July 2025 Roundtable

LokeaLokea Posts: 271
edited July 30 in General Discussions
Ultima Online - Roadmap Roundtable 2! - YouTube

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but this was mentioned, which concerns a lot of people (I want to know if they are going to change the timers on the tools)

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 There is one thing that's been popping up and I think we have to address it. Let's address a topic that's generated significant community discussion. IDOC housing. We've seen extensive feedback both directly and on the forums. And are there any plans to revisit or revise the current approach to IDOC in the near future?

Yes, there has been a number of discussions. I'm getting PMs daily about it. Um, it is something that is on our radar for the near future. And what I will say is anybody who is up to some shenaniganry, you know who you are, it's time to stop because you're not going to like what happens when we have to fix it.

Now that being said, uh there are some changes that we can and uh Stephen and I were having that conversation early some of that stuff publicly because it's backend stuff but forward facing you know anything fundamental way that uh we still need to see some more community discussion following the forum post on uo.com or the UO forums about and you know there's a couple different ideas that have right? Like just do everything as a raffle or do everything as an auction. I don't know that either of those are necessarily the right way to go with how houses get placed. Um but we certainly want to alleviate some of the stress that this is for house placement in general.

So it's something we have to address. Uh like I said, there's no concrete plans in terms of the fundamental change to the system. Other than that, those of you out there who are the root cause of this, and I know you know who you all need to cut it out right now because when we cut it out, you're not going to like the outcome. Take that as you will.

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  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 3,116
    I heard this part and hope that it's like the time they burned all the houses..
  • azuldemogoguazuldemogogu Posts: 68
    The only part I don’t like it that for those of us up to no shenanigans, the cryptic nature of the discussion leaves my mind wondering a ton.

    I assume it is something so specific that if you’re doing then you know it is wrong. Without knowing anything my mind goes to all types of places. I’d hate to be doing something that is wrong, but I assume it it something they are just like it is impossible if you just play the game normal. 

    Ive done some IDOCs so if I knew what to look for and what they are talking about then maybe the community could help. Ill snitch. Ill turn them in. They don’t like it they can come see at my house in felucca. Ive lived there since 97.
  • keven2002keven2002 Posts: 2,548
    Ive done some IDOCs so if I knew what to look for and what they are talking about then maybe the community could help.

    One of the things Kyronix said was that they wouldn't give the who/what/how part of seeing what's going on (ie what they will be looking for) because that would allow the cheaters to escape detection. 
  • keven2002keven2002 Posts: 2,548
    edited 1:33AM
    On the topic of the roundtable, and I said this in a different thread, I think it overall was a job well done by the team. 

    Here are some additional thoughts/comments/questions for you guys @Community Manager:
    • The 4 "elemental Clydesdales" and different looking armor looked awesome! Was there an ETA given on when those would be released?
    • Sounds like quite a bit of stuff is being worked on for Pub 121 and things into next year. That's exciting and thank you for that.
    • Were the "new holiday stuff" going to start this year or next? I was thinking it would start next year but I think I heard Kyronix say something about this Halloween?
    • I'm not sure if it was just me, but was Kyronix cutting out when he was speaking for a good part of the roundtable? At one point I switched from discord over to Youtube but I still had the same issue hearing him.
    • I don't use Discord very much so again this might just have been me, but needing to navigate to the roundtable chat, over the the general chat for the pics (thanks for the link), and over to the giveaways chat was a little confusing to know where to post questions... I'm not sure if there would be a way to keep everything in the same channel/chat for future events? I think there were also some Youtube questions in there too? Idk might just be me but I felt like I wasn't in the right spot quite a few times.
    • I personally liked that "tough questions" were addressed during the roundtable like IDOCs and cheating and the team didn't shy away from them like they did in the past. 
    • Another impression I got, that was different from the old talks like these, is that the Dev team seems to be speaking more knowledgeably about issues or potential updates (ie new expansions are out and things dealing with teleporting and different body movement is also out due to the lift). We didn't just get a "No", we got a reason for the answer. Great stuff!
    • I don't typically get to join these type of things due to the time, but was glad that I could partake. This is just my personal preference but I'd have liked to trim out some of the "filler", at least when there was so much to cover, in order to make it a bit shorter so we can get all the pertinent info during the roundtable. Asking the Dev team what their favorite expansion was or event is fine, but with all the other exciting stuff that made it almost a 2 hour event instead of maybe 75-90min.

