UO Second Age

Ok i've been doing some thinking and i believe there is a serious issue with the event scheduling. Take a look at the current event schedule in place.

Thursday
5:00am 1v1 non-Free Use Tournament
9:00am Survival Game
10:00am Capture the Flag (cave)
Friday
2:00am 1v1 Crafted,Pots&Poisons Tourney
3:30pm Capture the Flag (cave)
Saturday
5:00am Double Domination
5:00am 1v1 Pure Dexer Tourney (non-free-use)
11:30am 1v1 Magic,Pots&Poisons Tourney [non-free-use]
2:00pm CTF (Wharf)
5:00pm 2v2 Non-Free Use Tournament
Sunday
6:00am Double Domination
1:00pm 4v4 PvP Tournament
Monday
12:00am 1v1 non-Free Use Tournament
4:00am 1v1 Magic,Pots&Poisons Tourney [non-free-use]
9:30am 2v2 Magics,Pots&Poisons Tourney [non-free-use]
11:30am CTF Game (Urban)
11:00pm 2v2 Non-Free Use Tournament
Tuesday
3:00am 2v2 Magics,Pots&Poisons Tourney [non-free-use]
5:00am CTF Game (Urban)
7:30pm Survival Game
Wednesday
12:30am 1v1 PvP Tournament
3:00am Double Domination
10:30am Capture the Flag (huts)

As it is now, the majority of the major events are, not to be an ass, but terribly scheduled. Most of them are at times when the majority of our player base is working, going to school, or sleeping. Most of the events i attend hardly have a turnout at all which is disappointing considering we have 400-500 players online on average. Here is what i suggest: Have 1 of each event once per week. For example, on monday have a 1v1, tuesday 2v2, wednsday CTF, thursday double dom, etc. Have the events start at 8pm EST and then again at say 4am EST or whatever time would work best for our Europeon/UK players. By having only one of each event once per week that would hardly tempt players to only log on to just participate in events and log off. I remember a couple years back we had a much more frequent event schedule and after each tourny there would be some MAJOR field action.

Also, i would suggest that each week the order of events is randomly rotatated so that the same event isn't the same day each week. (i.e. there may be a 1v1 on monday this week, but next week it is on a friday). By having these events start at 8pm est and again later on for the UK/Euro players it would imo attract a much larger turn out. In addition, you can't argue that this is in any way "non era accurate." It simply attracts more people. The truth is, most of us have been playing this game for years and pvp/events DO attract players, or keep them entertained. As for the magics event's i propose those events to take place shortly after the original event of the day.

Another issue i looked into was the tournament ranking system. What i have noticed is that currently there are a lot of top ranked players that are no longer active or no longer play. If you ask me, the purpose of a ranking system is to show who is the top players at the time. My suggestion is this. Once a year completely clear the board so that everyone starts over from scratch. This way, the active players will have a chance to be prorperly recognized for their skill. Think of it this way. If sandro, who is currently the top ranked 1v1 player, were to quit today it would take someone who is fairly new AGES to ever come close to reaching his level even if he/she were clearly the best duelist. To me that's a bit ridiculous because why would you have the top ranked player as someone who doesn't even play? So, once a year clear it so we can weed out the inactive players, and prevent certain people from racking up so many points it completely ruins the chance of someone reaching a top spot.

I know the staff has a lot on their plate, but if you ask me events are something that could easily be looked at as a high priority issue. I know y'all are working on creating a shard that is as era accurate as possible, but think about it. What is the purpose of having a shard if people lose interest and no longer play. This is a phenomenal shard but i truly believe a solid event schedule can really do a lot of good for the shard growth as well as keep older players coming back for more. I have noticed that there have been quite a few polls created that were never really taken into consideration by the staff. This isn't something that will interfere with era accuracy which i know y'all are going for, but events ARE something to put value into especially with a larger playerbase. As it is now with the current system, it really is an absolutely terrible set up. It caters to no one, and for the most part have terrible turn outs.

Also, something that happened to me the other day that is rather discouraging is a bug of some sort with the tournament system. I won all of my matches and was awaiting the winner of the last round to advance to the finals, but as soon as the match was over the tournament ended and declared the other guy the winner without giving me a chance to fight for the trophy. It's not the first time it's happened and i've heard other people say the same has happened to them. When you have 34 people show up and don't even get a chance at a 10 point trophy which is pretty valuable, it really does become a turn off.

I believe the point of the events is to give players things to do while the server's online population is low. The reasoning, as far as I understand, is that during busy times, there are enough players to create and organize events or simply provide a player with things to do. The events are for 'off' times so when the online population is low, players still have a chance to participate in public events with other players.


Cheers


PS

400 - 500 online / 3 (accounts per person) = ~133 - ~166 active players (if that since many just leave all 3 characters to macro unattended)

Read the times for the current events, think about people's real life duties, re-think what you just said. Did you even read what posted? Do you really think it's a bad idea to have only one of each event per week at a time that suits the majority of our active players? How can you think having an event at 12 pm during the week while most people are working or at school is a good idea? Or having one at 2am in the morning when most people are in bed? What i proposed is a highly reasonable idea and doesn't call for excessive events, just better timing tbh.

