Shard gate. have it be gold sink, have it cost real money! tell me why this is a bad idea? tell me why this would be a great idea. tell me why bards don't have equip able songbooks 
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- Thread starter Anon McDougle
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Why? You equip something useful to the other skills. My archer bard should use a book instead of a bow? And if you are killing things with a bard, its time to put on big boy pants and move to the stuff that cant be barded.
i just think that bards should have their own school of magic with you know useful spell songs not everyone wants to play a mage of some type yet we are forced too...the greatest appeal of UO is supposed to be its a sandbox where we can do anything we like
In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker and music composer, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble), to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. So besides taming the savage beast or telling a story what other things do you thing a music player should be able to do. Why can't crafters just craft magical gates?
OK lets accept that UO is based on these historical Cultures with Magic thrown in given that how do we come up with Sampires?
I'm not asking for anything OP some simple renaming of a few spells for bards. they have shown the ability to add new schools of magic Chiv/Necro/bushido etc so this is not out of the programming realm of possibility
We already have shard gates (of a sort) that cost $$...they call them transfer tokens
You do understand that there are other gates beside shard gates.
Samurai is from Asia and they have been around a long long time. i did not say it can't be done but if you give it to more classes then where does it stop.
Check out the bards in "The Bard's Tale" and "Wizardry Bane of the Cosmic Forge"
I don't want to eliminate bards entirely, I just want ONE barding skill, with the effect selected from a music book, analogous to the way a spellweaver selects a spell from a spellweaving spellbook.
your Musicianship would be your caster level ...
Well aren't their Bard Mastery Songs alike the Spellsongs of The Bard's Tale? Healing for the whole party, HCI, such things. That seems their "magic" already? Pretty powerful magic at that!
Syncros
Adventurer
They should allow "shard gating" for all paid accounts at least then Atlantics economy shouldnt be so borked up.Shard gate. have it be gold sink, have it cost real money! tell me why this is a bad idea? tell me why this would be a great idea. tell me why bards don't have equip able songbooks
And remove a significant source of income from the game? Bad idea.
I really struggle to understand why people oppose the idea of a shard gate, and are seemingly okay with paying chunks of money for transfers which when considering how dead this game has become, is really just obtrusive and kinda slimy for a game thats over two decades old.
If we had a half decent dev team, i have no doubt there would already be a solution to mitigate the losses of selling shields, or accounting for those who burned vet reward picks on shields.
I have yet to hear a solid reason from anyone why this should not at least be seriously considered.
If we had a half decent dev team, i have no doubt there would already be a solution to mitigate the losses of selling shields, or accounting for those who burned vet reward picks on shields.
I have yet to hear a solid reason from anyone why this should not at least be seriously considered.
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Because it means change and there is a high amount of resistance to it - jus' 'cuz.
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Da debbil made me do it!
Syncros
Adventurer
Some just don't want what they consider their market for transferring items across shards.
The good thing about shard gates would be more players would be able to own a castle/keep and the economy across all shards should stabilize better.
Bad thing is with all normal shards linked is the player base is more spread out and chances to run across another player would be really low. This is a MMO after all.
As for the vet reward becoming useless the devs could just refund that one they picked. Perhaps with a tissue for all the tears. lol But seriously they need to do what's better for the game and not a few, you will always have players getting upset over something.
Well said.But seriously, they could just keep the vet reward and give it some bonus compared to the normal shard gate. Say double capacity or half cooldown or anything along those lines. Problem solved.
But it's not gonna happen with Bonnie anyway. Imagine no one kissing her rear end any longer. She couldn't handle that.
Realistically they wouldn't lose money make it 5 bucks a pop to go right now its a limited market for people wanting to move to a new shard or merchants moving goods at a cheaper more convenient rate more people would use thus creating more revenue not less maybe to appease the Vets and merchants the $5 gate only lets you and what you're wearing through (as a added cash cow make it cost $2 a PS to move them ) also why doesn't the in game store sell everything i can buy on the unapproved sites....
Most shards are already incredibly sparse, so I dont know that I agree with your second point. Having access to all shards could actually improve this since more people would then be connected.
Look.. the game is over the legal limit to drive. Except for like 3 shards, walk around any other and see how pathetically dead they are. Charging 20 bucks to connect players (or is it $15 i forgot?) on a subscription based game is just really sad. Just think - you could have purchased Skyrim SE for that amount last week!
I just want to iterate again that i believe this prevents players from connecting and is crap that our producer either has no control over it or is unwilling to change it. Either way looks bad on her imo.