What would YOU like to see in the next REAL DLC booster?

[Vlaude]

Since the devs sometimes forget to ask the players what THEY would like to see in future additional content I thought I'd make this thread for them to eliminate some of the guess work they like to do

A few requests from the posters: let's not make this a thread about bugs being fixed and cheating being stopped. We'd all like to see that and some of you would like to see it even more than additional DLC. However, let's just pretend in our wildest imaginations that they stop cheating and fix bugs before the next DLC pack and not make that the issue!

Next, try to refrain from bashing other people's ideas. That's not to say discussion isn't wanted, but unless you want to come in with some ideas of your own you're just trolling.

Third, adding a new shard (classic or PvE or whatever) has already been discussed to death, so please don't bring it in here and if you do I'm going to reach through the screen and knock your teeth down your throat. Plus you'll probably get the thread locked by the amazing stratics moderating team!

Ok, go!

 

[Eyes of Origin]

the same stuff we've been saying we want to see

*new housing tiles for custom houses
*castles, keeps and towers with different layouts
*new clothing pieces - the feathered hats and poet type shirts, etc like slave girls post a couple weeks ago
*new tameables - not exactly fighting pets either, but just pets
*new mounts that dont have the age requirement

In 2D -

*larger playing screen... this should've been done a long time ago, imho.
I mean, is there something that would stop this from happening? If not, then someone has been slacking.

*zoomable playing screen


I'm sure I'll think of more

 

[Vlaude]

Here are a few things I would like to see:

On the PvP side of things, just finishing up the arenas would make me happy. Although it's debatable whether this should be put in a DLC bundle (since that hasn't been spoken of yet), I would buy one just for including it if they did a good enough job on it.

For PvM I'd also like to see an arena. Sometimes I just want to fight something big by myself or with a few friends just to see how it goes (rather than for the rewards). Including something like this to make it where you could control what you fight and include a boss tier for those who rank high enough would be a lot of fun. Include the option to make anything paragon for those who really feel up for a challenge. And yeah, maybe even throw in a few rewards for those whose achievements are outstanding.

So yeah, arenas. Do it!

 

[Eyes of Origin]

did they ever finish the pvp arena thing?
if not, then that too.

 

[Fat Midnight]

Hmm lets seee......


1. Growing grass, the grass around your house would grow and have to be mowed.

2. Different undies for your chars.


3. Make houses paintable, make it a really slow and drawn out process


4. Immigration taxes


5. Doorbells for houses


6. incorporate new minigames into UO, lemonade stand, Oregon trail, paperboy, WoW


7. Introduce fractions into the currency system. Why sell fishsteaks for 2gp when you can get 2 1/2gp EACH

 

[Tanivar]

I'd like to see more for the Crafters and Players who don't care for high end hunting tossed in.

Since we have all the gargoyle refugees clustered around Ter-Mur, how about setting it up so Crafters can craft things to donate to the refugees as Care Packages and get the high end ML & SA crafting ingredients in small amounts in return? Perhaps giving points as the Library Item System does. Getting an Essence of Direction in exchange for several hundred housing deco items, or weapons, bandage bundles, orange petals, or such would give non-Sampire Crafters a much cheaper source of the ML & SA crafting ingredients than the stuff in Luna costs.

 

[MalagAste]

I'd like to see housing boosters. More tiles, variety, I like the idea of new layouts and styles for Castles and Keeps.

More clothing styles. I'd like to see something like Arabian styles. More pirate style outfits. I'd like to see more faces and body styles for the EC.

Maybe some viking style items.

New tamables for sure. I'd like to be able to tame Black widows and Dread Spiders. Add black horses and maybe a few heavy war horses to the list of items. I'd buy a token for a bonded black horse.

New hair styles would be awesome too. I'd like LONGER hair. More braid styles...

I'd like some bonus's for Gargoyles too..... Like horn colors. The ability to adorn my horns or something.


