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But what I will say is this, you may disagree with Mr Treats however continually calling them a troll is not doing anything to advance your argument. I have read nothing that evidences this.
and I should know.
This is also why, I am convinced, the Developers should not limit the playout of this Event for a time too short (and yes, to my opinion 1 month is a time too short considering the drop rate for the average player and the amount of drops needed to get several of the Reward items, and perhaps also on multiple Shards being them Shard Bound), but extend the lifetime of this Deceit Event past that month or make these Rewards be available also with whatever spawn will come next to the Deceit one.
Don’t under estimate the power of potion + fel factor especially those believe there are no farmers because of the shard bound thing. If everyone is a player not farmer, this has exactly proofed my point that you now need LESS potions to get what you want if you are doing in fel so it will hurt the sale of the potion that’s all i’m saying and nothing more.
Like what the Dev do, they look at metrics and what general population does, not based on a few samaritan like your good self.
Be aware of fake vet players creating fake newbies taking advantage of samaritan to get freebies. Thanks for the effort! Can you do like at least 10 pcs on standby to giveaway. Its only like 1,000 drops, should not be too tough if anyone has time to farm 24/7 for free!
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The feeling I get when someone do not reply is that they do not have a good, solid reason.
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Where is the outcry for Jurassic Park to be fel?
I have been complaining and ignored for years over the continual trammelisation of the game.
Mervyn - I have been saying for years also, and you know I have. Don't start giving it the big "I am". The difference between myself and yourself, is I actively help make a lot of stuff happen between our guild and our Europa PvP community.
You know my belief is that Trammel should not be getting any drops at all, because there is no risk v reward, and everything can just be farmed/scripted infinitely. I have said for a long time also, Events should not be happening only in Trammel, I have said for a long time, how there is far too much content in Trammel only. The only thing remotely maintaining any sort of balance is powerscrolls.
Most pvper's have known for a long time it is a complete waste of time for them to post on forums, so they don't, they are just more focussed on playing the game and just having fun when they can, than getting involved in all this negative board stuff. Posters like @tastytreats are so deluded you cannot debate with that in any logical sense whatsoever and she is just destroying threads, I cannot respond to her, there is nothing you can say to the ramblings of a madwoman.
This particular event - the rewards are so strong, and they are shard bound, meaning a lot of pvpers will not be able to buy them during or after the event, meaning they are forced to get them themselves - in Trammel... All I am seeing in Trammel, is PvPers who have been relocated away from their natural habitat. It also means the drops will be scarce, as there is no incentive for anyone else to farm them with the purpose of selling them, the only players farming, are those who need them for themselves. For Example - Avatar1/2/3/4 the goldseller, is now buying event drop items on our server, and has raised the price from 1m to 2m per item! That is Avatar the gold seller... that shows something is out of balance here. Those items have a real value currently of 3-5m each if Avatar is getting involved in Buying openly! at that level.
Just with Wraiths guild out of action in Felucca - is a direct subtraction of 30 active players for up to a month out of Felucca, which has a seriously negative impact on PvP. We cannot be in 2 places at once, and I am prioritising getting the drops, as I am trying to gear my 2 boys up, the SSI 10 shoulders are a 1 off unique item, and I need them (4 pairs in fact and many other drops), so I will work on that. If this event were in Felucca, myself and my guild would be able to stay there, and keep action going there.
As it is, my guild are getting seriously bored, and so are Europa's pvpers, and I apologise for my part in that, but it cannot be helped, I've tried to explain on these forums and help alleviate the issues for our server.
I don't really buy your other arguments Mervyn, regarding the situation on Atlantic, this sounds like a losers mentality from you, are you losing to the blues or something? I have always said also, Atlantic is not a PvP server, you've all kidded yourselves going there.
My guild would be in Deceit fighting, and taking that dungeon, there would not be blue Sampires running around, and if they do, well congratulations to them, they ran the gauntlet. We would be spawning, and even throwing a Harry in on top of that event, we would use the opportunity to do something incredible.
Bear in mind also, with this event on, there is now far less spawning happening, almost zero, as these drops far outrank powerscrolls in uniqueness, power, and value, so the powerscroll market is being hit now also by not allowing this event in Felucca, and not allowing us to maintain spawn activity.
For the record I don't care if it goes to Fel or not for others if it's needed but besides @Pawain I haven't seen anyone else really make a case for their shard with screenshots etc of their shard in Tram Deceit at various times a day. I just checked a a handful of shards and there is absolutely nobody in Tram Deceit with plenty of spawn. This was not the case at all for ATL.