    All in all, I felt like this roundtable was a positive experience for me. I didn't really ask any questions and between flipping around to different Discord channels and then Youtube; I didn;t get to see all the questions asked but I'm wondering if most of the questions were answered?

    Keep up the good work team and thank you for the proactive communication! 
  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 3,116
    It's like a different world now
  • firecfirec Posts: 49
    Build another house?

    Are we expected to have multiple accounts - last I saw, housing was limited to one per account?

    Additionally, building another house is obviously a problem on some shards.

    Anyhow, the flippant attitude towards the question somewhat irked me... Hopefully, as I progress through this, I'll be reassured that the traitors to this game will actually be punished - but I'm still not holding my breath.



    [13:37] : You can have as many houses as you'd like to put all your favorite things

    [13:44] : anytime. But adding store increases to the

    [13:50] : existing housing stuff, probably not. Um, you know, we've got a lot on certain

    [13:55] : shards at least. There's a lot of empty land out there. On some shards, I know that's not the case, but uh

    [14:02] : we have a number of different storage options from uh building another house to the vault tokens and things like

    [14:09] : that. Um, also to remember that there is a performance uh side of it too. you

    [14:15] : know, we can't have a completely unlimited number of items despite the fact that it's almost 2026 and the

    [14:22] : hardware is upgraded. There are hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of items.

    [14:28] : Uh, a lot of the issues that we've had in the past, part of the reason why we

    [14:34] : try to keep things away from housing areas specifically when it comes to

    [14:40] : events and stuff is because of their so item heavy. So, we want to spread you guys out, get you off into the

    [14:46] : wilderness. You want more uh storage, build another house, or take advantage

    [14:51] : of some of the exist. There we go.


  • MariahMariah Posts: 3,527Moderator
    Obviously the most profitable for the game option is open another account for another house. 

    Other solutions saving storage are jewelry boxes, greenhouses, garden sheds. (I've seen castles on which the whole roof is covered in garden sheds). Vaults are a vastly under used option.

    A more logical, but highly unpopular, solution would be to be more discerning about what you choose to keep.
  • keven2002keven2002 Posts: 2,548
    A few other things I forgot that I thought were interesting...

    • Increased PvP focus stuff in the future and some enhancements to PvP (it sounds like)
    • Attention to some older stuff like Peerless/champs/etc... sounds like the path of least resistance here is to upgrade the rewards (I'm ok with that)
    • They hear us on the jewelry box search, but there are some technical issues.... I hope they push past this and allow us to find stuff with specific properties

  • LokeaLokea Posts: 271
    Mariah said:


    Other solutions saving storage are jewelry boxes, greenhouses, garden sheds. (I've seen castles on which the whole roof is covered in garden sheds). Vaults are a vastly under used option.

    A more logical, but highly unpopular, solution would be to be more discerning about what you choose to keep.
    Jewelry boxes are from a holiday token from 8 years ago.  Greenhouses are a 13 year vet reward, garden sheds are a 15 year vet reward.   

    A lot of players will not have access to those items.  These are good examples of quality of life improvements that should be added into the game to make them more accessible to all players - through the Ultima Store for say 500 sov’s, etc. because they can benefit everybody.

    Plenty of players won’t open another paid account for house storage, but they’ll use EJ accounts to store several hundred items (not the best and most efficient thing but can be easily done).  Give players an option to acquire these storage saving resources through other means such as the Ultima Store and many will happily do it.
  • Community ManagerCommunity Manager Posts: 657Dev
    keven2002 said:
    • The 4 "elemental Clydesdales" and different looking armor looked awesome! Was there an ETA given on when those would be released?
    • Were the "new holiday stuff" going to start this year or next? I was thinking it would start next year but I think I heard Kyronix say something about this Halloween?
    • I'm not sure if it was just me, but was Kyronix cutting out when he was speaking for a good part of the roundtable? At one point I switched from discord over to Youtube but I still had the same issue hearing him.

    - No exact ETA as of yet. :) 
    - Next year for the "new" holiday stuff. :) 
    - Yes, it was. :( 

    Thank you all again for your continued support! <3 
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  • RorschachRorschach Posts: 559Moderator
    I have removed a post and a reply. Please stay on topic and do not make unfounded accusations.
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