By no means are things perfect, but there are more positives than negatives that result from the EM program.
Links or screens? That seems a bit of a stretch
Doesn't matter whether she comes right out and says it or not... her lack of action for the blatant abuses like Multi-boxing and such say the whole story without her having to say anything at all.
Condone: deliberately ignore, not take into consideration, disregard, take no notice of, take no account of, accept, allow, make allowances for, let pass, turn a blind eye to, overlook.
"Any way you want to win..."
Yeah Mesanna should put the Navrey hole somewhere for everyone to use. Time for some nice Spider Shrine with access to the lair for 20th
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EA is a money grubbing no nonsense I eat babies sort of company that Mesanna has to answer to.
I am not complaining and I offered alot of events. And I am quite coherent in my position as I am bashing the EM-program for about 6 years now. Publicly on this Board. There are lovely EMs, like those on EU and DF, but the program itself is rigged and corrupt and dumb and catering the worst playstyles and favoritism. Quod erat demonstrandum.
... and imho folks should be extremely grateful for that licensee... without it EA would have more than likely tossed UO on the scrap heap of dead carcasses they leave in their wake.
We are allowed to multi-client all we want, it's legal.
I agree but I highly doubt it thoughThank you for looking into the Grizzled Mare, I can only hope it gets the 5 slot standing it deserves.
It's not that simple. It has to be placed in a house in Ter Mur to take you to Navery. When placed in another faucet/land, it will take you somewhere in that faucet/land.
Can't say I didn't warn people...I'm surprised it just stayed with glacial and not Europa gold seeing as there are 60k stacks of bolts I've seen..weird
If I am in the city and need to go two blocks I drive... if I am in a place where I can not drive I take a cab or mass transit...
That item was an accident to begin with. The fact Mesanna didn't delete it on sight was a miracle, in the old days devs used to delete moongates and such that were shortcuts.If I am in the city and need to go two blocks I drive... if I am in a place where I can not drive I take a cab or mass transit...
my UO Characters are the same way.. why should they walk when they can recall or magically port in? imho there should be no places that I can not recall into in some fashion and recall out of in Tram. Save the slogging through the mud for the Neanderthals in T2A we Trammies dislike wearing our footwear out prematurely
I was saying this for years: Stop this EM-nonsense. Neither these so-called events (of which 99% are utterly stupid and boring), nor those "rares" are worth it. Nothing against rares, but they should come from global events by the Devs...
The EM-program is a happening for scripters, multiboxers, cheaters, shardhoppers and other scum...
Um .... Wow....Eat a snickers... your not yourself when your hungry
Not sure if yu just generalized the entire population and EM/ shard but im thinking you just don't understand
Atlantics EM Bennu actually takes UO history and brings it back to life
His story Arcs/ quest events force players to dig into history. They make you learn yur way around
The events bring many players together that would other wise farm alone
Newer players benefit greatly from these events.... grumbles and goes back to Toad Town
Good. It's obnoxious.
There's a tree/moongate outside of EM Bennu's house.
If you have 10 accounts and average 5 drops per event, and go to 20 events in one month, that is 100 drops in a month going to one person. or roughly 20% of the total items for all events they participated that had at least 20 drops. The monthly payout for these individuals ranges from 15-50 platinum depending on actual haul size and the popularity of the items...yes, monthly.
Very good point, However, I play Baja and I don't see 10 mult-iboxer so its not happening here like your describing on our shard, it could very well be on other shards but it not on Baja.
Another great point but I wonder is it your opinion someone is making more money then the dev's or can you show me some documentation? I think if selling items for real money was a good business we would see a growth in the >out of game< item selling market. Last time I checked the folks that sell UO items for cash are kinda disappearing. Now you could be right I just don't see the cumulative evidence.
Agreed, it is ok to do. My statement is that it was a nono. I've been playing for about 20 years and I'm recalling a time when it WAS a nono back in the day. Hope that gives clarity.
