A Simple idea to Improve UO Now
When was the last time you did dread horn, Lady Mel, Medusa, etc. Most of the loot you receive from the current old bosses and dungeons just don't appeal to many people in the game. Thats why most of these areas are completely empty. Why do void pool at all when the items you can get with your points are outdated and not appealing? Can we not add new item to the potential loot on all these old bosses. Maybe some new deco items as well. I am tired of getting Travesty trays, and corrupted trees. Also want to have dungeons exciting again for people to return to kill things inside. Add the possiblities of heirloom items like we currently have on NL. How about some new quests that give you dungeon points towards an awesome new sword or cool boots with stats. I guarantee that if such changes were made more people would be active in the game during the times there are no special events going on.
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I'll tell you what I think. I have been thankful that there were few people doing Peerless, for one clear reason, when you do grinding you don't want to wait in lines or inexperienced people getting in the way of getting the keys.
It took me almost a month and a half to get the Dread Flute and as I said in a post, approximately 3 months to get 2 of the dyes I wanted from Melisande, but the strongest of all, is that in almost three months I did not get the 27 dyes that exist (it was not my goal, that's why I did not continue the grinding).
It is for you to be aware that if you add more objects on top, this could lengthen much more the grind.
If your idea is more people, I think that what could attract more players to do Peerless would be to increase the % chance that these objects appear and reduce their difficulty, but as I said, this would also cause more people complicating getting the keys, it would lengthen more as there would be queues and for those who trade with this, devaluation of its value. So, in my opinion, I think it would have a negative effect.
If u wanna skip the line up from trammel Peerless or the inexperienced trammies, u can also do the Fel version and fight for it.
Having a popular content ain't a problem on a good OW sandbox.. we just need multiple popular content like that (multiple POI)
That solo online game mentality ain't it.. teach them, pick a number or go on Fel.. plenty of options.. we have those tools.
I just want you to re-read this part.. to make sure this is what u meant. less content (u can clear it faster) with reduce difficulty? reducing peerless difficulty?? This is what u asking here? Since SA the difficulty of peerless...
You pretty much asking for less content/grind and easier peerless boss to revamp those peerless.. right?
Someone bring a get out of jail free card to this man, before the game of monopoly, quick!
Edit: let me help you here.. the idea of the OP is bad cuz all you are gonna do is give bots user more location to ruin it for everyone else.. We won't be able to farm it, if it's popular, at best we gonna buy from them.. we don't need more botted content.. fix the bot issue before working on content. thx! Cuz mis idea to distribute them like candies and lowering the difficulty ideas.. has to be cuz of them bots users.. or i'm lost.
PS: yes the more a content is farm the more it's gonna devaluate it's value.. offer and demand.. more offer.. make sense. But that logic in this case is WRONG. u'd rather people farm less content so your dye stay rare?
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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Cuz reading mis.. i'm lost.. the only thing I see is.. he's scared of bots botting the content he grinded last few months to devaluate his dye.. he'd be willing to go grind back if the loot was raining and was faster.. without anyone to disturb him.. if he's not scared of the botting problem.. i'm lost.. we playing a MMO with 2 facets.. his problem ain't a problem if u remove the bots from the equation.. right?
Cuz personally I can see this on a shard like Legend.. if they revamp like lady melisande.. it would be farm 24/7 by the same 10 bots; multiboxing on top of each others.. and everything mis fear (for the bad reason.. like a line up or unexperienced players) would become true.. but cuz of them bots.. devaluating his dye to the point.. it's not worth farming (fighting the bots for the spot).. only buying it from them bots users.
Dude, i'd LOVE to have line up back.. some stuff u could not go on Felucca.. like the swoop bird.. u had so much content to farm.. u can always cycle thrue and find something to farm.. maybe not what u WANTED to farm.. but take a number.. ur turn is coming.. u know.. or for the majority of it.. u can fight for your spot if u don't wanna wait.. like MY spot was the trasher.. i wouldn't take turn for it, I wait 15 min max; for you to grab your stuff (move your hide)
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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when above i said peerless difficulty reduction, increased drop probability, etc... it's not something i'm asking for, it's something i think the author of the original post really should have asked for to get more attention from this kind of bosses (if that was the real intention, that there would be more players). it's a figurative sense, not that i demand that.
although i didn't understand part of your text very well, to tell you, a big part of Melisande's grinding was done in Felucca, because it added the luck bonus for doing it there.
the question, is if you take into account the addition of new objects to these peerless without increasing the % of probability of drop, it would cause more slowness in getting them, because it would enter the system more objects to have to appear, and then we have the % of probability that you get certain objects by type, in the case of the hair dye that are 27, where some colors, I have found that there is less % of probability of drop than others, some are common that come out very often, it would cause everything to be less likely and slow.
