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Did anyone compile a breakdown of the key points for those of us who don’t have 2 hours to listen or who can’t stomach watching the anime community person?
I have started transcribing from the YouTube video but I expect it will take me a couple of days to get all the way through it and then proofread it. I'm sure I'll be doing a great job of butchering player names for one thing and I'll admit I'm a bit rusty and out of the loop on stuff that's been going on in-game for a while now so hopefully I don't botch referring to those things as well. But maybe the end result will help give people a quick rundown of what was discussed in the two hours with the development team.
 

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I'm not transcribing just taking notes on key points.

Updates to game client- (Bleak) In Full Swing, making progress on the frame rate, focus on updating back end renderer.
Pushed into fall because of the Shattering coming up on NL.

PvP? Coming end of 2025 into 2026

Revitalize Champ Spawns/Harrower and similar encounters
Adding rewards PvP related (Possible new cloth/hair dyes)

New Holidays coming to Britannia, might include holiday-related PvP items.

More Storage? - Hard No, too much conflict, too many items. We have garden sheds, etc.

New BOD Rewards? - Looking at improving crafting as shown in the latest event

Clean-up points upates? - Potentially

Plans to revitalize Ilsh? - Segway to the new clydesdales and armor sets,

(That's just the first 20 minutes., more to come!)

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4 new elemental horses-
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Electrical (Air)
Lava (Fire)
Ice (Water)
 

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Major Topic, IDOC Housing-

From Kyronix-

Question - Any plans to revist or revise

YES on radar for near future

"Anyone up to shinannigans at IDOCS, you know who you are, it's time to stop because you're not going to like what happens when we have to fix it."

Some ideas- Raffle or Auction

"Those of you out there who are the root cause of this, I know you know who you are, ya'll need to cut it out right now because when we cut it out you're not going to like the outcome, take that as you will"

Direct quote from our leader :)
 

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Love the elemental horses. Hope they are Clydesdale template.
 

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Love the elemental horses. Hope they are Clydesdale template.
Some have beards like Lasher. I think the Earth one will be are first rideable flying mount with its little butt wings and wind blown mane. :)
 

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Major Topic, IDOC Housing-

From Kyronix-

Question - Any plans to revist or revise

YES on radar for near future

"Anyone up to shinannigans at IDOCS, you know who you are, it's time to stop because you're not going to like what happens when we have to fix it."

Some ideas- Raffle or Auction

"Those of you out there who are the root cause of this, I know you know who you are, ya'll need to cut it out right now because when we cut it out you're not going to like the outcome, take that as you will"

Direct quote from our leader :)
Bonnie had said on several occasions in the past that if they felt like they needed to take a hard look at changing the current IDOC situation that they would just kill the system entirely. I absolutely think this is the path that they would likely take. Remove house timers and any indication that the house is in decay. I honestly can not see the trying to develop another system to try to thwart people intent on using their multiple accounts to get more loot. Highly doubtful that their math has changed and they would ban several users with dozens of accounts each.
 

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Bonnie had said on several occasions in the past that if they felt like they needed to take a hard look at changing the current IDOC situation that they would just kill the system entirely. I absolutely think this is the path that they would likely take. Remove house timers and any indication that the house is in decay. I honestly can not see the trying to develop another system to try to thwart people intent on using their multiple accounts to get more loot. Highly doubtful that their math has changed and they would ban several users with dozens of accounts each.
I mean, this seems like that best fix to the issue. Make it so only the owner can see the timer. Boom, IDOC's are no longer a thing that can be scripted. Houses fall, someone comes along later looking for a house spot. Ta'da!

... and yes, I'm saying IDOC'ing is an invalid play style. The only people that cry that it isn't are the ones cornering the housing market and scripting the crud out of the system.
 

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I mean, this seems like that best fix to the issue. Make it so only the owner can see the timer. Boom, IDOC's are no longer a thing that can be scripted. Houses fall, someone comes along later looking for a house spot. Ta'da!

... and yes, I'm saying IDOC'ing is an invalid play style. The only people that cry that it isn't are the ones cornering the housing market and scripting the crud out of the system.
when they started deleting stuff only house vultures remain but idoc has always been a terrible play style
 

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IDOC falls and items go into monster loot tables randomly all over the shard. Anything from rabbits to --- well anything.

Let people know when the house falls and let the killing begin.
 

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This Dev team has ZERO credibility

And all the hype on socials are not going to trick people: newsletter, interviews...etc

Nope, NOT going to waste time reading those.

There are quite enough "wish list" threads from every year if they cared at all.

RESULT is the only language that is acceptable
 

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Continuation:

Upcoming Publish 121 will be all the holiday stuff they do across the fall. New Pumpkins, New Holiday Rewards, New Gift Containers, Sweet event

Q-Purple llama mounts, are they in the future?
Kyronix - Mm..interesting...maybe as a pvp related reward on the harrower?

