Keep in mind she is the Producer.. not a graphic artist... not a computer programmer.. but the Producer. The Producer is not responsible for coding the game but has the responsibility of assigning the order of importance of issues and how long an expected fix would take.. and weighing that against the output the team is able to do.. while keeping a vision for the game and hopefully be consistent with Ultima Lore while adding new content...Not to mention... this is what takes mesannas time? This was the top priority among other things like account management site, EC bugs, finding an em for chessy? The list could of gone on for a long time.
She couldn't of had a minion go delete items and reset the naverey hole while she focused on bigger and better things? or is it because she isnt capable of doing anything more than resetting a hole in the game?
Keep in mind she is the Producer.. not a graphic artist... not a computer programmer.. but the Producer. The Producer is not responsible for coding the game but has the responsibility of assigning the order of importance of issues and how long an expected fix would take.. and weighing that against the output the team is able to do.. while keeping a vision for the game and hopefully be consistent with Ultima Lore while adding new content...
I mean.. if you want a huge Dev team like we had years ago that could knock out a lot more than they can now... then start putting friends in the game and increase the revenue, heck I have added 4 to the game in the last month and working on bringing a lot of the old vets back that used to play (the draw of a possibly free castle is a huge draw)
Throwing her and the rest of the team in the pit of Hell every chance anyone in the Community sees fit is definitely not the way to increase productivity... Verbally bashing them ANY time they are in game or on forums is not a recipe for that either.... just makes them want to avoid the fanbase... I konw I never seek out the rude, crude, abrasive asshat co-worker at any break I get? In fact when I saw them walk up in the past I just walk the heck off.... Just my .02 ....
No reason to lose respect for each other in a debate as long as its intelligent.Ya know @Scribbles ... that I know of, I did not know you in game personally, but knew of you by your reputation so I do respect you based on that..
and I did wind up with a BOOK in response to you, but out of that respect I just deleted it all... so in holding with @AtlanticRealtor 's post above I will let Sgt. Hulka, the Big Toe himself speak for me...
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It is proven that people were not designed to multitask. Pick an objective and do it.Ill leave this here for you. What is more of a priority.
Naverey hole/clops house or....
Account management site that was stated by her to be done with in a year over two years ago.
EC public looting corspes which she evidently cant reproduce even though everyone that plays EC has this problem
The Memory leak in CC that forces people to restart the program.
The EC crashing issue with spellbooks
Pets disappearing issue
the world wide publish set to come out soon
the multiboxing cheaters, afk resource scripters
The EM events using graphics that make people crash...
every shard doesnt have a naverey hole that is permanently installed. ATL is now even more special than it was before. All the other shard tamers can go to naverey just fine by playing the game through normal means. She just set a precedent she will not be able to uphold when it comes helping shards/players. The naverey hole was a player item. In every instance before hand if a player was caught cheating and their accounts/houses were deleted all the items went too. She just memorialized clops infamous reign by putting that hole permanently at reward hall. Something she has stated several times she didnt want to do.It is proven that people were not designed to multitask. Pick an objective and do it.
If you train pets, this is huge. Navrey has players all day long on LS. There will be many happy consumers as a result of this action. She cant fix any of the other issues you mentioned. Except to tell the EMs not to do that effect, but maybe they have no other option as of now.
Not sure if you intended it, but this made me LOL thinking it was some dirty wording.Congrats on getting your navery hole saved atlantic.
Wasn't intented thanks for pointing out made me LOLNot sure if you intended it, but this made me LOL thinking it was some dirty wording.
With all the negativity in the world today, if you're finding hatred in your heart from playing a video game, I would kindly suggest you move onto other past times. It will probably reduce your stress and lengthen your life.I will forever be a part of the "hate Mesanna" fan club.
It would be so easy to fix this game... to make it enjoyable for all.Fyi, npc vendors on production shards respawn their goods like clockwork, on Siege however they don't. I paged many times to no avail and emailed several times, all I got was an email from her saying it was working as intended. So congratulations on getting yet another personal thing fixed, it's really really cool, and you're all very very fortunate.
