Stop allowing EJs being able to earn ToT drops
Immediately @Kyronix @Mesanna
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they don’t care if they get banned so they keep creating new accounts
Face it, the "Endless Journey" was just a bad joke, and a complete waste of time. I have a suspicion that "New Legacy" will end exactly up the same way. What are we, almost 5 years into it, with pretty much ZERO to show for it? I suspect that IF (big if) y'all are still trying to cram it into being "unveiled" for the 25 Anniversary, what we get is something that is unplayable, and so bad, that it will further tarnish the name of UO!!! That's almost 5 years of "work" that COULD have gone into working on the production shards, with perhaps a chance that y'all would have actually taken proper action on the cheaters/scripters/gold sellers. Instead of allowing them to run UO into the ground!!
The way this thread is going though... IBTL
I posted in another thread about combating scripters with a drop cooldown… something like 120 seconds without a potion and 60 seconds with a potion. You wouldn’t stop building credit for a drop during that time, the drop would just come after the cooldown.
If something like this was in place to combat scripting, you could presumably increase the cooldown for EJ accounts, maybe to something like 480 seconds. A regular account without a potion could get a max of 30 drops per hour whereas an EJ account would be limited to 7/8.
Just one alternative to completely excluding real players who might be player EJ from the content.
Changing EJ probably needs to have more nuance, as Merus suggests.
UO is now running a hybrid, subscription+, business model.
$10.00 /month = sub
$0.00 /month = EJ
However
$14.99 = High Seas & EJ
$19.99 = Time of Legends & EJ
$19.99 = Storage & EJ
$19.99 = Character Slot & EJ
You can very easily get to a $75.00 EJ account, without the in-game store. Even HS and ToL would put you at a $35.00 EJ account. Those people are definitely paying customers. Some of them at the level of a physically boxed AAA title.
For reference
$45.00 = Star Citizen starter pack
$30.00 = Elite Dangerous
$30.00 = Red Dead Redemption 2
etc...
You start upgrading an EJ account and you want to be treated as a paying customer pretty damn quickly.
I loved seeing a couple of my EJ accounts get drops at previous events. Having said that, if EJ has come to the point where non-upgraded accounts are being used primarily by veteran players to boost themselves, yes, it's time for a change.
If it's the same toons they are attended by a player which is irrelevant whether they are EJ or not.
I have 3 large monitors. I could have them divided to have 2 to four accounts on each monitor. Then be watching TV and playing another game. While attended.
Yall from the stone ages.
Some of you do not understand what a computer can do when someone knows how to use a client.
To be honest getting the spells for the book was like a quest and what I thought was required to get them. I traveled around killing mages and Liches until I got what I could from them. It was the kind of challenge most games I played provided to new players. Got all 5th through 7th circle spells that way. Bought 8th circle spells from a vendor. Anyway, limiting where EJ can go does not sound like that bad of an idea. Lots of other games limit new players to specific areas.
Like everything in UO intended to benefit new or retuning players, it can be abused by vets. Solutions to problems should be about finding balance, not just throwing the baby out with the bath water. Playing on a paid account should be more rewarding that botting on an EJ account. Then no one on a paid account would need to complain about an EJ account getting something they couldn’t. This aim can be accomplished with good content design without the need to ban EJ accounts from participating.
What is point if any EJ can macro to 120 magery, med and Eval Int in a few days, then stand at one place 24 7 to spam EV like popps and then asking for summons to be dispel resistant.
Mages summon is overpowered, abused by EJ and must be banned for event.
ESRB warning: Some Blood. LOTS of Alcohol. Some Violence. LOTS of Bugs
Each master account should only have one EJ tied to 1 credit card.
So to get 10 x EJ for multi boxing the cheater need to have 10 credit cards on file, and pay 10 x annual fees.
ESRB warning: Some Blood. LOTS of Alcohol. Some Violence. LOTS of Bugs
They literally turned the EJ drops off on day 2 so it's not like they "can't because of spaghetti code". Just re-instate the damn code and make things right. What are they afraid of? The non-paying EJ accounts are gonna stop using their free accounts?? Come on.
The Dev team has mishandled this event from the start and the result is that this event is 100% geared toward the free account base which makes no sense. This is just one a several viable solutions that could potentially improve the experience of the paying customers; why they would not consider it (or even communicate why they will not) is beyond me.
It was not in Kyronix's posts nor on the MOTD.
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