Is Atlantic shard ready for a great influx of players?

psycho

In seven to nine months the New legacy shard implodes as originally designed, and the theory is that the players will then play on production shards.

Since theres one New legacy shard(atm) players would want the same ping and they probably want to play the most populated server aswell, that leaves us with Atlantic shard.

Is Atlantic shard ready for a great influx of players?

Items, Idocs, Housing, Lag, Quests etc.

The devs need to have plans for this,

if the premise of the statement is wrong, and there are few players on New Legacy, -or that will play production shard, there needs to be a question of why. keywords in that case would be lack of commercials, wrong design idea for a new shard, bug/implementation isues driving players away, or comepetition with other MMOs/ production shard in itself.

If the latter statement is true, that would leave us with status quo, which is Atlantic shard main hub while rest of the production shards are as previous 10years- less populated.

Open of input.

Mordin_Rockbiter

I call baloney on them going to Atlantic. I think you will see a lot of scouting and recruiting of those not from your main shard. New friendships and alliances forged on NL will carry over. People are going to  make decisions based on economy and available space and Atlantic fails on both counts. Most already have their pipeline to Atlantic, so adding more people there makes no sense. I know on my shard I in fact raised the idea of using NL for scouting and recruiting at a governor meeting for strengthen our population. Siege, in my opinion, could have greatly benefited from an influx.

mis

psycho said:

In seven to nine months the New legacy shard implodes as originally designed, and the theory is that the players will then play on production shards.

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I don't want to make anyone feel bad with this comment, but I want to give my opinion.

List sorted by ping according to my connection

List ordered by full

Both lists share one thing in common, that New Legacy is at the bottom of the list.

To at least write something based on what I felt, today for the first time I entered New Legacy, I saw a closed map, where they force you to go where the programmer wants, I couldn't even go through some trees at the beginning of the screen, nor follow paths, I don't like that kind of games.

This game becomes Ultima Online and I'll never set foot in this game again in my life.

Given the results and the rejection I've seen upon interaction, in my opinion, if I were the one running this project, I see it as a clear waste of time, money and resources to spend a single euro/dollar or developer on the production of New Legacy.

I repeat again, in my opinion, for my taste and without trying to offend anyone, it's a complete failure, because I don't like that kind of games.

Others will love it and will spend many hours playing it, but for the kind of game I like, free world, this ‘closed world-map’ certainly doesn't fit for me.

I think it's clear that people have already left New Legacy, as I showed above, New Legacy is the last one on the list, it's not occupied and with a ping so high that it's not even on the list, it's completely out of the question for me.

If I were the one leading the development team I would focus on developing new maps, fixing all the bugs that exist in the game, which are a lot of bugs and pointless decorations lying around the world, revising all the old artefacts and boss rewards throughout the game according to the present.

Example of many of the rubbish and meaningless decorations you can find in Sosaria, a meaningless mount of a deer in the water.

Grimbeard

There is a small amount of any of new players they will go where their NL friends go which will be the shard they normally play before NL 

Kaz

Ah, the old “atlantic is the only option” schtick again.  The same old trope thats been touted for years ad nauseam that has led to overpopulation, a broken economy, mega scripting, housing shortage, inability to even do events due to amount of players etc etc etc.  

i find it absolutely fascinating that people still push this narrative and even more so that people still refuse to branch out. 

Ive personally met quite a few players on NL that have started on my home shard (Catskills) since joining.  

People forge relationships that will send them were those new friendships are strongest and will thrive. 

Per the NL “closed world” gameplay - its not for everyone true, it feels extremely restrictive compared to the essence of what we know UO to be.  I hope they open more aspects of the world as the shard progresses.   

Victim_Of_Siege

KroDuK

@psycho Good call.. in all the response i've seen none address the elephant in the room..

As always we can read a lot of that magical thinking.. NL is FUN! it's for new players to join their friend on their main shard! it's a hub to meet new people to play with on dead shards! etc,etc..


Now let's address the elephant in the room.. the bribe.. the only reason 95% of people would be playing a server like NL in the future.. This is logical to be scared that everyone and his mom would move stuff on ATL (to sale)

Maybe @username fantasy gonna become reality; with bound on account.. cuz personally this is the most obvious and easy fix i'm seeing to the solution to make NL works.. a worthy bribe.

KroDuK

Victim_Of_Siege said:

The old Ben was senile.. Go play KotOR, start with tatooine as your first planet.

If you don't just watch this video to get my point: 

Victim_Of_Siege

KroDuK

This is the irony of it, we talking about ATL and the potential wave of new "settlers".. the Tusken Raiders or "sand people" were hostile to settlers setting on their lands.. invading their territory.

The bad guy here is Paul Atreides; aka Anakin skywalker... people that would move from NL to..   



The cute Jawa.. are the more "villainous" as the desert thieves.. and thieves are everywhere on UO, not only on ATL.