Browsed the DAoC website today and noticed Broadsword's adding some new features to that game. As always, this left me wondering if the higher-ups at Broadsword might be planning to add similar features to UO. For example, see the following items from patch notes and weekly "grab bag" questions and answers documents: (I tried to bold the most interesting parts; hopefully doesn't make this post blow up into a super-unformatted mess!)
- "We have a 1.123B version coming very soon to Pendragon that will have additional class changes to several classes that didn’t make it into the 1.123A notes AND tweaks to several of the changes made in 1.123A based on your feedback. Additionally, and the reason for the wait thus far, is that we are also introducing the new Mithril currency and shop. We were able to squeeze in an armor, cloak, and weapon “patterning” system that will allow characters to copy the look of their existing items onto their other items (with some restrictions)! " Dark Age of Camelot
- "For MTX [microtransactions], we’d eventually like to add a robust item-reskinning system but for the first iteration we will only be offering existing items with different, but un-changing skins." Dark Age of Camelot
- "Users can now set which monitor they want the full-screen borderless windowed client to appear on if they have multiple monitors. Windowed, borderless windowed, and full-screen graphics settings now update on the character select screen instead of requiring users to login and logout to get the settings to update." Dark Age of Camelot
- "I am an old school player from EU-Server Stonehenge and have been playing for a total of 15 years now. To be honest, I have absolutely no overview, how many characters I have created on all the several servers. Therefore I was wondering, if there will be a website and/or a client feature, to get an overview for all of my toons on all the different servers and in addition on the old archived servers as well! This is a feature we would really like to add to our account center website but unfortunately is not quite ready yet. However, our CSRs are happy to give you a rundown of where your characters are. Simply file an Emergency Appeal in-game requesting a rundown of your accounts’ characters and their server locations. In most cases, that information will be emailed to you within a couple days. The CSRs will only provide the location of level 50 characters as accounts sometimes have many dozens of non-50 characters. If you do want to know where your non-level 50 characters are, just be sure to explicitly state so in your appeal, and they’ll name the servers in their reply!" Dark Age of Camelot
- "Dark Age of Camelot website revamp!" Dark Age of Camelot From February 17th producer letter: "Lastly, we are still hard at work on the new website and official forums. After much of the groundwork has been done, we've gone a different direction on the layout of the site and apologize for the delay in getting it out. We hope to have this new version of the site out by this Summer with tools like a searchable Item Database (an official downloadable version will be released sooner) and Realmwar/Leaderboards included! " Dark Age of Camelot
- "And finally, some detailed updates on alternate server and ongoing Ywain plans!" Dark Age of Camelot
- "Come back to Camelot Campaign. It's easier than ever to Come Back to Camelot as returning players now get several rewards to help them quickly get up to speed including a new suit of competitive gear, a cache of bounty points, champion level experience, and much more! We are offering returning players 30 FREE days to come back and explore, experience, and join the Realm vs Realm struggle! In order to participate, simply visit the Account Center, login, and re-subscribe; the free 30 days will be automatically applied to the account. This offer is only valid from April 24th through May 22nd, 2017 to accounts that have been inactive for at least 60 days and are in good standing." Dark Age of Camelot
Note that prior to the above two notes, there was this Q&A answer about the possibility of a Return to Camelot campaign: "Our last Come Back to Camelot campaign was a huge success, so we will definitely have another. However, first we’re going to focus on addressing many of the concerns we’ve received from the playerbase about classes, RvR, and items. Once those concerns are addressed appropriately, we will have a Come Back to Camelot Campaign as a way to incentivize players to come back and see the changes. Doing a campaign prior to making those changes wouldn’t be as effective. In the meantime we have the new A Dragon’s Curse PvE campaign, seasonal events, and battleground weekends to help increase the population. On a longer term though we are considering offering an alternative ruleset server that will attract players who may not be interested in Ywain and its ruleset back to the game in conjunction with either a Come Back to Camelot campaign or other incentives for players to return to and stay on Ywain as well." Dark Age of Camelot
And a few weeks before that, there was this note in a weekly "grab bag" Q&A: "Is there any update on the player-base survey and its results? The recent survey was a huge success! We were heartened by both the number of respondents and the responses themselves. In short, there appears to be an appetite for some sort of alternative ruleset server. Our team is continuing to flesh out and iterate on the the best approach to deliver one that accomplishes the following goals: (1) Closely meets the most-desired ruleset based on survey results. (2) Can be released in a reasonable timeframe. (3) Allows our team to continually develop and update the Live servers. (4) Ensures the Live servers' remain engaging in the near term after the launch of an alternative ruleset server with the long-term aim of increasing their population. We won't release an alternative ruleset server unless it can meet ALL of those goals. We will be doing a more targeted, follow-up survey in the coming weeks once we are confident in our plan. Until then, stay tuned!" Dark Age of Camelot
With regard to the above-mentioned survey on an alternative ruleset server, the dev team had this to say: "...we have been blown away by the amount of responses to our playerbase survey. Thank you for the several thousand (OMG!) responses and for taking the time to give us such valuable feedback and insight. The survey is now CLOSED while we analyse and discuss the results internally. We will return with a follow up survey soon, so keep your eyes on the Herald!" Dark Age of Camelot
