July 2025 Roundtable
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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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.
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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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.
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.
Here are some additional thoughts/comments/questions for you guys @Community Manager:
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!
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.
- No exact ETA as of yet.