Customizable keeps and castles is too small a gold sink. How do you establish a price for the ability to customize? Each shard has a different economy. No matter what price they chose it would be wrong.
I would worry that doing this would cause either the exisitng "player cities" (Luna and Magencia) or the new cities, to lose their value. If every city was a player inhabited city then they wouldnt be special ... and might not be desirable either. How many vendor mall cities can UO support?
I wasn't suggesting huge amount of plots. Say no less than 5 and no more then 10 plots in a city. Does not have to be all cities either. More appelaing to a player that wants to feel like they are part of that city. My post was more to the role players of the game not the greedy mall players. I think the devs were prepared for Magincia more then we thought. Magincia wont become a mall like Luna. Read this link....
I played the game for PvP but in truth I know how important the PvMers and RP's are to this game also. UO needs to get the players involved back into the game.So the devs should only cater to a few dozen people on each shard who have Luna, Zento, or Magencia houses?
I didn't even bother to read it the moment it came onscreen in ALL CAPS.
thanks for quoting my post, hopefully if everyone will quote it will reach its target.
who the f cares if you read it or not? you are nobody - you cant change this game. you can keep your thoughts with yourself. this is forum and you should type in a chat instead cuz your post lack any worthy information
and you might try buying yourself some brain and think of things that could fix uo instead of stupidly raising your post count WITHOUT CAPS.
it is people like you that made this game ****. people that can only flame in a clown-ish style on forums not being able to post a single idea from their brainless head cuz there is none in it. if you cant do constructive critique of the idea in post and only can see the caps in it why do you bother posting? you should just go eat grass with other donkey's like yourself- Hi mom? Aye, hullo! I don't like it. What is that mom?
Doh!
Cal did, He said there would NOT be mass bans, so that idea is never gonna happen, sorry. So now what?
I doubt there will be any more bans as well. They've got really obvious scripters walking around Luna that everybody has known about for months, and the fact that the scripters don't feel the need to hide their identities says everything you need to know about this dev team's views on scripters. The scripters even brag about adding New Magincia to their routes.
It seems that scripting has picked up again. I am seeing alot of mining scripters out again on GL.
Agreed completely. I do not support anything that dictates when and how players are allowed to do something as simple as resource gathering. I KNOW i have spent more than 2 hours lumberjacking just this week while watching TV with the wife out of town.
If this were ever an option they would have to make it so the clothes are NOT customizable. Dont get me wrong I love customizing my vendors. But I also expect to see flamboyantly dressed vendors at peoples houses. On the other hand when I go into the city, I expect to see people dressed more respectfully.
Your kidding right? This would DESTROY the economy. Inflation would go sky high. You know how many ingots it takes to supply a ship for battle on the high seas? Or how many boards it takes or how much cloth it takes? I go through tens of thousands of boards and cloth, and thousands of ingots in just a couple hours of battle on the seas.
Aren't the prices of all houses the same on each shard when you build from scratch? So how would it be wrong in this instance to make it the same for customizing keeps/castles? (other than siege wich would def need a diff price base i dont think i need to explain).
Now this is a cool idea. My question to you first though is if it loses its bless status for non-payment, once you add gold to it does it re-bless? It would never be an item of interest if you had to pay for the time your not logged in etc.
This is a perfect example of the type of inflation that the game's economy has undergone.
I guess i have to agree here. I've finally stopped pirating (which i love) due to the expense. Considering how much saltpeter it takes to fire one shot (about 40 per heavy shot, no counting crafting failure) and how many shots it takes to scuttle a ship (~12) you can do two pirate ships per hour of mining. That is assuming that Phoenix's 1000/hour number is accurate, which i figure he would know.
Knocking off 0's doesn't fix the underlying problem, it just hides it...
First, I apologize if my saltpeter post seemed a bit ranty.
What's the point of having a quest if you can just plop down the gold to finish it?
Gee, what is wrong with this picture? So is this another instance where the players are going to have to do the testing to uncover coding errors?
- Aye, and by my reckonin', the duping/cheating of gold and items has greatly magnified everything deemed to be our game's economy.
1k for val in chessy Holy hell 60 mil for 60k stack. Is anybody buying this. if they are what a awesom opportunity buy from atlantic at 300-350k per 1k val and transfer to sell it in chessy. That would pay for the transfer to and back from chessy if bring a packie of 60k stacks of val with you per transfer. hell just 2 full deeds should way more than make you profit. Can you see if people are actually buying at this price?
High Seas was an economic disaster from top to bottom. Nobody even sells this ship crap anymore, because nobody does it, because there's no economic point. Owning and operating a ship is just a big waste of time and money.
Virtualhabitat has it completely right. Doesn't matter if a healing potion cost 3000 as long as the player can sell it for 3000. If the player can only sell the potion for 30 and make it for 3000 then that is a problem. If you chop of 0's as long as the player can sell the potion at 30 gold and make it for less with the relative amount of the shards gold at around those levels thats fine as well. Though if the relative amount of the shards gold is alot higher than today there is no profit in selling a potion for 30 when you can get infinitely more than that with less time doing something else. Let alone selling a potion for 30 gold lets you buy nothing from anywhere else as the relative value of all other items are much higher.
Only for those who can enjoy "the lifestyles of the rich and famous, of course"! Such a prized objet d'art would have course be Account bound -nay, make it Character bound! Certainly we wouldn't want the noveau riche and other such riff-raff owning such a status symbol! The Britain "yacht" was what, a mere 150 million? Surely a Golden statue of King Midas - perhaps name the item The Midas Touch - would fetch a paltry 200 million!I banksit in Haven on Atlantic and see newbies all the time. They maybe get a cheap LRC suit and some runebooks. Which is enough to get them started, but going "HA HA F**K NEWBIES THEIR ENTIRE PLACE IN THE ECONOMY IS TO BE BEGGARS" is beyond idiotic.
That just moves 0s around or hides them as Nexus said, it doesn't actually address the major problems, or rather the major causes that led to those problems.
best post i read, 100% correct.
Yes.
This would be nice.