I'm going to disagree with you here Kevin as well, I believe Europa has been well populated throughout the event. I will actually agree, whilst Europa has been overcrowded at times, Trammel alone is able to cope - I am not disagreeing on that point - the real issue is that it should not be open alone in Trammel, it is causing far wider game issues.
The real issue is, it is sucking Felucca players out of Felucca, and hence an entire playstyle is diminishing.
On a sidenote - this is exactly how Trammel was such a {supposed} success all those years ago, they took all risk out of it, gave everything for free to the players, and of course many players moved across to there to get all the free loot, only to get bored eventually and leave the game after realising how broken Trammel made the game.
The ones left behind in Felucca are bored, and the ones playing the content in Trammel don't really want to be there.
I have posted a more detailed post above yours.
@Mervyn this would incentivise people to go red tbh, we still have reds and I would make my chars red to control the spawn - so it could act as a catalyst for change.
However I agree on your comment overall relating to town buffs, it was disappointing ring when I returned to see so little reds in Fel!
Not saying botting doesn't happen, just that particular screenshot is not an example of it.
Flattered someone mistook me for a bot though. I must be getting better!
And, I would imagine, that means that most revenues to support the game, upkeep it, develop new stuff and all that, therefore come from those players who should get nothing ?
Are you serious ?
How long would it then be before all these players would bail out of Ultima Online and leave it with little to not enough resources to maintain it and keep it going ?
Is this what is being asked here ? The final and permanent death of Ultima Online ?
The problem of PvP, is that, at least to my viewing, only a minority in Ultima Online can really be seen as PvPers who are in it for the challenge, select their targets only attacking those who can fight back, and do NOT use cheat programs..... many others, unfortunately, are just pkillers or, even worse, people who use cheats to gain an edge in fighting other players. They do not care about the challenge, they just want to ruin a fellow player's day.
And, at least to my opinion, this started back with how Scrolls of Power were implemented, to my opinion.
How so ?
To my understanding, when Powerscrolls came out, there was a struggle on who'd hold their Monopoly, bunch of cheats and hacks came out so that some players would eventually get their edge over other players and gain and hold tight the Monopoly of Powerscrolls.
That gave them enormous wealth with which, they were able to buy all artifacts and anything else they wanted becoming even more invincible.
They got bored, and many left, but, to my opinion, the damage was done already, and at that point Powerscrolls became only a bait to attract easy targets who'd try to get them on their own, as they could not afford the ridicolous prices that those Monopolists had set to sell those powerscrolls.
Unfortunately, it is all about the gold, that is why there is some players who want to control drops, because then they can set prices to whatever they want for those items.
Unfortunately, this alienates players from the game, it is BAD for the game as a whole as it drops the players base quite some....
People should thank Trammel for existing because it is what has kept the game going all these years.... and there is some players who would want Trammel to get no drops and no content ?
Go figure....
To my opinion, players should PvP for the fun of it, it should be fun, challenging FOR ALL, not easy for existing, Veteran players who got all and wealth to burn and totally impossible for New and Returning players who cannot compete in high end items nor in wealth to spend on new stuff that comes out.
Hopefully, the New Legacy Shard might address this issue, at least in part.
But as long as much needed items, like for example Powerscrolls will be used as baits to get players to get pkilled in Felucca just to serve easy targets on a silver platter to some other players, I hardly can see any hope for PvP to attract more players and get popular....
Not to mention, that I see it as pointless for anyone who does not want to cheat or use third parties or hacks, to bother with PvPing at all.
What is the point for it at all if there is quite a good chance that the fellow player on the other side might be using some cheat program to get an edge in the fight ?
Much better just have fun playing Trammel and forget about PvP and Felucca, althougether, IMHO.
The so called Risk vs. Reward is a total joke, as I see it.
Players using Ghost Cams or hidden EJ Cams to monitor areas, using Third Party cheats to have a hell of an edge when attacking other players and most likely having wealth to burn and all high end items that may be in the game, including those 18+ properties Legendaries which no longer spawn....
They have no risks, they have their scripts telling them when someone enters an area that they are monitoring, they go there in their uber suits and kill them with no challenge, pretty much.
Risk vs. Reward is a joke in Felucca, if one is on the side of those who make sure to have a hell of an edge, be it from high end items several of which can no longer be gotten, or perhaps from the use of cheat Third party programs.
Yet, they are permitted by all that to cut out any and all other players from being able to access much needed and necessary items like Powerscrolls....
What a joke it is.
That is at least how I see it.