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are you guys, EA?Mythic kidding us???

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Like the blackrock turn in? There were people that were upset because they didnt give in to the temptation of giving their rock to the shady figures and now they think they deserve something for it.

UO is made up of choices...you can come or not. I have had faith in them lately so i will choose to come...A lot of people that play the west coast shards had a 3 hour advance warning of what was to come if they checked out any East Coast shard. Yet there were still complainers.

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Oh, there will be complainers. I'm not trying to complain here, I'm trying to get them to make improvements. During the Atlantic event, I didn't see much of the conversation. I didn't even see that Draconi had arrived or that he said anything, if he did at that. I heard other people say he was there, but I personally didn't see him and I was there the whole time. During the Pacific event, I actually saw what he had to say. His speech was great, but it would have been better posted in the event notice. Yes people will still complain, but there is nothing wrong with trying to improve communication and these events.

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If you didn't even know that Draconi was there then you must have either been asleep or nowhere near the machine. Draconi showed up in the middle of a pretty big explosion of flames and smoke.

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Saw the explosions, didn't see Draconi and especially didn't see his speech. So you are mistaken on both accounts. Was it spam that I lost his words in? Was it pets? I have no clue, but I didn't see him. This is precisely why his speech should also be copied to the event notices, but some people will miss out due to the spamming and what not. In fact, while we're on this topic let me urge for a few more event tools to be developed which will help the events. After all, this is why I'm posted here so frequently to this thread.

1. I like that clearing thing they did but I'd like to see it keep players back at a given distance so other players can see what is going on. Perhaps it can include a silence zone as well so nobody can spam over the dialogue. I mean, if you have a short event and half the dialogue is lost due to people spamming, that's not a very good event, is it?

2. I'd like a clearing zone for these dialogue events as well which clear pets to a certain region and keep them there. People on different shards were complaining about battling pets and what not.

3. I'd like a spell squelch zone, so those people griefing with spell casting get squelched where they cannot cast spells for a certain period of time. That aught to prevent spell griefing.

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So, you saw that he cleared everyone from a fairly large radius around the machine but you didn't actually see him standing there by himself on top of the machine?

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Nope because people charged forward immediately after being cleared. It was like watching this big laggy soup surging forward.
 

Otis Firefly

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well i do agree they should have made a no go barrier around the machine while the npc acting is going on and a area mute, but that could also make more problems if...lets say his machine was to work and an invasion of monsters was to kick in and for some reason the mute or barrier didnt go away..there would be a hell of alot more pissed of people about that issue, basicly we have to deal with whats givin to us
 

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Here is my prediction for tomorrow. 2 mins of explosions like the 10th anniversary fireworks, then a couple of Blackrock Elementals pop up and you kill them.
 
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I honestly don't care what happens tomorrow or how short today's "event" was. I've played more UO today than I have in the last 2 months all put together. I also fully intend to show up for tomorrows event.
 
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well i do agree they should have made a no go barrier around the machine while the npc acting is going on and a area mute, but that could also make more problems if...lets say his machine was to work and an invasion of monsters was to kick in and for some reason the mute or barrier didnt go away..there would be a hell of alot more pissed of people about that issue, basicly we have to deal with whats givin to us

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Yeah, I thought about that, but that's where you guys at the test center come in handy, right? To sort those bugs out? Murphies law is a tough law though, but it's still something I would like to see implemented. They could start off using it on non-action events like the event they had today and forgo using it for an event like we expect tomorrow. Then once they get all the bugs sorted, they can use it more liberally for events.
 

Otis Firefly

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well in all honesty i can tell you, they cant place a barrier in because at some point your going to want to run, i wont say towards or away from the area, but there will be some running involved, you will also want speech to be able to cast some spells to heal yourself, all you can hope for is for the people that are there to be mature and patient enough to respect whats going on and leave there short attn span behind for abit and not ruin the experience for everyone else!, and we can only hope on that, during the test event all the people that were close to the machine were teleported to the outskirts of luna and somewhere else, it would be nice to see them do that to the people to close, just as it begins!, to teach em a lesson
 
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well in all honesty i can tell you, they cant place a barrier in because at some point your going to want to run, i wont say towards or away from the area, but there will be some running involved, you will also want speech to be able to cast some spells to heal yourself, all you can hope for is for the people that are there to be mature and patient enough to respect whats going on and leave there short attn span behind for abit and not ruin the experience for everyone else!, and we can only hope on that, during the test event all the people that were close to the machine were teleported to the outskirts of luna and somewhere else, it would be nice to see them do that to the people to close, just as it begins!, to teach em a lesson

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What, like the second time they clear the area use the Void Daemon teleport trick on those who run back in? hehe, they could've done that once and I'd be here raving about how the event went.
 

