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Hi Everyone,
I know that this is a mad old game and we are trying to re-create it and make it as incredible as possible so .. I was thinking that you guys put out an IPhone + Blackberry APP for G-Chat. This can keep users INVOLVED with their guild and create an easy way to communicate via internet if they live in another country. Also, this APP can have a tab for the In-Game Action house which you can sell stuff from your Bank and/or buy things from other players auctions.
Just an idea as we are in the year 2012 and I know you guys have some fantastic scripting staff .. Let's aim for the stars on this one ..
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How about an HTML5 one that'll run on any mobile device? You log in as your ingame credentials, choose which character you're chatting as, and have access to guild, alliance, and ...maybe... public chat. I'm not sure how public chat works. I'm currently working on a system for something similar for my resume site. My whole goal is to bring as much of UO off of the PC as possible since most of us have jobs and lives with minimal amount of time to sit down and play.
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Hi my name is Soma and I support this message
That is if a auction house system is added. I still like the vendors more but this idea would make everything very easy. Less time consuming and would let you for example do it on the bus or on break ect.
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there are cellphone apps which let you logon IRC....which is linked to public chat
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The website chats works on my phone and there are also irc,MSN,aim,icq, etc apps you can use to keep in touch. Time would be much better spent on other things.
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cool idea but it'd be pretty hard to create an auction house for UO, let alone an app to be able to buy/sell shit from your phone. it was pretty cool that WOW did that, but i don't think it's possible for this game. as for the chat thing, that'd be pretty cool but as stated i think there's a way to access IRC channels from your phone i remember a friend showing me.
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i've seen public auction houses on other shards. worked quite well actually
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I have no idea how this system would be implemented but wouldn't a public auction house basically render the player vendors obsolete?
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Yeah, an auction house would pretty much ruin player vendors unless done correctly.
I would make it so vendor items can be auctioned from within the vendor. The listing item listing would be ingame/online, however the only way to place bids would be ingame at the vendor. There would also need to be a buy-it-now price and an auction limit for people who want to pay more directly at the vendor to get it instantly.
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Nasir Wrote:Yeah, an auction house would pretty much ruin player vendors unless done correctly.
I would make it so vendor items can be auctioned from within the vendor. The listing item listing would be ingame/online, however the only way to place bids would be ingame at the vendor. There would also need to be a buy-it-now price and an auction limit for people who want to pay more directly at the vendor to get it instantly.
Why do all that then just keep the players vendors and leave the headache of scripting all of this away?
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I think the main thing an auction house gives is discoverability. Which it sounds like their proposed web interface to the vendor system might give anyway.
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Even if we don't go with the Auction house, I think a nice IN APP would bve fantastic advertisement and also a fantastic way for those of us who work all day .. have wives/gfs just keep in touch and more "Connected" to the shard. I feel that this could be something very useful and could really give this shard a HUGE advantage to other shards as it is something that most "Older" games do not have. I would like to know what Taran thinks of something like this. It's more toward the marketing/business standpoint .. could bring in more donations for a faster server.. Just sayin..
