03-29-2009, 08:03 PM
Well Shade it's not just to fool people. It also greatly helps the players that are currently going through that painstaking process of GMing skills and those of us who are tired of not actually playing and spending all our time macroing.
When it comes down to making decisions that can affect the whole shard, we can't always be thinking 'this favors new players and won't be so fair to people who did it'. If we always think like this very little changes with a big impact will happen and we won't be able to attract new players because they have such a hard time in moving to a new shard. Let's face it, UO isn't getting more players, it's just getting the players who are there now and if I played shard 'alpha' what motivation do I have to move to INX? Yes we have awesome RP and PVP, but that doesn't HELP a new player.
When it comes down to making decisions that can affect the whole shard, we can't always be thinking 'this favors new players and won't be so fair to people who did it'. If we always think like this very little changes with a big impact will happen and we won't be able to attract new players because they have such a hard time in moving to a new shard. Let's face it, UO isn't getting more players, it's just getting the players who are there now and if I played shard 'alpha' what motivation do I have to move to INX? Yes we have awesome RP and PVP, but that doesn't HELP a new player.