A new crafting skill... Have Mysticism and Imbuing with Tailoring/smithing or carpentry and you can become a Morphologist. Or something..... where you take a blank item and transfer properties off of one item onto the blank one... Must be something of equal type... same slot. So you can take the properties of the Hunters Headress and move them to a Bandana..... but not sleeves.... or a close helm. And you couldn't take a close helm and make it a bandana.... but you could make it a raven helm.

And it only works for clothing and armor not weapons. Anyway just a thought.

 

[LoL/Sonoma]

1) Colored *tameable* dragons. Same basic stats as GDs, but with different damage types and resists... would be fun for a tamer to swap pets like a sampire swaps weapons.

2) New things added to existing skills, rather than new skills added. We have a ton of skills and i think most of us already have our templates stretched to the limits.

3) More easily aquired relic fragments ... having to game the system to get these sucks, and i dont want to have to be a gargoyle. =P

4) Revisited classic dungeons. Give us a reason to go to these.

 

[Clog|Mordain]

What I would like to see is variable dungeon difficulty, depending on the number of players in your party, and calculated by their skill caps. Also a scaled loot table for these dungeon difficulties.

This would let the people who enjoy soloing dungeons/mobs still able to do this, but also let larger guilds/groups still enjoy things without it becoming very simple.

Also adjusting the number on players allowed in 1 party. Also make it possible to make WoW style parties(i know. shoot me)

 

[Halister Marner]

Another 20% storage increase. I need more lockdowns!

 

[frostbolt]

pet breeding...breeding for exceptional stats, rare colors, special abilities etc..

 

[Fat Midnight]

pet breeding...breeding for exceptional stats, rare colors, special abilities etc..

Im not going to volunteer to milk a dragon.

 

[AzSel]

Orcs as playable race.

White wyrm update.

House tiles.

 

[CovenantX]

1) new quests make existing ones that are not repeatable, such as dreadhorn repeatable

1.5)Rewards maybe should give a specific item with limited minimum properties and a max limit as well so that they arent too overpowered...

2) Much like "LOL/Senoma" mentioned, A reason to go to the classic & even not so classic dungoens.

3) A Use for reagents such as The Stygian Dragon Head & other items of that nature

4) More for crafters (not associated with imbuing in anyway)
more for mob loot (not associated with imbuing in anyway)

5) Another housing increase would be nice too. or perhaps another facet where one might beable to place another small/medium house that would actually be a 2nd house for ones account.

6) An spawn for Elementals!!!!!!!! =D

7) Maybe make another harrower type mob for a new facet?

8) Areas & reasons for pvp would be great as well.

9) Crafting system changes where you can filter it easier would be nice. and a craft limit you can set and not have to worry about if your crafting tool runs out of uses during the "craft 20 of these" and the tool runs out on craft #17 and stops.

10) Above all else, Battle grounds & Pvp Arena's would be Awsome.

 

[Anira Cuilwen]

Orcs as playable race...

There is some footwear that turns your character into an Orc. Not sure how those sandals are called though.

 

[Anira Cuilwen]

Alright, let me just list few ideas. I know this will contain more than just booster related enhancements but just have a look.

Ships
- Flags for ships
- Add usable anchors to the new ships. Also ships could drift around by random for a tile or two every hour if they are not anchored. Anchors could actually be visible. So you SEE if you dropped it or not.
- Enhance boat decay cycle to be 14 days
- Make it a bit easier to get saltpeter (less luck requied?)

