Adventures on The High Seas

[Dermott of LS]

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Looked like it was pretty ready (and damned good for a "pre-alpha") in the EC which Supreem used to demo the new boats and a bit of boat combat.

 

[Schuyler Bain]

There is gonna be some happy Pirates in UO tonight!

Hide yer rum and yer wenches!

*heads to the store for some rum to add to his coke*

 

[lucitus]

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Looked like it was pretty ready (and damned good for a "pre-alpha") in the EC which Supreem used to demo the new boats and a bit of boat combat.

Iam fresh back in here, is the EC also being finished in the near future, especially the movement of players is bad atm and makes PvP very hard?

 

[Aedon Durreah]

Sounding good to me so far.

 

[Lord GOD(GOD)]

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Yes, and they quickly glossed over houw you get the power scroll... it will be "content-based" as a quest reward.

Perhaps a sea based Champion Spawn.

 

[sablestorm]

A few more questions:

1. Will Captain Johne, Leonna, and Leodon make an appearance in any fiction that might go with this booster? What about their ships, the Ararat and the Golden Hinde? How about the HMS Cape and it's magical Wheel?

2. Whirlpools and Water Spouts were prevalent in the old Ultima games. Will they be a part of the booster?

 

[Schuyler Bain]

Q&A starting in about 10 minutes!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bioware-mythic-live

 

[canary]

the chat is killing me people in there we want this we want this makes me sick bitchin and moaning pathetic

I just want to quickly point out the hypocrisy of you doing it right here in this thread ABOUT the chat. Because you are, essentially, doing the exact same thing.

 

[a slave girl]

I missed the first 30 minutes of the live stream.

What about pirate fashions? Eye patches, peg legs, ruffled white shirts, hook hand, pirate on our shoulder?

Boat paint isn't pet dye but almost as good.

 

[Storm]

I just want to quickly point out the hypocrisy of you doing it right here in this thread ABOUT the chat. Because you are, essentially, doing the exact same thing.

hit a nerve?

 

[BajaElladan]

Hail Folks,

I am happy for all of you who are loving what has been demonstrated as coming. At $15 per account however, for me this will be a tough call.

I rarely use my GM Fisher now. So for me personally I doubt I will want to buy this "booster." If I do buy one copy, then my approach will be similar to SA. I put SA only on accounts where I deemed it necessary, which I think ended up being 3 accounts out of the 21 I was paying for. To pay for those 3 upgrades I closed 9 accounts.

I may end up closing a couple more to add one booster.

I know full well that EA runs a for profit business. However, it seems clear to me they have decided to milk more from existing Players rather than increasing revenue through MORE Players.

Hopefully this booster will result in MORE new or returning Players. Sadly I have my doubts.

In order to continue enjoying UO at all, I do not see myself being able to spend more for boosters, expansions, and ala carte items sold for RL cash.

If EA cant fund UO from our monthly subscription fees, I fear my UO future becomes more cloudy and in doubt. Hope Im wrong.

Regardless, I am happy for those of you who can afford and are excited by this future.

Be Well and Safe Journeys!

 

[Deb]

Hope someone asks "When this is coming out and how much additional
storage we get.

 

[canary]

hit a nerve?

Not at all, dear, just pointing it out for you.

 

[Mapper]

Hope someone asks "When this is coming out and how much additional
storage we get.

They said Fall, So probably Christmas.

 

[Storm]

Hope someone asks "When this is coming out and how much additional
storage we get.

a few people have tried to ask but it scrolls pretty fast so hard to tell if they see it i will try again

 

[The_Traveler]

This will A) Make sea scripting less likely B) Training fishing a pain.
I love it!

Fishy for me?

 

[puni666]

So say your boat gets destroyed over water or your paddle boat w/e. Do we gain the ability to swim now? or do we just die? And can gargoyles actually fly over the water now?

 

[sablestorm]

I just want to quickly point out the hypocrisy of you doing it right here in this thread ABOUT the chat. Because you are, essentially, doing the exact same thing.

In this case I'll embrace hypocrisy and support Storm!

 

[Gandie]

As great as this sounds, i really had hopes for either a Classic shard, a nice F2P model or some kind of shard merging, because i do not think this will bring many players to the game for a long period of time. And this is what we need.

Ahh well...

 

[Storm]

Hope someone asks "When this is coming out and how much additional
storage we get.

I asked Logrus and the following was his reply in a pm to me

The release date isnt firm yet, alot willd epend on alpha/beta testing with focus groups

 

[Dermott of LS]

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1 boat + 1 rowboat per character

 

[Lord Frodo]

Is there anybody here on the boards and at the town hall

 

[Lord Frodo]

If anybody is there or on the chat please ask them if we can have a graphics switch in the EC IE 2D/SA/KR so we can pick which graphic we want to use.

 

[Dermott of LS]

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One boat not shown:

The Britannian ship aka The Whale, larger than the huge boats shown

 

[SixUnder]

stupid.


thanks for once again not doing things to help the ones who pvp and have been doing it since day 1. so many things need nerfed and or balanced yet you do nothing.

gets old so frustrating i have my 2 accounts one of which is beta 156 months old. why we do we even play anymore? no im not quitting but do they ever wonder why the player base is so far down?

so so so so so many have deactivated and quit cause of the same ole trammy shiat over and over.

 

[Dermott of LS]

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The high seas bit is going to be PvP as well... a whole new realm of PvP.

 

[Aedon Durreah]

Hope someone asks "When this is coming out and how much additional
storage we get.

I think I heard a 20% storage boost.

 

[Schuyler Bain]

Aye, part of this booster will involve PvP sea battles... so while it may not be your cup of tea, PvP is getting more love than it has seen in a long while.

