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Arafel Ilianna
Guest
Hail and Well Met, fellow Sosarians and UO Gods and Goddesses (that's YOU, Dev Team!)
Today, for your consideration and thoughtful, productive responses, I offer you ten things that I’d love to see! Hopefully, these represent simple changes to grace our ever-changing landscape!
1.) NEW MAGINCIA: Okay, the plot winners have been determined and the REAL business of rebuilding a vibrant and energetic new town can now begin in earnest! Some ideas for the newborn island:
a.) We HAVE two cities that are packed FULL of vendors in Luna and Zento... do we REALLY need a THIRD? How about creating an "actually working" town instead? For example, what if we took it upon ourselves to create not just twenty-two more mismatched houses, but rather, player-run shops and services? Consider this short (and non-conclusive) list for ideas: a foundry/blacksmith shop (where PLAYER blacksmiths could craft fine armor and weapons for the masses), a leather tanner and tailor shop (where PLAYER tailors could assemble fine cloth and leather clothing), an alchemist's shop (get your potions by the bottle or the keg, and pick up some glassware whilst you're here too!), and a gardener's shop (where players could share seeds and resources, and hundreds of new plants could be raised each day for all to enjoy!). Other buildings could include an artificer's shop, a stone mason's / carpenter's shop, a New Magincia City Hall, a New Magincia Governor's Mansion, a rares museum (not selling anything), a rune library, and a fish market, among others. Yes, there could still be vendors and commerce, but here, the PLAYER CRAFTED ITEMS would be emphasized. Finally, everyone's blacksmiths, artificers, tailors, fishers, stone masons, tinkers, carpenters, (and so on), would have a place to gather and work. THIS would be the place to procure a Golem; THIS would be the place to order a magically enhanced or imbued suit of armor; THIS would be the place to buy those rare and elusive fish! This is a city of HUMILITY--let hard working craftsmen and women earn a FAIR wage here--the shard-hopping rares dealers and purveyors of Power Scrolls and Artifacts can still ply their trade in Zento and Luna! (Note: this is NOT a plea to the Dev Team--this is a plea to the PLAYERS! Only WE (collectively) can make Magincia a beautiful and meaningful place! Only WE can give it warmth and purpose and character! Whadaya say?!?)
b.) To help people identify their new surroundings, how about unobtrusive street signs on each corner... let's name the streets after the heroes of our world! Queen Dawn Lane would certainly be a fitting start!
c.) A winding path of stepping stones leading from the nearest stretch of road in town to the moongate out in the forest would be a welcome addition for folks (young and old) who are seeking the way between the moongate and the town!
d.) Runes marked in New Magincia still say "Magincia." Time to update the name with that "New" qualifier!
e.) Finally, this wonderful new gardening system introduced with the rebirth of Magincia has one small flaw: raising plants requires daily care, and --let's face it-- there IS life outside of UO! So, perhaps the Dev Team will bless us with a "vacation mode" of some kind--sort of like the discs that we can purchase to keep our aquariums happy for a week at a time?
2.) ESCORT SERVICE: There are NPCs all over New Magincia looking for Compassion Escorts to places elsewhere... shouldn't the "places elsewhere" be populated with NPCs hoping to hitch a ride to New Magincia too? And, in ALL scenarios, can we PLEASE lessen the time between escorts? Five minutes could be three! Why must it be so tedious?
3.) OUR FAVORITE CELEBRITY THIEF: Okay! Ricardo is officially SANE and a new hero of the land! Can we PLEASE now take down his wanted poster at the Luna bank (and elsewhere), and put the prison wagon and its team back in its barn and stables at the Yew prison?!?
4.) IN UTTER DARKNESS: PLEASE fix whatever the bug is that makes nightsight fail! It should not matter if you cross a server line, or if you are on water or on land! Elves should ALWAYS have nightsight vision (and it should not be possible to cast nightsight on them, either)! Humans and Gargoyles who are wearing objects that possess the nightsight property should never find themselves "in the dark"! (Note: I most often suddenly lose my nightsight while traveling over a server line at sea, if that helps...)
5.) THE WAR IS OVER: The Virtuebane Demon is (at least temporarily) defeated! He and his minions have been returned to the hell that spawned them! This means it's time to take down the red and white pedestals and bells in each town, too!
6.) TALKIN' TRASH: Time to clean up the trash! I'm not sure what it looks like on other shards, but on Lake Superior, there is "Rubble From A Skull Totem" on the floor of the Luna Bank, and a wayward "statue" at the SE corner of the New Haven Bank, and other similar, forgotten bits of meaningless pixel clutter are scattered about the realm as well! EVERY BANK should have a trash receptacle nearby--even in New Haven! (Now that new players can start everywhere, New Haven should not be treated differently... BUT, if the concern exists that new players may inadvertently discard something they shouldn't, an "Are you sure...?" type warning could be added to the New Haven trash bin!)
