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that wasnt my question.
i am loyal to my home shard and have no intention of stranding a character on a shard i do not play.
Asking here useless post on official forum in NL section
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If I were in charge I would make another character slot available for $49.95...
I'd know folks would pay it
No one paying 50 bucks for a 7x gm toon
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I think you underestimate the expendable income of most UO players.
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That is a pretty bold statement for someone that does not speak for anyone other than themselves.
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I'd damn sure pay that to put it on Siege as a second slot. Just sayin . . .That is a pretty bold statement for someone that does not speak for anyone other than themselves.
Just seeing this post - I wasn't aware that you will be able to transfer a character off NL at all - do we know this is actually the case?
YES but it is not required
I didn't know that - will we be able also to transfer that character back to NL when a new season starts?
No one knows how most anything will work cuz secrets are the UO way
do not think so. If you decide to leave your Char on NL understand the NL Server will be wiped and only your char will survive with it skills/stats intact.
Each season supposed to be a fresh start having already developed characters would be a huge advantage
Guess you never paid attention to what the DEVs say. This has been known for a long time. A huge advantage for what, you think people are gonna sell **** on this shard for real money, what a friggin joke it is a shard to play for fun. OMG he was a Tamer before me WHA WH WHA.
Where do you see this magical information?
Ah it was maybe 345 I recall now ! There is one of two reasons we don't have informationi believe it was posted in a thread 4 years ago. try to keep up LOL
1. The lead developer is a paranoid narcissist
2. They don't have a clue themselves yet
Will this be free?
I know I'm labeled a whiny malcontent but honestly isn't this something we should have a definite answer for by now?
There are many things we should have definite answers on by now. What happens after the tutorial? What is the build your legacy part of the season? If it's just to create a fresh start every X period, why not wipe everything, including characters? If there is no race or goal for the season and thus no reason to wipe characters, then what is the ultimate point of NL? The only thing stated is that it will bring the most significant influx of new players seen - ok, great, how are we doing that?
On a side note, did weather-related impacts make it in? That was one of the first "it's going to be awesome" things they talked about was how weather was going to play a role. All of this is project and user base management 101.
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they seem to be rolling things out in stages. everything they said they would do is not all turned on at once , which is probably good so they can adjust as we go. the go live NL should be "better" than what we are experiencing now.
hope they let gm miners collect more than 2 ingots per strike. that would be a great help!
hope they let gm miners collect more than 2 ingots per strike. that would be a great help!
That sounds logical. It seems to me they want to start each new season on NL fresh but they want to encourage NL players who don't already have characters on UO to transfer over to UO and play there.
For players new to UO, NL could be the fast start for building new characters to GM - if they are willing to pay for it - I can't imagine transfers will be free - but who knows.
For those of us who already have full rosters on UO, I don't see any advantage of keeping the NL character - but that doesn't seem to be the point anyway.
We do not know yet. I can hear the crying if they do. Players don't like the dark nights now, I do not see them liking to have to wear other armor at different times of year.
Also Ice Island is there, shouldn't it be cold all the time.
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I mean, everyone needs a hobby . . .
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Considering there are 8 virtues, and 8 companions that the Avatar must seek in order to complete the most prolific title of the series - Ultima IV - I think an 8th character slot would be fitting and could be written into the lore of the game. I'd definitely shell out another $50 for my main accounts to have another character slot and put some of my soulstones to work!
Transfer one of your characters to another shard via shield or buy a transfer token between now and when the actual NL shard ends.
I think rolling things out in stages is a smart idea so they can kind of control what people are testing. The only concern from me on that is that they might not have left enough time to do that if they are going live with NL in another 4-6 weeks? My guess is that the first season of NL will probably be a very trimmed down version of whatever they were initially thinking; of course that's all speculation since the Dev team purposefully never really gave us a ton on what NL was going to be.
Agreed.
Unfortunately, even though it's been like 5+ years now working on NL, the Dev team still isn't really expanding on what they have said in the past about the scope of NL; at least from what I've seen/read. At this point there should be some pretty firm thoughts/answers to questions like 1) How long will a season be (assuming that's still the case)? 2) What is building your legacy and how does that differ from a player sticking to their home shard (I can be a warrior/blacksmith/mage anywhere)? 3) Confirmation on what a shard wipe looks like (if people get to keep their chars/skills doesn't that give them a leg up on other brand new players?). 4) How is it expected that this new shard will build a new player base (seems like most input is coming from existing players)?
From my perspective, they took too long to keep me interested in NL hype and from what I've read about it so far it's not something that interests me. One of my biggest questions after NL is released is what does game management look going forward? Will the Dev team pretty much continue the allocation of time like they have done the past 5 years where Prod gets like 10% and NL gets 90% or will we actually get some new content for Prod shards since some version of NL will finally have been released?