[imported_Smurtle]

Every shard has its own specialty, traits, or concepts they promote and work on. In some of those shards, skill gain isn't as important. Playability is.

[imported_MadMan]

lol, like its all about skillgain. I agree with the skillgain could be easier. But if your're going to look at other shards skillgain should be like 5% - 10% you would have to take into consideration. What matters the most is how people are entertained, or how they are entertaining themselves. What type of events are popular, are there events for people who dont have gm everything so they can actually have fun without having to macro first. Do they have some popular quests or dungeons?

Nope no events for people who dont have gm everything, No popular quests / dungeons.

with 900 players

[imported_Yankovic]

Nope no events for people who dont have gm everything, No popular quests / dungeons.

with 900 players

You can think of events for not fully gmed chars. Like we have bomberman, death by dice etc. or there can be made some nice easy quests. Just to entertain them until they are gm. Its indeed no pvp, but at least something you can do

[Eighty Swords]

or there can be made some nice easy quests. Just to entertain them until they are gm. Its indeed no pvp, but at least something you can do

What would be really nice to help this idea is if there were a 'gossip' npc that was easy to find ingame. Once you go to him he tells you about all kinds of different things he heard about. This could be half decent monster spawns, that there are often people at city docks who will pay you some gold for an escort somewhere in the world, where to find NPCs to do quests, etc.

Right now it's kind of hard to do quests since you really have to explore the whole world to run into someone who starts you on a quest. The only reason I did the quest to kill a bunch of reptile men was because I saw a weird NPC while running around buying regs. Since the NPC wouldn't sell me anything or buy anything from me and they weren't a guild master I figured it was a quest NPC. A player brand new to UO (although there aren't many more out there) wouldn't come to this conclusion and would just think 'whatever, just a useless NPC...' and they would miss out on the quest.