New things for UO Store

[The Old Man]

In the State of UO Address Bonnie asked for suggestions for new additions to the UO Store...

Small SoulForge - Pretty please

The normal one is such a pain to fit into the house !!

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Account bound Shard shield token?Then those complaining about they cant get them can have an option. Of course they wouldn't be cheap but I bet they would sell.

 

[Sauteed Onion]

Um.. an expansion.

 

[Lug]

Extra Character Slots. A Max of 50 slots would do me for a while.

 

[Promathia]

In the State of UO Address Bonnie asked for suggestions for new additions to the UO Store...

Small SoulForge - Pretty please

The normal one is such a pain to fit into the house !!

Wut? That's a drop off Scalis, unless you want them to completely invalidate the biggest reason to do a piece of content in the game =\


Personally, and people will hate it, I think they should sell Vet Rewards on the UO Site. No other game gives Vet players such items. Vets would still get the bonus of getting them for FREE, but other players could buy them for cash. You could do a tiered pricing for each year of vet rewards.

Also UO's biggest strength is its housing, so create and sell more "theme" packs for housing tiles.

 

[The Old Man]

But Promathia, It's such a rare drop that I've never seen one for sale in game, nor on one of those sites we're not allowed to visit!

I don't think it would invalidate the content if it was priced correctly....High!!

and I love yr idea for selling Vet rewards...Maybe let the Vets have the new ones for 6 months before they go in store?

The Old Man

Wut? That's a drop off Scalis, unless you want them to completely invalidate the biggest reason to do a piece of content in the game =\


Personally, and people will hate it, I think they should sell Vet Rewards on the UO Site. No other game gives Vet players such items. Vets would still get the bonus of getting them for FREE, but other players could buy them for cash. You could do a tiered pricing for each year of vet rewards.

Also UO's biggest strength is its housing, so create and sell more "theme" packs for housing tiles.

 

[Flagg]

Awesome PvP weapons that are not possible to insure or bless.

 

[Promathia]

But Promathia, It's such a rare drop that I've never seen one for sale in game, nor on one of those sites we're not allowed to visit!

I don't think it would invalidate the content if it was priced correctly....High!!

and I love yr idea for selling Vet rewards...Maybe let the Vets have the new ones for 6 months before they go in store?

The Old Man

The main problem is that id argue UO has a real problem keeping their content valid. Scalis is one of the few boss type creatures that people still consistently fight, and its mainly due to that drop.

 

[Lug]

"I think they should sell Vet Rewards on the UO Site"

I agree 100%

 

[Giggles]

A code that allows you to upgrade a house storage to the max storage of a castle. Can only be used on one house, with a cost of like $40.00 or $50.00.

Solves the problem of everyone fighting for castle spots, and also allows people to customize a house that has max castle storage.

It would also add more variety to housing, and make more unusual places more desirable. It gets pretty boring, especially on low population servers, running in to castle after castle. I miss the little odd houses placed in cool areas.

Just my two cents.

 

[MedeaDF]

I am not greedy on this topic, but I would be reallyreallyREALLY happy if it would be possible to order The King's Collection from Germany/Austria/Switzerland with absolutely no need to fake your IP before... ! Thanks!

 

[popps]

Wut? That's a drop off Scalis, unless you want them to completely invalidate the biggest reason to do a piece of content in the game =\


Personally, and people will hate it, I think they should sell Vet Rewards on the UO Site. No other game gives Vet players such items. Vets would still get the bonus of getting them for FREE, but other players could buy them for cash. You could do a tiered pricing for each year of vet rewards.

Also UO's biggest strength is its housing, so create and sell more "theme" packs for housing tiles.

As I see it, Veteran Rewards are a recognition of loyalty of customers to a product, the Ultima Online game.

Allowing the sale for money of Veteran Rewards would basically, as I see it, deminish this recognition of loyalty of keeping one's own account as active, no matter what, to support the game.

It is NOT about money, I understand you suggest maintaining for veterans the ability to get the items for free, it is way more, at least as I see it, about acknowledging, from those who own and run the game, that those players who have kept supporting the game over the years maintaning their accounts as active, are special customers and deserve a special recognition for their loyalty to the game.