Housing
- Real Cellars in means of a lower floor (sure the client will need a fix to hide the terrain underneath the house in that case)
- Storage increase to aid the problem with loads of decoration whilst keeping the house usable
- Make towns able to be player owned by sort of a renting system and depending on your characters professions (where it makes sense of course, some houses may not be profession depended). So like the blacksmith in Britain might be rented by a blacksmith. Whilst the house is owned you may decorate portions of it as you please and put up your own vendors there. Think this would give the towns some more life. Also this should be in addition to your owned house and not be counted as a house like it is now. The storage there should be limited on the other hand so people don't abuse it as storage houses and only one house should be rented at once of course.
- Enable placement of temporary tents (deeded) to open a camp in the wild for to or three days. Maybe with 40 items storage for bandages and potions and so on. Must be in addition to player owned houses. The tents should vanish after a max of three days if not redeeded. They should not replace bedrolls or the campfire in their function but add the a local storage for a wandering group as base of operations.
- Add craftable doors with locks and keys. Let them lockpickable for normal ones and "safe" for iron doors.
- Add a security menu to Vendors to be able to define whether a Vendor may sell to anyone or to guild/alliance mates or young players only
- enable pets like cats to be left in a house without them going wild as long as there is a filled feeding dish locked down
- enable placement of exterior stairs on every side of a house instead of South end only (but without cutting space from the houses as they are now)
- Add an additional security option to houses called "Guests" that allows people on the list to log out there only and nothing else
- exchange the EC's hosue design tool with the one from classic client. The classic client one is much easier to use. Also add the feature of breaking interior stairs in EC to make angled stairs or at least add various stairs styles.
- make beds usable (maybe just don't let them be blocking so you cn walk onto them)
- make it possible to store the house design when moving to a new location (must not include decorations nor the content being packed, just the house design)
- force houses to enter decay if noone enters them after 90 days even if subscription is still valid

Economy
- Add copper coins for prices lower than a gold coin. As most will dump those anyways wil be a grad opportunity for beggars to collect them
- make gold bricks a useable currency to store larger amount of gold or something like that. (haven't thought this idea through yet)

Environment
- option for colored lights and dark nights in EC
- Fix for flower garlands. They are not showing on the ingame character in EC
- Fix for wearables layer issues in EC. The layers of clothing should have same order as in CC
- add high res charater graphics to EC (no more pixeled faces )
- Fix animated items like the house of the homefire (has some serious glitches in EC)
- Add animations for characters sitting or lying on ground
- Make it possible to hold drinkable things (like wine bottles) in hands
- Make it possible to hold musical instrumets in hand
- Add more animated emotions like "Waving", "Laughing", "Giggling", "Shaking head", "Nodding" and some more common things

Yes I know, some of these ideas need a lot of work and tons of additional animations but I think they are worth adding and would add a lot o "feel" to the best MMO ever

-Anira-

 

[Anira Cuilwen]

Economy
Oh, and introduce rich peoples taxes.
Maybe like anyone who owns more than 20 million, no matter how or where it is stored, gets pulled a rich-men-tax (like a tithe)

 

[Minerva Foxglove]

Costumisable keeps and castles.
Viking clothing and a way to alter armour and headwear by crafters..deacent underwear.
Petbreading sounds very interesting.
Im no pvper so I dont know what to do there but it would be good for the game in general if they got interesting things to do. Pity factions doesnt seem to work that well.
I wouldnt mind to own a farm and grow crops and handle cattle , it has been mentioned before.
Make some tweaks to get the interest back for the High Seas. Lower costs and time consumed before you can set sail and do the fun part.Alter the loot now and then.
Speaking about loot..As it is now , corpses are seldom worth to even check . We need some surprices , esp from the monsters that never characters train on. Rare is ok, just to know you might someday get someting worth looting would make a great difference.

 

[Kael]

Revamp some of the Classic Dungeons ( make there a reason to roams these halls again )
Perhaps add a spawn to a few of these dungeons??
Reintroduce random spawns of Dread Mares back into the game...perhaps if they are more common not every encounter would begin with a dismount

 

[Gilmour]

In 2D -

*larger playing screen... this should've been done a long time ago, imho.
I mean, is there something that would stop this from happening? If not, then someone has been slacking.

*zoomable playing screen

This is simply not possible, the classic client would practicly had to be rebuilt from scratch to meet these requirements.

..

I would love a custom castle plot, but i think this was denied quite clearly by cal



Mini ideas to a booster pack that doesnt fill a booster pack on thier own.

