I wonder what plans the team has for wrapping up this arc on shards that don't have EMs.
I suspect that the finale will be a global event with EM input, like the death of Queen Dawn and the attack on the memorial service.
Global events, modified slightly but noticeably by the EMs.
I also wonder when and how they plan to move Clainin out of Haven on Arirang, Balhae, and Formosa, two years after every other shard lost him.
I said similar things about things like the wanted posters for Ricardo....And wouldn't you know it, people said "no, leave the wanted posters, they are a reminder of history!" I replied that it didn't make sense for them to still be there as he was no longer wanted, and I was told by my fellow players "you hate UO History!" or words to that effect.
Oh wait...I guess it doesn't matter. Those are all the unpopular shards!
I actually don't think they are. The only ones I'd call "the unpopular shards" are the two Siege rules set ones. Those are the ones stated by Draconi to have by far the lowest populations; those are the outliers.
Nice try, though, borrowing some of the language I used in another context for use in this one. I even deleted my old post too.
Foolish me.
EA's current management apparently believes in just rewarding boot-licking and fawning.
Such statements are unworthy of your intellect, Tina. It's kind of pathetic, nothing your average U-Haller couldn't manage. You are not your average U-Haller.
If you can't pull that off because you're too small, too independent, too "different" or don't speak a certain language, you get the bare minimum in terms of "current events" and temporary fixes for bugs and dev-team screw-ups.
The Asian shards have
long-had shard-specific content that dwarfs that of the other shards. People used to post screencaps of it and the rest of us would go to the Asian shards and stare, open-mouthed, at what they had and we didn't.
Your argument has little if any relationship to the facts, I'm sorry.
This crusade against the Event Moderators is unworthy of you and is leading you to say things you are too smart to actually think.
I really wish the team would just stop the localized EM events and go to game-wide events.
For a long time there was no such shard-specific content...And guess what the result was?
Whining for shard-specific content. Bring back Seers! Make something like Seers but pay them a bit, that'd be alright with the law, wouldn't it? They did, and the reverse-whining began almost immediately.
We are blessed to have many kinds of content. Persistent and permanent, persistent and temporary, shard-specific, game-wide, EM-run, direct-by-EA-run, and every combination. I wish many things were different, but at the end of the day your argument boils down to: There is a kind or type of content in the game that I don't like, and therefore I want it gone, even though non-participation in it does not hurt or diminish me. Most EM items are deco-only, those with properties are things like "makes you sober" and those are charged.
The days of an EM item helping you in, say, a Faction defense are for the most part long-gone. There was one item that has invisibility charges that I'm aware of but they were limited in number and getting old charged invis. items was far easier. An EM item is not a power scroll, where someone has a semi-reasonable basis for complaining about lack of access to the content because it is essential to certain templates. You appear to sometimes be thinking of the first wave of EM items, things like the Brit. Guard Sash.
There was another paragraph in your post, but frankly, I'm too depressed to read it, let alone reply.
-Galen's player
