HEheehhee well methinks..... we know the answer...we always have.... its simply the stratics crowd.... just look at the stratics total........please no more crap that ingame players dont use stratics...- why wouldnt they....only place for info etc etc .. its not rocket science is it....a good 1000 is still positive in my eye .....and most have many ...many ... many.... accounts... so we good for 5k plus subs.. and the uo store sales .....will keep us afloat... we good we good to brag too 20 years blah blah blah and still 1k-2k players.. thats very good methinks and will keep the light on for many a yeart while folks pay 4-5 castles .. some 40-50 accounts.. hey each to there own but they ALL READ ON HERE
My guild has say 20 active, and of them, I'm the only active poster here.
Most have no interest or clue about Stratics, they get relevant information from myself or a couple of other guildies who do read here.
Most of my guild are pvpers who play in Fel, so are not really interested in the content here, Stratics nor the game developers cater to them, or very very rarely do content or updates for Fel.
Only 2 of us are doing the new content Arc quests (which I do enjoy by the way), and while we grind and struggle our way through it, the rest are sat there thinking how to get more PvP, they did 3 Harries in a row last night. Do we send a team to Atlantic for more PvP, or do we send a team to that Shard where they have stopped anyone getting access to Powerscrolls, and break that cartel, these are the questions my guild discuss.
Even myself, I think I have been banned in the past a few times from Stratics, my behaviour was perfectly fine, I just rubbed the Stratics elite up the wrong way in those days, they were very closed shop and had that reputation in the old days. Stratics staff themselves are a tiny bit more flexible these days, and the users themselves have grown up a bit (including myself).
I've played 18+ years, I only created this account in 2014, and only did my first batch of posts in April 2017, when I felt things ingame were going way off course.
I actually feel now, this development team are beginning to see things from a players perspective better, I don't doubt their technical ability or commitment, I just thought before I came here to show a bit of a view of the other side, their thinking was extremely straightjacketed, and everything was about Trammel and Sampires. I am very pleased they have expanded on that thinking.
Back to your point, I know a ton of players who do not use Stratics, outside of my guild also. Older players who are just happy to play the game, casual players and PvPers.
UOGuide has a ton of great information, and I will be honest, I still cannot myself use either the UO wiki, or the Stratics wiki, I have never used them, due to not knowing how to find stuff on them. For me, UOGuide is a perfect way of doing things. It's annoying, as I know the 2 latter have more up to date information, but this morning, I've been looking for the 20th anniversary arc data on Stratics wiki, and cannot find it.