- clothing converter: able to change clothing (also with stats in particular the robes in mind here), towards any other clothing item that goes in the same slot.

- able to hide certain apperance slots, on avatar as well as paperdoll, while still wearing(and benifiting from..) them (robes, hats, sleeves, gloves, etc)


.. cant think of anything else at the moment

 

[frostbolt]

Im not going to volunteer to milk a dragon.

reptiles do not milk

 

[Vlaude]

Wow, some of you have really creative ideas!

Orcs as a playable race should have been done a long time ago. Before elves and gargoyles for sure.

Better late than never though I guess.

 

[Anira Cuilwen]

Wow, some of you have really creative ideas!

Orcs as a playable race should have been done a long time ago. Before elves and gargoyles for sure.

Better late than never though I guess.

They are. There's footwear that transforms you into an Orc

 

[Nexus]

Sausages... you know how many types of sausages there are? I want my Chef to be able to make Liverwurst, and pepperoni, and a build a smoke house add-on so we can make smoked meats!

 

[Eyes of Origin]

In 2D -

*larger playing screen... this should've been done a long time ago, imho.
I mean, is there something that would stop this from happening? If not, then someone has been slacking.

*zoomable playing screen

This is simply not possible, the classic client would practicly had to be rebuilt from scratch to meet these requirements.

..

I would love a custom castle plot, but i think this was denied quite clearly by cal



Mini ideas to a booster pack that doesnt fill a booster pack on thier own.

- clothing converter: able to change clothing (also with stats in particular the robes in mind here), towards any other clothing item that goes in the same slot.

- able to hide certain apperance slots, on avatar as well as paperdoll, while still wearing(and benifiting from..) them (robes, hats, sleeves, gloves, etc)


.. cant think of anything else at the moment

and why would it have to be competely redone? I mean esp. for a larger playing screen.... they offer, what 2 sizes already??

The zoom thing I could understand... but I dont understand the playing screen.

 

[olduofan]

Orcs as playable race.

White wyrm update.

House tiles.

this

 

[olduofan]

larger play window for 2d plus 20% storage and a lower leave in houses like a cellar

 

[Miss Smoocher]

all i can say is victorian furniture would be nice to have. sets you could get off quests or something like that. i have a passion for house deco and its one of the reasons i play uo.

 

[Woodsman]

Housing
- Real Cellars in means of a lower floor (sure the client will need a fix to hide the terrain underneath the house in that case)

Would be cool.

- Make towns able to be player owned by sort of a renting system and depending on your characters professions (where it makes sense of course, some houses may not be profession depended). So like the blacksmith in Britain might be rented by a blacksmith. Whilst the house is owned you may decorate portions of it as you please and put up your own vendors there. Think this would give the towns some more life. Also this should be in addition to your owned house and not be counted as a house like it is now. The storage there should be limited on the other hand so people don't abuse it as storage houses and only one house should be rented at once of course.

I love this idea, but at the same time you would need to limit the number of vendors to say the number of NPCs present in that location before hand, such as the blacksmith in Britain having two NPCs. I'd hate to see some favorite locations turned into just another place for vendors.

- Enable placement of temporary tents (deeded) to open a camp in the wild for to or three days. Maybe with 40 items storage for bandages and potions and so on. Must be in addition to player owned houses. The tents should vanish after a max of three days if not redeeded. They should not replace bedrolls or the campfire in their function but add the a local storage for a wandering group as base of operations.

This is a very cool idea, and I can think of some areas it would be cool to have these. Keeping the item storage down is also a great idea.

- force houses to enter decay if noone enters them after 90 days even if subscription is still valid

It's too late in the game for this. There are a lot of people who keep their subscriptions active but who don't play much if at all, and you'd just be giving them a reason to leave if they lost their houses.

A better option would be to IDOC all of the owned by OSI houses and other broken houses that refuse to actually IDOC because of vendors, etc. Mesanna said she got rid of like 200 houses on Lake Austin alone recently, so there are probably well over 1,000 houses across the shards that could be removed. I wouldn't mind seeing them go in and randomly add some new housing spots in existing areas either - maybe smoothing out terrain here and there. There are just too many really empty areas that serve no use.

