UO Second Age

Is this information still correct and accurate?

Skill required to decode a map
Map Level Skill Level
1 0% Cartography required
2 60% Cartography required
3 73% Cartography required
4 91% Cartography required
5 100% Cartography required

* These are minimum requirements. The higher your cartography skill, the more detail the map will show. The pin will always be on the exact location of the treasure. After decoding your treasure map, the center will be indicated with a single pin.

For example, if a character with 59.9 (Shown Skill) and attempted to decode a level 2 map, would they receive this message?

All skills are shown; the "show real" value will be lower, depending on how high your INT and DEX are.

Level 1: 0.0
Level 2: 60.0
Level 3: 70.0
Level 4: 90.0
Level 5: 100.0

You can decode level 5s at 99.5 I believe.
That what made me wonder about the rest.

No, I've had Cartography locked at 99.9 for months to verify level 5's when I buy them. I pop it up to 100, decode 20 lvl 5 maps to do over the following few weeks, then drop it back to 99.9 so I have the verification advantage. I'm 100% sure that you can not decode level 5 below 100.0

If you prefer to see for yourself, go on test.uosecondage.com and you get 5 maps in your bank, levels 1 through 5. Start at 0.0 and try them all to find the level 1 map. Then type "set cartography 59.2" or something, and it will go to 60.0 shown. Then out of the remaining 4 maps, find the level 2 map. Then repeat for level 3, 4, 5.

Aeris wrote:If you prefer to see for yourself, go on test.uosecondage.com and you get 5 maps in your bank, levels 1 through 5. Start at 0.0 and try them all to find the level 1 map. Then type "set cartography 59.2" or something, and it will go to 60.0 shown. Then out of the remaining 4 maps, find the level 2 map. Then repeat for level 3, 4, 5.

Thanks so much, that worked perfectly.
May I ask, from 99.9 -> 100.0, what do you do? Are you just decoding level 4s?

I just give my guy 15 gp and sit him in the cartographer shop and loop a macro of: buy agent 5 maps, do 5 maps (anything will do), sell agent 5 maps, repeat. Takes up to 15-20 minutes, but I like being able to verify lvl 5's without doing it during server reset or making another char with 90. Level 4's do work though! I've done it before that way, but it can take quite a few.