 

[Storm]

stupid.


thanks for once again not doing things to help the ones who pvp and have been doing it since day 1. so many things need nerfed and or balanced yet you do nothing.

gets old so frustrating i have my 2 accounts one of which is beta 156 months old. why we do we even play anymore? no im not quitting but do they ever wonder why the player base is so far down?

so so so so so many have deactivated and quit cause of the same ole trammy shiat over and over.

ships are also pvp(fel) plus arenas !!

 

[Schuyler Bain]

I think I heard a 20% storage boost.

Aye - 20% to houses and banks if you purchase the booster and it stacks with previous increases.

 

[Dermott of LS]

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They're working on getting the ships to work with guild wars in Tram, no further info on if they'll get it working or not yet though.

 

[Flutter]

What time do I pick up my Beta invite?

 

[The_Traveler]

Any plans to keep the seas from becoming cluttered with parked ships?
Will parked ships block SOS?

 

[Storm]

What time do I pick up my Beta invite?

Right after I get mine ;-)

 

[Dermott of LS]

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1. They're limiting ships placed to 1 per character (and 1 rowboat in use)

2. SOSs can be fished up anwhere in the base coordinates... basically if you're at 100.56N x 50.24E, as long as you're in the 100.xxN x 50.xxE you can fish up thge SOS, so they shouldn;t block too bad.

 

[ProZac]

stupid.


thanks for once again not doing things to help the ones who pvp and have been doing it since day 1. so many things need nerfed and or balanced yet you do nothing.

gets old so frustrating i have my 2 accounts one of which is beta 156 months old. why we do we even play anymore? no im not quitting but do they ever wonder why the player base is so far down?

so so so so so many have deactivated and quit cause of the same ole trammy shiat over and over.

This. Just have to accept they never have and never will focus on their pvp crowd. UO was a huge pvp game by a complete fluke.

Btw I played with you back on Baja in TC/RAWR about 5+ years back.. those guys still around?

 

[Zodia]

We actually developed in the 2D client first. So yes it worked first in 2D (Classic client).

- c

Sure is nice to see that content is being developed to take advantage of the advancements in SA. Yep.

Why would they program for the client that only 5% of the population uses?
It makes perfect sense to program in the CC first.

And I clearly remember Dermott saying on multiple occasions that they can't upgrade the boats because of those of us (the 95%) clinging to our classic clients. I will await your apology.

 

[Schuyler Bain]

What time do I pick up my Beta invite?

Right after I get mine ;-)

What, You don't have yours yet?

 

[Cailleach]

stupid.


thanks for once again not doing things to help the ones who pvp and have been doing it since day 1. so many things need nerfed and or balanced yet you do nothing.

gets old so frustrating i have my 2 accounts one of which is beta 156 months old. why we do we even play anymore? no im not quitting but do they ever wonder why the player base is so far down?

so so so so so many have deactivated and quit cause of the same ole trammy shiat over and over.

Perhaps the Devs are feeling in need of a little appreciation so decided to do something for that part of the player base that knows how to show it. Instead of that part of the player base that just whines that it's "all wrong" every time the Devs go in to try and sort stuff out. Just a thought

 

[Storm]

Perhaps the Devs are feeling in need of a little appreciation so decided to do something for that part of the player base that knows how to show it. Instead of that part of the player base that just whines that it's "all wrong" every time the Devs go in to try and sort stuff out. Just a thought

well said

 

[Storm]

What, You don't have yours yet?

BE good

 

[Flutter]

What, You don't have yours yet?

Darn you pirate *shakes fist*
Don't forget I know where you live!

 

[Schuyler Bain]

BE good

Always good, but could always be better!

 

[Schuyler Bain]

Darn you pirate *shakes fist*
Don't forget I know where you live!

*hides his rum*

 

[canary]

So... booster packs are in so they can focus on NOT taking time away from ongoing content and bug fixes.

Yet we learn that arenas are being pushed back to 'sometime' (even though they JUST advertised it on their newsletter) and also the story arc for Magincia.

That makes perfect sense. Not.

Watching them I am of the sound mind they have zero clear vision of what they are doing or how to accomplish it properly.

 

[Flutter]

So... booster packs are in so they can focus on NOT taking time away from ongoing content and bug fixes.

Yet we learn that arenas are being pushed back to 'sometime' (even though they JUST advertised it on their newsletter) and also the story arc for Magincia.

That makes perfect sense. Not.

Watching them I am of the sound mind they have zero clear vision of what they are doing or how to accomplish it properly.

There's only so many people working on UO right now.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to be a hater through all of this. After all the lay offs and cut backs UO is still getting updated. Rejoice and be happy.

 

[Dermott of LS]

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Not to mention the fact that the direction of the game gets changed on a whim almost CONSTANTLY (check Draconi's posts on it)

 

[canary]

There's only so many people working on UO right now.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to be a hater through all of this. After all the lay offs and cut backs UO is still getting updated. Rejoice and be happy.

Flutter, you don't get it.

Have a vision, fulfill that vision, go to the next thing.

There are currently so many semi completed things in game it is embarrassing.

YOU may enjoy eating a cold dinner or buying clothes with holes in them, and just 'take it and be happy', but as a consumer, I'm NOT happy, and I have every right to voice said dissatisfaction.

 

[Schuyler Bain]

Half full vs half empty... to each their own, but I tend to be a half full kind of guy and it has served me well in game and out.

 

[canary]

There's only so many people working on UO right now.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to be a hater through all of this. After all the lay offs and cut backs UO is still getting updated. Rejoice and be happy.

And to use your quote again...

It was stated at the beginning of the Town Hall booster packs come into play JUST to ensure things (ongoing content, bug fixes) still get done in game.

Yet we are learning in the very same Town Hall that is definitely not the case.