You have a lot of other things that I think would be interesting in just a "Housing-only Booster Pack" of sorts, but a lot of them are also fixes to existing problems, and I would add that they should go through existing tile sets for houses and fix any that are missing tiles or corners, and maybe organize the custom house builder a bit better. A Housing-only booster pack would sell well if done properly.

 

[Woodsman]

Wow, some of you have really creative ideas!

Orcs as a playable race should have been done a long time ago. Before elves and gargoyles for sure.

Since orc faces are available within the EC when you are creating a new character, somebody had to be thinking about it.

 

[Rumil of Lorain]

Those are all great suggestions me personally I would like to be able to buy the damn thing off the friggin shelf sorry about the rant.I will leave now

 

[Anira Cuilwen]

Paperdoll
It would be nice if you could customize the eyecolor too

 

[Vlaude]

Those are all great suggestions me personally I would like to be able to buy the damn thing off the friggin shelf sorry about the rant.I will leave now

A lot of Gamestop stores in the US have entire sections of DLC cards for sale and some games even have cartridges on the shelves that are DLC packs. So why UO DLC isn't in those sections is kind of lame, especially since their online store has given people trouble in the past.

 

[phantus]

The candle of love story arc. I want something akin to that. It was one of my most favorite little batches of content in 12 years.

 

[Sevin0oo0]

Those are all great suggestions

nm changed my mind

 

[Merion]

One word: Orcs!

 

[Gilmour]

and why would it have to be competely redone? I mean esp. for a larger playing screen.... they offer, what 2 sizes already??

The zoom thing I could understand... but I dont understand the playing screen.

the terrain is not designed to load beyond the current maximum size window

 

[Eyes of Origin]

well they need to fix that... sucks playing a on 24in monitor and having such a small play screen.

 

[Lorddog]

quests tier'd higher (6 levels?)

orcs!

some kind of variable dungeon that recreates itself each day on server up.
anyone inside at the time is booted out.
variable halls, mobs, bosses etc

bring back the rubble creating monsters in this dungeon.

oh did i say ORCS!

Lorddog

 

[Vlaude]

Apologies for the Dev bashing I did in the thread. I didn't follow my own rules!

A dungeon DLC pack would be neat.

 

[grig_since98]

Why not have a booster for Ultima Online that actually has something to do with Ultima.

-Finish the virtue system, or at least add to it. As far as I can tell, it is pretty much the same as when I last played back in 2004.

-No new lands, as fun as that is in the short term. The players are spread out thinly enough as is.

-As mentioned, orcs as a PC race, or dwarves. No dark elves, as that has never been part of Ultima lore.

-Unique, one per shard artifacts that are featured in the Ultima lore, such as the skull of Mondain, the runes of virtue, the taper of Sacrifice, etc. These could be given away by participation in an announced, EM run event. If accusations of favoritism can't be overcome, then have a Magincia style lotto to determine who is eligible to receive them. Better yet, give them away by merit based upon creating fiction or an in game establishment in the spirit of Ultima, which could be voted on by the players.

-More gargoyle content. Perhaps create a separate virtue system based upon the gargoyle principles.

-Go back and totally revamp the original lands and content. Add mini champ spawns to the anti-virtue dungeons.

-Create additional land and adventuring areas in a novel way that doesn't thin the players out. For instance, create a portal to, say, the Serpent Isle, that only "opens" intermittently, perhaps based upon moon phase ( which is already coded in the game ). Come up with some reason that once this period expires, all players are removed from these lands. I'm sure someone could come up with something....A magical curse, an urgent appointment for tea time, whatever.

-What is the Guardian doing? It is clear that he is capable of being involved in universes other than Ultima Prime. Perhaps have a story arc based on the big red guy. It could be tied in with the whole virtuebane thing.