Allowing the sale of Veteran rewards would make this special recognition moot and empty, at least as I see it.

So, no, I am all against allowing the sale of Veteran Rewards for money, it would be bad in the long run for Ultima Online.

And the reason why it would be bad, IMHO, is design planning.

In order to organize the capabilities for adding future content to the game, a realistic estimate of consistent and reliable revenues over at least a medium if not long term period is needed.

Now, this estimate, at least to my thinking, can only come as a more reliable source from active accounts, NOT from occasional sale of game codes. Sure, revenues from the sale of game codes are nice added revenues, but they are an unpredictable bonus that would be a hazard to base revenues predictions on.

It is the monthly revenues from active accounts, taken over a time period, which can instead to my thinking more reliably give a good estimate over a medium/long term period on what revenues the game might be able to count on to base future design and addition of new content.

And that is where Veteran Rewards come into play, IMHO, if well thought and designed, they can become an incentive good enough (i.e. highly wanted and desirable for players to maintain their account as much as possible as active) to help make estimates and predictions over a time period of what realistically the available resources can be, to work on design and new content addition to the game.

 

[Shackles]

I think vet rewards should be for veterans. Not purchased at a store.

 

[4gregu]

Account bound Shard shield token?Then those complaining about they cant get them can have an option. Of course they wouldn't be cheap but I bet they would sell.

YES !!!!

Please sell shard transfer shields via the origin store, I will gladly pay $ for them!!!! (My account is only now reaching 13 years, and the wait for 14 is brutal!)

 

[BeaIank]

I'd love to see something that would speed up the gathering of basic resources, like all types of coloured ingots, leather and wood.
In 3 years of play time, I doubt I mined more than 3K valorite.

And now I only have time to play during weekends, so I don't have time to go out mine (which is extremely boring and not rewarding).

 

[The Zog historian]

Try Fel Cove. I can go up and down in 20 minutes, and with prospector tools and gargoyle pickaxes, I can get 100-200 valorite from the veins (depending on smelting success and how many valorite elementals I wake up). Granted, the veins are going to change sometime, but try it on your shard to see how much you can get.

There are also the Void Pool rewards. Using the golden, agapite and verite cauldrons in turn, you can convert gold ingots to valorite at a ratio of 27 to 1 (3:1 at each stage). Gold ingots aren't too hard to get from Castle Blackthorn's dungeon.

 

[BeaIank]

I have been using the golden cauldron a fair bit to convert golden into agapite.
It really helps, but gathering enough points for the higher end cauldrons take a lot of void pool runs, since most of the time I have to do them on my own, and with 250+ ms ping it can be tricky to last very long. The 15 minutes time out at the void pool doesn't help either.

About Fel cove, I have tried it. Never found any valorite there. And the mining return for the time spent was still rather low.
I can gather far more wood in the same time.

So, something that would allow me to get a decent amount of resources for the time I spend on it (usually one or two hours per weekend) would be very welcome and make rather new people to the game like me less dependant on scripters to have basic resources accessible.

 

[The Zog historian]

Fel Cove on your shard doesn't even have agapite to be made higher? I wish I had something else to tell you. I've thought that ores should spawn more evenly, and it's clear only scripters benefited when ore veins and trees could change. We're no longer in the days of armor AR, where valorite gave a higher number and should have been more rare.

 

[Smoot]

I wouldnt be opposed to shard shields being sold at the UO store. I'm thinking $150.00 - $175.00 would be a good range per shield.

 

[Yadd of Legends]

I have been using the golden cauldron a fair bit to convert golden into agapite.
It really helps, but gathering enough points for the higher end cauldrons take a lot of void pool runs, since most of the time I have to do them on my own, and with 250+ ms ping it can be tricky to last very long. The 15 minutes time out at the void pool doesn't help either.

About Fel cove, I have tried it. Never found any valorite there. And the mining return for the time spent was still rather low.
I can gather far more wood in the same time.

So, something that would allow me to get a decent amount of resources for the time I spend on it (usually one or two hours per weekend) would be very welcome and make rather new people to the game like me less dependant on scripters to have basic resources accessible.