Will imbuing ever be able to match the legendary gear that drops?
For sure something we can look at, can't guarantee imbuing 12 mods on an item but we'll look into it.


Are there any plans to revisit or revamp some of the old pvm encounters?

Yes, don't foresee any big expansions like ToL but what I do see us doing is a lvl of focus on the existing encounters that either revamp the rewards or update some of the encounter mechanics where it's not going to take away and devote our resources so we're only doing one big update. If you remember back when we did ToL it took us quite awhile to get all that content in, and in that period of time there's not many updates coming into the production environment so one of the things we want to focus on is making sure that we are consistently providing updates for the past couple of months between NL and prodo we have a big NL publish coming up here in a couple of weeks.

NL publish 3 will introduce the shattering and begin the process by (He cut out here) the shard to a production shard of your choice so long as transfers to that shard are normally available.

Going to be an event that goes along with The Shattering that continues the current event arc with the Victor Blackthorn storyline and the Shadow Reavers and the culmination of those events which is ultimately going to lead to The Shattering. When that happens, transfers will be opened up and you'll be able to gather your items and transfer to the prodo server of your choice.

We will be posting a list of items that can be transferred to the FAQ's soon. As we finalize that list. We're also going to be providing you with a tool in game. There's going to be 2 different ways you can test if an item is transferrable or not. Using the item ID skill, you can target an item or a pet and you'll get a little tag on it that says transferrable or not transferrable so you can see at a glance if that's worth keeping or not.

Also we'll be providing a container that is typed to transfer stuff, so if you can drop the item in that container and the container accepts it, you know that it's transferrable.
Mainly deco and pets, legacy items, antiquities, heirlooms. List will be posted soon.
 

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when they started deleting stuff only house vultures remain but idoc has always been a terrible play style
wow and like no one will make a script to continuously rail facets looking for fallen houses and now you have a new er problem.
 

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This Dev team has ZERO credibility

RESULT is the only language that is acceptable
What do you feel they aren't addressing? So far, we've seen excellent results and updates since Kryonix has taken over. Does this team have a way to go before they earn my trust back? Most certainly. However, I feel things are moving in the right direction. New Legacy was a mistake, but it's one that is done and we have to deal with moving forward.

What specifically do you feel the team has failed on since Kryonix has taken over?


wow and like no one will make a script to continuously rail facets looking for fallen houses and now you have a new er problem.
If someone wants to rail the entire facet, then more power to them. They're still going to find the spot hours or days after the house has fallen instead of placing a new spot .01 seconds after the IDOC. Does it solve the problem completely? No, but it's a lot fairer than the current method.
 

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I have started transcribing from the YouTube video but I expect it will take me a couple of days to get all the way through it and then proofread it. I'm sure I'll be doing a great job of butchering player names for one thing and I'll admit I'm a bit rusty and out of the loop on stuff that's been going on in-game for a while now so hopefully I don't botch referring to those things as well. But maybe the end result will help give people a quick rundown of what was discussed in the two hours with the development team.

Tina theres a program that does this for YouTube videos, just give it the url and it's done in seconds. I can post it later once I get to an actual computer
 

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Tina theres a program that does this for YouTube videos, just give it the url and it's done in seconds. I can post it later once I get to an actual computer
Thanks, firec. I thought about looking for something like that, however I wasn't sure how well it would handle adding in time stamps and the name of each person speaking, as well as spelling UO-specific terms. I've only got about another 15 minutes worth of video to transcribe so I'm hoping to post the transcript sometime tomorrow after I proofread it. I'm still interested in knowing about that program though, if you want to provide the url. I think there might be something similar available for Microsoft Word if you have an audio file, but I didn't spend much time investigating it.

I'm enjoying listening to the video and identifying the voices. I've transcribed a lot of audio over the years, especially for work, so it's kind of nice to to exercise those old listening and typing skills again. Knock a little rust off the old brain.
 

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Tina theres a program that does this for YouTube videos, just give it the url and it's done in seconds. I can post it later once I get to an actual computer
Thank you so much for your message this morning. You're a gem!
 

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You can view the transcript PDF here, if I set the access property correctly:
Let me know if you have trouble with the link.

Thank you so much to @firec for providing me a rough transcript with time stamps. It helped greatly with finishing this a little quicker and proofreading it!

