Time again for a plea to raise stable slots...

[Guest]

I always thought that our housing actually resided on it's own dedicated server, apart of the cluster for that particular Shard. That maybe why the Devs need to check disk space to see if there is adequate space to accommodate our request for more stable space.

More Disk Space! More Stable Slots! Go, Devs, Go! *smiles*

 

[Cear Dallben Zog]

Everyone,



good post.



they have heard this TONS. they should consider this in the near future, first checking to see if they actuall UO servers can hold that additional ammount of information. Keep requesting or wait for a responce. I personally Like the idea.

Rock onwards Sosarians

 

[BajaElladan]

So Sad....to be SO well endowed...and all of it BELOW the neck!!!

Read, Comprehend, Consider, then Respond.

Elladan of Baja

(this post contains sarcastic humor & minor scolding)

 

[BajaElladan]

Leave Stables & Stable slots as they are...

HOWEVER...

Add Arks (as in Noah's Arks) at every Town Dock. allow anyone to buy space for pet(s) on an increased but not exorbitant amount above the 30 per pet/week charged at the Stables. Place reasonable limits on total pets permitted per character (if limits are even needed).

Leave control slots where they are or make two slight changes...allow crafters to use a giant/fire beetle and a golem for protection...allow ethys to be used with no control slots (for everyone).

My general thots.

Elladan of Baja

 

[Guest]

Prolly the one thing all playstyles can agree upon is added stable slots.

Let it be so!

@ BajaElladan I confess hands down I am recovering from a mild brain trauma (car accident within last six months), however, I do not remember a single ark in any of the Ultimas. Not a one. A space ship, sure, ark - huh uh.

I actually appreciate the fact that religion is not a part of my UO gaming experience and frankly I'd just as soon keep it that way.

If it were me (and sadly it's not), I'd say:-

Hell NO to arks...

NO to pay-for extra stable slots since that unfairly & specifically negatively impacts newer players, casual players, crafters, etc (eg, those who can least afford it)...

NO to at-home-stables & vanity-home-pets because frankly there are other professions, bugs/features/foibles which are far more deserving of the Dev Teams' time & attention...

A big fat YES to more stable slots for everyone.

An increase of, say, 2 for those without taming skills and a max increase of 3-6 for tamers (based on tame/lore/vet skills - real skill or otherwise same as now) really should make everyone happy.

 

[Hunters' Moon]

Tamer: "I want to have my cake and eat it too!!"

Seriously people,there must be balances kept in the game that is fair for every template. The Devs can't just toss in something like this without testing out how it would effect non-tamer templates. This game isn't named Ultima Tamer Online...yet.

 

[Hunters' Moon]

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I actually appreciate the fact that religion is not a part of my UO gaming experience and frankly I'd just as soon keep it that way.

[/ QUOTE ] Are you kidding? Pentagrams,arcane circles,abatars,ankh necklaces. Mage,necro,arcane "WoD" are nothing more than chanted mantras. VooDoo with zombies and other undead....sure theres no religion in UO...oh by the way...I have this bridge over here for sale. Would you like to buy it?

 

[Guest]

No, I am not kidding. And I'll pass on the bridge as well as the ark, thanks just the same.

 

[Guest]

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Tamer: "I want to have my cake and eat it too!!"

Seriously people,there must be balances kept in the game that is fair for every template. The Devs can't just toss in something like this without testing out how it would effect non-tamer templates. This game isn't named Ultima Tamer Online...yet.

[/ QUOTE ]I suspect you are confusing follower slots with stable slots.

My having upteen squillion pets in my stable unbalances nothing when I can still only have 5 slots out at any one time.

 

[Hunters' Moon]

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Tamer: "I want to have my cake and eat it too!!"

Seriously people,there must be balances kept in the game that is fair for every template. The Devs can't just toss in something like this without testing out how it would effect non-tamer templates. This game isn't named Ultima Tamer Online...yet.

[/ QUOTE ]I suspect you are confusing follower slots with stable slots.

My having upteen squillion pets in my stable unbalances nothing when I can still only have 5 slots out at any one time.

[/ QUOTE ]For now you can't have more than 5 slots,but who knows. When the Devs gave you tamers the uber dragon,I saw a spike in the number of tamer "I want...." posts here in stratics,and things do tend to go in circles with whats the uber template at the time. Eventually,I am convinced,the tamer with be god-like again,just like they were back when there were no control slots at all.

 

[Guest]

Try leaving the tamer hate at the door, please.

Not every thread on UHall deserves one of your greater dragon complaints y'know, it's getting a bit like a stuck record...

