1) Gargoyles are now a race in the game. Flying comes with the race. Yes, one can be respectful and land but some don't. Honestly, spamming "please land" disrupts the event more so than the flying. It's called Adaptation. You adapt to the game mechanics you are given. Flying is apart of the Gargoyle race. Get use to it.
2) Going back to Larisa's picture. Many things can be negated by the EM's and players if it were a problem. The EM is portraying a dragon. Dragons in mythology are mighty beings - feared by all. So in retrospect, what would be more intimidating? A Dragon ground level or a Dragon on the mountain? If the EM landed on the mountain ledge, we all could still see his/her text. This would eliminate the so called spam given from the surroundings. Once again, adaptation. You work with what you are given.
3) There is NO such thing as a HOME shard anymore. The player base of Ultima Online can not support the idea a singe account being subjected to just one server and calling that official. Not to mention playing multiple shards is also a
PLAY STYLE IN ITSELF. Which is a nice segway into the next topic:
- a) Lets face it. If the communities of UO keep this attitude up, what will be the future of this game? When I joined the Governor system on Atlantic on the second tier of the system - I was shunned and ignored by the other governors because I wasn't part of their little 'clique'. Which is distasteful. Just because I didn't join their roleplaying guild, or join their forum boards, I was an outcast and was treated as one. Those players, most of them, since moved onto Catskills. Which is why the whole fiasco with the election on Catskills was made of Drama. If you aren't in their little clique, than they considered you an outcast.
- b) EM events. Hello... wake up. I hear people crying left and right because the 'xsharders' got your drop and you didn't get one even though you were a native. Let me explain something. Item drop quantity has been determined by how many people show up. Atlantic gets around 100 people, so their drops are 20. Lets say that xsharders were completely banned, somehow, to go to events on shards not their own. That leave around 10-15 people attending, maybe less, maybe more. Of the 10-15 people, that means there can only be around 1-5 item drops. The things is... QUIT WHINING BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GET A DROP. IT IS A FAIR SYSTEM... JUST WORK AT IT.
- c) Pvp. I noticed on Atlantic that PvP'ers always complain that there is no one new to kill. Once again, if you treat your community like trash, it will not grow. People who want to join PVP get trash talked and belittled. After a while, it is no longer fun because you are mocked and degraded to an extent that you just move onto something else.
4) The only time that people were really bad at events was when it was top damager. That was because those particular people were mostly trash talk pvp'ers from Atlantic. They were only there for the items. Now since the drop system has changed, you don't really see it as often. Yes, it is still there, but not as much as before. This can be SOLVED BY GIVING MORE POWERS TO EM'S AND ADVISORS TO DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE. If those particular players were put into their spot, then it would stop. However, since they have been allowed to get away with it for so long, they know that they can do this without any consequence.
5) To be perfectly honest, I don't care if an EM see's that they are being talked about. If they are doing something that is wrong, then why shouldn't they be brought to light on it?
- Chessy with the constant lying to players. (yes they do this quite a lot)
- Lake Superior with their player events hosted by EM's. This is an EM position and yet they are being paid to basically host player events. Not to mention the EM has a VERY hard time staying in character.
- Drachenfels with their plagiarism. This is a HIGHLY ILLEGAL thing to do. The EM is a PAID employee of EA. He represents EA. His job it CREATE stories of his own and bring them to the game. Instead, for the past 4 months, all he has done is copy and paste from Grims Fairy Tales. That is lazy, irresponsible, and plagiarism. EA could get into serious trouble because one of their paid employees is stealing published work from another source and saying it is his own.
- Pacific. Their main EM does about 3 event stories into one. There is so much that it overwhelms the players. He goes from one thing to another without any explanation of what anything is. The events are basically 45minute to one hour of complete randomness. He has not viable transitions that would give off the impression or explanation of why this particular monster is here or why this particular NPC is significant. Nothing he does leads to any recollection of any major character.
6) If you have to go on a major deciphering frenzy to know that an event is something that is wasn't advertised to be, than that EM has failed at their position. An EM's job is to welcome players and bring interesting story that is
FUN to players. When you do an event for 2 hours long and basically tell people to leave the event, all of this whilst a very select few go hunt down the item drop. This is a poor event. It is only subjective to one group of players and not the rest of the event players that attend the event. Chessy has done this SO many times. When they lied to the players regarding the cutlasses is another prime example. Stating that is was an accident they couldn't be equipped only to later find out that they requested it to be like that.
7) It isn't always about the item. Yes, when you sit at an event for TWO HOURS and there is no item, okay that's fine in itself. But when you set at the for TWO HOURS while 2 people go grab all the items, then yes, there is room for being mad. That event was geared to ONLY a select few people which is NOT how an event item drop is suppose to be distributed. An Event Item is remembrance of that event. When one player gets 9 items out of 9 drops, than that is not fair and the EM should be called out on it.
8) If you lag and it is a MAJOR issue for you, invest in a better computer or better connection. I've lagged for over 5 years playing the game. I always got mad at things I shouldn't get mad at. I finally did what was reasonable and bought a better computer. I hardly lag anymore.. problem solve.
TRUTH IS... QUIT SHUNNING PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY PLAY A DIFFERENT CLASS THAN YOU DO. MANY PEOPLE PLAY DIFFERENT SHARDS WHILE SOME PLAY ONE. IT IS A PLAY STYLE. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT, FINE, BUT DO NOT EXCLUDE THEM BECAUSE OF IT. THIS IS WHAT WILL
ULTIMATELY KILL THIS GAME. THE PLAYERS WILL BE THE ONE WHO PULLS THE PLUG.
@Mesanna
AMD Phenom X4 955 with 8 gb of RAM and a 250/50 connection. One would think a 17 year old game wouldn't require more than that. Oh - wait - it's the client software that's horrible at handling animations, not the hardware. 