Otis Firefly

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basicly 1 second you were there in lag hell, next second you were in the middle of nowhere with everyone else, i think it was somewhere near luna
 
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Interesting comments. All this commentary on how badly EA dropped the ball. I'm not sure how it was on other shards, but Pacific royally sucked, and I don't blame EA - 5 minutes of something NEW is good enough for me, with more to follow - it's at least NEW content (which has been lacking in past years and a step in the right direction now).

What ticked me off wasn't the "small morsel" EA dropped, but the fact that I waited all day to miss the entire event because of FELLOW PLAYERS! Some of you were absolutely disrespectful (on Pacific). I (and I'm sure others), missed seeing Kronos all together, as well as the little "skit" that was perfromed due to people spamming "OBEY DRACONI AND STEP BACK HONOR HIS ONE DEMAND" or "FL TOUCHED ME PEE PEE LAST NIGHT." Followed by, "I TAKE CANDY FROM PEOPLE IN DARK VANS," and the every so favorite "I SO PWN U NEWB GO 2 FEL."

Add to that every tamer who wanted to flaunt their super dragon or white wyrm and the constant wing flapping as they got stuck....

*Slaps "Does not play well with others" stickers on all of their heads.*
 

Pfloyd

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Can i have a Warrior of Destiny title that shows up when i click on myself?


Like the library and zoo reward ones?
 

Redxpanda

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Interesting comments. All this commentary on how badly EA dropped the ball. I'm not sure how it was on other shards, but Pacific royally sucked, and I don't blame EA - 5 minutes of something NEW is good enough for me, with more to follow - it's at least NEW content (which has been lacking in past years and a step in the right direction now).

What ticked me off wasn't the "small morsel" EA dropped, but the fact that I waited all day to miss the entire event because of FELLOW PLAYERS! Some of you were absolutely disrespectful (on Pacific). I (and I'm sure others), missed seeing Kronos all together, as well as the little "skit" that was perfromed due to people spamming "OBEY DRACONI AND STEP BACK HONOR HIS ONE DEMAND" or "FL TOUCHED ME PEE PEE LAST NIGHT." Followed by, "I TAKE CANDY FROM PEOPLE IN DARK VANS," and the every so favorite "I SO PWN U NEWB GO 2 FEL."

Add to that every tamer who wanted to flaunt their super dragon or white wyrm and the constant wing flapping as they got stuck....

*Slaps "Does not play well with others" stickers on all of their heads.*

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Mind you i was 15 mins late because of work and i was still ashamed at how pacific is full of such immature turds. The sad thing is it was a load of so called PvP guild members who claim to care so little about trammy.

Don't quote me, i do not want to discuss it.
 
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On Catskills, nothing at all happend.
Several hundreds of players were there. One of the bigges player gatherings I have seen. People waited for 3 hours. Then, on the fountain, an orb appeared and rotated for 2 seconds. Then it vanished. Thats' it. Why again did we have to bring blackrock?

Well, I hope that's not what qualifies as an "epic event", as one of the Devs so eloquently put it.
 

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The reason ..in my opinion...the reason that the first day was made into such a big HOOHOAAHOA YOU GOTTA BE HERE EVENT EVENT EVENT!

Yes....every single person there was marked.....I remember the stress test.....so Drac wanted as many ppl there as possible....because TOMORROW it will be better....TRUST me guys......I said to my friend earlier when he asked me what was going to happen...my exact words?? *we turn the machine on and wait for tomorrow*

TRUST me guys...this 30 second * event * will change your UO lives like you couldn't possibly dream.....
 