Wenchy

 

[Black Sun]

Now thats an idea I can get behind. Currently my tamer's stable is maxed out. I had to get rid of my kir'in so I could stable Bob (my pet mongbat that I've been training). I'd like one of the new super dragons, but I just don't have the room for one. Even if we just got a total of 10 slots, that'd be great.

 

[Black Sun]

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It would really be nice to have the ability to "bond" smaller creatures to your home...like cats, dogs, etc. &lt;snip&gt; It would certainly be nice for RPers, as well as decorators, too. House Pets add quite a bit of personality and charm. &lt;snip&gt;

[/ QUOTE ]I had a wild goat running around my garden the other day. (He got stuck because I forgot to unsecure the exit teleporter) It added a nice bit of realism to things. Too bad I couldn't keep him up there all the time.

 

[Guest]

Would you like to be able to keep more pets in your stables, Hunters Moon?

 

[Guest]

We're not going away Dev...... Bump...

 

[Guest]

Actually...I seem to remember the thread coming about after a talking about the purple bunnies. I remember Uvtha specifically saying "I'd like to have one, too....but not enough slots'', or something to that effect. =)

 

[Jirel of Joiry]

I'd love more stable slots my tamers' stable slots are all full. I'd like like to see the addition of ONE just ONE more control slot for a total of six. Why? Because it'd be nice to go mining riding the fire beetle with blue beetle in tow.

 

[Guest]

The 1 more additional Control SLOT for a pet would create so many problems the whole PvP community would be

, Just look at combo's Ie: Beetle, Mare &amp; Fox / Drag (norm) or WW, 2 Mares, Fox's (make your own Combos

) That impact alone in PvP would be way too much &amp; I don't PvP on a Tamer that much, if I do, it's on my mage or fencer.. But that 6th Control Slot would have very bad reprocutions

. Be nice for an additional EV but bad for everything else. Do as I do on my miner, Fire Beetle &amp; a packy (llama) works well..
Nope all we want is more Stable Slots... Come on Dev's ... give us a Lil input Pls

 

[imported_Castor]

they should make an extra stable slot a 1st year reward and give another at 3 years.

It is certainly not overpowered.

 

[Guest]

There is no "power" in more stable slots, just variety. Warriors can have chests full of weapons, but Tamers are limited to 14 max. Most tamers don't want the stable slots for 50 super dragons, you really only need 1 of em. We want extra stable space for "fun" pets, like playing with packs of hell hounds, hell cats, or chickens, bunnies, squirrels, ferrets, and mongbats.

As for balance? balance? how could that even be mentioned in this thread? As its been said by at least three people before me, this is about S.T.A.B.L.E. slots, not control slots...... I don't want to run around with a pack of greater dragons (heck my 1 is hard enough to keep in line), I want stable space for playing with interesting pets for F.U.N.

We got more storage space for house deco, now we need more storage space for pet deco

Rey~

 

[Guest]

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There is no "power" in more stable slots, just variety. Warriors can have chests full of weapons, but Tamers are limited to 14 max. Most tamers don't want the stable slots for 50 super dragons, you really only need 1 of em. We want extra stable space for "fun" pets, like playing with packs of hell hounds, hell cats, or chickens, bunnies, squirrels, ferrets, and mongbats.

As for balance? balance? how could that even be mentioned in this thread? As its been said by at least three people before me, this is about S.T.A.B.L.E. slots, not control slots...... I don't want to run around with a pack of greater dragons (heck my 1 is hard enough to keep in line), I want stable space for playing with interesting pets for F.U.N.

We got more storage space for house deco, now we need more storage space for pet deco

Rey~

[/ QUOTE ]

Yup on this one, I'd love to have the stable room to have a pack of Ostards and Hellhounds, as well as my trusty Mare, Cu, Dragon or two, Rune beetle, prhaps a pair of Kitsunes and maybe even a fire steed or two. All those pets total 19 stable slots and that does not even consider my pet chicken for chicken fights.

 

[Vincia Eaglehorn]

stable slots should be handled like control slots.

14x5 = 70 (if you have enough skill)

to have 70 control slots for stables would be fine .. so you can stable 14 gr. dragons or 70 bunnies or whatever

non tamers could stable 5 pets then instead of 3

this way you arent increased in power becasue you can stable more gr. dragons whatever, but you can try out some packs

would be nice if you could stable packs as packs too .... so you wouldnt need to fetch each pet in a pack single by single

 

[Guest]

Just give us a flat, across the board boost. Why make it complicated? As long as the control slots remains the same for pets OUT of the stable, really who cares how many are stored INSIDE not being actively used? Non-tamers should get a boost in stable slots, to at least account for 5 pack animals stabled, and a few actual companion pets (maybe 10 total?), and tamers should get a big boost (maybe 5 per 30 points of combined taming/lore/vet skill, which would give 60 max). I really liked the idea of pet statues mentioned in this thread, but can see that might complicate things. I'd rather have a flat increase under the current stabling mechanics if that gets it done faster, and I can't really see any negative impact.

