11-01-2007, 08:39 PM
1) The number of people with LOTS of GMed skills that got transferred is FAR less than what everyone assumes. There are more like 30 people that fit your description; nowhere near "most" of the shard. In fact, most of the "vets" would benefit from your easier skill gain, but we still prefer it to be a bit more of a challenge, rather than everyone have a 2000 point skill set in a week.
2) 90% of the "problems" you are having would be NO different if you joined another shard later. This has been stated over and over, but you will not even acknowledge it.
3) Crafting (especially the skills that make useable items) is hardly done to make money. It is 90% done for the usability of the skill (like making armor / weapons, potions, bows, etc). Not so you can go sell a bunch of full suits of armor for tons of money. On IN1, Id bet 1/3 to 1/2 of the shard had GMed blacksmithy at one point, and it was still a very useful skill to have. 99% of the time, people gathered all the RESOURCES for an item themselves (whether by mining / hunting, or just buying the resources), and THEN had the item made. I VERY rarely ever saw weapons or armor being bought / sold.
4) Even IF crafting was actually a lucritive skill, nobody will have the money to blow on crafted items any time soon. Plus, the resources will be hard to come by for a while (until the newbs start producing them), so not much is actually going to be made, except for show. The best armor Ive seen so far was somebody sitting in an old copper suit at the bank.
5) Again, because of the relatively small amount of "vets" that have all these GMed skills that you talk about, there won't be much PvP going on anyways until you "M4d PvP3rs" get going. So, just like a "new" shard, it is still waiting for the "newbs" to get in the game before the action really starts.
6) Stop acting like GM every combat skill is required for PvP. Every PKer Ive seen (EVEN the red ones) has been wearing plain iron armor, maybe with a few defense pieces, and using a regular weapon. I got ganked by two of them recently, and I thought it was amusing that when I got back to my body, they had actually left most of their normal armor with it, and replaced theirs with my defense armor. Why can't you simply just go out there and enjoy they game like them? You act like there is only ONE way to play UO, and that ONE way is YOUR WAY.
Just sit back and train your skills. None of your complaining (that IS what you are doing, whether you like it or not), is going to do any good, because it is all about thingswe already know about, things that can't be changed now, or things that are illogical. Your fears a WAAY overexaggerated, as I outlined above.
Lastly, it is also VERY true that, if anything, your constant and very aggressive complaining ("constant" in that you keep saying the same points OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, and "aggressive" because you are very insulting and condescending to everyone who makes a point that opposes your opinion), IS only desensitizing the staff. It is probably why they refuse to speak to you directly, because you refuse to even hear what your opposition has to say.
2) 90% of the "problems" you are having would be NO different if you joined another shard later. This has been stated over and over, but you will not even acknowledge it.
3) Crafting (especially the skills that make useable items) is hardly done to make money. It is 90% done for the usability of the skill (like making armor / weapons, potions, bows, etc). Not so you can go sell a bunch of full suits of armor for tons of money. On IN1, Id bet 1/3 to 1/2 of the shard had GMed blacksmithy at one point, and it was still a very useful skill to have. 99% of the time, people gathered all the RESOURCES for an item themselves (whether by mining / hunting, or just buying the resources), and THEN had the item made. I VERY rarely ever saw weapons or armor being bought / sold.
4) Even IF crafting was actually a lucritive skill, nobody will have the money to blow on crafted items any time soon. Plus, the resources will be hard to come by for a while (until the newbs start producing them), so not much is actually going to be made, except for show. The best armor Ive seen so far was somebody sitting in an old copper suit at the bank.
5) Again, because of the relatively small amount of "vets" that have all these GMed skills that you talk about, there won't be much PvP going on anyways until you "M4d PvP3rs" get going. So, just like a "new" shard, it is still waiting for the "newbs" to get in the game before the action really starts.
6) Stop acting like GM every combat skill is required for PvP. Every PKer Ive seen (EVEN the red ones) has been wearing plain iron armor, maybe with a few defense pieces, and using a regular weapon. I got ganked by two of them recently, and I thought it was amusing that when I got back to my body, they had actually left most of their normal armor with it, and replaced theirs with my defense armor. Why can't you simply just go out there and enjoy they game like them? You act like there is only ONE way to play UO, and that ONE way is YOUR WAY.
Just sit back and train your skills. None of your complaining (that IS what you are doing, whether you like it or not), is going to do any good, because it is all about thingswe already know about, things that can't be changed now, or things that are illogical. Your fears a WAAY overexaggerated, as I outlined above.
Lastly, it is also VERY true that, if anything, your constant and very aggressive complaining ("constant" in that you keep saying the same points OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, and "aggressive" because you are very insulting and condescending to everyone who makes a point that opposes your opinion), IS only desensitizing the staff. It is probably why they refuse to speak to you directly, because you refuse to even hear what your opposition has to say.