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Interesting comments. All this commentary on how badly EA dropped the ball. I'm not sure how it was on other shards, but Pacific royally sucked, and I don't blame EA - 5 minutes of something NEW is good enough for me, with more to follow - it's at least NEW content (which has been lacking in past years and a step in the right direction now).

What ticked me off wasn't the "small morsel" EA dropped, but the fact that I waited all day to miss the entire event because of FELLOW PLAYERS! Some of you were absolutely disrespectful (on Pacific). I (and I'm sure others), missed seeing Kronos all together, as well as the little "skit" that was perfromed due to people spamming "OBEY DRACONI AND STEP BACK HONOR HIS ONE DEMAND" or "FL TOUCHED ME PEE PEE LAST NIGHT." Followed by, "I TAKE CANDY FROM PEOPLE IN DARK VANS," and the every so favorite "I SO PWN U NEWB GO 2 FEL."

Add to that every tamer who wanted to flaunt their super dragon or white wyrm and the constant wing flapping as they got stuck....

*Slaps "Does not play well with others" stickers on all of their heads.*

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Mind you i was 15 mins late because of work and i was still ashamed at how pacific is full of such immature turds. The sad thing is it was a load of so called PvP guild members who claim to care so little about trammy.

Don't quote me, i do not want to discuss it.

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You're absolutely correct, it was - and quite frankly, I didn't find any of their "dueling" in the middle of the event entertaining in the least, let alone the smack talk spamming.

I'd like to see events run as they were in the past - guard wacking those who can't behave.
 
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- A good idea indeed, from the sounds of it. I wish I could've made it - alas, I still had a great Friday night and I'm sure my UO pals had a great setup for the second part tomorrows
dang friends visiting and creating too much RL fun.

I'd really like to see Mad Mage stage 2, but I think I'll probably have another evening of hosting entertainment whilst wondering what the heck went down in UO-town.
Yeah, I'm a bit jealous
, but not envious.
Moreover I am proud of the UO Team for bringing more and more to our game.
 

UncleSham

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well they did say it would go up in smoke , so i was expecting short.
this was really REALLY short... you guys couldnt think up more than a minuit worth of storyline ? ... and what a storyline ... well it didnt work ... um , come back tomarrow . (that was lame)

playing on siege we had to do this in fel so we didnt have a huge crowd of people blocking the view ... no no . most of them were stealthed trying to steal an item that has "no value" lol . i swear i couldnt take 3 steps without bumping into something unseen.

what really made me laugh was the ending . i play on siege and since most everyone knows you cant recall on siege , you would think a dev would know . yet the last words out of his mouth were "Cal Ort Por" (classic)

however . lame storyline or not i managed to aquire some blackrock and managed to be there on time . i guess we'll see tomarrow .

if i wind up getting a shirt that reads "i went to the great blackrock opening and all i got was this lousy t shirt" that will still be ok . (not that id sell it, but i bet i get offered at least 10 mil for it hehe) and if it IS somethimg more substantial to the storyline , something like immunity to blackrock infected monsters for the duration of the event, im gonna laugh my ash off .

maybe that'll teach you slackers to be on time.

so in short , lame storyline opener, could have been a little more specific (and timely) with your announcement . and you GOTTA love that recal


but lets give em time . see what happens . we probably all got tagged for being there, blackrock in hand or not, ill bet its worth it in the end.
 

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The reason ..in my opinion...the reason that the first day was made into such a big HOOHOAAHOA YOU GOTTA BE HERE EVENT EVENT EVENT!

Yes....every single person there was marked.....I remember the stress test.....so Drac wanted as many ppl there as possible....because TOMORROW it will be better....TRUST me guys......I said to my friend earlier when he asked me what was going to happen...my exact words?? *we turn the machine on and wait for tomorrow*

TRUST me guys...this 30 second * event * will change your UO lives like you couldn't possibly dream.....

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interesting...
 
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How many pieces of blackrock did everyone bring with them? I brought four with me at fridays event. I was trying to decide if I need to take just one piece on day two or take all I can carry.
 

Arcus

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* removed to see what todays event holds *

Lets place bets on length of todays event. Ill go 15 mins.
 