I also find mining a pain. Just the other day I saw some miners I thought might be scripters, the way they were recalling around the mine every few seconds. My reaction? "Fine, let them script, because nobody else is selling ingots on Legends." Of course, the bad part would be if they're scripting and selling them someplace else, and I still can't buy ingots in game. But the point is something needs fixing when I'd rather buy ingots from a scripter than mine them myself.

 

[Arrgh]

How about old and new Singing Ball, 2 story statues, Palm Trees, crazy over-powered weapons or armor with limited durability...or not. New neon hair dyes something that is comparable to the ice blue and blaze hair dyes. You could also try to sell bigger bank spaces, extra character slot (again).

~I like the suggestion about buying max storage for any size house.

~Maybe sell a powerscroll for miners to hit 120 and never fail smelting again?

~A token to purchase to grant the ability on one account to have a house on each shard?

~A Soulstone that can hold 5-10 skills for those of us who have capped pretty much everything to make it easier to juggle skills around.

~Sell a deco product that makes magical brownies once a month or farts golden eggs, whatever. The brownies or eggs could help you jump from server to server.

~Medicinal Mandrake Root? Legalize!!

~I thought the mini expansions were sort of neat, maybe more of those?

~An amulet of favor (or spell buff) that lasts an hour or two per day so when doing peerless, the chances for a drop are greater.

~Crazy dude "Cat Starter pack" now with more flavor! They taste great!

~A "Tastes Like Chicken!!!" PvP emote sound.

Seriously though, we need more cowbell...

 

[Parnoc]

Arrgh
~Maybe sell a powerscroll for miners to hit 120 and never fail smelting again?

Yes, great idea, I vote for this!!!!!

 

[Laura_Gold]

1. Crafting tool with charges that removes cursed, brittle, cannot be repaired, luck -100.
2. Crafting tool with charges that adds Self Repair 5 property to weapons or armor; or removes durability property from rings/bracelets.

 

[Laura_Gold]

3. Runic hammers. 'nuff said.

 

[Gedgerez Tesherd]

1. Crafting tool with charges that removes cursed, brittle, cannot be repaired, luck -100.
2. Crafting tool with charges that adds Self Repair 5 property to weapons or armor; or removes durability property from rings/bracelets.
Laura_Gold

A+ Laura_Gold I luuuuv it, Luuuuuuv it

A means to stop the endless farming for a 'clean' legendary item, which I haven't found in at least 8 months of time (log'd in farming time, not real world time) slaying unbound ev's & cove jail room (with & without max luck, & every other luck combinations). I used to be motivated that I would find one, but am losing purpose to PVM at all these days. I don't expect any results since there's probably only .1% of the game population that cares about such things. Or is there more... ? Your right, who cares ? I guess I do since I typed something.

 

[Warpig Inc]

The whole vet reward I would argue against. But why the hell not? They had been made pointless and greed fodder when they lowered the "can be used by anyone" on most the rewards. Selling transfer token poopers would be like eating the golden goose. They better never ever put anything in the game that removes cursed, brittle and cannot be repaired in the game. With the bribe system and quest for runics, go do the work.

Anything that sounds like an easy button is a bad ideal for the game or just a bad character flaw. Most the request sound like " I want a magic budda statue that when his belly is rubbed gives that nights winning lotto numbers." Work for it and have patience. What you end up with is what your worth. Stop looking next door and crying "I want a solid gold bird bath also"

Want to start a list also. "What should be removed from the store" The enhancing tool should be earned in the game. Not the abused and script friendly BOD system or crafter quest. Better a 1 in 10k chance as an arty drop in Doom after the list of current drops are new and longer. Float a 1 space soul forge and a balm that turns the shed into a keg stacked on a barrel one spacer.

The account bound one time use token giving a house castle count locks sounds like a cool $100 sale item. Transfering an improved locks house removes the improvement. This would help those that have invested much in the Luna ring from feeling the burn from the vendor search.

 

[SunWolf]

Several people have asked for the Secret Chest before. Also the Lady bugs would be nice to have on the store again.

