If you could ADD just one thing to UO, what would it be?

[BadManiac]

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A Balron at the bottom of Hythloth would give better items than a Balron in Blood/Ilsh

Doesn't Mark/Recall completely negate this?

Yeah that was another part of my huge writeup on how to fix UO that was posted a long time ago, which even the devs responded to and thought was good. Basically no recall INTO dungeons.

But right now, a real, fixed, rebalanced and completely restructured loot system would be my one addition, didn't feel like writing the whole 4 page essay again

 

[Cadsuane Sedai]

Houseing.

I want what you got. period plain and simple.

I want to be able to make what you can as Quite a few of us... well it's what we do.
It's why we play.

I want to make my wagons (gypsy) i want tents all can be put in the house menu kinda like the house builder. obviously not all.. well no i want it all damn it.


also on the castle issue i'm torn yes! i want to be able to. and also NO giant borg cubes.

A solution.. maybe not customisable but more castle plot size templates.
perhaps make them customizable on test and letting us submit designs that would then be approved or dissaproved then if approved added to the custom menu.

for keeps too.

 

[Cear Dallben Dragon]

id like darkness to creep in slowly exactly as it does in Ultima Six.

Plus i would like Armageddon to be a real spell only castable by me.

 

[Saphireena]

A solution.. maybe not customisable but more castle plot size templates.
perhaps make them customizable on test and letting us submit designs that would then be approved or dissaproved then if approved added to the custom menu.

It would definitely be better than nothing. Not sure the approve/disapprove thing is feasible though.

You know... if nothing else, it would at least be nice to be able to replace the walls with other brick types, change the floor tiles, windows etc etc. That way we could at least get a home that looks a bit cheerier than that dreary dungeon brick! This suggestion has also come up many times over the years.

 

[Xenobia]

Without getting too WoW-ish

I would love to be able to swim!

The boat ideas are great as long as they don't block the waterways...we all remember that little nightmare. Am I right?

I think an 18x18 should hold what a keep or castle holds seeing as how we cannot build castles or keeps in Malas

I would like to be able to say "all release" that would make taming a bit easier imo

Bags for qwest items so you don't have to click on each item (Qwest bags)

Laying down would be cool or at least sitting down to regain mana, strength etc.

The flying dragon thing would be cool but I think that gets into being 3d and WoW and I DO NOT want that. If they could make it work properly the way the world is set up now then that would be awesome.

A bank box and stable in my house lol I know...want in one hand, right?

Oh yeah and to be able to customize my keep.....that would SOOOO rock!

The list could go on and on but I'll stop there...I went over my "one thing in UO" limit already

 

[drawn]

an auction house if not, how about some yummy cupcakes?

 

[Cetric]

How bout a way to disable the use of third party programs for speed hacking, auto targeting, running though bagballs, and the like.....that would be my wish Draconi...

 

[puni666]

Durability to trapped boxes ....2-5 uses to a box maybe?

 

[ColterDC]

How bout a way to disable the use of third party programs

QFT.....Stop all the damn cheating in this game!!!!!!!!!

 

[Al Thorin]

A vision that didn't revolve around the status quo, and had a more narrow target audience.

I know, how can a more focused playstyle vision be bennificial? Oh, I don't know, actually APPEALING to those types of players instead of broadly dissapointing.

I'd say get rid of Tram and focus on 'real' PVP, but at this point, get rid of Fel, and focus on a single system for PVP that's consentual. Trammel has the majority vote, so focus on that and build some real, complete, and engaging systems.

Right now, I think UO's trying to be the jack of all trades, but since they can't master anything, it simply comes out as a mashed up meal with no real distinct flavors or identity. There's alot of little bits that you can focus on, and think 'I like this part' or 'interesting', but overall it's turned into a very unsatisfying meal. To me anyways.
There has to be some players who feel fully engaged by UO's current state, but I can't help but think it really cannot be many.

 

[Rio Grande]

Anti lag token for free

 

[Sellingahouse]

If I could add one thing it would be an ability to link houses that are next to each other. If I had 4 18x18s in a row I could make one big house, then open up more accounts and get the 4 behind that, then open up more accounts and get the 4 behind that... Thats probably never going to happen but I wish we had way bigger (100x100) custom house plots.

 

[Sindris]

Full frontal nudity.