I experimented with adding bookmarks to the PDF to tag all the questions and issues that were discussed. Depending on how you view the PDF, you may be able to find a panel or button to let you see all the bookmarks and navigate to each one. In case that doesn't work or you are just curious about what the dev team talked about in this two hour roundtable, here's a list in the order they were covered:

  1. Progress or upcoming improvements to the client.
  2. Additional quality of life features added to the client.
  3. Is there anything on the radar for PvP?
  4. Are there any plans to add more housing storage?
  5. Are there any plans to add more BOD rewards?
  6. Are there any plans to do further revitalization in Ilshenar?
  7. What was the thought process for designing the newest equipment assets?
  8. Are more transmogrification potions expected in the future?
  9. Will there be more cu sidhe costumes?
  10. Have you ever had to kill a feature idea that you personally loved and what led to that decision?
  11. Are there any ideas or plans to add to UO’s roleplaying immersion side, e.g., bringing back townships, cities, expanding governor roles?
  12. What’s a system or feature that seemed simple on paper but unraveled into something much bigger during development?
  13. What’s the QA team’s biggest challenge when testing legacy systems that interact with brand new features?
  14. UO has an iconic visual style. What are the invisible rules you follow to make something look right in Britannia?
  15. Are purple llamas in the future?
  16. Will imbuing be able to match closer to legendary gear drops?
  17. Is there any wild legacy code that “must not be touched” like the famous JPEG in Team Fortress 2?
  18. Are there any plans to revisit or revamp some of the older PvM encounters, like peerless bosses or the dungeon ones?
  19. Let’s talk a bit more about New Legacy Publish 3, the Shattering and moving from the shard to a production shard.
  20. Will there ever be glacial cu sidhes?
  21. Will there be any party or gifts for the 30th anniversary?
  22. Are there any broader efforts to modernize the game’s code base?
  23. Will there be a ridable lion?
  24. Will there be a jewelry box search option?
  25. UO is a game with a lot of inertia. What do you do as Producer when the right call isn’t necessarily the popular one?
  26. Is there anything that can be done about pets not being able to walk through pets in certain areas in Trammel?
  27. Will the new armor sets be on the paperdoll?
  28. Any thoughts on adding a weapon bag container similar to the spellbook strap?
  29. Are there any plans to bring back the treasure events that were in Fel?
  30. Any plans to once again give out personal bless deeds?
  31. What is your process for verifying that a major feature is safe to push to live, especially during event roll outs?
  32. What is the philosophy and concept behind the Shadow Reaver’s embrace item?
  33. Is a vanity pet stall add-on in the works that would be like the New Magincia stall so you can show off your pets and builds but not have to sit at the stable?
  34. For the artists, what are some of the tricks or limitations in the art pipeline that players might not realize you work around every day?
  35. How about pet vendors that allow pets to be sold at your house instead of New Magincia?
  36. From an engineering standpoint, how do you view the maintenance trajectory of EC compared to CC?
  37. Are there any plans to add new rewards to puzzle rooms?
  38. People have asked for town buffs to clone to Fel cities.
  39. UO’s sandbox nature makes balance really complex. How do you think about balance in a world where player freedom is the priority?
  40. What do you think UO still does better than any other game out there?
  41. Will we have more keep or castle contests?
  42. What’s a recent feature or event where cross-discipline collaboration made all the difference?
  43. Can we be able to customize a house without breaking lockdowns?
  44. Will any containers be added to auction safes to allow you to put a bunch of stuff in a bag and then auction off the whole bag?
  45. Carryable or transferable moving crates?
  46. Will there be any new art for book covers?
  47. Who did the lore book page artwork and what was your favorite one to work on?
  48. Will this become a weekly thing?
 
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I'm not transcribing just taking notes on key points.

Updates to game client- (Bleak) In Full Swing, making progress on the frame rate, focus on updating back end renderer.
Pushed into fall because of the Shattering coming up on NL.

PvP? Coming end of 2025 into 2026

Revitalize Champ Spawns/Harrower and similar encounters
Adding rewards PvP related (Possible new cloth/hair dyes)

New Holidays coming to Britannia, might include holiday-related PvP items.

More Storage? - Hard No, too much conflict, too many items. We have garden sheds, etc.

New BOD Rewards? - Looking at improving crafting as shown in the latest event

Clean-up points upates? - Potentially

Plans to revitalize Ilsh? - Segway to the new clydesdales and armor sets,

(That's just the first 20 minutes., more to come!)

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4 new elemental horses-
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Ice (Water)
 

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4 new elemental horses-
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Electrical (Air)
Lava (Fire)
Ice (Water)
That looks like a new Dragonplate Armor graphic, and even a Dragonscale Robe.

If those "Elemental Horses" are basically just Clydesdales with 100% Elemental Damage, that's going to shake up the DPS meta for pets. Clydesdale's are already pretty beastly at 5 slots, able to learn Chiv+AI with no wasted specials while having very high intensity. 100% Elemental ones would definitely replace Crimson/Platinum Drakes for DPS performance, especially considering they'd be ridable as well.
 

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Why can’t UO make a script so that when a house goes into an IDOC state. The script takes an inventory of the items in the house and saves it into a database? When the player comes back they can check their items out of a vault.
 

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I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that when an account is closed, it's totally closed. The system can't reach it to take the inventory you're asking for.
 

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Why can’t UO make a script so that when a house goes into an IDOC state. The script takes an inventory of the items in the house and saves it into a database? When the player comes back they can check their items out of a vault.
Pretty sure the items in a house are not actually associated to an account but rather the house itself. I love your idea and it's been the right answer for a long time, but it's not within UO's infrastructure to accomplish.
 
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