Quality of Life Items.
Stop making items that improve quality of life and then putting them as vet rewards. Each of the crafting stations should of been a bod reward for the respective skill. The New Straps should of been a bod reward or a craftable.
You created the items, You put them in the game, You created an entire new bod reward system that you could add items to and haven't done anything with it in almost 4 years.
Vet rewards should be vanity items/deco, not things that make our lives slightly easier in this ancient game.
You created the items, You put them in the game, You created an entire new bod reward system that you could add items to and haven't done anything with it in almost 4 years.
Vet rewards should be vanity items/deco, not things that make our lives slightly easier in this ancient game.
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Note: There is nothing to win in UO so that is just a stupid saying.
That's the point. You don't need them. All these items do is free up room in your inventory. Only purpose is quality of life, especially with the spellbook and runebook straps.
Comparable items
Scroll of Transcendence Book
Power Scroll Book
Alacrity Book
Their only purpose is to make things easier, and they were given as a holiday gift.
You personally feel so strongly that these items should of been added to the already bloated 200+ vet rewards instead of content that hasn't seen anything in years??
I don't use the crafting stations, I won't be using the straps. Effects my personal gameplay 0%.
But I know a lot of people who were excited to finally be able to cleanup their backpacks in the Classic client who are looking at the limited number of vet reward picks they have and wondering if they should waste it on something so miniscule that it should of been given as a holiday gift.
If you've ever been a loyal customer to something whether it be booze/food/games/shopping/etc you typically get some sort of loyalty reward; this shouldn't be foreign as it's rewarding repeat and long lasting business. It's not usually something outlandish but if you are a booze person, your local shop might give you first dibs on a rare bottle of bourbon/wine or give a slight discount that normal people don't get. Other places give you loyalty points that go towards a discount.
Apply that to UO. I've been paying for 20 some years as a loyal customer which equates to thousands of dollars over that time. You are telling me that I shouldn't get a little quality of life improvement over someone (possibly like you) that just started a new account last year and maybe hasn't paid to play in 10 years? You seem to have it backwards.
In all actuality, vets SHOULD get a little perk over newbies because that's just the UO loyalty program. You are in luck though because literally everything except the soulstone and shard shield can be bought/sold and used by anyone in the game.... and btw YOU can also buy the transfer token and soulstones in the store! You get to pay $20 for a transfer token which actually brings you out on top because I paid roughly 2k for my shard shields (even then I had to save picks to get the handful I have).
It's like Vendor Search. Is it necessary to play the game? of course not. Does it make buying things easier, yeah. Should they of only allowed 10 year accounts to use the function? That would be idiotic no? What if they made it so you had to pay with sovereigns to use vendor search. Seem pretty stupid yeah? Same concept with locking shard shields at a 14 year vet reward and telling people it's okay because they can just pay Sovereigns for a real transfer token. It's a function in the game that should of been freely accessible to every paying account, while still giving vets the option to use it more often.
Keep in mind I have more shard shields than any sane person.. Nothing that I suggest affects me personally in any way shape or form.
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Who wants VS to work better in Atlantic?
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Why do you think people transfer today? For what purpose? Not for trading?
Shard bound is good? So fine, then cancel Character Transfer Token. Period.
Then how does that go with your theory of disrupting Broadsword's revenue?
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I give all new players that I meet the same advice to check out all the shards that they ping best to and a starter suit LRC/LMC and rune book just to go look around and I hope that other shards do the same.
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I invite players from each shard to post their shard and confirm what I say
On Europa we have a regular evening meeting at west brit bank where veteran players gather specifically to help such players. This meeting is widely known and anyone encountering a new player will direct them there and/or help them themselves.
Not every shard is as well organised as Europa. good for you. Not every shard is the same as Europa.
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B - say Pacific (any shard now, no need Atlantic)
So, in Shard B, menu to place a cross shard order, target item in vendor, and indicate receiving shard.
In Shard A, have a courier Chest in same account. Once order is placed in shard B, it copies the specs and create the item in Shard A courier Chest,
I think it’s easier than character transfer, as the server only need to copy an item over and tally the gold. I cannot believe this is impossible, question is reward vs effort.
P.S. come on, if they can transfer a whole character but cannot transfer just one item, I wAs not born yesterday. my hair is turning white already.
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FACT #1 UO only depends on EA paying BS to maintain DAoC/UO.
FACT #2 EA depends on Account Management paying subs and on ORIGIN sells to make enough money so they can pay BS and still make a profit.
FACT #3 EA does not make money from Shard Shields but they do make money from the account that owns those Shields when they pay their sub.
FACT #4 EA makes money from Origin when it sells account upgrade codes or Sovereigns or Game Time Codes.
EA does not read these forums and as long as EA is making money they could care less what 1 shard thinks. Here is a fix for Atl, if you hate the city so much then you need to move to the burbs, problem solved.
A far as xfer items over EA does not make money from gold EA make money from the account using shard shields paying their subs or from you using the Sovereigns that you bought from Origin to buy a Xfer Token from the ingame store to move that item.
I do not have the power to forbid in game activity so it's not really about me forbidding anything. So that's confusing.
We obviously have 2 different points of view:
I am a 20+ year vet (paying subscription wise) that has invested the time (but mainly money) to show the game I am loyal. My view point is that I am granted certain perks for showing my loyalty which SHOULD be the case; this is how things work in the real world.
You, no offense, seem like a "some-time" player that maybe played a year or two here and there but never let your subscription go longer than you play. Nothing wrong with that but your entitlement issue comes into play here and you think that EVERYONE should get free trade across shards because you don't have the shard shields. People like this also have great ideas on how everyone's tax dollars should be spent while they contribute almost nothing into paying their taxes.
That said... I'm not sure if that is an accurate response to your post because honestly I don't really know what you are talking about and don't really care to because you are kind of saying similar things in like 3 different threads on different things and from a quick skim you are the person arguing with everyone on here and typically when that happens it says all I need to know.