Suggestion for more variety of tactics in NL
Since New Lagacy is bringing some novelties with it I may have a suggestion for one of them.
There is this series of games called Mount & Blade which has a very sucessful formula for VARIETY in gameplay and tactics. They explore it very well and UO could "borrow" some of it, specially now with New Legacy, since it is changing and updating many old core features anyway.
There are horsemen EVERYWHERE in UO and this becomes so clear now that NL got the screens to be so crowded again. The game is quite homogeneous on that, not much variety regarding mobility of characters and the tactics that come from it : just get yourself a horse and go as fast as you can and that is all about it. The advantage for being mounted is obvious, but nothing that being on foot can compensate? At all?
Mount & Blade has, for instance, some perks for the footman to compensate his lack of mobility :
*uber palisade shields that can only be used on foot
*bonus for wielding weapons with two hands (which can not be done while holding a horse's reins)
*the ultimate ranged attack is a heavy crossbow that needs hands and feet to be loaded (therefore takes being standing on the ground to be fired)
There is even a running skill. This adds VARIETY to tactics, pros and cons to be pondered on and choices to be made. New Legacy could borrow some of that successful formula instead of just having riders everywhere all the time *rolleyes*
*uber palisade shields that can only be used on foot
*bonus for wielding weapons with two hands (which can not be done while holding a horse's reins)
*the ultimate ranged attack is a heavy crossbow that needs hands and feet to be loaded (therefore takes being standing on the ground to be fired)
There is even a running skill. This adds VARIETY to tactics, pros and cons to be pondered on and choices to be made. New Legacy could borrow some of that successful formula instead of just having riders everywhere all the time *rolleyes*
Again, it is New Legacy and core characteristics of the game are being changed anyway, so why not give it a shot?
It could be anything, the imagination is the limit. Possibly some sort of buff that is always on until you mount something, then it goes off. Exemple:
*increases to stats
*buffs to damages (weapons or spells)
*buffs to speeds of attacks/casts
*more accuracy
*extensions to caps
Imagine, being on foot gets you a base DCI or the cap goes a % up, for instance.
This would be good to variety on tactics, more choices to make instead of just going for the obvious that everybody goes for too. Notice that NL is already a bit of less varied then regular UO as there is these ready archetypes instead of the usual free picking of skills. Some skills have even been removed. Think about it.
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