- "We have a 1.123B version coming very soon to Pendragon that will have additional class changes to several classes that didn’t make it into the 1.123A notes AND tweaks to several of the changes made in 1.123A based on your feedback. Additionally, and the reason for the wait thus far, is that we are also introducing the new Mithril currency and shop. We were able to squeeze in an armor, cloak, and weapon “patterning” system that will allow characters to copy the look of their existing items onto their other items (with some restrictions)! " Dark Age of Camelot
- "For MTX [microtransactions], we’d eventually like to add a robust item-reskinning system but for the first iteration we will only be offering existing items with different, but un-changing skins." Dark Age of Camelot
- "Users can now set which monitor they want the full-screen borderless windowed client to appear on if they have multiple monitors. Windowed, borderless windowed, and full-screen graphics settings now update on the character select screen instead of requiring users to login and logout to get the settings to update." Dark Age of Camelot
- "I am an old school player from EU-Server Stonehenge and have been playing for a total of 15 years now. To be honest, I have absolutely no overview, how many characters I have created on all the several servers. Therefore I was wondering, if there will be a website and/or a client feature, to get an overview for all of my toons on all the different servers and in addition on the old archived servers as well! This is a feature we would really like to add to our account center website but unfortunately is not quite ready yet. However, our CSRs are happy to give you a rundown of where your characters are. Simply file an Emergency Appeal in-game requesting a rundown of your accounts’ characters and their server locations. In most cases, that information will be emailed to you within a couple days. The CSRs will only provide the location of level 50 characters as accounts sometimes have many dozens of non-50 characters. If you do want to know where your non-level 50 characters are, just be sure to explicitly state so in your appeal, and they’ll name the servers in their reply!" Dark Age of Camelot
- "Dark Age of Camelot website revamp!" Dark Age of Camelot From February 17th producer letter: "Lastly, we are still hard at work on the new website and official forums. After much of the groundwork has been done, we've gone a different direction on the layout of the site and apologize for the delay in getting it out. We hope to have this new version of the site out by this Summer with tools like a searchable Item Database (an official downloadable version will be released sooner) and Realmwar/Leaderboards included! " Dark Age of Camelot
- "And finally, some detailed updates on alternate server and ongoing Ywain plans!" Dark Age of Camelot
- "Come back to Camelot Campaign. It's easier than ever to Come Back to Camelot as returning players now get several rewards to help them quickly get up to speed including a new suit of competitive gear, a cache of bounty points, champion level experience, and much more! We are offering returning players 30 FREE days to come back and explore, experience, and join the Realm vs Realm struggle! In order to participate, simply visit the Account Center, login, and re-subscribe; the free 30 days will be automatically applied to the account. This offer is only valid from April 24th through May 22nd, 2017 to accounts that have been inactive for at least 60 days and are in good standing." Dark Age of Camelot
Note that prior to the above two notes, there was this Q&A answer about the possibility of a Return to Camelot campaign: "Our last Come Back to Camelot campaign was a huge success, so we will definitely have another. However, first we’re going to focus on addressing many of the concerns we’ve received from the playerbase about classes, RvR, and items. Once those concerns are addressed appropriately, we will have a Come Back to Camelot Campaign as a way to incentivize players to come back and see the changes. Doing a campaign prior to making those changes wouldn’t be as effective. In the meantime we have the new A Dragon’s Curse PvE campaign, seasonal events, and battleground weekends to help increase the population. On a longer term though we are considering offering an alternative ruleset server that will attract players who may not be interested in Ywain and its ruleset back to the game in conjunction with either a Come Back to Camelot campaign or other incentives for players to return to and stay on Ywain as well." Dark Age of Camelot
And a few weeks before that, there was this note in a weekly "grab bag" Q&A: "Is there any update on the player-base survey and its results? The recent survey was a huge success! We were heartened by both the number of respondents and the responses themselves. In short, there appears to be an appetite for some sort of alternative ruleset server. Our team is continuing to flesh out and iterate on the the best approach to deliver one that accomplishes the following goals: (1) Closely meets the most-desired ruleset based on survey results. (2) Can be released in a reasonable timeframe. (3) Allows our team to continually develop and update the Live servers. (4) Ensures the Live servers' remain engaging in the near term after the launch of an alternative ruleset server with the long-term aim of increasing their population. We won't release an alternative ruleset server unless it can meet ALL of those goals. We will be doing a more targeted, follow-up survey in the coming weeks once we are confident in our plan. Until then, stay tuned!" Dark Age of Camelot
With regard to the above-mentioned survey on an alternative ruleset server, the dev team had this to say: "...we have been blown away by the amount of responses to our playerbase survey. Thank you for the several thousand (OMG!) responses and for taking the time to give us such valuable feedback and insight. The survey is now CLOSED while we analyse and discuss the results internally. We will return with a follow up survey soon, so keep your eyes on the Herald!" Dark Age of Camelot