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Like the blackrock turn in? There were people that were upset because they didnt give in to the temptation of giving their rock to the shady figures and now they think they deserve something for it.

UO is made up of choices...you can come or not. I have had faith in them lately so i will choose to come...A lot of people that play the west coast shards had a 3 hour advance warning of what was to come if they checked out any East Coast shard. Yet there were still complainers.

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Oh, there will be complainers. I'm not trying to complain here, I'm trying to get them to make improvements. During the Atlantic event, I didn't see much of the conversation. I didn't even see that Draconi had arrived or that he said anything, if he did at that. I heard other people say he was there, but I personally didn't see him and I was there the whole time. During the Pacific event, I actually saw what he had to say. His speech was great, but it would have been better posted in the event notice. Yes people will still complain, but there is nothing wrong with trying to improve communication and these events.

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If you didn't even know that Draconi was there then you must have either been asleep or nowhere near the machine. Draconi showed up in the middle of a pretty big explosion of flames and smoke.

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I was there on LS, I did not see Draconi nor did I see an explosion. The only think I saw was Kronos and his assistant say a few words mixed in with tons of spam from players. I could not even see their characters for all the dragons in the area.

Maybe if you saw the event that many others saw you could appreciate how upset many are.
 
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* removed to see what todays event holds *Lets place bets on length of todays event. Ill go 15 mins.

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Sounds about right.

Developer: I've spawned this incredibly uber monster that it'll take the entire shard to kill, and if you fail, dire consequences shall fall upon thee!

Guild of six chiv archers: Dude, we killed it before you finished that sentence.
 
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was it wasted? why have us bring blackrock for that??? time will tell i guess

[/ QUOTE ]No, it wasn't. Time will tell tomorrow for everyone who showed up, blackrock holding or no.

As we mentioned multiple times, this event was the setup. But if you had missed tonight, and came tomorrow and saw what those who came today get, you'd have been even *more* upset if we'd simply downplayed the importance of today.

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So there is a reason to show on my non-PvP/non-PvM character today? I rarely go to "Events" since they always turn into a PK bout.
 
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TRUST me guys...this 30 second * event * will change your UO lives like you couldn't possibly dream.....

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*worries that whatever this "change" is, that when moment comes I might accidentally click the wrong box*
 
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was it wasted? why have us bring blackrock for that??? time will tell i guess

[/ QUOTE ]No, it wasn't. Time will tell tomorrow for everyone who showed up, blackrock holding or no.

As we mentioned multiple times, this event was the setup. But if you had missed tonight, and came tomorrow and saw what those who came today get, you'd have been even *more* upset if we'd simply downplayed the importance of today.

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So there is a reason to show on my non-PvP/non-PvM character today? I rarely go to "Events" since they always turn into a PK bout.

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Is it a crafter/resource gatherer sort of character? I don't imagine they'd do well in tomorrows event but then I have no idea what to expect myself. I did have a suggestion for a crafter event, however. Let the crafters/resource gatherers have an event to rebuild Magincia.
 
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* removed to see what todays event holds *Lets place bets on length of todays event. Ill go 15 mins.

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Sounds about right.

Developer: I've spawned this incredibly uber monster that it'll take the entire shard to kill, and if you fail, dire consequences shall fall upon thee!

Guild of six chiv archers: Dude, we killed it before you finished that sentence.

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You forgot to add that the script kiddies with the loot scripts pick the uber monster clean before non cheaters even find the corpse.
 
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TRUST me guys...this 30 second * event * will change your UO lives like you couldn't possibly dream.....

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Why do I get the impression you know more than we are suppose to?
 

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TRUST me guys...this 30 second * event * will change your UO lives like you couldn't possibly dream.....

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Why do I get the impression you know more than we are suppose to?

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I remember the stress test...we didn't see ALL of the event during that time....but enough.....

Time is twisted and bent.....evil is upon us.....the fabric of time is torn asunder...

*Gosh I"m starting to sound like Inu*

Ohh and the sword...the shield!!!!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............

*Grins* have fun tonight guys *winks*
 
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So... should we bring the same character that we had there last night? Or is one from the same account acceptable?

Should we have blackrock in our packs at the time of the event?
 

