[imported_Aghast]

Heya. Now you all get yet another chance of falming me

First of let me say that I'm not a PvP'er So I cant really talk about it much, and I'm sorry if write something that's wrong.

Skillgain:
I belive the skillgain speed is fine. I started with a fresh char. And now I have .2300 or something in total real skill. And that's with some hard ones like 100 lumberjacking and about 70 in BS and about 90 in mining.
The way to good skillgain is in my eyes pretty much just a question of getting a good macro. And lucky for us there's a lot of players who take time and post their macro's in the “player guide” section.

Money:
Making money isn't hard IMO, I started with 500g and now I have a 3 room house, 120k in my bank and 45k logs I can sell if I need money. My GF who never played UO before, and well any other game other then the Sims :p Is very casual, she might log on 1-2 times a week. But she already has a house and gold in the bank as well. And Iron now goes for 7-9 so it clearly shows that people make money.

Players:
Now its clear for everyone that the shards population is dropping. You can almost see it from day to day. Now there might be a lot of reasons for why this is happening. But I will try and point out a few that I think could be some of them.
a) Shard development seems to be on pause.
b) PvP needs some kind of “boost”.
c) People forget that in UO you really have to make your own fun.

I think that having the feeling of the shard development is on pause is the one that drives most people away.
People need to have the feeling that things are worked on. We need to see a weakly changelog.
You ask people to come with suggestion, and people really do feed you with a lot of input. But when nothing seems to happened, then it seems like all the suggestions falls on deaf ears.
It dosn't really matter if you only change small things. We need to see that something happens.

I understand that there's not enough scripters. But then take the help when people offer it. Don't be so afraid that people have bad intentions. There's ENOUGH of small things they can work on first to prove themselves.

Now a week or some ago Taran asked to send him a PM with suggestions. I did that, You can see a small section of it here:

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Amor:
I think that a BS should be able to make different amors a bit early then they can now.
Working up the skills is hard. It takes A LOT of time. But thats fine, but then you also have to make players feel like they accomplish something when they lets say go from 60 to 70 in BS. Let them be able to make ice amor or whatever. That would make people sell different kinds of amor sets all the way up to 100BS skill thus making different amor that can be seen in PVP or help people who PVM.

I'm just gonna write some numbers here:

BS skill - amor they can make (or a 80% change of making or whatever):
from 40 - Iron plate
from 50 - Old copper
from 55 - Shadow/Silver
from 60 - verite/rose
From 65 - gold/ice
from 70 - valorite/bloodrock
from 75 - Aqua
from 80 - opiate
from 83 - Mytheril
from 88 - Sand Rock
from 90 - Black Diamond
from 94 - Blackrock
100 - The rest.

This would boost the amor's used on IX:X A LOT and miners/BS players would make money early on.

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And I cannot say this often enough:

When the skill gain is slow, make is so people feel like they accomplish something from even gaining a little.

Now I'm going to use an example from myself here.. I GM'ed lumberjacking, and then I see Taran write that he might not want to make an GM reward for that.
But then you see that people get a reward for GM'ing mining.. ?!?! Someone tell me the logic behind that please.

Now I know that its a reward enough to GM the skill, And don't take it the wrong way. But again it brings in the whole “feel like I accomplished something” issue again.

Anyway sorry for that heh.

Turneys:
Where are all the non PvP turneys ? I remember back on IN1 there where a lot of mining/fishing turneys. Here it seems to be “replacement turney's” all the time. Witch is fine... If you like PvP..
Perhaps make some other event's ? I really miss stuff like “Arr pirates have been spotted near cove! Stop them from burning down the city” And people would rush there trying to defend the city. (this was just an example).

Now this is not a *****ing thread. Im not unhappy with the shard. I do like it here, and I feel pretty much the way that Scarecrow put it

We all need to be patient, this is an opportunity to hunt n get rich. Practice your PVP and your PVM, when the server goes live both of these thinhgs will count for alot and when we are all on it having fun, you will be the ones complaining because you were quitters

My plea to the staff is simply try and add small things all the time. There really no reason not to implement the use for amor. Not to introduce some new things. Not to hold mining/fishing event's etc.

Like the .ON gump I posted about in the suggestion section. I'm pretty sure it would just be a matter of changing a single value to make it a bit longer. And other minor stuff like that.

But tell us what you do. Give us info that the shard is being worked on still, and its not just dying slowly

Anyway that's enough for me. I hope no one got offended by anything I wrote since I'm just trying to help.

You might agree or not with what I write. This is just MY point of view on things.

And again I do think that you staff are doing a good job. I understand its hard without a scripter.

Now let the flaming begin!

And sorry for the bad English :p

[imported_Aucifer]

I'll bump this cause i think he makes a good point

[imported_Aghast]

*bump* Make amor useful ! :lol:

[imported_Hiroshima]

Really nice post Aghast *claps*
I dont know if the smithing table is right, but ill make a nice table with it before next year so its less job for the staffs.
And why some of the gm carpenter and tinker dont make a table too? Look how Tabion(if im not wrong) made a loot table, if just a few of us make a table of a skill that we already gmed if will be much easier for staff to do some things and they will have more time to fix some bugged issues.