UO Second Age

Hemperor wrote:

Derrick wrote:What a great thread.
I really appreciate every post in here, the points on all sides are very valid.
There's a few things within some of the suggestions that I'm pretty opposed to, while the intended outcome is good.

I don't ever want to do a shard wipe, there's many reasons for this, but Second Age is a living thing; what players have done here is incredible, the history, the items, the stories in forums, just take a look at the new player made UOSA museum. We've only been around for 16 months, but the amount of history and culture that's been built on Second Age is way more than the sum of the players online.

Changing player skills and stats on the assumption that they were just easily macroed up is a very bad idea in my very humble opinion. Not everyone just macros up their 7x character; and there are also crafters and other gophers that would be effected by this too. We treat the characters (including stats and skills) and their belongings (items)as "owned" by those players. We've never deleted a character, a house, or an item (that wasn't related to an expoilt), or a skillpoint.

I am in agreement that IRC is an essential part of the access to the community, and also a critical source of help for new guys. We simply do not have, and do not want to have the staff resources to answer every question via the in-game help system.

Solutions for serious problems that do not require staff to interfere with gameplay are always preferred over solutions that do of course. I agree that many of the possible solutions to the problems perceived above can be player solutions; but I also agree as stated a few times above that there are a Lot of players out in the world actually playing the game. I hesitate to agree that lack of people hanging around Brit bank is a sign of inactivity.

I think you missed the major points on this one... it has nothing to do with activity at WBB.

It has everything to do with players macroing up until they have at least 600 points before actually doing anything...although some don't do this, I'm willing to bet its at least 90% that do.

BlackFoot wrote:even removing afk macroing i think you are underestimating the amount of knowledge players have now. People would still 7x their chars.

Hemperor wrote:Not with my first two characters..months ago when I came here.

The whole macroing scene was completely new to me, only playing sphere shards in the past.

At this point, for pvpers, it's basically silly not to...you are putting yourself at a severe disadvantage if you don't.

Macroing would take an incredible amount of staff time to monitor. Volunteers to monitor macroers would have no way to prove afkness to staff if they acused anyone. I dont see it being feasible.

I don't ever want to do a shard wipe, there's many reasons for this, but Second Age is a living thing; what players have done here is incredible, the history, the items, the stories in forums, just take a look at the new player made UOSA museum. We've only been around for 16 months, but the amount of history and culture that's been built on Second Age is way more than the sum of the players online.

A wipe is what's truly needed if you want to find true accuracy, but I wouldn't even consider that until this shard has been deemed "era accurate"

The only feasible things that could be done to help the shard are:

1. Donate: Help keep the shard stable, fast, etc.

2. Promote: Tell others.

3. Organize: Band together to help new players. I know there are guilds for new players, but they don't have a big presence. Often, I find new players who have no idea that there are guilds that are dedicated to helping them.

4. Do Stuff: Quit just hunting monsters alone, or LEET PVP OMG. Do things that are interesting, fun, involve lots of other people. Point out that you are doing so on the forums. Set up events. Don't rely on Derrick to spoonfeed you safe events with trophies.

5. Sacrifice: Quit making your own goods, mining your own ingots, etc. If you have excess gold, spend it in ways that help new players.

6. Get more people in IRC: IRC helps the shard, but only a fraction of the players online are using it. It would also help if IRC wasn't a place for the LEET PVPERS to come trash talk each other constantly.