There have been threads about a Vet Reward Turn-In Program and I for one would welcome this %100. OMG I have lost count of all the 1st yr rewards I have from claiming/buying bigger houses/Vets giving them to me/IDOCs we truely need a Vet Reward Turn-In Program to go along with this Account Aging Program.
Real issue is everyone is disgruntled over something in this game and that's not gonna change. Here's a new idea, play the game and stop complaining over absolutely everything that doesn't make you 100% happy (and yes I'm guilty of whining, just look through my posting history). Find the aspects of the game you like and play it, don't get drawn into the whole "keeping up with" attitude. That ideal is what frustrates and makes people quit the game thus denying them the uber veteran status that I have
sorry couldn't resist that last part - but the first part was genuine. got you again, fool you once, shame on me...fool you twice..and..um, you're a fool? That doesn't sound right....anyway Just kidding, I actually rarely ride a boura and hate the garden sheds so I sold them to another vet, but again the sentiment (the first, long part) does hold true. So when all the dust settles, I can be certain of one thing...even as I watch the young'uns cover the land in bouras, garden sheds and lockers, they'll still be left wanting more, and after they're gone, and their houses fall, I'll be there, camping their IDOCs, wondering what we're getting for a 20th year vet reward. Bless this great game!
If this is the case...i need start hoarding those 39k/49k first year crap ones sharpish!!!!!..instead of selling them for peanuts..but surely i cant be as easy as turn in 14 x 1st year for a 14th year.. that would be plain silly!!...maybe 5x first year for a 1x 2nd year..then 5x 2nd year for a 1x 3rd year etc etc
Why not? The original exchange rate would even have been 1 selection = 1 reward, independent from age. So making 3 groups (0-5, 6-10, >10) and swapping one reward of the same group or 2/3 rewards of a lower group for a reward in the higher one would make sense.
So much this.
The one idea I liked the best was like the Clean-up point system. The more you turn in the more points get added to your total points.
Well..thats where you are wrong. I was just at the birthday celebration a couple months back and at lunch a girl at our table was talking how she has only been playing 5 years but just bought a 14 year account and she was so happy in a couple months she could choose the 15 year reward. So money can still buy the vet rewards..
Now that is funny because that is exactly what your money did buy. Please tell me any in-game requirements that you have to do or have ever done the warrent a Vet Reward. NONE
So Popps,
Just to name the latest, a highly wanted new Veteran Reward, the Davies' Locker Table, was made an 8th Year Veteran Reward. So, as I see it, every year there is something added, highly desirable, for all sorts of years.
If you search out my older posts, you may find other posts with the topic Veteran Rewards were I was suggesting, when claiming a Veteran reward, to add an additional level of verification of the actual original age of the account by needing to introduce the original UO registration number that was sticked on the jewel case that came with the UO CD. I was criticized by many for this suggestion because, I was told, many original account players over these years may have lost their original jewel case and so no longer have access to their original registration number.
I think there is a fundemental difference in the understanding of your term wait. Those with 15 year old accounts never had to wait for any vet reward. They were available to you the day they became available ingame. IMO to "wait" for something it would need to be available ingame but unavailable to you.
I would hope that is not the route they take. I think the Dev team needs to take a serious look at what constitutes "veteran" status along what is a reasonable amount of time to actually wait for content that is in game to be made available toa new player. When the vet program began, that wait time was @ 3 years. I still believe that is the right amount of time. Once you have paid for 36 months of gametime, all of the vet rewards should be available as a choice of reward. Additional years of playtime result in additional selections from the list.
Veteran Rewards were introduced in late 2001 so some of us only had to wait about 1 yr for our 3rd yr rewards. We got back credit for time served LOL
Unless I am missing something, this IS exclusivity.
And what does it take away from you if a younger account gets the exact same items as you, other than exclusivity? I would not advocate that top tier rewards be available to a 1 day old account, but after 36 months I say its time to open the doors and treat them as veterans... the same as you or I.
