For the Next Expansion!!!

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[Cal_Mythic]

Dude...really? It's just a joke man. Do you really think the devs would get rid of Trammel at this point? And with F-16s no less? Come on, lighten up a little.

My best friend is an A-10 pilot ... another several who are F-14 pilots.

However .. being old School I'd send a flight of B-52s over ...

*static* ... and probably drop a few JDAMs on ...*kkrrrkkk*

But that's just me ...

 

[TheGrimmOmen]

Personal opinion only

For the next Expansion, I'd prefer to actually see a contraction. A large proportion of Malas should fall into the void and a good chunk of Tokuno should be swallowed up by rising seas. There's too much land, the population is too spread out.

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I agree with the idea, although I'm of the opinion we should add things that bring people together, and make sure it's easy for people to get to. Basically revitalizing city centers. If you create a place that makes people want to go there, and add incentives to be there, they will come. I think the social aspect of UO is something that we could be thinking about a little differently. It's an aspect of UO that amazed me when I first came to work on the game 6 years ago (holy crap - time flies!) and it's obviously a major aspect of UO.
I know that getting people to play together has always been a goal, but I don't know that we've necessarily said "Let's just get people together." Not in a sense of creating a quest or Boss monsters that you can't solo (although it always seems that players end up solo-ing a boss designed to not be solo-able) but just approaching the social interactivity a bit differently. I duno, just a thought.
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Cheers,
Grimm-Meister

 

[TheGrimmOmen]

We NEED Brit West Bank back! When any old school player thinks of UO, that's pretty much what comes to mind.

Also, please understand that UO seems to work backwards compared to most games. We LOVE to solo in PvM but also LOVE to just hang out and be social. Any other game it's groups for PvM and you're alone during your "downtime".

I could list a million things, but take even GM repair deeds, those alone killed off the smiths hanging out at the blacksmith shop all day long. People no longer needed to be social with them and get their items repaired. Yes it prevented scamming, but you should have added a timer onto the repair deeds. make them last like 5 minuted before they vanished. This was it prevents scamming AND gives smiths a job again in the social medium.

Right! Those are excellent specific examples of what I was referring to. I'm no designer, that's why I try to speak in generalities, but you mention there sounds awesome.

-Grimminator

 

[TheGrimmOmen]

"I duno, just a thought."


No, don't just make it a thought....
*EDIT* sorry if that sounded mean, it was NOT at all. Just passionate

I didn't sound mean at all, but thank you for your clarification. When I say "... just a thought" It's to let you know that I was speaking from the viewpoint of a player, and as a Dev, my place is Art. I don't know much about Game Design as a profession, nor would I want to give the impression to you folks that I think I have all the answers. In short, me being humble - it doesn't always happen, but there it is.


-Grimmzers