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First of all: Blues should be favored. Reds are supposed to be at a major disadvantage and social pariahs. If you want the game to be easy for you while still PvPing, stick to order/chaos fighting and not PKing.

There are certainly more important things when there's already a very functional travel system called runes. I don't think it has anything to do with "blues" being favored over "reds." All of my characters have always been red and I've never had trouble getting around. The only thing that will drive more players to Occlo is players actually being in Occlo. The only reason chaos people are rushing to buy statics in Serpents Hold is because that's historically where IN has housed it's chaos players. Occlo didn't even exist on IN1 because it was on the Felucca map, so it's just not in our nature to go there.

The cool thing about UO is how social it is. If people decide to hang out in Occlo, more people will go there. It's as simple as that. So go hang out more in Occlo so people see you there on the status page. When people are macro'd up, some will certainly go there to fight you.

There's really no benefit for NPC provided fast travel to anyone but a young player that can't afford to make a runebook or buy a horse to run around. We all have runes. We all have recall. Just use it.

(for the record, I'm full-on against supply stones)

I don't see how you can say that about Reds vs Blues considering they do take a risk just being out of protection of guards for 100% of the time. I'm talking favoring them as in they have more access to parts of the game then blue players would because all the good merchants are in brit those 4 little static homes south east of the bank. Any how this is leading off topic :p

All I'm saying is it wouldn't hurt to try it out the votes are pretty even it's like 55-50 or 60-40, sure it's not needed but it would make things a lot easier clear up items in the world imo because portals would take less space/items than rune book libraries. It's also just more visual and easier to use than asking or not knowing that there is a rune library to begin with. (for new players that is) Even with that being said the red player rune library is in a pretty terrible spot you can't get to it unless you have a rune to a red town to begin with, My suggestion would to be add them somewhere everyone can get to and see it if these pad/portal things don't work out.

Hey look we agree on something that the bulk reg NPC should be changed :p