Speech triggers in Ultima Online can be difficult to use in certain situations, such as buying or selling from a vendor standing behind a counter in a crowded shop. With the variety of speech triggers in use, it can also be quite a task just to learn them all!
Context-sensitive menus are new menus players can use to access the various functionalities available on creatures and NPCs, such as accessing the shopkeeper interface, being trained by an NPC, ordering a pet to attack, or opening your bank box from a banker.
The default method of accessing these menus will be a single left-click on the creature or NPC, although players can change it to use shift-left-click instead if they prefer. For the first few days after this system’s activation, a gump will pop up the first time a player logs in, allowing them to choose how they wish to access these menus (left-click vs. shift-left-click). Players will always be able to go back and change this option later.
If you click on an NPC or creature you can interact with, you can select from several relevant options, such as:
Bankers now have the following menu options:
- Open Bankbox
- Player must be within 8 tiles of banker.
- Player must not be a criminal.
Shopkeepers now have the following menu options:
- Buy
- Player must be within 8 tiles of shopkeeper.
- Player must not have the lowest level of karma.
- Player must not be a murderer.
- Sell
- Player must be within 8 tiles of shopkeeper.
- Player must not have the lowest level of karma.
- Player must not be a murderer.
Escorts now have the following menu options available:
- Accept Escort
- Player must be within 3 tiles of escort.
- Escort must be available.
- Player must not have an escort already.
- Player’s last escort acceptance must have been over 5 minutes ago.
- Ask Destination
- Player must be within 3 tiles of escort.
- Escort must be available or escorted by you.
- Abandon Escort
- Escort must be escorted by you.
Pets and Hirelings now have the following menu options:
(For all pet/hireling commands, player must be within 12 tiles of the pet/hireling, and be the owner of the pet/hireling.)
- Command: Kill
- Command: Stop
- Command: Follow
- Command: Stay
- Command: Guard
- Add Friend
- Transfer
Pets have the following additional menu option:
Hirelings have the follow additional menu options:
- Hire (NPC must not be employed; i.e. no master.)
- Dismiss
All animals that can be tamed will have the following menu option:
- Tame
- Player must be within 8 tiles of creature.
- Animal must not already be tame.
- Player must have the required taming skill.
Stablemasters now have the following menu options:
- Claim All
- Player must be within 8 tiles of the stablemaster.
- Player must have 1 or more pets stabled.
- Stable Pet
- Player must be within 8 tiles of the stablemaster.
All NPCs who can train, including shopkeepers, will have the following menu options:
- Train
- NPC must not be unemployed; i.e. no master.
- NPC must at least 60.0 in the skill to be trained.
- Player must have any prereqs for skill.
- Player must have less than 1/3 of the trainer's skill.
All human NPCs and players have the following menu option:
Your own avatar has the following menu option:
If you are young and going through the directed experience:
House Lockdown and Item Placement, House Banning, and Ship Commands are extremely complex systems, and the menus needed to access all the necessary functions would be huge and unwieldy. New systems for these may be addressed in a later publish.
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