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Figured I'd make a 2nd go at it in a more counter point basis (easier to read):


This is what this shard needs to have any sort of survival from its current stage... im telling you, not asking you. and I mean that with all due respect.

1. Introduce new armors, from a few shittier ones, to 1-2 new rare tourney armors.

2. New mounts, newer colors, EASIER to tame, and variety of colored rides. orns,llamas,zos,mustang,etc... Look, taming takes FOREVER to GM, and takes FOREVER to tame something... It seems like its worthless to gm taming, because theres limited colors and limited spawn times... why gm such a hard skill if you have someone who knows all the spawns and is timing it and taming them all... also go look at vendor mall, all rides are the same... theres the same rides, different vendors... too many of the same things!!! introduce some changes man!

3. 1-2 dungeons where its solo for players, where they can hunt alone, and have monsters which drop decent loot. this will create action in pvm, people can do this alone... and also add pvp in dungeons because pkers will be searching.

4. Staff... I see some new staff now, mostly Necro.... If we had 1-2 more staff, as active as necro, and hosting daily like him, we would be ok. need them to answer pages, (not many anymore thats for sure), host, and give players a sense of "backup" if it makes sense. because for some reason, players like playing when theres a staff online.

5.Events... Add new events, Horse Racing, Make some sort of chicken fighting, more monster bashes, etc... new events!!! and varieties!


1: If pretty colored armors are what keeps you playing this game then you are not a true UO gamer bottom line. The fewer the modifications of the original game the better. No Skill caps is one thing, putting in 50 different colored armors and such is for the ADD crowd. Grow up, this game isnt about hording things, if that's what you want play Diablo.

2:I've never played on a server that have as many different colors for animals and such. Again this goes back to #1, if you need pretty colors to make you feel special take your ass down to H&M or Filene's and buy yourself a dress you queen. Also making taming easier would only make these mounts worth even less than they are now. 5k gold for a mustang is ridiculous. I know comparing economies from one shard to another is apples and oranges but I mean I can mine and sell my daggers for 1 hour and make that gold. You need to reward the people that put the time into their characters, not the people with 2000 total skill level.

3:I haven't done much solo dungeon crawling yet on my character so I cant really comment on this much. But if it is as you say it is and no dungeon can be done alone than that is an issue. Not everyone plays this for the social aspect, and there are alot of different time zone'd players here. Also the lower population base at the moment makes grouping with others more difficult.

4:Like I said before, Staff isnt an issue. More staff equals less players. If we have lets say 10 staff members thats 10 less players this server would have instead and chances are they are the "hardcore" players that we want. Considering how we have about 30-40 players on average logged on I cant imagine needing more than half a dozen GM/Counselors/Seers invovled. More than that is dead weight.

5:I agree on this front as well to an extent. We have alot of events, they just so happen to always be the same thing. PvP based. Not everyone enjoys PvPing, and to be honest I'm willing to bet most people here dont enjoy PvP. It's important to emphasize, but if you have Duel Stones and Ladders and such, what is the point of hosting tournies all the time? Maybe I dont know how your Duel Stones work and if the dispense some sort of reward currency like I have seen on other shards but the point of these are to take Staff involvement in PvP away or atleast make it a smaller priority. Quests involving sailing, racing, anything different would make a world of difference in getting more people invovled and not the 6-8 people these 1v1 tournies are bringing in.

Anyway, another 2 cents from me. I obviously have a vested interested in this server staying strong as I've already devoted a good month or so of my time here and would like it not to be in vein. So to that I say support the staff, stay positive and stop *****ing. People want to play somewhere they know will still be there a few months down the road and I'll be completely honest when I say this, if I was thinking about playing here for the first time today I would defintely pass. The negativity of some of these loud mouthed minorities make the entire shard look amatuerish and unprofessional. It's hard enough trying to get people to play a 13 year old game, dont make it harder by pushing these few and far between potential players to other shards.

a month is nothing comapred to the 3 years other players have invested time into, you haven't been here when there was no active staff. Not to mention 5k for a golden mustang is pretty expensive to me it's a horse with a bit tanned color from a regular horse that does the same functions there aren't many colors what's wrong with adding new ones? these are ugly and lame ones tbh always seeing the same things for the year or two can start to get on peoples nerves don't you think? Don't know where you got the idea of 100 colors being a lot..


Again you guys are trying to blame the people leaving from this shard from the negativity and aruging on the forums when we all know that's not the reason because when there was 80-90 players playing here they weren't driven away by this it was the lack of activity events answered pages and the constant crashes that they eventually got fed up and left because why spend so much effort on this 13 year old game when there are in fact way better and more modern games out there.

Btw who are you in game? You seem like you're someone with a multi account considering it's the first thing you do here and post here with you're 2 posts and new join date then you come complain about the pvp events and want other things rather too it you like the skill gain and you are saying that hunting involves a risk and that you should hunt with a partner which is lame and the loots suck here.

Basically what you're saying is that you don't want changes only some minor ones and that everything is fine when it's obviously not and you're trying to push it off as people posting negative things on the forums or saying negative things in game drives people away which isn't true at all lol..

It's pretty lame how theres always an exuse as to why the playerbase is going lower and lower it can never be admited that people are just leaving because it needs help or a solution to make players to leaving for example with the negativity thing and i seen someone say something in game about it's easter and their on vaccation that's why it's so low i mean come on don't make up stories to make yourselves feel better find a solution so we can fix this and stop putting it off.