Dev M&G Monday, February 26th @ 7pm ET
Dev M&G Monday, February 26th @ 7pm ET
Posted on February 21, 2024 by UO Dev Team
21 February 2024
Greetings,
Please join us at 7pm on Monday, February 26th at 7pm ET on TC1 in Castle Blackthorn for our next Dev Meet & Greet. Hope to see you there!
-UO Team
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I beg your pardon, but on which Shard will this take place ?
The Announcement says only, without mentioning a Shard :
Thank you for the clarification.
TC1 I will assume is Test Center 1.
It's probable right at the bottom of the server list in your client.
Or maybe, I was expecting to read one of the regular Shards... did not expect to read TC1...
Oh well, now I know on what Shard it will be on.
Thank you.
I was hoping for someone to accidentally spill the beans about the upcoming event or rewards. Unfortunately, this did not happen.
I'm glad I attended the event.
Amber Witch says: In cities to sell basic goods like arrows, bolts, reagents, lumber, ingots, possibly more.
Mesanna says: yep
Amber Witch says: This would be a very cool idea to allow Governors to do this for their cities
Amber Witch says: Would this be possible? If not could you please explain why not? Thank you for your time.
Amber Witch says: that is my question
Kyronix says: So really just re-introducing the faction vendors that can be ordered up by the city governor?
Amber Witch says: aye
Amber Witch says: as a service
Kyronix says: We are amenable to the idea
Kyronix says: but it'd need a balance pass
Amber Witch says: how so?
Kyronix says: The faction vendors got pretty borked by the end in terms of economy balance
Amber Witch says: hm. If I bring this up on the UO. forum could you elaborate there?
Amber Witch says: I don't want to take your time here
Kyronix says: Sure, by all means
Do we really need more resource vendors?
I disagree with your disagreement. When Taylor was in charge it was ok. I haven't posted there in years and vividly remember the heckling from forum pets and post/thread deletions that didn't fall in line with their vision. Just the JC incident alone was cause to never trust anyone that had power there.
The M&G: I don't understand the problem with updating old content into something new to line up with today's UO. Old quests need updating. Brit library. Castle blackthorn. We've got so much unused space that could be made into something everyone could enjoy.
Agreed.
I'll follow up on the old content bit - we get this pretty often...the sticky part of it is when we plug into the "everyone could enjoy" part of it. Part of the challenge we face is the elder nature of the game - when it comes to functional rewards (those that most players would agree are the most desirable) we are constantly balancing power creep vs. that inherent desirability. There are few constants in game dev, but what I've always been fascinated by is the feedback as it correlates to the rewards - not just in UO, but in any game. The better the rewards, the more you can lean into that with limited ability to update mechanics etc. That's not to say it's impossible, but it's definitely a challenge.
To elaborate on this - what would you be looking to achieve by having control of placing these vendors? What could they offer that is not currently offered elsewhere? With factions there was the pricing side of it, but that didn't do much to help an already broken and elder economy. So, with that I'd be apprehensive to bring them back just as a cheap way to provide resources.
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
I get the whole rewards issue but doing something, anything seems better than leaving some great content to rot with only a memory.
Library rewards have never been touched in the 12+(?) years. They were some of the first items involved in the power creep but they've been left in the dust since.
Some of the old simple non runic heartwood quests seem to have been left out when the loot table changed. Granted, i didn't do very extensive testing, but loot seemed to be on par with the loot table of old or todays very lowest loot table.
With the blackthorn dungeon, i was speaking more about all the empty space. Rewards are fine.