 

[Cear Dallben Dragon]

The ability to use a sextant on a rune and your map jump to world and location in stygian abyss.

and the ability to craft boat parts with the new woods from ML. each with properties like boyancy, hit points, color, ect. then people when they have enought parts can constructs a custom war ship. boats made of bloodwood ofcourse would leave a red trail in water. all people entering the ship would agree to and be given a certian state. then naval combat could engage. mages, archers, fighters, cannons, bombs, all that. if an entire ship's HP=0 it dies along with everyone on it. the entire boat becoms a ghost ship that must be brought back to land. when it collides with land all ghosts and their bodies are placed on shore and the boat is gone.
This would also be accopanied by more parameters to add to guild wars. such as killing one protected person, retreiving an item and brigning back to a chosen house, ect. Then draconi would hand me the armageddon spell and a satchle of blackrock.

 

[Maplestone]

The ability to use a sextant on a rune and your map jump to world and location in stygian abyss.

Have you explored the KR world map? ( you can zoom in/out and flip to other facets with a very respectable level of detail )

 

[Maplestone]

Right now, I think UO's trying to be the jack of all trades, but since they can't master anything, it simply comes out as a mashed up meal with no real distinct flavors or identity.

You say that like its a bad thing.

 

[Cear Dallben Dragon]

The ability to use a sextant on a rune and your map jump to world and location in stygian abyss.

Have you explored the KR world map? ( you can zoom in/out and flip to other facets with a very respectable level of detail )

yes its great, but i mean more like for saftey sake, when using runes on the ground of places you cant remember in your books. all youngs should start with a sextant. no more ratman lair for them.

 

[AesSedai]

How bout a way to disable the use of third party programs

QFT.....Stop all the damn cheating in this game!!!!!!!!!

- Just one thing?:

Burninators

1-3 (considering ~8 hour shift per) specialty GMs.
Their sole task would be to remove cheaters from UO (& only from UO); on their own & also in response to player distress calls.

I still can't think of a single thing more important to a game's integrity than actively curbing cheating (& beyond programming it out as much as possible).

 

[Sunrise]

Dawns music box gears....

More music...

 

[NuSair]

A full staff of GM's that knew and understood the game and that had the power to encorce those rules.

 

[Spree]

I have 2 things

First is white stag very rare animal found in the forest only showing up once a week. It would have high hiding and stealth skills. It would flee like the frightened orks had during the ork invasion. It would have to have high enough hiding so not to be revealed with passive detect on trammy shards. They would have no loot. You could make a White stag trophy with taxidermy kit and they would have very high fame enough to get you to lord or lady with one kill but it would be hued blue so you lose a lot of karma.

Second is goulms would be able to be made out of different ingot types so they have different strengths and weakness. You would have to feed them ingots so they could bond, and a tinker can res them by installing a new power crystal.

 

[Sunrise]

Love the idea about the golems...

 

[Al Thorin]

You say that like its a bad thing.

Personally, I do believe it is a bad thing. While I enjoy being able to do alot of different things, my tolerance for.. shallow depth is thin at best.
I would enjoy many different aspects of UO on a more dedicated basis if they were more engaging.
The learning curve is pretty steep, but it also levels off incredibly fast for most aspects of the game. Once you figure out crafting (basic, armour/weapon wise) which is NOT hard for someone dedicated, the only 'challange' is time or gold. Everyone has a smith, etc.

Why not have highly specializable crafters? No more super mules, but specific types of crafters spanning the different areas of crafting. Why should a 'generic' smith be able to craft a katana of awsome power from a magical smithing hammer? Would it not make more sense for it to have been made by a smith that is good at making swords, and maybe actually has an clue about magic?

Should I have to spend copious amounts of time or gold to compete with everyone else? Why can't I specialize, and produce the same level of item, but at the cost of only being able to make a limited type of whatever? (Item decay is almost a requirment for this type of system)

There's all sorts of systems like crafting that are simple shadows of their potential.
Treasure hunting. Find spot, dig, lure or kill spawn, loot. It's the same thing every time. woooo.
Fishing. Sail, fish, collect stuff. Dang. Sign me up.
Sailing. Wow, talk about something that could be (and is) a game of it's own.

Pick a skill, or playstyle, or aspect of UO that is truely developed, engaging and dynamic, and let me know. Show me anything in UO that is all it could be.


I can think of many games that have at least a few aspects that are at the top of their game. Something that takes that game and or that aspect and beats out other games.

A few that I can think of;
Eve Online; 1kish player battles. I'm not aware of any other game that can support 1k players in a single engagement. DAOC claimed -a- 1500 player RvR battle back in 2005, but I cannot find any numbers since then, nor can I find any that also claim to be playble.

