UO Second Age

There was a discussion on events not long ago that I thought had some good arguments...

http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14313

The events here were created as a way to provide content and thus attract and maintain players, but when we're seeing these held every day of the week, multiple times a day, you begin to see players finding content in these rather than the actual game itself.

Why go out and look for field pvp when you can participate in a safe/no risk ctf? Why prove your status as an elite pvper in the field or a hosted tournament when you can wait for the next automated event, where the rules are set to your liking and everything's fair?

Furthermore, let's encourage players to participate in these instead of actual gameplay by creating a system for one of the largest aspects of the server's economy: the trophy point system.

A big part of what made the era so great was that the players were left to create their own path. You could play as you like, but you created your own content, which made the game bustling with activity, interaction, and conflict. The automated events do the opposite, they diminish all of these by offering the players a beneficial way to play outside of the actual gameplay.

As I said before, events should be slowly phased out so as not to be detrimental to the shard's playerbase. As fewer of these are being run, players will be left more and more to find their own content. Those that are simply unwilling to play the game outside of these automated events really don't have a place on a server that emulates the era.

So, short answer: Scale back events once more.

This will greatly hike the prices of trophy points/silver like it did in the past. This will highlight another opportunity for random people to get RICH. This will reduce the amount of people spending all their time in a custom part of the game. This will add incentive for people to cure their boredom with actual in-game field activities, rather than events. This will be beneficial all the way around.

Why not just remove events all together?


It seems a little silly to worry about era-accuracy down to the smallest details and leave this huge un-accurate thing in.

Its not the argument that events are an un-accurate thing on an era accurate shard, its that events are taking away FROM the accuracy and details put into the shard.

The shard is reaching all time peak-highs and you want to change things just because you started playing again? Get real, point blank.

Mirage wrote:The shard is reaching all time peak-highs and you want to change things just because you started playing again? Get real, point blank.

I do believe that is called a post hoc fallacy,
point blank.

I voted no, for reference. However, this is what was done in the past...and I don't see it necessarily HURTING the shard if it's done again. Do I personally feel it's needed? No. If something had to be done, I would refer you to my previous post.

The last time this was done.. field pvp was literally non-existant for easily a couple of weeks.. again, what makes you think that removing events would ENCOURAGE people to go out and get ganked, or lose their loot if they don't already do it?

NO MORE MULTI-CLIENTING!! NO MORE 15 HOUSES!!!! oops... wrong thread lol

Cataclyst wrote:what makes you think that removing events would ENCOURAGE people to go out and get ganked, or lose their loot if they don't already do it?

So you propose item insurance?

There's field pvp, you just gotta look. Pvp happens in player-run towns, GY's, mines, forest around brit GY. dungeons ect.

Not town, unless you are townying it up!

MatronDeWinter wrote:

Cataclyst wrote:what makes you think that removing events would ENCOURAGE people to go out and get ganked, or lose their loot if they don't already do it?

So you propose item insurance?

Not at all, I think we should just let our playerbase choose what they'd like to do whether it be events or field pvp, forcefully changing peoples playstyles will only result in people leaving.

CTF is great fun, I like it, but lately I find that these events (all of them) are quite bland and repetitive. Still, if people like em, I guess they should stay.

I do however like events with story-lines to them. I like the Orc fort battles! It was great seeing people RP orcs, and it was a great battle. Wish more of these happen. However, I don't care much for those ratmen/orc spawn events.

It would be nice if the events werent automated in trammel with moongates, but regulated by live individuals in stadiums that people have to travel or gate themselves to. Keeps the events, is mroe era accurate.

EDIT: i also voted there are too many events.

The only reason CTF is fun is cause you get silver. As with most automated events.

Shard events are fun even without trophys, but they're also not "instanced" which takes away the fun IMO.

I think a balance would be less events but make items cost less silver to compensate for less events. We'd have to balance it nicely.