I'm tired of these threads. There's almost no point in even saying anything is wrong with bolas or dismount because you're just shot down by the overwhelming horde of illogical Ferengi you want their auto-kill options and don't give a rat's arse what's good for the game. Stop with your damn "well if you suggest removing this how about we just remove everything or make requirements for everything" pointless arguments. Stop with your "more players should always be able to beat less players" ****. Stop with your completely wrong "we need these options to fight cheaters" crap, which even if you were right it wouldn't matter since the game being ruined shouldn't be justified to deal with cheaters.
Bolas and dismount are tool of the gank squad. They add overwhelming power to people who already have overwhelming power because of numbers. They make it freaking impossible to be a solo player fighting the gank. You should be able to hit and run without ninjisu. You should have a chance at fighting the gank. Just because they have more numbers doesn't mean they should automatically win. And yet the people here think they deserve to win because they have no numbers. People here...trammies. In tram. In fel. On Siege Perilous. It makes no difference. The majority of the people who play this game are all the same...they want whatever makes the game auto-win, as little challenge as possible. How you can take pleasure in winning without any challenge is beyond me but whatever. You'd think people would argue to make soloers more viable since it's a legitimate but dying play style that adds a lot to the game. But they apparently want soloers to auto-die instead through auto-win tools such as dismount and bolas. Mass alliance versus mass alliance fighting...where the hell is the fun in that.
Oh, and aside from the majority of the people arguing for stupid worthless additions to the game like bolas and dismount who are doing so because they're gankers, there's also the tamers, who also want auto-win. You might not want to admit it, but tamers are the most ridiculously overpowered class in the history of UO. And they were overpowered before super dragons too. How the hell can you take any pleasure in killing someone with a tamer after you've dismounted him? Where is the fun in that? It's not even about fighting tamers. It's about escaping tamers. You can't fight tamers unless you have peace or the tamer is an idiot. You want to give your opponent zero chance of escaping though with bolas. You should go back to trammel and PvM the monsters who give you no challenge. Stay out of PvP. Tamers have no place in PvP. They add NOTHING to it. They only take away, just like bolas and dismount. And I've lost so much faith in the devs for saying pets are just fine and are not going to be nerfed, while adding even more pets. WTH.