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Well, I'm gonna be at the town meeting tonight or whatever it's called on TC1, and will take the opportunity to directly address them, in whatever way i can, and I will ask a few of the questions you've asked, and let them know Skett wanted to know.
From what I can see, they are working on updates to the CC, which if my opinion matters to you, seems like, (yes quiet long in the making) a sort of attempt to deal with these issues of botting/ scripting/ rampant hacking going on via the client being ancient as dinosaur ass and written intern level spaggat code. Does that bring with a litany of other possible issues? Yes absolutely. Should it be avoided? No.
I have met someone who claimed they were actioned on multiple accounts for unattended macro'ing recently. I didn't ask the person, they told me. Yes they were pissed off. Yes they were in the wrong. And yes I laughed at them. That may be a positive thing to think about.
The web based client seems like an effort to not just 'modernize' CC style game play, but possibly make some headlines in video game 'sites', to get the game some coverage. This is a good thing. More potential clientele, good.
Despite having an absolutely critically negative view of NL myself, it was reading about NL that kind of made me want to scratch my UO itch. And while I was like nope, definitely not for me, it did cause me to resub , and bump into a new /fresh group of people. So, that's a proof in the pudding example of the press working to draw interest. Unfortunate that NL is hot trash tho.
I mean I can sit here and disparage UO or the UO team or fellow UO players like anyone else, but from my perspective however blind/stupid / idiotic it may be in the eye of the beholder, it looks like there is concrete evidence that issues that are being brought up are actually being dealt with.
They could even give u a small island near the coast of x city for all I care..
I won't finish the rest of your message, unworthy; bitchy cuz I disagree with him while agreeing with me
PS: They already had a TC server.. all what u keep describing as good on NL is just that.. the TC shard.. I mean bra!!
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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PS: we agree once more on the bra part.. i'm not.
@Skett if bro is a brother, bra is..
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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Say HI to them 4 me. I'm still working.
You got it tho? right? it's sister.
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
-UO official forums, brought to you by BoardSword studio
I told yall, Kyronix has been in charge for years. UO has been his since 2011 or 12. Mesanna answered emails, did the EM stuff, put up deco, and gave feedback to the new stuff they were making.
Keeping the trolls off them allowed the team to work. How's GTA 6 going? They were supposed to finish last year. And they have hundreds of programmers.
But starting out doing it on a production shard is the worst thing you could do, because putting aside that it's the wrong place to find serious flaws with the mechanics, it will piss off a lot of players who like things as they are. It would be like consolidating shards to boost population levels - a good way to send a lot of people out the door, turning off their subs.
And most players will not volunteer to move to ATL if they have a castle or keep or another prime spot, and lose not only those prime spots, but have to leave behind items (otherwise you're asking the devs to figure out how to move thousands of items over to ATL from each account). That's not getting into asking them to delete characters on shards they are moving to in order to make room for the old shard's characters.
One of my crazy ideas is to make shard transfers free and timelier, or at the least make it easy and cheap/free for players to shard hop whether it be for meeting up with others for dungeon crawling or to go shopping. It might be a drop in revenue, but I question how much - if your account is old enough, you have a once-a-month free transfer, but I could see it leading to more player activity.
Just make it for more people and allow for more trips back-and-forth. It would solve the problems for those who like their low-population shards and want to keep their homes and histories with those shards, but would like to meet up with friends on other shards, and it would make it easier for ATL players to shop on other shards (and maybe slow down the flow of goods from the other shards to ATL, improving things on those shards). When shard transfers were setup, and when the shields were added, I doubt the devs envisioned that they would be used to make a small amount of people a ridiculous amount of gold and real-life money by taking stuff from other shards and moving it to just one shard.
We could also do something like Connected Realms in Warcraft, where low-population shards are "grouped" together in that their players can connect with one another, raid with one another, serve in the same guilds, share the same auction house (or vendor search in this case), add friends from the other shards within their group, etc. My two WOW realms, my roleplaying realm (Steamwheedle Cartel for life!) was grouped with two others, and my regular realm was grouped with four others. It also makes it easier for new players to find other people (and maybe we can stop encouraging new players to pick Atlantic, and instead pick shards where they have a chance of having a decent house within a month or so).