I LIKED rares but the whole EM program seems to have devolved into groups of players screaming and cheating for rares that they don't even want...they turn around and flip them for profit. Roleplay and community are not the focus. Here's the rub though, a game developer CAN put rare items into a game easily but HOW can they put roleplay and community into a game? Short answer they cannot! Roleplay and community come from the players.
I get what you are saying.. but.. at least on Atlantic (I do not play other shards) the best thing the Developers ever did to drive role play is to appoint EM Bennu. Yes, it does take players to engage but he drives a lot of the rp on Atl. Or.. in honesty did.. I am just coming back from about a 1 year break (again) and he was a major factor in the upswing of RP at that time. I can only imagine he still is *shrugs*
I was at the Baja event just 2 nights ago and yes there were multi-boxers there. So yes, it is happening on Baja.
People are stupid and greedy. You can argue whatever you want, they wont follow reason or moral.
This! Mostly the part where we already have systems in place that can used in a fair manner and reworked to make it fair for the entire player base.
There is nothing that will ever be "fair for the entire payer base". Cheats will always be cheats.. and cheats will always find a way to cheat regardless of any safeguards a company puts into place.
Last time I checked the cheaters were still doing rather well and the average player was bowing to them each and every time they needed Valorite... because they did not have days to gather the ore needed...I agree that there will always be cheaters and they will always take advantage. The fairness comes in the form "that all have access to the content" not just the people in know have access. The EM program as it now is so unpredictable its damn near stupid.
meh,.. But lets just say its true -> there is a few folks at a Baja EM event running 10 accounts each multi boxing. It makes me contemplate, I wonder if the multi-boxers could be Baja natives trying to get an EM item on their own shard because x-sharders are raiding us. I don't know but thanks for coming to Baja hope you enjoyed it here.
I would be happy to point them out to you the next time I play. I counted 6 multibotters at the last Baja event...the largest being a 10 account bot. You won't see a majority of them until the final boss, which is when they have their main account gate them in.
Shard bound EM items would only lead to more dead shards. As it stands, it is the event goers who help keep these low pop shards going. They are in essence the silk road to some of these shards, as they help to keep them supplied by dispersing goods from the busier servers. If you make items shard bound this trade goes out the window, and these servers lose most of their playing base in the long term.
If you make 50 platinum a month from events and bot farming, and 1 plat sells for $120 US, that amounts to $6000 a month. Is it still profitable? Yes, as long as multiboxxing continues to be a thing, RL transactions are still profitable to these individuals.
I'm still not sold on that but I will contemplate it.
I fully disagree with you here. Look we have about a dozen people that play weekly on our shard (it has increased since the new pet patch yay). But EM event items being x-sharded by x-shard players does not make native shard players any gold. Ohh yay I sold some Service Repair Contracts to some x-shard / multi-boxer players on the silk road. But I can see why an x-shard / multi-boxer player would want to convince others it would effect the economy because it would effect an x-shard / multi-boxer players economy.
IF is the key word and you basing it on your own opinion of that very IF not some true statics. With out facts its hard to say. The circumstantial evidence is -> if people could make the kind of money your suggesting then we would see more >UO Real Money Stores< and that is just not the case, we are seeing a decline. Personally Im over the micro transaction type app device games hints why I enjoy UO's flat monthly fee.
Powerscrolls, stat scrolls, resources, armor, weps, ect. All of this and more get transferred to Baja and other such shards on a daily basis.
There is no IF, these people are not multiboxxing for pleasure. Facts? A friend of mine bought a car, a house, and paid off his student debt by playing this game. Not 10 years ago mind you, but within the last 5. I can physically ride in the car, have dinner in the house, and see the sigh of relief on his face from having paid off the student loan. While I don't agree with how he did it, I am not going to fault him for doing something the game staff left the door open to.
It is easy to bunch us all together into one big ball of "I don't want", and I don't blame people for having this opinion. Natives consider x sharders AND multibotters to be the same thing in many cases, so I don't see how one could easily differentiate between the two.