7.) A LICENSE TO FISH, PART I: Okay, the novelty is over—may we PLEASE introduce a public moongate at the Sea Market? Or, at the very least, allow characters to mark recall runes there? Access to the Sea Market (aka Floating Emporium) can still be restricted such that people without the High Seas expansion cannot be gated there, recall there, or mark runes there… It is tiresome and inconvenient that the Sea Market may only be reached by ship, especially now that it has been in existence for several months!
8.) A LICENSE TO FISH, PART II: Was (Is) it really the intention of the Dev Team to make +15 and +20 Fishing Power Scrolls the hardest Power Scrolls to obtain in the whole game? None of us mind putting in the work and the time—but there are MANY nearly-full-time-fishers out here who are about darn sick of getting bait and lava fishing gear!
9.) AVAST THERE, MATEY: PLEASE give us the ability to customize our ship pilots! Hair, clothing, items held (a hammer? REALLY?), and name—just like a vendor—would be quite welcomed! Let us dress them like ship captains and pirates and mariners! And let us give them names other than Eva, and Larry, and Steven!
10.) TO STACK OR NOT TO STACK: There is, perhaps, (outside of the mechanics of PvP) no issue that comes up as often and as passionately as the ability to stack like-objects. I would recommend that the Dev Team include at least five new items (to become “stackable”) with EVERY publish, until no more items can be identified for this fix! Here are twenty items that come to mind—I am sure that there are many more suggestions out there for this list, as well:
a.) Focusing Gem of Virtue Bane
b.) Matching types of footwear (e.g., un-dyed thigh boots, shoes, or boots)
c.) Ancient Pottery Fragments
d.) Undamaged Undead Gargoyle Horns
e.) Blackrock Stew
f.) Ophidian Avenger Arms
g.) Small Pieces of Blackrock
h.) Dyes
i.) Single-use bottles of same-color dyes (e.g., Haochi; Tokuno)
j.) Tasty Treats
k.) Cocoa Butter
l.) Cocoa Liquor
m.) Samples of Corrupted Water
n.) Sap of Sosaria
o.) Enchanted Switches
p.) Jeweled Filigree
q.) Unmarked Recall Runes
r.) Coil’s Fangs
s.) Swabs
t.) Ramrods
Thank you Dev Team and fellow UO Players for your time!
Lady Arafel Ilianna
Lake Superior, Sosaria
Today, for your consideration and thoughtful, productive responses, I offer you ten things that I’d love to see! Hopefully, these represent simple changes to grace our ever-changing landscape!
1.) NEW MAGINCIA: Okay, the plot winners have been determined and the REAL business of rebuilding a vibrant and energetic new town can now begin in earnest! Some ideas for the newborn island:
a.) We HAVE two cities that are packed FULL of vendors in Luna and Zento... do we REALLY need a THIRD? How about creating an "actually working" town instead? For example, what if we took it upon ourselves to create not just twenty-two more mismatched houses, but rather, player-run shops and services? Consider this short (and non-conclusive) list for ideas: a foundry/blacksmith shop (where PLAYER blacksmiths could craft fine armor and weapons for the masses), a leather tanner and tailor shop (where PLAYER tailors could assemble fine cloth and leather clothing), an alchemist's shop (get your potions by the bottle or the keg, and pick up some glassware whilst you're here too!), and a gardener's shop (where players could share seeds and resources, and hundreds of new plants could be raised each day for all to enjoy!). Other buildings could include an artificer's shop, a stone mason's / carpenter's shop, a New Magincia City Hall, a New Magincia Governor's Mansion, a rares museum (not selling anything), a rune library, and a fish market, among others. Yes, there could still be vendors and commerce, but here, the PLAYER CRAFTED ITEMS would be emphasized. Finally, everyone's blacksmiths, artificers, tailors, fishers, stone masons, tinkers, carpenters, (and so on), would have a place to gather and work. THIS would be the place to procure a Golem; THIS would be the place to order a magically enhanced or imbued suit of armor; THIS would be the place to buy those rare and elusive fish! This is a city of HUMILITY--let hard working craftsmen and women earn a FAIR wage here--the shard-hopping rares dealers and purveyors of Power Scrolls and Artifacts can still ply their trade in Zento and Luna! (Note: this is NOT a plea to the Dev Team--this is a plea to the PLAYERS! Only WE (collectively) can make Magincia a beautiful and meaningful place! Only WE can give it warmth and purpose and character! Whadaya say?!?)
b.) To help people identify their new surroundings, how about unobtrusive street signs on each corner... let's name the streets after the heroes of our world! Queen Dawn Lane would certainly be a fitting start!
c.) A winding path of stepping stones leading from the nearest stretch of road in town to the moongate out in the forest would be a welcome addition for folks (young and old) who are seeking the way between the moongate and the town!
d.) Runes marked in New Magincia still say "Magincia." Time to update the name with that "New" qualifier!
e.) Finally, this wonderful new gardening system introduced with the rebirth of Magincia has one small flaw: raising plants requires daily care, and --let's face it-- there IS life outside of UO! So, perhaps the Dev Team will bless us with a "vacation mode" of some kind--sort of like the discs that we can purchase to keep our aquariums happy for a week at a time?