I've watched my kids learning to play, and it's not accessible to a lot of people who have tried other MMOs before UO, because the things that make it the original and best sandbox MMO are also things that could hold it back when attracting new players. That doesn't mean that the production shards have to fundamentally changed, but something needs to be tried for those who are testing the waters or trying to get a grasp on things.
While I would love a true high-resolution graphics upgrade, I know that's not in the cards, but thanks to Minecraft and a lot of Japanese gamers loving the pixel look, the graphics aren't the biggest barrier. Ironically, being big Minecraft players means my kids have a better grasp on what a sandbox is than a lot of MMO players, but their eyes glaze over when we start talking about suits and weapons needed to attempt certain things. It shouldn't necessarily be the dumbed down approach that some other MMOs have where it's fairly easy to progress up the ladder, getting loot that you can actually use as you go, but we should have something of a middle ground between those and between the hours of building spreadsheets, grinding for imbuing ingredients, etc.
wouldn't that be nice then we could all enjoy the last 5 years work they devs have been doing
https://uo.com/2025/04/29/spring-roadmap-update/
xx months? It will be on TC soon, only have about 20 days to play NL until the next event is on Prodo shads.
Publish 120 is currently slated for Word Wide Release this June – we hope to bring the first batch of Publish 120 to Test Center 1 later into May as it makes its way through development and QA. Some of the highlights include,
If u talking about my ideas of making couple shard with different rule set like.. as u already mention they can do that on brand new server.. even better.. even if u said amazon server are pretty cheap.. i'd still use my actual server.. do announcement of the new rules on this server.. like x shard is going to be a legit CC shard.. u can accomodate people real easy.. building them a sexy island to fit a castle near x city coast, clear a couple tree or a rock.. on the shard they wanna move.. this shard is even more unique, with "unique" housing.. cuz it would make no sense to have 30 shards when 80% are mostly empty.. just cuz.. we hvn't try to accomodate people.
@lokea I was going to reply to your second post but god damn.. u only focusing on moving them on ATL?? re-read consider everything.. fix that tunnel vision problem.
PS: moving them on ATL was clearly irony.. who would want to move on ATL that is not already on ATL?? except a returning player that is not actually playing?
Every events, it's a bot fest, people can bareilly move.. I was not serious by saying shipping more people on those shards.. it was so dumb of an idea.. I thought it was clear.. and all u did is work on that hook; ignoring the very next phrase when I said x shard of their choices. -.-
Imagine everyone would ask to move on ATL have a unique castle spot and ebay it.. I mean c'mon now.. I won'T give them all the answers here.. even if I do, read between the lines.. -.-
@Grimbeard for them to move all those NL dungeon content on prodo would be dumb.. if they does that it need to be wipe from NL type of stuff or just a few of them.. a sample to promote NL on prodo.. they won't help NL by doing that; moving all the dungeon on production.. at this point just shut down NL if u don'T have another set of new dungeons for s2.
PS: if it mean they could give us back a couple of our old dungeon like despice and shame level-1; sign me in.
add the Juka dungeon to this list.. tons of great memories leveling up there.. the Juka would fear the name
F the lizzies and ogres.
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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Put it on a separate shard and let people transfer stuff and characters off to their home shards, and there will be people playing it to the end and putting it through the ringer.
As for changing up production shards, that's a good way to drive a lot of people away. I think it would be more interesting to do like WOW with the cross-realms, but allow characters to freely move between certain shards, and in this instance, we could have these groupings (matched by time zones for the most part):
- Atlantic
- Catskills, Chessie, GL, LS, Legends
- Baja, Lake Austin, Napa, Origin, Pacific, Sonoma
- Drachenfels, Europa
- Oceania, Arirang, Balhae, Formosa
- Asuka, Hokuto, Izumo, Mizuho, Sakura, Wakoku, Yamato (maybe remove the more popular one, I know one of them gets busy during their prime time)
The shards and their histories would remain so nobody loses houses or anything, but it allows people to fill out guilds and do hunts, events, etc. with more people so they get access to more people without shard consolidation. It improves access to the stuff we need or want, although we would still have the current problem of the RMTers and others buying cheap on the non-ATL shards and transferring it to ATL to sell at a massive profit. It might even encourage people to change shards for guild/friend reasons and if they have a cheap/easy way to move between shards within their shard group (say somebody on Legends wants to go to Chessie) they can more easily take all of their stuff between shards. It also means they don't have to delete characters if they have a full slate on another shard, and want to visit that shard with a character from another shard.