[imported_Cole]

im not trying to start a fight, but this is another viewpoint...

nobody forced you to play on the server you did. if you felt, or feel, cheated about the difficult, or easy, skill gain then you could of quit the server you played on. or you could of tried convincing the admins to make it easier skill gain. because you were willing to put up with a difficult situation does not mean that others must "suffer" as a result.

like i said, i wasn't trying to start anything with that, so if you feel insulted, then don't say anything.

drama, when i initally read your post, it was my understanding that everyone would get full skill transfers and that would even things out. afterall, both inr players and xuo players would keep all their skills. its not like only xuo players would benefit.

but now i see you are suggesting that to compensate the inr players for giving xuo players full transfers, that they should receive an item of some kind. unfortunately this would only create more work for the devs instead of simply having to transfer the skills.

Pande, your argument doesn't make any sense at all. Firstly, its insulting if for no other reason because you said, "i wasn't trying to start anything with that, so if you feel insulted, then don't say anything." Are you saying your argument is immune to criticism, just because you prefaced it with a disclaimer? Many people have been using reasoning in their arguments, but completely forgetting about logic.

You suggest that INR players are at fault for playing on a shard with difficult skill gain (which debatably is related in part to a less bloated economy - a common feature developers try to avoid).

Maybe you forget that it was a condition of the merge (similar to XUO's demanding pits) that skill and items transfers be balanced. There was good reason for this, which you are now throwing out the window for the sake of convenience. The IN community has learned first hand that if skill gain is too easy on a shard with no skill cap, people can too quickly become self-sufficient and the economy (a central feature of UO - a feature that shouldn't readily be omitted) can go to crap.

Effectiveness of a scaled skill transfer aside, you must remember that IN:R and XUO staff agreed to merge their two different systems in a way that both parties found suitable. To say something like "nobody forced you to play on the server you did. if you felt, or feel, cheated about the difficult, or easy, skill gain then you could of quit the server you played on....because you were willing to put up with a difficult situation does not mean that others must "suffer" as a result." completely nullifies the initial agreement between INR and XUO. With that type of reasoning, you could just as easily and readily suggest discontinuing any support of role playing, not using INR deco, or doing away with any of INR's other requests/demands in the merge. Your suggestion does inherently upset INR players, which is approximately 50% of your player base now, so if you care to make an argument for any particular point, please be more considerate.