Really pissed off.
Refinement is still there, 70 DCI or not, the
SYSTEM SUCKS!!!
Not only because of the DCI, but also with the many ways the resists can be exploited, as I've warned you about over a month ago, but which you seem to ignore!
REFINING MUST GO!
Mage Armor, so now we have to remove mage armor from our artifacts
WITHOUT GETTING ANYTHING OF EQUAL PROPERTY VALUE BACK! Making the whole property, and any item that currently has it, either useless or overpriced!!!
Again, mage armor should be just that, make armor medable and keep all the other bonuses untouched!
There goes my dream of having a bad-ass mage in heavy (dragon) armor THAT ACTUALLY WORKS! Look at all the imbue weight I'd be prepared to pay for it! But nooooooo, character diversity, the core that is UO must be destroyed even more!
Why keep a perfectly awesome system, when you can mess it up and break it into multiple disfunctional systems that no-one asks for, eh?
Then we have this fun thing:
- Trade deals cost 2,000,000gp from funds obtained from the City Treasury.
- The City Treasury can be donated to by dropping gold or checks on the City Herald near each City Stone.
- The City Treasury is subject to a daily 5% reduction above 10,000gp to pay for general City Services.
So why would I as governor want any funds in the treasury when the only thing I can buy is trade contracts, and I can just keep the money in my own bank until I have to buy a new trade contract??? Why have a reduction system, when it is so simple to circumvent it, and players get no advantage for leaving funds in the treasury?