My opinion on custom things on the shard (player towns Etc.)

[Zorce]

I am sure I will piss some people off but I am going to share my thoughts on player towns, statues, and just general custom things in the game.

I like rp just as much as anyone who enjoys it but think the custom player towns and such are out of hand. In the past, players made do with what they had ingame. If you cant use whats ingame to get what you need done, then your asking for too much....lol Ingame orcs used to place housing near the orc fort and use the orc fort in the game. If they they didnt have houses there. They would find ways of buying them from who ever owned them which stimulated player real estate and player to player economy.

The custom "towns" in the game are more of a player to staff transaction as some sort of gold sink to my understanding. I am not certain of the details of this gold sink but have seen houses in some of these custom towns go up for sale which I am guessing raises the value of such house which makes owners profit off the town basicly. Petty? maybe.

I also feel that these kinds of things add to unneeded in world items thus adding to save times.
I recall very little customs in game when playing T2A. What little there were were handed out for guild contests here and there and they were few and far between. It also sends out bad messages to new players who stumble across some of these custom areas especially the custom ghost towns. They wonder why some players are getting "special treatment."
Although docks, road, and apple trees in your front yard are cool. They are really not a necessity.

Just my 2 cents I guess.

[Dagon]

[chumbucket]

Without duel arenas there would be nowhere for LEETPVP between Trammel Tournaments!

Also: There are about a million threads on this topic already.

[Mikel123]

I have never, in all my travels, seen a single person in a duel arena. And I've mapped the entire world probably a half-dozen times. And I used to live about two screens from one of them.

[BlackFoot]

theres a few of the arenas in use

[Brules]

To the OP: You are an idiot and a moron. They are not "out of hand", as no player town add ons have been added since I have been here other than the sloooooow work at the UoH museum. I dont think you ever played OSI shards, as they were chock full of add ons and towns and the only thing they cost the players was time and effort.....It's era accurate, so the only thing anyone can argue about is what to do when said establishments fail/go inactive. They are a part of the game and as you can see the arenas get plenty of use, and UoH has more than earned whatever pixels they have with the countless dungeon crawlsa dn other great events.

[Mikel123]

To the OP: You are an idiot and a moron. They are not "out of hand", as no player town add ons have been added since I have been here other than the sloooooow work at the UoH museum. I dont think you ever played OSI shards, as they were chock full of add ons and towns and the only thing they cost the players was time and effort.....It's era accurate, so the only thing anyone can argue about is what to do when said establishments fail/go inactive. They are a part of the game and as you can see the arenas get plenty of use, and UoH has more than earned whatever pixels they have with the countless dungeon crawlsa dn other great events.

Wow, you are defensive, considering he never mentioned UoH by name at all.

Blackfoot... I see Alatar and Finesse in those pictures... am I correct that it's been like, 6 months at least, since either of them played? My point wasn't that there were never duels in the duel pits... just that I've never seen them, and that makes me think they're few and far between. Why exactly can't people just use tower/keep/castle roofs? There is a troubling lack of creativity and effort on this shard when it comes to things like this. What happened to that guy who made the invisible maze contest on his tower roof?

[BlackFoot]

dark radiance comes and goes
those are just random pics from the thousand i have in here

theose arenas get used
if i take a quick scan of the player ran events forum i can find 2 or 3 that have been used for player ran events recently

[iamantitype]

Without duel arenas, where would Felix, BeatingU, and other pvp ragers grudge for house deeds?!?!

[Kander]

I fish off my dual arena/dock to relax from time to time. and we also hosted a pvp event off it not to long ago. and we are in the works for another one. YAR

[BlackFoot]

exactly

[Perception]

I personally think that the mYm duel arena really sticks out like a sore thumb from every other "player town" thing...

It wreaks of trammel, may I have a super duper safe boxed in area as well? Please!

[Pro]

I personally think that the mYm duel arena really sticks out like a sore thumb from every other "player town" thing...

It wreaks of trammel, may I have a super duper safe boxed in area as well? Please!

Ye, we don't care if it's changed, not at all.

[Voltron]

I personally think that the mYm duel arena really sticks out like a sore thumb from every other "player town" thing...

It wreaks of trammel, may I have a super duper safe boxed in area as well? Please!

Its called a house, its what they had there before the arena was built.

[BobDobbs]

A few thoughts regarding the OP:

1. Players did "make do" with what they had for the most part. In special cases, OSI used their powers to grant special decorations and buildings. I see no real difference between OSI and UOSA in terms of special decorations and buildings.
2. I'm skeptical that special decorations and buildings drastically add to save time. If they did, I'm not sure staff would allow them.
3. If the sole intention of custom towns were to act as a gold sink, anyone with buckets of gold would have the ability to purchase them. This is not the case.
4. I do not think new players say "why does player X get something I don't?" when stumbling across custom areas. Instead I think they say "wow this is neat."