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TRUST me guys...this 30 second * event * will change your UO lives like you couldn't possibly dream.....

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Why do I get the impression you know more than we are suppose to?

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I remember the stress test...we didn't see ALL of the event during that time....but enough.....

Time is twisted and bent.....evil is upon us.....the fabric of time is torn asunder...

*Gosh I"m starting to sound like Inu*

Ohh and the sword...the shield!!!!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............

*Grins* have fun tonight guys *winks*

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Larisa, why dont you share some more info?
 
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[quoteBut if you had missed tonight, and came tomorrow and saw what those who came today get, you'd have been even *more* upset

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that right there is upsetting.
they GET when the rest of us don't.

thats like telling you to go to the store and before you arrive back EA tells everyone in a office memo that in exactly 5 minutes those who are in the board room... in person, will get 500$ bonus's in there checks for being there.

but your stuck at the checkout line and are bummin', no bonusfor you.


now how do you feel being you have put a part of YOUR life into this game, like many of us have ?
 
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Ohh and the sword...the shield!!!!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............



I don't remember any sword and shield from the stress test. Maybe everyone didn't get one.
 

RaDian FlGith

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They ran the event on a test center...if folks even read the boards the guys who were at the event on TC explained it.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes... because those of us who want the event to be a surprise are certainly going to go reading the full details of the event as they transpired on Test Center.

And... uh... again, if EA KNEW it was going to be a short event tonight, it should have been clearly stated somewhere that such was the case. And by somewhere -- no offense to Stratics -- I don't mean buried waste-deep on some message board somewhere. I mean right on the front page of UO.com.
 
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Ohh and the sword...the shield!!!!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............



I don't remember any sword and shield from the stress test. Maybe everyone didn't get one.


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Our cryptic, blackrock obssessed, friend is referering to the the planesword and planesshield that were found on corpses during the stress test event back so so many moons ago. There were also some type of robe in the mix as well.

Ahhhhhh....phantus is not so old he forgets either. However, there seems to be a clearer understanding of things as indicated by Larisa's choice of verbage:

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TRUST me guys...this 30 second * event * will change your UO lives like you couldn't possibly dream.....

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This, I do not remember from the stress test. No...this statement is particarly interesting rhetoric I would expect from one who is in the know of things to come <font color="red"> ... </font>
 
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Sergul'zan_SP

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In Lord of the Rings Online they advertise events and run them over a duration for everybody to get a chance to participate.

In Lord of the Rings Online they actually listen to player feedback and resolve issues in a decent amount of time.

In Lord of the Rings, the grass is always greener. If there was any grass here that was still living, anyways.

This game is to the point where it appears to be a waste of time....
 
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the *e* tears are threatening to *e* drown us all!!!

I missed the event yesterday as well, just have to deal with it, I DO AGREE that pertinent information regarding events etc should be posted in the patch notes where you can see them as soon as you boot up UO

You should be thankful that we have devs like Draconi who whipped up one of the best events ive ever done in this game (magincia event), and Leurocian and Co

now if they only fixxed speedhacking.....


wheres noah and his ark when you need him?
 

Surgeries

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You're absolutely correct, it was - and quite frankly, I didn't find any of their "dueling" in the middle of the event entertaining in the least, let alone the smack talk spamming.

I'd like to see events run as they were in the past - guard wacking those who can't behave.

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Amen.

Guard Whack em, squelch em, freeze em, and no rezzes, at all, until it is over.

Good Lord, some Pacific people are really just way too much too take. I was there last night, and embarrassed that these people act out like this...I feel your pain, for shizzle.
 

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Ohh the almighty Larisa knows ALL...*grins*

If you've been through tonights event....or have participated in anyway on other shards...you will see what my cryptic words mean......

Has anyone found the threads yet??? I am very curious about those.....
 

RaDian FlGith

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get over it

[/ QUOTE ]Find something a little more constructive to say or logout.
 
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Mordocuo

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So an event is get everyone to one location--lag them--summon some beasts--then have them stand around for over an hour with nothing happening?
 

Lord Kotan

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So an event is get everyone to one location--lag them--summon some beasts--then have them stand around for over an hour with nothing happening?

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