At one time I had 4 different colored doggies, to match my outfits. I could only have 1 doggie out at a time, of course, but I ended up having to give 2 of them away, to be able to keep my ferret, ice worm, etc. for fun pets. Same with my pack of frenzied ostards, and pair of firesteeds, which had to find new homes long ago. Just no room for those guys anymore.

I'd like different colored hiryus as well, and would also like to have my "fun" low level pets such as ferret, cat/dog, bunny, etc.

-Skylark

 

[Guest]

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There is no "power" in more stable slots, just variety. Warriors can have chests full of weapons, but Tamers are limited to 14 max. Most tamers don't want the stable slots for 50 super dragons, you really only need 1 of em. We want extra stable space for "fun" pets, like playing with packs of hell hounds, hell cats, or chickens, bunnies, squirrels, ferrets, and mongbats.

As for balance? balance? how could that even be mentioned in this thread? As its been said by at least three people before me, this is about S.T.A.B.L.E. slots, not control slots...... I don't want to run around with a pack of greater dragons (heck my 1 is hard enough to keep in line), I want stable space for playing with interesting pets for F.U.N.

We got more storage space for house deco, now we need more storage space for pet deco


Rey~

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Agreed 100%. Some people just don't get it. It's like having a house with a maximum lockdown count of 14 items, or a bank box that can hold just 2 items. There simply is NO REASON AT ALL to limit stable slots in anyway what-so-ever.

No to additional stable slots as a vet reward.
No to additional stable slots as a purchased add-on.
No to additional stable slots based on tamer skills.
No to 5 addtional stable slots.

Yes to 125 stable slots regardless of tamer skill, because there is NO REASON not to have this, and every reason to have it that way.

 

[Guest]

*Kicks it back to Page One* We're still here !

 

[Guest]

+1


Maybe a mention along with the new pet controls on FoF?

Rey~

 

[Guest]

Yes...hopefully they had time to take a look at the code or disc
space and be able to give us more info on this. My crafters
love having a little furry friend out with them.
But with only 2 slots unless I put some taming skills on an
already very cramped template they are unable to.
I won't even go there with my tamers.

 

[joblackjon]

Please, more stable slots!!!
5 more per char!

 

[Guest]

*Bump it up*

 

[Toptwo]

5 more per char sounds good, but how about 20 more for my full time tamer!

 

[Guest]

Yes!

I want to tame a couple herds of spiders or hellhounds and see how they really do, but I don't have the stable space to keep them.

I had to dump a couple superb cu's to get a superdragon into the stable for bonding.

 

[Fluffi]

Hey!

I just had what I think is a great idea, but I'll throw it out here for general discussion.


Why doesn't everyone get more stable slots?

 

[Guest]

Just in case Jeremy needs an idea for a FOF lets give this LITTLE
thread a boost.

 

[Guest]

And Another Boost

<font color=red> Hint Hint...FOF, Pls Read &amp; Dev's Pls Comment On Us </font color=red>

We Anxiously Await Your Reply

 

[Guest]

Well we got an answer sort of.....

I don't see how it would affect the game, I've never lagged walking by a stable full of all the shards tamers pets, but I've lagged tons walking by people houses that are crammed full of everything they could gather. They've added what 2-3 house storage increases, but have to check how more stable space would affect the game?

Sounds more like if it does get added, it'll be like the housing storage: for a small fee.......


Rey~

 

[Guest]

I'm a little surprised that the storage requirements would require much analysis ... it worries me a little if things are complex enough behind the scenes that it's not a trivial question to answer.

I wonder what effect have the purple rabbits have had on stable occupancy?

 

[Guest]

Well...how about a turn-in for all those items everyone has laying around collecting dust? That would decrease the item count a little, freeing up some storage space for stable slots. =)

 

[Guest]

Bringing us back to page one so We Are Not Forgotten

 

[Toptwo]

I just posted this on another thread...but what the heck...if I post it on this one two I have even a better chance that a dev might read it

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why not make 2 threads here happy???

Seems to me there are a LOT of people BEGGING for more stable slots!!!

Seems to me there are a LOT of people BEGGING for another item turn-in/clean up Brit event!!!