Agreed. It's a game people. Keep it in perspective.With all the negativity in the world today, if you're finding hatred in your heart from playing a video game, I would kindly suggest you move onto other past times. It will probably reduce your stress and lengthen your life.
There is a difference with valuable critique and just espousing negativity for the purpose of being a griefer. I'm not saying the developers are above criticism by any means what so ever, but there is no need for hate here on these forums.
Hard not to when we are ignored at every meet and greet and they say cheating is ok. This is my game as much as everyone else's....With all the negativity in the world today, if you're finding hatred in your heart from playing a video game, I would kindly suggest you move onto other past times. It will probably reduce your stress and lengthen your life.
There is a difference with valuable critique and just espousing negativity for the purpose of being a griefer. I'm not saying the developers are above criticism by any means what so ever, but there is no need for hate here on these forums.
Well you have made it clear you will never own a restaurant.Don't worry, after she did that ATL didn't go down for 16 minutes and then have an hour revert... wait a minute... it did.
Not to mention... this is what takes mesannas time? This was the top priority among other things like account management site, EC bugs, finding an em for chessy? The list could of gone on for a long time.
She couldn't of had a minion go delete items and reset the naverey hole while she focused on bigger and better things? or is it because she isn't capable of doing anything more than resetting a hole in the game?
If I was the manager of a restaurant You wouldn't catch me taking out the trash. Id probably be counting money while i sent an employee to do the crap work.
Fair enough, but in that same respect... so are these public forums.This is my game as much as everyone else's....
funny I managed a couple right after college. My food cost was near perfect, extremely low turn over, my books were never off, I never over ordered, and I love managing a group of people. The reason why? I could do everyone's job and had no problem teaching them how to do it.Well you have made it clear you will never own a restaurant.
Gee, that's great. Now if she only knew how to treat ALL shards fairly...but she doesn't...oh... and the Navery Hole was not the reason she logged onto Atlantic. She logged on trying to catch the guy who had stuff on the Auction Safes.. while she was there I asked her to save the Navery Hole and a few others began asking/begging as well. She was already juggling a lot of things and took time out of an already busy schedule to accommodate a LARGE piece of Atlantic's fanbase..
it amazes me how people can flame her for customer service... smh
8. Make non-Sampire fully trained melee templates at least as tough as fully trained pets in average gear.It would be so easy to fix this game... to make it enjoyable for all.
1. Make an Idoc-search. (Will stop a lot of cheating instantly with cutting Idoc man's funding and more paging on bots.)
2. Change back the phoenix.
3. Stop multi-boxers/cheaters. (Easy to identify... watch auctions and auction safes and "care," instead of saying to win any way you want and that they like 'more accounts.')
4. Let us have transfers once a month for free [shard shield holders can go every day...]
5. Let us have 2-3 houses per account so the shards fill back up / housing market comes back....
6. Let us imbue 12 property items now.... so blacksmithing/tailoring is useful again..... and us suit makers can make suits instead of "buying them."
7. Fix tiny bugs like the seadragon at that seamarket on the one shard or the resources on Seige you mention @GarthGrey. The bugs should be of top priority. Stabilize the game that is there before adding more... We don't need more land to spread out the population.... unless you are going to allow housing and 2-3 houses per account. Then we still really don't need to spread out the population more... I like to see my neighbors sometimes..
I love Ultima and want to see Mesanna succeed. I want to see the contract renewed and the Halloween skeleton event go off like a hitch and hope to see tons of people returning in October and December. But come on now... show us it's not all about the money. Let us have extra houses, idoc searches, and free once a month shard xfers for the 20th. Fix blacksmithing/tailoring by changing the property limit now that there are 19 property items floating about. Those are all super easy. Better yet, give us 20x20 customizable houses to boot. Play to the player base... and bring excitement. Bring commitment... to stop cheaters and people who are ruining the game scripting resources / EM items with 10 accounts xhealing. Who else can do those? @Mesanna
I would have let the Navery hole burn personally... because now it's a trophy to Clops' memory. Thanks Clops' for driving the prices sky high and making tons of people rich for 4-5 years with things like fake uniques and glacial cloth.... But that aside, there are things that could be done to save and fix this game. The animal taming patch was good. Now can we start working on the "list" please?? I realize this is just my list... but I think most would agree that this list would definitely bring people back to the game. Nothing screams excitement like decorating a 2nd or 3rd house, even if it's tiny (aka bring back the housing market by allowing us all to have 2-3 houses and fill up the shards.) Give us Idoc searches so we don't have to waste time walking/running the shard if we ever do those (haven't in 9-10 months now to date.) Idoc man takes care of all loot sells now; I hear he's feeding his family well.......