 

[Gilmour]

well they need to fix that... sucks playing a on 24in monitor and having such a small play screen.

tell me about it

but i doubt it an easy fix

you may try and reduce your resolution when playing uo, althought LCD monitors are designed to run in native resolution.

 

[hungry4knowhow]

Sausages... you know how many types of sausages there are? I want my Chef to be able to make Liverwurst, and pepperoni, and a build a smoke house add-on so we can make smoked meats!

You know, im not one to really get all bent over some pixels. BUT OMG THIS! I love BBQ'ing in real life. I would pay no matter how crappy the booster pack was if I could get some sort of smoker/smoke house in game.

Holy cheese balls, I think you just rocked my world Nexus.

 

[Visago]

I'd like to see a henchman system put in. Make hire-able npcs into something akin to pets where they can become something like bonded so that they can be rezed. Make it so that we can custom equip them with armor/weapons and have a select skill set where they can be trained. I've actually hired paladins long enough in the past so that their weapons have broken. A paladin without a weapon is a sad thing...

Some of the stuff that could go into this:
- Taverns and Inns are where the npcs are "stabled"
- Insurance for the henchman's items which could create an additional gold sink
- They can be hired at a Tavern, reward for a quest, or found at a specialty site like the rangers guild in Skara Brea where some one would just hire rangers.
- They would have to be paid regularly rather then fed like animal pets.
- Customize their equipment, potentially generating business for craftsman or a use for all the items people like to hoard.


Alternatively on a completely separate tangent, I'd like to see wagons in game and quests to go along with them. Similar in idea to boats with shipping quests, except tied in with resource gathering and crafting. Maybe revamp the Bulk Order system to be incorporated with this.

 

[Sevin0oo0]

some kind of variable dungeon that recreates itself each day on server up.

similar is called instanced dungeons, not sure they know how, but would be fun

 

[Delbrie]

Remove timers on all peerless type keys.

 

[Elric_Soban]

-bug fixes
-EC love
-weapon/item balancing/revivals (theres a few weapons out there that have absolutely no reason to exist)
-more EC love
-more bug fixes
-combat tweaks - timer on red pots, moves take stam.. yay pure warrior is back.. bye bye special spamming mage
-more bug fixes
-EC love
-more bug fixes

 

[olduofan]

you forgot 1 thing bigger play window for 2d

 

[CovenantX]

More places to build loyalty, add vendors that sell items for a "new kind of currency" or similar to the library/zoo donation vendors
Items intensity are based on loyalty, so if your not high enough in the loyalty for this particular area, you will not beable to buy the item, make these items similar to Faction Artifacts so that they are only usable on the char you have the required loyalty on.

Update some of the older artifacts to make them more "on par" with the newer ones, so there is an actual reason to go to doom

Make a quest system that does not give random "junk" as a reward for EVERY QUEST! - And maybe make a quest list you can select a specific quest from an npc instead of dbl clicking till you get the right one, a cooldown or reduced chances at "special loot" on the easier quests possibly? so they aren't the only ones done. . .

and maybe have the peerless quests repeatable, possibly a cooldown that resets with daily server downs.

bosses that aren't solo-able (good job on SA bosses & High Seas)
make the drop rate 100% if there are more than X-number of players, but a limited amount of the "drop" so that the item will still have demand and sell for an appropriate price (this will premote group play) the way i look at it, is if you can solo it Why take a group? better chances of "not getting the artifacts in a group" sure its faster... but 1 drop for 2-8 peeps with a 5% drop rate (if its even 5%) is way too low of a chance imo.

 

[CovenantX]

-bug fixes
-EC love
-weapon/item balancing/revivals (theres a few weapons out there that have absolutely no reason to exist)

Cure pots def need a timer 5-10 seconds should be fair ( cooldown based if you have 40 magery/60 chiv) or any skill high enough to have a 100% chance to cast a cure spell (shorter cooldown if you dont have required skills to cure)

Bring back items with charges! they added all kinds of stuff you could do
(wonders why they were removed in the first place)