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i've never understood why people need the staff to hold so many events for them.

UO is the type of game where you create your own narrative. It's a big map and you can give your character any kind of personality. You can be a killer who hunts for players or you can be a player that hunts PK's. If you're bored in game its not the staffs fault. It's you.

Btw there are a lot of events here already. Practically every time i play i see some kind of announcement for an event.

not sure if your joking or not, did you just say UO is what you make it? when you have invis pots and recall scrolls you can't make anything out of that. When people gank at the bridge it's like playing tetris trying to wall 1/15 players out to get them it's pretty boring that's why most people leave.. There's automated events such as regs every 8 hours and DM's as well but it doesn't change the fact that its the same thing EVERY time. We need more team events, CTF's CW's Team FFA's 2v2 reps 1v1 reps even hell anything with teams.

We had a sweet ad spot on the Top 200 for the last couple months. We don't have that advertising anymore and nobody votes on that site so of course we are going to see a slight drop in the playerbase. The numbers I saw today were still five times the number 3 months ago. Everyone is always quick to proclaim fire and brimstone. We were around for months with 30 players, 150 is nothing to start fainting over.

As far as I can tell most players who are vocal about leaving are leaving because of bad interactions with other players. There is appropriate and intelligent ways to create tension that leads to pvp and then there is griefing. Frankly there is a lot of people being *******s to other players and then they are the same ones complaining about the playerbase. You reap what you sow in that regard.

Same goes for the way players treat staff. When a player is mature and respectful and thankful I am happy to help them and then I might feel like hosting an event because of that positive interaction. When players are constantly begging for events, treating staff like they owe them something, and proclaiming staff does nothing, it doesn't make staff want to interact with players. I'm not saying all players are like this because there are many I truly enjoy helping, but just wanted to put that out there.

As for lately within the last 4 days or so there were events at least one a day which is good, but even you have to admit pages past 6-7 PM Eastern don't get answered until the next day and there wasn't any events before these last 4 days because players have been pushing to try and get some. That's also why you have players in game bugging staff for events because there are none aside from automated tours..