2.) ESCORT SERVICE: There are NPCs all over New Magincia looking for Compassion Escorts to places elsewhere... shouldn't the "places elsewhere" be populated with NPCs hoping to hitch a ride to New Magincia too? And, in ALL scenarios, can we PLEASE lessen the time between escorts? Five minutes could be three! Why must it be so tedious?
3.) OUR FAVORITE CELEBRITY THIEF: Okay! Ricardo is officially SANE and a new hero of the land! Can we PLEASE now take down his wanted poster at the Luna bank (and elsewhere), and put the prison wagon and its team back in its barn and stables at the Yew prison?!?
4.) IN UTTER DARKNESS: PLEASE fix whatever the bug is that makes nightsight fail! It should not matter if you cross a server line, or if you are on water or on land! Elves should ALWAYS have nightsight vision (and it should not be possible to cast nightsight on them, either)! Humans and Gargoyles who are wearing objects that possess the nightsight property should never find themselves "in the dark"! (Note: I most often suddenly lose my nightsight while traveling over a server line at sea, if that helps...)
5.) THE WAR IS OVER: The Virtuebane Demon is (at least temporarily) defeated! He and his minions have been returned to the hell that spawned them! This means it's time to take down the red and white pedestals and bells in each town, too!
6.) TALKIN' TRASH: Time to clean up the trash! I'm not sure what it looks like on other shards, but on Lake Superior, there is "Rubble From A Skull Totem" on the floor of the Luna Bank, and a wayward "statue" at the SE corner of the New Haven Bank, and other similar, forgotten bits of meaningless pixel clutter are scattered about the realm as well! EVERY BANK should have a trash receptacle nearby--even in New Haven! (Now that new players can start everywhere, New Haven should not be treated differently... BUT, if the concern exists that new players may inadvertently discard something they shouldn't, an "Are you sure...?" type warning could be added to the New Haven trash bin!)
7.) A LICENSE TO FISH, PART I: Okay, the novelty is over—may we PLEASE introduce a public moongate at the Sea Market? Or, at the very least, allow characters to mark recall runes there? Access to the Sea Market (aka Floating Emporium) can still be restricted such that people without the High Seas expansion cannot be gated there, recall there, or mark runes there… It is tiresome and inconvenient that the Sea Market may only be reached by ship, especially now that it has been in existence for several months!
8.) A LICENSE TO FISH, PART II: Was (Is) it really the intention of the Dev Team to make +15 and +20 Fishing Power Scrolls the hardest Power Scrolls to obtain in the whole game? None of us mind putting in the work and the time—but there are MANY nearly-full-time-fishers out here who are about darn sick of getting bait and lava fishing gear!
9.) AVAST THERE, MATEY: PLEASE give us the ability to customize our ship pilots! Hair, clothing, items held (a hammer? REALLY?), and name—just like a vendor—would be quite welcomed! Let us dress them like ship captains and pirates and mariners! And let us give them names other than Eva, and Larry, and Steven!
10.) TO STACK OR NOT TO STACK: There is, perhaps, (outside of the mechanics of PvP) no issue that comes up as often and as passionately as the ability to stack like-objects. I would recommend that the Dev Team include at least five new items (to become “stackable”) with EVERY publish, until no more items can be identified for this fix! Here are twenty items that come to mind—I am sure that there are many more suggestions out there for this list, as well:
a.) Focusing Gem of Virtue Bane
b.) Matching types of footwear (e.g., un-dyed thigh boots, shoes, or boots)
c.) Ancient Pottery Fragments
d.) Undamaged Undead Gargoyle Horns
e.) Blackrock Stew
f.) Ophidian Avenger Arms
g.) Small Pieces of Blackrock
h.) Dyes
i.) Single-use bottles of same-color dyes (e.g., Haochi; Tokuno)
j.) Tasty Treats
k.) Cocoa Butter
l.) Cocoa Liquor
m.) Samples of Corrupted Water
n.) Sap of Sosaria
o.) Enchanted Switches
p.) Jeweled Filigree
q.) Unmarked Recall Runes
r.) Coil’s Fangs
s.) Swabs
t.) Ramrods
Thank you Dev Team and fellow UO Players for your time!
Lady Arafel Ilianna
Lake Superior, Sosaria