A skill training suit for new players to buy with cash , mage/warrior blessed, self repair and some decent stats on it. Also can sell a new tamable compagnion. A sphynx that is little smaller than the one in the game that tamers can buy and train up. It isn't a pet but a compagnion, meaning it is bonded once summoned and it will return to it's stable if it ever gets lost.
Intelligent and can hold it's own but less hp than a g dragon but does more dmg. If it dies it takes 24 hours to regenerate.

 

[old gypsy]

All I want is a gypsy wagon. *sigh*

 

[BrianFreud]

+1 to shard transfer shields. For all the claims of "loyal vets", while there certainly are those players, there's also a ton of accounts being sold for large amounts, just because they qualify for shields. Personally, I've always also thought that transfer tokens are way too expensive; there's no reason they should cost more than the cost for an entire month of service. I'd say something like $5 for the token, $50 for a shield.

+1 to Secret chests

I'd like to see the square carpets simply added to the NPC carpet vendor; they were only ever available in the Japanese store, and that store no longer exists.

As for anything new, I'd love to be able to buy extra house slots, even as a (small) reoccurring monthly fee. Juggling "which account owns what house; when to refresh which house holder account, which account has what permissions" and so on gets really really tiresome. Let me drop back to a sane number of accounts, instead of having to juggle accounts that only are active every three months.

 

[old gypsy]

... I'd love to be able to buy extra house slots, even as a (small) reoccurring monthly fee. Juggling "which account owns what house; when to refresh which house holder account, which account has what permissions" and so on gets really really tiresome. Let me drop back to a sane number of accounts, instead of having to juggle accounts that only are active every three months.

Yes! :mylittlepony:

 

[Yadd of Legends]

~Maybe sell a powerscroll for miners to hit 120 and never fail smelting again.

Yes. Finally getting some verite or valorite with 105 mining and then losing half of it just doesn't seem right.

 

[Petra Fyde]

Repeat short term promotions that are no longer available - eg 'spring decor collection'

 

[Deraj]

My suggestion: this might be asking a bit much, but... an Ultima Online shirt, perhaps? Nothing fancy. Just a UO logo would do. Something to let the world know that I'm a weirdo that plays an obscure MMO.

Regarding the single tile soulforge suggestion, perhaps a good compromise might be, instead of selling off Scalis' loot, to make a 3x3 soulforge available from the store (or 2x2, whatever seems best).

 

[The Old Man]

Works for me Anything that does'nt take up half the house!!

Regarding the single tile soulforge suggestion, perhaps a good compromise might be, instead of selling off Scalis' loot, to make a 3x3 soulforge available from the store (or 2x2, whatever seems best).

 

[Smoot]

Works for me Anything that does'nt take up half the house!!

check out uo homes and castles for how to "break" or "chop" a soulforge. supposedly it works with 1 tile, but i was only ever able to get it to work with 2 tiles. which is fine. the single tile drop is for convenience and looks, but the 2 anvil tiles from the regular soulforge doesnt really look bad. i cover mine with plants anyways. only drawback is there cant be a roof / floor above it. you can also have the chopped soulforge on the roof, and have your crafting area under it. you can still pull up the imbue menue from underneath.

 

[Lady Storm]

I like Petra's idea... old sales like the spring collection went over well.
Change I'd make is:
Spring stays same as was 12 items in all ..

Summer set would be : 10 to 12 items of decor some with use others just for show
Grass Tiles set of 4
Choice of miniture deco: 1.) fountain 2.) random fruit/regular tree (all types in game but in mini) 3.) pond and a few others I am sue the dev can imagine from in game items players have wanted smaller things seen at Events.
Dragon Statue like the kitty one but gives set amount of necro regs a day
Globe of Travel... Gives the owner a T map (random lvl) 1 per month Looks like the craftable globe, but a bit more colorfull.
Ship paint of metalic color (Random )

Fall Set:

Demon statue like kitty giving Mystic regs
Pumpkin seeds pack of 10 seeds that can grow a different shaped pumpkin... in the raised gardenbed or pot.
Wine Press ... a wheat machine redone for grapes.... has perhaps a vine leaf decoration and gives for every 10 grapes a bottle of a rl wine type.
pot and pan rack to hang on wall that has copper pots and pans deco only
Frilly apron that says "kiss the cook"
Table dinner set IE: silverwear with plate and glass setting in one ( can come ether silver or gold Random)

Winter set:

Ship statue like the Kitty would give random peerless reagents
Snow tiles set of 4
Set of Tuffets (benches) Round, Square, Oval. Fabric colorable only
IceBox... look like the old 19oo's cold storage for food. Opens to 3 shelfs for display of food. (125 item total storage ) Random wood
Bird cage on a stand... canary of different color (random) sings bird chirps songs
Globe (like the singing) Plays one of 4 different sounds (forest, ocean, winds, storm... random )

I dont want vet rewards to become meaningless, dont make into purchasable as for the shard shields no way jose!

 

[BrianFreud]

I dont want vet rewards to become meaningless, dont make into purchasable as for the shard shields no way jose!

They wouldn't be meaningless, any more than they currently are made so when compared with transfer tokens. The vet reward gives it for free; the store one wouldn't be free. There's the "reward" - saved cost, not rather than splitting the population into shield haves and not-haves...

 

[The Old Man]

I think vet rewards lost most of their meaning when anyone was allowed to use them.
See someone on an ethy tiger...Is it a vet of however many years it takes to earn one, or is it someone who paid their first subscription today, bought gold with RL money & bought the tiger ?

The only reward that is account bound is the one that is the most use...The Shard Shield! All the others are really more for looks and (in the past) status. Strange World

I dont want vet rewards to become meaningless, dont make into purchasable as for the shard shields no way jose!

 

[Warpig Inc]

Exactly. Rewards for time served. Making the eth rides used at any age just shows how on many aspects they have no clue. Deco and producing items should not ba age regulated. Not rewarding an age vet bling that gives a status image is wrong. A two year vet not happy with an ossi eth needs to spit out the wabba and put on the big boy pants. Characters don't wrinkle and grey. But a 17th year vet reward of a flying carpet for only 17+ year old accounts. Well at least it can show someone that bought an account that has been active and someone didn't want it to go stale.

 

[The Old Man]

Makes sense to me Warpig....Bling that shows a toon is a Veteran should be account bound, things that make a significant difference to how the game is played should be available to everyone....Presuming that they have put in the hours to raise the skills, farmed the gold, had the RL luck to get the drop, etc.
Just because one person has something useful does'nt mean everyone should be GIVEN it, but everyone should have the realistic oppertunity of earning it if they put in the 'work'.

Exactly. Rewards for time served. Making the eth rides used at any age just shows how on many aspects they have no clue. Deco and producing items should not ba age regulated. Not rewarding an age vet bling that gives a status image is wrong. A two year vet not happy with an ossi eth needs to spit out the wabba and put on the big boy pants. Characters don't wrinkle and grey. But a 17th year vet reward of a flying carpet for only 17+ year old accounts. Well at least it can show someone that bought an account that has been active and someone didn't want it to go stale.

 

[Lady Storm]

Dear Mr BrianFreud2...
Let me intro you to myself, I am a lady who has been in this game for so long and paid not just for 1 account but more then the 53 i currently own over the years... many a friend who found it hard to pay or had to leave fora few months for service to our country have left to my care their accounts and I kept them up and running just as they left them til their return. Oh I have made sure they got gifts and trinkets the Dev have given in their absence. But in all that never ever have I coveted their rewards as a good deal of you are.
Let me get this point crystal clear to all of you...
Vet rewards have been from the day they were offered to us a point of contention from the have and have nots of UO society at large.
I have seen happen many steal accounts back from players they sold them to to get the highly priced in RL cash items to make a buck more off the game they gave away.
Let me tell you I dont like the fact that the higher end Ethys are a easy buy.... oh i liked the fact the Dev offerd to the non-vet player the ability to ride the first years mounts... but I wish to hell they had not done so to the more advanced monuts.
Now as for the Shard Shields...
The minute the Dev put them up forsale, the slimy element of the games under cord will come out and take them for use and what little is left of our peace from the sales force that erks with sales pitches and books littering the floor will skyrocket.
Think for a second ...
They can make shields up the kazoo for all the shards and flood the Atlantic market with what ever can be mined , hunted, stole, and looted from the far ends of UO.. unfettered by the purchase of another transfer token EVER!
Imagine the old vet accounts that have been stripped of their rewards now have a value ... shield use!
Every shards will have teams of bots harvesting everything and shipping to where it makes the most RL cash... all on your back door.
If you think I am blowing smoke out of my tail pipe.. I can see you never saw a strip miner leave you no way to get the mats you need..
I can tell you the shields are nice but do you really want to open up the last dregs of our game to money grubbing jerks who couldnt care less.
No I say to the shields being forsale...

