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UORP's Quest Point System

Yo this is a story all about how Your quests get flipped turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how you can earn rewards beyond compare.

No seriously though, you can earn some snazzy rewards in UORP with our custom quest rewards system. "What kind of prizes?" "What is a reward system?" "How did I get here, I'm bad with computers!!!?" These are all fantastic questions. Here's the skinny:

The Rewards System

There are several systems in place for offering custom content rewards to players in the game. For example, every month you'll find you receive doubloons. These will take the form of a rewards popup at the time of login and will not first popup until you've been playing for a full 30 days on our lovely server. This is a kind of, "Hey, you seem to be sticking around and we think that's cool of you to do" reward. Doubloons can be spent directly in the blue voting tents that are located just to the north of the Black Fox Inn (which is where all non-evil aligned characters start).

Inside these tents you will find two things: some large stones that look like guildstones, and some tables with books on them. The books are what you want for spending doubloons and/or quest points. The individual books are labeled with what kind of currency is needed to purchase the items inside.

Rewards range from special dye tubs and house decorations all the way up to power scrolls that will let you raise the cap on your skills from 100 to 120, or on your stat totals from 230 to 235.

But wait! There are two more custom currencies! There's also crafting coins. Crafting coins are rewarded--fittingly enough--for completing crafting quests. The lion's share of quests are centrally located in the crafting lodge which is due Southeast from the Black Fox Inn. It's the building with 2 archery buttes and two training dummies on top of it. On the ground level you'll see several rooms with bulletin boards in each. These contain quests for various crafting skills (tailoring, blacksmithing, etc.). To accept a quest, double click the board, then click the arrow in the "Drop" column. This sounds counterintuitive but what you're doing is dropping the quest FROM the bulletin board INTO your quest log. Then the quest is active! All crafting quests require you to craft some recipe (and be careful that you pay attention to the TYPE OF MATERIAL the quest is asking for. Just because the quest is for leather legs doesn't mean that REGULAR leather is necessarily what's wanted...some recipes want you to use hardened leather, tough leather, light leather, etc., all of which drops from different tiers of difficulty with light dropping from things like lizardmen and tough or hardened droppping from dragons and drakes and such).

To access your quest log, place your cursor over your avatar and left click once to open a context menu. Then select "Quest Log" from that drop down menu. Now, find the quest you want to complete and click the detail GUMP button under the "Open" column. This will bring up another GUMP that will have a "Collect" button on the bottom left which will turn your cursor into a targeting cursor. You then select the items you've made for the recipe and, if they're the right item, they'll be collected one at a time until the quota is met for the recipe, at which point a bag will be placed in your inventory with some crafting coins (silver coins) and some good old regular gold, both scaled to the level of difficulty for the quest. Generally, your greatest time:benefit ratios are going to be at higher levels of difficulty (i.e. using harder to get levels of leather), so make sure you make a solid alliance with someone who can kick dragon butt so you can get your crafting points in!

These crafting coins can be spent in the crafting lodge. You'll notice in the central room there's another row of books. Here you can buy recipes for various custom items such as fancier clothes, cool looking armor, or rune armor socketing hammers that let you create super powerful end-game levels of equipment. There are also some things like name change deeds and the like. I'm on a quest I call the Pokémon Challenge where I try to COLLECT 'EM ALL...all of the custom recipes that is. There are over 1,000 though so like Pokémon, this will likely be a significant time-sink. HUZZAH!

Lastly, there are quest points. These are also rewarded for quests, but these aren't crafting quests, they are making-monsters-die quests. Yay! There are a few NPCs who offer quests (they'll have [quest] at the end of their name and you can walk up to them and say "quest" and get a quest GUMP from them), but most of the quests for QPs are upstairs on the 2nd floor of the crafting center. You'll see a bunch of bulletin boards here that separate monsters into categories such as Daemon, Humanoid, Plant, Reptile, etc. Under each board you'll find a variety of quests. The "Quest Level" indicates: a.) how hard the mobs will be and b.) how many points you'll receive. A level 1 gives 1 QP. A level 5 gives 5. 5's are tough, so bring a group. You can get party-based QP as long as you're all in the dungeon together killing things, and EVERYONE gets 5 points each, it is not divided, so there's no penalty for groups: we want to encourage you to make friendships and enjoy your fellowship in the game! Make this a blessing, not a selfish curse, pretty please won't you!?

I should not that when you're in the Quest Point tent spending your rewards, you can supplement a few points here and there by VOTING. In fact, you should vote daily because the folks who run this shard do it FOR FREE, and they're awesome! When you vote, you will have a random chance of getting gold or 1-2 QP points randomly deposited in your backpack. To apply the QP, just double click the points.

Please note, it is fair game to sell QP, Crafting Coins, and doubloons for cash. Ask around for exchange rates! In fact, you can make a tidy sum for yourself over the span of a couple of months, especially if you're doing quests on your own on the side and saving up money from that!

A NOTE OF WARNING

Please note: QP is NOT transferable between characters. So if you have 15 points on one character and 20 on another, you can't combine them to buy a power scroll. Thus, be careful when you vote: you CAN transfer the scrolls that apply QP points that are added to your backpack...but once you double click them and apply those points to your character, they are non-transferable. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!