Let me see.....when we did the blackrock turn in we got items we could actually USE and USE UP.

I myself got some very nice agapite and verite runic hammers, I got some Tok Dyes, I got scourge, putrification, eye of travesty and a TON of other ingredients, AND GUESS WHAT?!?!?!?!

All of that stuff has been used and is now GONE and OFF the server.

Soooooo..

let me see...I got rid of a TON of blackrock I had been saving (over 200 pcs) I got a LOT of kewl items, and with the exception of a few armor items, I have USED everything up...gone...poof...200 pcs of blackrock turned in, and I have about 10 items left....saved the server some space...multiply that by the amount of people that turned in from 1-500 pcs (and I know that a LOT of people did turn in, AND had that many pcs) of blackrock and we saved the server a LOT of space!!

How many people are hording 100's of blackrock again??? (I KNOW I am) How many people are sitting on 100's of Ophidian rations, orders, etc??? How many people are sitting on 100's of rubble??? How many people have a bazillion strips of bacon, gingerbread cookies, cards (for EVERY occasion) Halloween candy, and all the other things we have been given for gifts through out the years???? I KNOW I AM!!!

Even if you make the turn in at a 5-1 ratio..I PROMISE I will turn 95% of my blackrock, orders, rubble, cards, cookies, etc. in!!! (yes, I would keep 1 or 2 of each just incase...) but I sure dont need to be hording the collection of 300+ blackrock (and growing daily) that I am now.

What are we supposed to think....you gave us a bunch of GREAT items for our blackrock...you DIDN'T turn the blackrock spawn OFF...so...either we are hording blackrock again for another turn in or you blew it and left the blackrock spawn turned on for nothing. As long as there was one turn in, and the blackrock keeps coming, people are going to keep on collecting it!!!

Give us another turn in on ALL of our junk...make the items we turn in for useable resorces that will be USED up and go away..think of the TONS of server space you are going to generate...THEN you can give us MORE STABLE SLOTS!!!

OR

Let me turn in my blackrock and ALL of my other junk to the Stable master for STABLE SLOTS!!!! I would happily give up 10pcs of blackrock for ONE stable slot! I bet a LOT of other people here would as well....Let the stable master offer me 10 scourge OR ONE STABLE SLOT...or a Verite runic hammer OR ONE STABLE SLOT...or 10 putrification...OR ONE STABLE SLOT! This way those of us that want a STABLE SLOT can get it, and those of us that want a shot at a Verite hammer or other such fine turn in item can get one!

Give us a clean up brit, and item turn in and you will gain enough server space that everybody here could have a dozen more STABLE SLOTS and you would STILL save server space!!!!

whew...to much coffee to early in the morning for me

...making a edit here to add one more thought Devs....

I would hazzard a guess here that most everybody that plays this game for at least 6 months or so, has figured out that the more chars they have the more gifts they get..so most of us probably have 5-7 chars per account, and just incase you give really GREAT gifts we have 5-7 chars per account with 5-7 chars PER SHARD. So figure the low end here 1 account for each player (and a LOT of people have multi accounts i myself have 3 accts) but we are figuring the LOW end here, 1 account for each player... 5 chars per account...25 shards = 125 chars per account. 7-10 items given per "gift basket" = 875 items per account...gifts given 3-4 times per year = 2625 total items each account has... per year.... multiply that by the number of active accounts and you have a BAZILLION items!!! Let us turn all that stuff in for "useupable" resources. Don't worry... if you make it so we can turn it in for things we can use... WE will worry about getting it Xshard traded. Guess what??? You just saved a TON of server space, more then I can even imagine....then

wait for it.....

wait for it.....

wait for it.....

We can have MORE STABLE SLOTS!!!


ok.....

think I am done now...I either need more coffee...or need to go back to bed for awhile.....

whew!!!

Edited by Toptwo (03/10/08 06:04 AM)

 

[Toptwo]

page 6??? this will never do!!

we need to keep this on page one or two to let them know we arent going away!!

I thought we were going to make this another thredzilla!!

c'mon my bretheren....dont lose hope

 

[Guest]

Hopefully they have had a little time to check into this...I know it
was mentioned in the last FOF...so maybe just maybe.

 

[Tom_Builder]

Good Morning!!

 

[Guest]

Hi ya guys, nice to see you're still around Tom, get on some Am so we can get you back into the Peers again. I know you're itching to

.

And yes WE NEED MORE STABLE SLOTS PLEASE. Ty for your time...

 

[Guest]

Another FoF, no mention of Stable Slots, although there was a pretty redundant question about how Animals/Monsters/NPCs Stats/Resists are determined.