 

[BrianFreud]

Storm, no offense, but you seem to have missed the fact that this already happened, many, many years ago.

Shields *are* for sale. They're just not for sale from EA. Instead, it's entire accounts being sold, ones which have either shields, or unclaimed rewards, of at least a certain age. I've received, at last count, 7 offers to buy such accounts just this month. They're also listed for sale on many UO sites, though not on this particular site. Wouldn't you rather see EA/OSI/Mythic/Broadsword/whoever make the money, rather than 3rd party players (to the nature of $700-$2000, based on this month's offers)?

Oh, by the way? I really could care less how many accounts you run, or how long you've been playing. It makes no difference how many accounts you have, or how many houses, or how much gold. You are still a single person in this community. Those who farm already own shields, in abundance. (Side note, I fail to see why you think specifically old accounts w/store-purchased shields would suddenly be used for shield use.)

If it tells you something about how long I've played, my first character was born in Occlo. I've personally run anywhere for 2 to 35 accounts at any one given time, and currently run 14 of them. I've left UO, and come back to UO, several times. And it seems that I've had this argument in the past. The inequality of shields today is the greatest inequality created by any vet reward, in my opinion, but it's not the first time that such an inequality has existed. When the "etheral" horse first came out, anyone who actually still had to spend gold buying replacement horses - 1k was actually a decent amount then, and no pet bonding/resurrection, remember - was at a disadvantage. Then there was the time when my very popular scribe shop suddenly lost 90% of its customers, because I didn't have the brand new runebook dye tub, and nearly all traffic shifted to those few players who could sell *colored* runebooks.

I argued way back as far as the first ethereal that vet rewards should only ever be status symbols, and NEVER items with functionality otherwise unavailable to the brand new player who is sufficiently determined to earn sufficient gold (or, I guess, with the EA store, willing to spend real life $). I still will argue this.

Plus, realistically, if they're farming resources and selling them (or the gold that comes from selling them), the profit involved from a fully loaded trip w/60k deeds would far outweigh the cost, to that theoretical farmer, of a single transfer token. So either way, they already can (and do) do what you fear, so what other argument do you have against it?

 

[Lady Storm]

BrianFreud2 Yes and they want those old accounts for the very same reason I stated above.
Sugar I own Napa Valleys Ocllo ... I have I think the games last tower on said island and a few more homes there.
Oh, and 47 at any given day (depending on the account managment fickle billing system that is) but I own 53 accounts.
To get the Shields..
To use the tokens for illicit sales of UO goods Across the Shards.
You are not the only one being hit up for older accounts by shady under the rug types..
Do you realize the amount of real life cash the game generates for them?
It is nothing to sneeze at, and its not just gold they sell.
Where do you think vendors on some of the more populous shards have 1 or more 60k deeds forsale of wood, gems, ore, or leather.
These items are from the very same "bots " owners who harvest the lower shards for the mats... and have farms full of reward stumps, ore carts, and sheep.
I have seen one house on a shard that was nothing but floor apon floor of each and I bet it was a "Farmer" account.
No dear, I do give a rats tush that they have said accounts from the unwarry of past players, and I bet they pay the minimum they can to keep said houses up.

So NO
The shields dont go up forsale... over my dead body!

I dont want to feed the cheats, dupers and scammers who feed off the game I happen to like very much.