Isn't it funny how tightly they want to hold on to thier pixels. I too do not understand this one bit. Why are old Vets still here or maintain thier accounts? #1 it is still fun for me, #2 I would hate to lose my houses and all my stuff and it is hard as hell to throw away $1800. Younger accounts will walk away faster than older accounts because they have less time and money invested in UO. Now if they were allowed to age thier account they would not have as much time as an older Vet but they sure would have the money invested and that alone would be a hard thing to walk away from. I am not saying this is true %100 because RL does come in sometimes and forces you to make choices bit for the most part IMHO more younger accounts would stay because of the money they just laid out.
I just a young pup to you, 179 mo. One more month till I hit the big 15.
Thier were no rewards available to me in yr 1, the Vet Reward System wasn't there till late 2001. I will get my 15th in one month and yes I too had to wait but UO needs help and some people are trying to come up with ways to help keep the Younger Vets here. IMHO the NOOB title runs out at 1 yr. They are Vet just like us. Nobody is saying here have this for free. For example only a 3rd yr Vet as paid $360 and a 15th yr Vet has paid $1,800 now if that 3rd yr Vet was will to fork over $ 1,440 to UO to age thier account then I say let them. They have now invested the same thing into UO as a 15th yr Vet and the only thing they missed was the 12 years of fun. Playing UO is not the investment, paying for UO is.
Mo Money Mo Probelms - No Money No Problems No UO
"Hi, is this Acme Pizzeria? Yeah well I'm a regular customer of yours and I have a complaint. No, no, the pizza is fine. Delicious, in fact. It's just... you know those cards you punch, where if you buy four pizzas, you get free salad and breadsticks with the fifth one? Yeah the little red cards. No, no, I got my free salad and breadsticks just fine, like usual.
Well, if the fact that one item is a replica and the other is not means you're still bothered, then I think it's getting a little petty. I'm suggesting replicas so there may be a chance that we find a compromise that gives old and new players whatever properties and items they desire without entirely killing the spirit behind vet rewards - having anything based on age. Really, if it's gotten so petty that a replica tag is still too exclusive, and you think us vets are in the wrong for not sharing this pixel envy... we've reached a new level of crazy.
I've got no attachment to any properties on the rewards, and you guys are the ones who want them so why would I make the list? The offer is there from me - take whatever properties you want. But the devs can't help you out unless you give specifics.
I've already said take the same looking items and properties and just put a replica tag on them. You don't want to budge on helping these imagined younger accounts, but you expect vets to roll over to all your demands or state reasons why they aren't totally compliant? I think you want your cake and you want to eat it. I'd happily take a replica of the older rewards I'm not likely to own, so if you're trying to convince me that a replica tag hurts a younger player, good luck. I'm not suggesting anything I wouldn't accept myself, it's you who seems to want the stars in the sky.
oooh, bad analogies, let me try...
The point is, whether they make new ones say replica or not, it has absolutley no impact on the ones you have. Why not just lower the "veteran" age so that more people can claim them. The only reason not to, is to maintain the exclusivity of those items for old accounts.
I'm sorry I looked at those and it just hit me.
The two sides are clearly miles apart, if this was a marriage we would have no choice but to file for divorce on grounds of irreconcilable differences (oh, and in the settlement I want the boura, you can have the black dye tub, it's not like you can ride the boura anyway - okay, that was mean).
A trophy is an award granted as a symbol of achievement in a competition.
The replica option is a compromise to meet the desires of both sides in the middle. That replica tag has no impact whatsoever on a newer player either.... In fact the replica system would at least ensure players got some little gift each year they stick with UO.
This is just plain sad. You now have issue with a vet maybe being proud of the fact that he/she stuck around x amount of years and got a nice reward? Do you realize how ridiculous and selfish that makes you sound KLOMP? Where were you bud 14 years ago when UO crashed like every week and reverts were a regular part of UO life? I wonder.
"He's got that new item and I want it!" "Sorry son but your not old enough to play with that, you'll have to wait a few more years"
FIXED This is a game not RL world.
QFT %200 AGREE and yet what do you here NO NO NO UO can't do that it is unfair. LOL
QFT To UO/EA this was all about $$$ and nothing else. I to have paid my dues ($$$) to UO/EA and had to do nothing in game to earn even one of these.
