Yea, couldn't agree more. I just wanted to stress out that "FTP account" does not have to mean "utterly restricted trial account". If the account is too restricted without a sub, what's the point spending money in the store at all?
I think people's idea is that they will just remove the timer from trial accounts because it would be a no development required change. I think I'd honestly prefer it that way myself, I just don't like the idea of people grinding out hours on end for what ends up having the value of pennies.
I hope they adopt this type of style;
Yeah that's basically the STO model that was being discussed a few posts up, but in that setting you can actually farm the currency rather than just buy it. There are a few different ways to go. I still think the simplest would just be turn off the trial timer. Everything else would require a solid amount of dev time to really work right.
STO makes the bulk of it's money from ship and gambling box key sales. And it's a ton of money too. The equivalent of that would be BS selling pets that are much better than naturally occurring ones, and equipment that is significantly superior to what you can find in loot.
I been tryin' boss !! Ft. Lauderdale Air Show this weekend so I'm out till at least Monday when I'll try some more
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Yep, back when the price of Gold Per Mill was $20-25... I remember that very well. Back when 5 million to me was a small fortune and I thought no way in **** I'm paying $125 dollars for a tiny 7x7 small tower... I kept thinking I have GOT to figure out how to make money.I remember back to just after AoS people used to sell small houses on Ebay! They were pretty over-priced for what they were.... but they still sold!
Yeah back when almost literally every housing spot was taken. Miss those days.I remember back to just after AoS people used to sell small houses on Ebay! They were pretty over-priced for what they were.... but they still sold!
but people can have twice as many dummy houses are would be able to have a 2nd house on another shard....as most players do atl and there true home shard...interting ideas though
I don't... I would think that population/space wise (though maybe we should wait till this Endless Journey stuff is going and see if there is any influx of population) but given the population size I would think we could at least go back to where you could have 1 house per account, Per Shard.... maybe. Or just allow everyone 2 houses Per account. I still say they should allow folk to have up to 32x32 space... regardless of how many houses that takes them. So if someone wanted to play on multiple shards and have houses they could do 2 10x10's and a 12x12 or 3 7x7's and a 11x11. Just a thought.
Careful ... the castle owners will get triggered as they wouldnt get a second house under this proposal. Despite having the biggest houses and largest storage theyre already butt hurt about not being able to customise. This might tip them over the edge.
Oh, no doubt. I really don't doubt they will find a way to sell us an extra house at some point. Half the houses standing are probably owned by inactive players who just keep paying to keep their house up incase they want to come back, or people who play regularly and have house holder accounts that are only paid every 3 months.
No. Having more housing littering the place doesnt make activity. People wouild place, then go play where they always do.
Basically what happened to Siege. People placed because they could and went back to where they came from and never play there, leaving the shard with empty houses taking up valuable real estate. So opening the ability to place an extra house on Siege did more harm than good.
I think that also has to do with the Siege rules. It is much harder to get started with just one character, and the RoT system is a big deterrent.
I think it has more to do with simply being separate and free than it does with the ruleset. Many of the people who placed a new house had zero intention of playing on siege, or if they did it was a "just in case" sort of thing, because there are hundreds of unused undesigned houses, that showed up, and are still sitting there taking spots that should go to full time siege players. They just placed because they could, and there was no drawback in placing. Just free potential value.
Not to mention help chat is where the bottom feeders hangout and hate on each other about personal out of game reasons, I'm sure newbies and returnees loving reading that garbage.
Do we not have moderators here? -___-
Do we not have moderators here? Yes
. If a post or thread needs to be moderated you just hit that "Report" button on the bottom left, but honestly i'm not seeing anything wrong on this page... do you??
I thought they stayed out of the help channel and the default new player channel. I like the global chat personally. I also like having a discord voice channel. People are less rude when speaking out loud.We have moderators here on stratics, but I have no idea whether anyone moderates global chat in-game, I would assume from the way people carry on there is nobody official reading it or taking action. It's a very bad atmosphere for new players, that's for sure!
But I'm shunned for being overly outspoken.
You're a mod on here yeah mate? Would they hire you to Mod game chat to?
The boards here at Stratics aren't officially tied to UO...and whilst no doubt the moderators here would do an excellent job of moderating anywhere they put their minds to it; UO hasn't had official forums for some years now. They do have a peek here, and occasionally you'll see a post or a thumbs up here, but it's fairly uncommon. UO gen chat has no official moderation - it is 'use at your own discretion' (and the 'discretion' of others!)...
Depends on how you look at, I am playing siege and I wouldn't if they hadn't allowed extra houses there. I do think that to 'keep' a house on siege you should have to log in there at least once a month or whatever to refresh it, but to stop this being 'unfair' to permanent siege players perhaps they should make 'main house as per normal and second house 'nominated' and only the second house has to be refreshed monthly. So siege players can have their 'main' house on siege and have to refresh any prodo house in return. Has to work both ways.
Conleth summed it up pretty well above this post, even though I am a moderator here on Stratics this website is entirely run by unpaid volunteers who are players. None of us actually work for UO. I would gladly moderate the general chat of UO for free if they wanted me to, but they wouldn't hire someone for that. UO has had some bad experiences with volunteers who have any real power in the past. Years ago they hired unpaid volunteers to help with stuff like this called seers and counselors, but then some of those volunteers sued UO... they won quite a bit of money. After that UO stopped allowing volunteers to help with anything of much importance.
Welcome to UO. Keep in mind a number players have had close to if not 20 years to hone their skill sets, which include: pvm, pvp, trolling, theft, salesmanship, banksitting, scamming, being an a$$h**e or any combination of the former. 20 years is plenty of time to learn to be a proper di*k.
we'd have amazing rock stars!
No probs mate!Conleth summed it up pretty well above this post, even though I am a moderator here on Stratics this website is entirely run by unpaid volunteers who are players. None of us actually work for UO. I would gladly moderate the general chat of UO for free if they wanted me to, but they wouldn't hire someone for that. UO has had some bad experiences with volunteers who have any real power in the past. Years ago they hired unpaid volunteers to help with stuff like this called seers and counselors, but then some of those volunteers sued UO... they won quite a bit of money. After that UO stopped allowing volunteers to help with anything of much importance.
The game only has like 4 developers and 2 GM's left, they seem to be on a pretty tight budget and would probably be unable to actually pay someone just to moderate chat.
I greatly appreciate that you think I'd be a good in game chat moderator though