 

[Lady Storm]

Edit is not working correctly ...
They want our old acounts to do harm and make money...
Slip this in below "To get the Shields..."

 

[Smoot]

BrianFreud2 Yes and they want those old accounts for the very same reason I stated above.
Sugar I own Napa Valleys Ocllo ... I have I think the games last tower on said island and a few more homes there.
Oh, and 47 at any given day (depending on the account managment fickle billing system that is) but I own 53 accounts.
To get the Shields..
To use the tokens for illicit sales of UO goods Across the Shards.
You are not the only one being hit up for older accounts by shady under the rug types..
Do you realize the amount of real life cash the game generates for them?
It is nothing to sneeze at, and its not just gold they sell.
Where do you think vendors on some of the more populous shards have 1 or more 60k deeds forsale of wood, gems, ore, or leather.
These items are from the very same "bots " owners who harvest the lower shards for the mats... and have farms full of reward stumps, ore carts, and sheep.
I have seen one house on a shard that was nothing but floor apon floor of each and I bet it was a "Farmer" account.
No dear, I do give a rats tush that they have said accounts from the unwarry of past players, and I bet they pay the minimum they can to keep said houses up.

So NO
The shields dont go up forsale... over my dead body!

I dont want to feed the cheats, dupers and scammers who feed off the game I happen to like very much.

So you would rather dupers creating affordable transfer tokens for those without shard shields, rather than EA profiting from the legit sale of shard shields for a decent price, $100-$150

Regular transfer tokens should be about 100mil converting cheapest gold price to dollar amount. They are 50mil. Ever wonder why? its because dupers provide cheap tokens to those without shields.

 

[BrianFreud]

Storm, I've read that 3 times now, and it's still difficult to follow. But from what I do understand you to be saying, you're simply not making sense.

First you said you were afraid that shields would be purchased and used to flood the market. Now you're agreeing with me that that already happens, using vet shields attached to vet accounts.

So, umm, what is your point? They're already doing what you're afraid they'd do, as you seem to have agreed. So now we have the farmers/sellers owning shields, the real vets owning shields, those willing to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on vet accounts owning shields... it's only the everyday player who maybe is new, or is returning from time away, who doesn't have access... and at $20 a pop, transfers aren't cheap.

My sense is, one-time transfers need to come down to some reasonable amount, like $5 per, and shields need to be made available to buy. Otherwise, you'll continue to have an economy that just grows more and more out of whack, and new/returning players will take one look, see how expensive everything is, and walk away. In that case, you can continue to have your status symbol shields, Storm... but without new people coming [back] to UO, you won't have them for many more years until your 55 accounts are among the only ones left playing.

 

[Lady Storm]

Sugar Duped tokens are detectable and the Dev are very hip on the boards to catch the run like on the mythic tokens.
But the shields give a leverage to those low life scums that strip players of more then just a few mill gold.

Yes and I can tell you this much... IF I ever see it .... or find out who... their tush is so fast in UO jail
Do I make my self clear?
Zero tollerence.
If you think I am tough, Wait till Bonnie gets her hands on them....
Shall we say scorched earth...

 

[BrianFreud]

Yes and I can tell you this much... IF I ever see it .... or find out who... their tush is so fast in UO jail
Do I make my self clear?
Zero tollerence.
If you think I am tough, Wait till Bonnie gets her hands on them....
Shall we say scorched earth...

Storm, you're just another player, same as me or Smoot or anyone. You don't have the power to put anyone in UO jail, or to do anything else outside of normal gameplay actions.

But let's keep this confined to the topic; Bonnie wanted suggestions for what to add to the store. I'm suggesting, among other things, that shields be added. You disagree. Enough said; let's not hijack this thread.

 

[Lady Storm]

Agreed.
No Shields sold..
Thx for seeing it my way...

P.S. Yes I am that powerfull... well we all are. Turning in these low lifes who rob the game blind helps all of us.

 

[BrianFreud]

Agreed.
No Shields sold..
Thx for seeing it my way...

Where did I agree with you that shields should not be sold? Please don't put words in my mouth; I was quite clear where I stand.