Breath Of Fresh Air? please leave your thoughts!
Hello everyone willing to read this, I'm new and I have to say I am really liking this game and all of its systems. There are two things in particular though that make this game slightly frustrating and that is the vendor system and the economy itself.
Allow me to elaborate, the vendor system is a good idea but it seems more like a pain when you are just trying to find something quickly to progress your skills and continue having a good time. I'm not a coder but couldn't you implement an auction house and link the inventories from the players vendors to it so everyone still gets paid?
As for the economy and the whole gold inflation thing. Couldn't you have a few vendors who are not player vendors but like npc vendors and have them sell things like crafting mats or something linked to the auction house as well so when players buy from them the gold is being taken out of the server?
Also a actual pricing list for items would be nice. I know there's a sticky about pricing but its kinda obvious that's not what people are asking for.
Saying this the game is great! I know its old and I'm not saying reinvent the wheel or anything but if we are all paying for the game wouldn't a few new quality of life changes be nice?
Wouldn't everyone here like to see some newer generation of gamers coming to this game and actually staying around?
Maybe its because I'm new and i haven't been around long enough to understand but i cannot be the only person who feels this way.
Allow me to elaborate, the vendor system is a good idea but it seems more like a pain when you are just trying to find something quickly to progress your skills and continue having a good time. I'm not a coder but couldn't you implement an auction house and link the inventories from the players vendors to it so everyone still gets paid?
As for the economy and the whole gold inflation thing. Couldn't you have a few vendors who are not player vendors but like npc vendors and have them sell things like crafting mats or something linked to the auction house as well so when players buy from them the gold is being taken out of the server?
Also a actual pricing list for items would be nice. I know there's a sticky about pricing but its kinda obvious that's not what people are asking for.
Saying this the game is great! I know its old and I'm not saying reinvent the wheel or anything but if we are all paying for the game wouldn't a few new quality of life changes be nice?
Wouldn't everyone here like to see some newer generation of gamers coming to this game and actually staying around?
Maybe its because I'm new and i haven't been around long enough to understand but i cannot be the only person who feels this way.
- Would you like to see a auction house in game12 votes
- yes41.67%
- no50.00%
- meh8.33%
Comments
Hey and welcome.
New players often see things for what they are, when the rest of us have got used to it.
Have you used the actual Vendor Search system? Left click on your character once, to pull up a menu, and you will see Vendor Search if you are in a safe place, use this to look quickly for stuff, it's a great tool.
Yes, the Vendor System could use work, I've often pushed for a complete centralised system myself.
Re materials, some basic materials are sold in good quantities from the NPC's, and if you keep buying you can push them up to get more. Leather, Ingots, Scrolls, Cloth for example. Materials themselves are fairly easy to farm for, or buy quite cheaply, or many people may just give them to you. They are also fairly cheap on VS.
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/npc-commercial-transactions/the-new-magincia-bazaar/
Vendors there are specifically "tailored" for Selling and Buying Materials, all kinds, and Pets....
Unfortunately, there is no link to the Global Vendor search so, it is necessary to check those Vendors one by one...
NPCs do sell materials and, actually, by buying them, you can raise the quantity sold up to 999...
The respawn takes some time, though... so it is necessary to be patient for the respawn to make those materials again available in the NPC inventory list in a higher quantity...
Keep in mind that, if the increased quantity materials are not bought within a given time (not sure what the timer is), they will "decrease" the offered quantity again.
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I wonder if he has fully seen what there is.
ESRB warning: Some Blood. LOTS of Alcohol. Some Violence. LOTS of Bugs
Vendor search isn't a bad idea it just doesn't seem to work for me. It ends up not mapping me anywhere or finding anyone selling and that could be my own fault for not using it properly.
I've been to Mag and seen a ton of pet traders but not much else besides that. ill do some more exploring and experimenting with the systems today and see if these feelings are coming from a place of inexperience. I did not know NPC's stock went up incrementally as you buy them out thank you for that.
I know I wrote auction house in my post but what I mean is a global vendor system that links them to one place like Cookie mentioned, just something to streamline the process.
Regardless the game is great and I hope the Devs drop some new content just in general for this game.
The depth and gameplay capacity of Ultima Online is simply, so far, at least to my knowledge, unmatched by another game...
There is so much to do in UO, so varied, and so many places to go to, that, at least for those who come anew to it, they have LOTs to do for a good long while before new content might be needed for a change.....
Did you check, for example, the Quests you can do ?
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/quests/quest-engines/
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/quests/
Or, maybe, you might be interested in Gardening and Cross-Pollinating Plants from which you can get resources, rare deco plants, dyes and more ?
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/crafting/plant-growing/
https://www.uoguide.com/Gardening
Or maybe you might enjoy Fishing ?
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/skills/fishing/
https://www.uoguide.com/Fishing
And with Fishing come the FishMonger Quests !!
https://www.uoguide.com/Professional_Fisher_Quest
You got a Crafter maybe ? There is Bulk Order Deeds gameplay !!
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/crafting/bulk-orders/
I could keep adding more and more and more, for quite a while.... there is simply a WHOLE LOT that a brand new player can do in Ultima Online....
Enjoy it !!
To answer your question about newer players sticking around, almost all of this game’s marketing efforts are directed at those players that have been playing for years and that already have most of what the game has to offer (after all they pay the bills). And, that little bit of marketing effort that goes elsewhere uses EJ accounts to attract players that have quit back into the game. I don’t see any effort being made to attract or retain new players.
Owners are apparently planing a livestream or newsletter soon about the games future direction.
My advice is to check vendor search several times a day if you can. Good deals for what you need do come up from time to time. Other players have asked before to have a more universal vendor search or capability that allows them more access to vendors on other shards but i get the impression from the developers’ responses or lack of a response that can’t be done.