot longer; weeks and maybe even months. Even if nobody else was using my computer, because of something quirky going on with my ISP I can't leave UO on for hours on end without monitoring it because I get disconnected at random times and sometimes my computer plays a joke on me and just locks up or restarts. This happened to me last night at 4am so I lost macro time from 4am to whenever I woke up. I'm not saying the whole shard has to change to fit my weird ISP/PC problems but this change on provocation is still something that I'd like to have feedback on from other players and staff.

Sorry to repeat myself here but you seem to have skipped over one of my points; provocation will only help you when in an area with multiple monsters that are about the same strength. It won't help you when you're in an area with 1 really strong monster and a few weak monsters. For example; if you're fighting an xtreme wyrm and provoke it to attack a regular skeleton the skeleton will probably die in 1 hit without even hurting the wyrm and you can't use provocation any more so there goes the most valuable skill on the shard that supposedly lets me hunt for free.

smoke it sounds like you don't even have these skills GMed on your current character so I'm not sure how you can justify saying that it lets you hunt for free. I don't know how much you did hunt when you had your smoke character with these skills, so I won't say you never did. But what I can say is that hunting has changed since then. For starters Xtreme monsters weren't around then.

And like you said, there are other skills out there like blacksmithy and inscription that I need to GM so it really sucks to be spending my little bit of time to play UO on GMing a skill that I can only use a portion of the time when hunting.

I think this is long enough of an answer for now. If I keep going people won't read it haha . Time to play some 360.

yeah i dont have it on my current character but did you forget i had a character called smoke that was deleted? 8 days of macroing is nothing, do it overnight it's not hard to macro it and it doesn't take long and it doesn't even cost anything. Wait until you get to inscirption oh joy it will be fun to see the post the day you train that.