WoW is, or was considered to have one of the most involved, dynamic and available questing systems around.

Second life; World building on a level never seen before.

Now, I'm sure there are many games, and many strong points, but that is what I'm trying to point out, aside from being over 10 years old, is there anything in UO that is it's unique strength? Is there something in UO that I cannot find done better somewhere else?

And the 'there's so much to do' arguement is starting to wear thin. There's many games now that offer as wide, if not wider ranges of playstyles than UO. Outside of outright style preferances (sci-fi/fantasy/etc), UO is falling behind in pretty much all aspects that I can see.

Please, show me where I've errored. Tell me why, in the past 4 months that I havn't played, that I've seen more patches or changes in some games in a few months that we've seen in years of UO?

Maybe I've just outplayed UO. Maybe I'm just done. It may be true, but I suspect my argument still holds more weight than a 'promoters' would.

 

[Maplestone]

Please, show me where I've errored. Tell me why, in the past 4 months that I havn't played,

Done

(I did have a much longer, less flippant defense of the jack-of-all-trades style, but I decided the one-word reply highlighting this quote, for better or worse, was a better answer)

 

[Al Thorin]

Flippant is just fine by me.
Although, missaccuratly quoting, thus completly avoiding the question in said quote just goes to show that, yes, you in fact do not have anything else to offer outside of flippant remarks.

Hey, when you have some content, please feel free to continue this conversation.

I stopped being on the fanwagon not all that long ago, I'm growing older, and finding I don't have the patience to wait for the changes I look forward to, 4 or 5 years is plenty long to wait, and the 8 years I spent playing were mostly a good value for the entertainment, but I no longer find good value in Ultima Online.

And yes, I am moving on. Wether anything will ever change to interest me again, I do not know. I would love to continue the journey, but sadly, the currrent state does not appeal to me.

 

[Maplestone]

Hey, when you have some content, please feel free to continue this conversation.

Done.

(by that I mean, if you haven't logged in during the last four months, it's sort of silly to be claiming there's no new content - see: http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=446 )

 

[Al Thorin]

I gonna slide towards the technical fowl on this.
'patches or changes'
I didn't claim there was no content.
Now, I supose it's my turn to be a pissant.

Fixes and balance issues (which almost dictated my playstyle) were glacial at best. Oh, and yes, it has not changed in 4 months. Cheating is still an issue, exploites are still used openly, and balance is still a serious issue, both in the gear divide (goldy vs mid range) and I can't even play my tamer in good concious.

Seriously.

 

[Cho hag]

for speeders actually to be banned would be quite nifty...

a bit more realistic balanced mod removed or have any weapon with the balanced mod have it's users hci capped at 25...since u shouldn't be able to hit as well with a bow when u are drinking a pot at the same time as shooting. (kinda like protection for mages u can't get fizzled but u get slower...could cap balanced weps swing speed at 2secs instead to instead of the hci cap just want it not to be so overpowered)

hmmm talking swingspeeds then I don't think they ever intended xbows and hxbows to shoot every 1,25sec so maybe to a swing speed cap for them at 1,75-2sec or so

 

[Ancient Sosarian]

Tamable Phoenix's and/or Owls. For Owls, make them aggressive toward rats, rabbits, cats, mongbats, etc. If they kill these let them return resources to owner (meat, feathers, hides, etc).

For Phoenix's...make them use reasonable number of control slots, fly at their opponents, giving them claw & beak melee damage and some spellcasting along with the ability to cure poisoning. Require Legendary skill to tame them, but less skill to own and control them, say GM perhaps.

An Sos

 

[Riply]

Hmm only one wish, I have probably a dozen I can think of atm. But one of my the top wishes, would to be able to have basements to our houses. Which could be accomplished from various ways.
1) The first option would be to pay gold for it which would be a nice gold sink.
The cost would be associated with the size of the basement,
2) The second could be to run events in order to gather the materials needed
to build the basement. Of course the larger the basemnt the more of the
event(s), you would have to attend to accomplish your goal.
3) Use possible the mining skill to dig the basement and perhaps a new skill
surveying skill plus the stone masonary skill etc.

Lots of possiblities on how to get the players involved with this if it is indeed a function which can be performed under the current mechanics of the game itself. Maybe with the new Abyss edition thier will be more flexability to add more content like this.

 

[Millie]

A npc vet to rez. my packie and bug.

 

[Sephy]

Deeds or a NPC that will allow a pet to be resurrected