I had a couple brain freeze tho, on the other stuff I pointed out.
I totally get that, it's logical.. this is what cause you to bring the idea of making it rain.
Still those brain freeze tho on the other thing I pointed out. (about what u said; line-up, unexperienced, etc)
Like I did mention the swoop bird.. is it the dread horn the peerless there?
From memory all peerless has his felucca except this one.. this one should not be treated similarly.. no Fel version.
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whatever it is, everything is fine, they are points of view, opinions.
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One day I told him, trade and show, I saw that the tile was insured, as at that time we used Skype, I forced him to share the screen of his computer, he showed me his screen and I discovered that he had another artifact.
This player was literally stealing our guild power scroll and artifacts for a while, in a guild philosophy that was to share everything and draw, it was not to private loot.
Since then I decided that everything serious and important, I do it solo or a very small group of people who have shown me values, except that I am indifferent to the reward.
Unfortunately this is how it is, and he was not the only cheater I met, a person who was supposed to be my friend sold herself for a sad robe in a champion spawn, she spent months talking to me via voice, doing activities together, etc... to lose for a miserable robe (or boots, I don't quite remember what kind, but I know it was one that he liked and wanted to).
I have seen many people fall throughout my Ultima Online history, but I also recognize that there have been honest players, all said too.
Personally I got a chest full of golden skull being stolen from me (I used to meet people in gauntlet)
They would be limited by the golden skull.. I was adding them to a chest full of skull.. one of them stole them all one night (told me it was his roomate; using his account)
Cuz of him, a couple of noobs lost access to free golden skull..
Added someone I knew in game on LS to add a vet reward (from NBK guild).. I forgot to remove his co-owner status and I went do a champ spawns run, playing with a lil bro almost everything is set to co-owner.. ~4 hours later when I recall back he was in my Yew fel house and recall real fast.. he took most of the expensive stuff except the thing he placed for me.
My lil bro got an ornament stolen from him by a in game "friend" (when they would sell for 100+ on ebay)
I've met more worthy people than unworthy.. this is why I hate joining guild.. always one or two rotten apple.
But yeah, u can always build a solid friend list.. personally on Legends since june, except a few trammies, I met one "cool" dude, he wanted to give me 110+m legs.. but i wouldn't associate myself with him for some reasons (he clearly was into cheating).. wich gave me reason when the event begins.. he would run around on a sampies with x garg thrower on his back.. when I call him out for it.. he puts one on myself saying I was also cheating (one of his bots would steal my mobs while following me) This is when I went on Felucca to farm the event and compete with frame skippers and their bots.. the first few days I was very undergear.. the better I was doing.. the worst it was getting (they would do PvP bot train by the end, instead of Pvbotting me on their red)
Edit: was in one guild on UO, when I was on Legends.. for the PS u take what u need (if u use it) or we roll dice for profit.. the problem was when the old leader and his bro came back to UO ~2 yrs later.. they had a beef with two guy (they would refuse to take their "order")
Personally the straw broke when I was doing a piper spawn with the lil bro.. a noob got lost, he killed her and loot everything from her (mostly crap gear with "special" resist earring)
When he decided to keep the crap (everything was trash excdept the earring) I quit the guild and re-equip that noob.. wich was still mad cuz of her earring.. I was like.. sell a single piece of gear I just gave you at brit.. u can buy new earring. -.-
PS: about your guildmate story.. it was a frequent crook move back then.. like the person "protecting" had a couple 10's on him already.. just snoop his ass before the champ die. (having a lil bro, help to accomplish that)
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I recognise that this happened in the pre-Stygian Abyss era where everything was much more complicated to get and locate due to lack of imbuing, vendor search, generation loot like the current one, etc...
This situation forced you in a way to have to team up more with other people, as there was no armour and weapons as powerful, and the need to use Barbed and Valorite runes to have something decent.
Shampires (which was the origin of the solo game you mention) were prototypes of what exists today, quite weak because of inferior armour and weapons compared to what exists today and experimental templates to compensate for those shortcomings.
As I said, I also recognize that I have met wonderful people in Ultima Online, let's say to be fair, that if we put in %, 5% were cheaters of all the people I met.
Thanks for thinking about how to improve the community
I mean I been rocking the ever fashionable "boots" and "thigh high boots" for quite a while. I think maybe some of my characters would like some minax "shoes" and even a female character may like some Britannian royal detective high heels. I like Onixia's idea. Maybe add a new hairstyle as a drop too.