Is Atlantic shard ready for a great influx of players?
In seven to nine months the New legacy shard implodes as originally designed, and the theory is that the players will then play on production shards.
Since theres one New legacy shard(atm) players would want the same ping and they probably want to play the most populated server aswell, that leaves us with Atlantic shard.
Is Atlantic shard ready for a great influx of players?
Items, Idocs, Housing, Lag, Quests etc.
The devs need to have plans for this,
if the premise of the statement is wrong, and there are few players on New Legacy, -or that will play production shard, there needs to be a question of why. keywords in that case would be lack of commercials, wrong design idea for a new shard, bug/implementation isues driving players away, or comepetition with other MMOs/ production shard in itself.
If the latter statement is true, that would leave us with status quo, which is Atlantic shard main hub while rest of the production shards are as previous 10years- less populated.
Open of input.
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This game becomes Ultima Online and I'll never set foot in this game again in my life.
Given the results and the rejection I've seen upon interaction, in my opinion, if I were the one running this project, I see it as a clear waste of time, money and resources to spend a single euro/dollar or developer on the production of New Legacy.
I repeat again, in my opinion, for my taste and without trying to offend anyone, it's a complete failure, because I don't like that kind of games.
Others will love it and will spend many hours playing it, but for the kind of game I like, free world, this ‘closed world-map’ certainly doesn't fit for me.
I think it's clear that people have already left New Legacy, as I showed above, New Legacy is the last one on the list, it's not occupied and with a ping so high that it's not even on the list, it's completely out of the question for me.
i find it absolutely fascinating that people still push this narrative and even more so that people still refuse to branch out.
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
As always we can read a lot of that magical thinking.. NL is FUN! it's for new players to join their friend on their main shard! it's a hub to meet new people to play with on dead shards! etc,etc..
Now let's address the elephant in the room.. the bribe.. the only reason 95% of people would be playing a server like NL in the future.. This is logical to be scared that everyone and his mom would move stuff on ATL (to sale)
Maybe @username fantasy gonna become reality; with bound on account.. cuz personally this is the most obvious and easy fix i'm seeing to the solution to make NL works.. a worthy bribe.
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.
It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.
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If you don't just watch this video to get my point:
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.
It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.
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Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
The bad guy here is Paul Atreides; aka Anakin skywalker... people that would move from NL to..
The cute Jawa.. are the more "villainous" as the desert thieves.. and thieves are everywhere on UO, not only on ATL.
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.
It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.
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If you want to place an 18x18 for the cost of 187,000 gold (or maybe even a keep depending on the shard adn facet), and have a better economic experience, then go elsewhere.
I really hate this narrative of "go to Atlantic" and I see it way too often on other forums (including reddit). When I came back, we looked at Atlantic, and there are certainly great people there, and I play a little bit there, but ultimately, we settled on my original shard, which is probably a medium-population shard. I looked at smaller shards as well, and some open keep spots tempted me, but I wasn't going to spend a bunch of money to move everything between shards (nor was I going to wait the 4 or 5 months to get my vet shield award to do it for free).
It's unfortunate, because new players in 2025 will be told to go to Atlantic, and they'll see ridiculous house prices out of their reach, a ridiculous economy, and probably either bail for another MMO, or at least a free shard.
In relation to my connection, Atlantic has so much ping that it doesn't even appear in the list, yesterday for example I entered Oceania, whose ping for me is 321 ms approx. and it was jump after jump moving the character, super slow, a very bad experience.
The right thing to do would be to say, go to those shards whose ping with respect to your connection is the most favourable, sort the list by ping and if he's looking for it to be very populated, he can sort by ping and then by population. And decide based on that.
List sorted by population (green dot), hourly red dot and ping blue dot.
In this example, if someone is looking for a balance between ping and population, their best choice would be Europa shard.
Whoever recommends you to go to a particular shard without considering this, it is because there are some underlying interests, such as filling a particular shard, but in reality they are not looking for the benefit of the player, but for their own personal benefit.
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.
It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.
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No, I am explaining which shard each player should choose based on their connection, schedule and population.
Then, what is the point of the second post.. if not asking for an EU NL shard?
PS: that dude u quoted in that second post.. is on topic but as always.. totally overlook the points people made like; moving on a shard to make good money with the bribe you extracted from NL.
In his mind he's talking to a New Player extracting his brand new character from NL to go play on his first prodo shard.. that noob shouldn't focus on ATL. (he made his VERY own NICHE scenario, in his head, overlook everything that was said, to fabricated a perfect fairy tales storyline to fit his narrative)
If more than 2% of the players extracting from NL are brand new, first timer UO players.. I would be shock! Pretty sure I got enough fingers to count those.
In your case.. your point in your second post is totally unvalid.. as u stated in your first post. Since it's about extracting from NL.. Almost all the NA shards share the same ping (5-20 variation.. nothing you should care about.. they all low.)
I have highlighted, in your second post, something very funny to me.
As brand new players, only the rich can afford the travel from/to a vacation shard.. Sure not everyone play MMO cuz of the MMO.. some love their private shard with 40 players total.. or their solo online games.. nothing wrong with that.. but for the majority their best destination to extract from NL going to be ATL.. for obvious stated reasons.
Edit: Just in case I will also state the obvious for NL Jpn.. they also have a wide variety of server to move to.. not sure about their population tho.. but yeah. You totally missing the theme on that second post.. you got short circuit by the fairy tales.. while doing what u denouncing.
If we're not talking about extracting from NL, i'm not playing on ATL, and I would still recommend ATL to 95% of brand new NA players.. cuz of soo much stuff.. starting with the shard bound heresy.. almost non existant on dead shard if it is.. it's twice-thrice time more expensive than ATL. (very few offer)
Enjoy your big empty house..
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.
It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.
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This is a response to user Lokea's message where he says that there are many people who recommend Atlantic to play.
Then I explain that recommending a shrard, whatever it is without first checking ping quality, etc... is a mistake.
Regarding to what you say about New Legacy, I looked at different time slots and in both New Legacy is at the bottom of the list ranked by population, I don't know why you (some) give so much importance to New Legacy, there is no interest or influx of players, it is, in my opinion, is a failed project.
Something that lacks interest and population cannot be a competition for any other ordinary shard.
As I said, allocating just one developer for New Legacy is a waste of money and time, that's how I see it.
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.
It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.
-UO official forums, brought to you by BoardSword studio
I'm sorry, Mis, your theory is flawed. No US shards have shown a latency figure since the server migrations in January
I didn't know that information, thank you.
In the future if the ping is shown (US shards), who is looking for a shard value the ping when selecting a shard.
For new players who are not sure which shard to choose and the ping is not displayed:
In shards where the ping is not shown, one way to detect if the ping is good or not, is because you can see some lag and jumps in the character when it is moving.
If your character is slowing down it is a disadvantage and annoying, so I recommend looking for another shard if the problem is related to the ping (other causes, such as hardware problems, software, etc., are excluded).