Personally, I am against the idea as well. Luna is crowded enough as it is and I have never had trouble getting a circle at Brit Bank when I needed one.
You would be wrong in that assumption. Myself and I believe (at least) two of the members above have spellweavers.
I agree on the problems with the general chat channel, but there are plenty of other channels - including guild and alliance chat which is where I usually see requests for a circle.
It seems to me that usually about 1/2 the people at Luna Bank are afk anyway so how would asking them to move over work? Do you really thing that Spellweaving goes great on a bank-sitting template?
So countering your entire argument, there are people at Brit Bank to get spell circles? Sorry, I just don't see the problem here. While I do not work 3rd shift and am usually in bed by 10pm, I am able to get a circle even at 6am without a problem.
I did like the above idea to put one in New Haven though. To me, it's about player interaction. If you can run up and get a level 6 any time without any interaction, then it defeats the purpose. Bringing players together (hopefully not afk) gets strangers talking, creates friendships, etc. Bringing veteran players to Haven to interact with new players (New, Returning Veterans, Travelers from other shards starting out fresh) would be a good thing.
I feel the exact same way about the player interaction. The only problem is, when it's the SAME 10 people online every single day mostly AFK, and there is absolutelly NO advertisement. All we are going to see are the exact same 10 people online until they get borred enough and quit. New players are not joining ultima online because its not being advertised. There is NOT enough player interaction in the game and do you know why? It's because the population ISN'T getting any bigger. If anything the population is DECLINING at a rapid rate.
After reading the part where you mentioned "(New, Returning Veterans, Travelers from other shards starting out fresh) " I felt like I was reading something somebody had said about 5+ years ago. There are no new players PERIOD. There never will be if ultima online does not start getting advertised. There might be returning players but for how long this time, a month, 2 months, 6 months? I'm not against player interaction. I am against having to BEG for players to come so that I can use them in order to play my template to the fullest. Spellweaving is in the game for us to play with, and I pay my monthly fee. I shouldn't have to beg other players or wait forever for people that don't even want to login to the game to meet me on the circle so I can get an arcane focus.
The entire time knowing that it's going to happen all over again in like 5 hours. I really love Spellweaving, but the way they have it right now requires you to interact with other people. HELLO! If people are leaving and quiting the game every day, it gets harder and harder to get the people you need. It's been like a chain reaction for years now and it's not getting any better. Spellweaving was probably a big hit back when it first came out but did you actually notice a difference in the population? Ofcourse i'm just going off the top of my head, about how screwed up the population is because I can't even check my MYUO (which might I add has been down for what like TWO MONTHS NOW?) to even see how little the guilds on ATL have gotten.
I'm refering to active people here to, not ones you guilded and havent seen login for a year. The game is dying, fix this for the sake of everyone. We shouldn't be punished because we can't find players to gather around us and get a focus. That's not our job to bring players to UO, that's there job to do the advertising. Ugh i'm done arguing, and done stating my point and repeating myself a thousand times over. I know they aren't going to think this thru, that's why UO will NEVER become what it once was, and thats the truth like it or not. If you don't know what it once was, then ask someone else cause I don't feel like typing in this thread anymore.