Classic quote and classic movie, this made my morning to see thisYa know @Scribbles ... that I know of, I did not know you in game personally, but knew of you by your reputation so I do respect you based on that..
and I did wind up with a BOOK in response to you, but out of that respect I just deleted it all... so in holding with @AtlanticRealtor 's post above I will let Sgt. Hulka, the Big Toe himself speak for me...
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The item should have been deleted, it came from the worst possible source and by accepting it into the game world we, collectively, have said "this one item" is ok.....and the next item is?..oh... and the Navery Hole was not the reason she logged onto Atlantic. She logged on trying to catch the guy who had stuff on the Auction Safes.. while she was there I asked her to save the Navery Hole and a few others began asking/begging as well. She was already juggling a lot of things and took time out of an already busy schedule to accommodate a LARGE piece of Atlantic's fanbase..
it amazes me how people can flame her for customer service... smh
Hey, we cannot help it if the dev's spelled it wrong when they released her.Oh for the love of giant killer spiders!!!! It's NAVREY people, not NAVERY or NARVEY!!!! Sorry but it just drives me crazy, it's no wonder she wants to kill us all...![]()
Oddly enough I was able to figure out who the person she was getting the stuff for and I am not gonna "out him"... but he is a legit guy and has one of the better reps in the game imho. I am sure if Mesanna would have went to get this persons items and it was something like a glacial ethy or anything else illegal she would have told him to stick it the item was going in trashAnyways, I wanted to inquire about this "finding the guy selling stuff". Does this imply that the team has created a way to sell otherwise illegal items with no downside? I must admit that I don't know anything about this person, what they are selling or where it might be yet it sounds fishy to me...
NM found the info on another thread....just delete it all.
There are no minions left.She couldn't of had a minion
Actually there is one..in the wikiAnd what's the downside of her not playing this "flavor of the week" stuff? Can you only imagine the game had she not spent days painting masks or other silly crap and instead worked at creating new blood? You can't even find a "how to play" guide on the main UO site, how sad.
I agree, the game is not even near to be perfect, but same time, when you have 99% of the posts here, only pancakes about this and that and only complaining and than more complains, gets tired and the people that work for the game eventually will get tired as well and quit, and than what, what game you will play???? when UO shuts down???And what's the downside of her not playing this "flavor of the week" stuff? Can you only imagine the game had she not spent days painting masks or other silly crap and instead worked at creating new blood? You can't even find a "how to play" guide on the main UO site, how sad.
There are plenty of programmers out there with the knowledge and workings of UO. If the devs are tired let them quit, If mesanna is burnt let her retire. God knows they have worked hard for long enough. I cant link certain things here but i promise you there are far superior people out there that can work on UO and have been doing it with less resources better for years.I agree, the game is not even near to be perfect, but same time, when you have 99% of the posts here, only pancakes about this and that and only complaining and than more complains, gets tired and the people that work for the game eventually will get tired as well and quit, and than what, what game you will play???? when UO shuts down???
The few people that complain a lot about her and say that they can do a better job as programmer, I will ask you this:
Last year they had Open positions for programmers, why dont you apply???? and maybe you can help solve all the problems that you sure know have a better way to fix!!!
Because you had to move to Texas USA and there is no way i'm moving there for the money they were offering.I agree, the game is not even near to be perfect, but same time, when you have 99% of the posts here, only pancakes about this and that and only complaining and than more complains, gets tired and the people that work for the game eventually will get tired as well and quit, and than what, what game you will play???? when UO shuts down???
The few people that complain a lot about her and say that they can do a better job as programmer, I will ask you this:
Last year they had Open positions for programmers, why dont you apply???? and maybe you can help solve all the problems that you sure know have a better way to fix!!!