Please people, i know it really is tough for a lot of you, but try to hold the stupidity in and think about the facts here...

If anything leave the schedule itself the same, but change the times to when most people arent working or going to school.

WiseOne wrote:PS

400 - 500 online / 3 (accounts per person) = ~133 - ~166 active players (if that since many just leave all 3 characters to macro unattended)

in irc it says we have roughly ~320-350 most of the time. many people who play, are done macroing chars and dont use all 3 accounts....

Clyde- wrote:If anything leave the schedule itself the same, but change the times to when most people arent working or going to school.

Iv said this hundred times.. it favors the Workless people who sit inside 24 7 and do nothing for the society, and the Overseas guys get good tournys and north america gets shafted when we populate and make this server work. Look at the D domination times its pathetic. + no more bagball.

Quit giving free faking silver away.. Make people compete for it.

Clyde- wrote:Read the times for the current events, think about people's real life duties, re-think what you just said. Did you even read what posted? Do you really think it's a bad idea to have only one of each event per week at a time that suits the majority of our active players? How can you think having an event at 12 pm during the week while most people are working or at school is a good idea? Or having one at 2am in the morning when most people are in bed? What i proposed is a highly reasonable idea and doesn't call for excessive events, just better timing tbh.

Please people, i know it really is tough for a lot of you, but try to hold the stupidity in and think about the facts here...

I did read what you posted, tavarish. If you read my post carefully, you would notice that nowhere in it is there criticism of your post or your suggestions. All I did was try to explain the rational behind the current times, as I understand them myself. I have nothing against the idea of having more events during busier times (as long as the rewards diminish accordingly so as to not over-flood the economy with silver). I did not take offence to what you wrote but you may want to reword things like "Please people, i know it really is tough for a lot of you, but try to hold the stupidity in and think about the facts here.." especially when people are responding to you in a polite and friendly manner.


Shaslivo!

kill drizitz wrote:

WiseOne wrote:PS

400 - 500 online / 3 (accounts per person) = ~133 - ~166 active players (if that since many just leave all 3 characters to macro unattended)

in irc it says we have roughly ~320-350 most of the time. many people who play, are done macroing chars and dont use all 3 accounts....

Macroing does not only apply to building characters, I regularly have 3 characters macroing production as opposed to raising skills.

Just because people are signed on to IRC does not mean they are there at the computer.

Just saying.

u dont get it. irc has nothing todo with ppl logged on. its just a way to see how many UNIQUE ip's logged into the game server. so 500 chars logged on, and 300 unique ip's means theres 300 people playing, and 500 chars logged on.

btw i voted yes. i get home, have things to take care of, then when i get a chance i log in to play. a 4v4 the other week, was prob last one in over a year or something. i enjoy them.

I've spoke to people who said they saw who posted this and voted against it without even reading it. As it is, i join maybe one tourny per week. I wake up at 5am and get home from work at 5pm. My days off are wed/thurs. I field as often as possible, but the truth is i do like doing events every now and then. It makes things exciting to compete and see who is the best, but as it stands that simply isn't possible for me and i know i am not the only one in that situation. Every server is going to want some events. It would be one thing if i were asking for daily tournaments, but im not. Im simply saying have one of each event spread out over the course of a week at a time that is suitable for the majority of the playerbase which happens to be north america. I also said to have another round at a later time that is suitable for UK/Euro players. I really cant seem to understand why most of you are voting no aside from the fact that most of you don't like me. But as a player who's watched server after server die, im trying to move a proposal that i know will benefit this server. I've been here for over 3 years now and i love playing here...but what i've noticed over the years is that players like events, plain and simple. Not daily tournaments, but a variety of every kind as i mentioned in the OP. It's pretty bad when i've spent the majority of my day off today and the only action i could find was some fights in town where, as you know, spells don't do damage so it was nothing but back and forth hally exchanges. Events DO lead to action and DO attract players, there is no doubt about that.

p.s. having one of each event per week actually cuts out some of the "silver" rewarding events so it's not as if you'll be adding more to the table...

kill drizitz wrote:u dont get it. irc has nothing todo with ppl logged on. its just a way to see how many UNIQUE ip's logged into the game server. so 500 chars logged on, and 300 unique ip's means theres 300 people playing, and 500 chars logged on.

btw i voted yes. i get home, have things to take care of, then when i get a chance i log in to play. a 4v4 the other week, was prob last one in over a year or something. i enjoy them.

I do get it, and as I said before just because 300 unique IP's are logged on to IRC does not mean that 300 people are online playing. It means 300 people logged on to IRC.

P.S.

I voted yes.

People who Disagree either cant win any Events cause they suck. Mabye cause they live overseas, dont have a job and play all day ( doesn't effect them ), No reason anyone should vote no unless your one of the reason's i mentioned. Either way this vote doesn't count unless at least 300 votes are applied. LOL gms agreed that 1+1 does not get a town because of less then 50 No votes + making new forum accounts voting NO .. How many people on the server, 99? How many people play here? People don't really care and take time to vote about all this stuff.


Its all bull shit, Game Masters need to think for themselves and make the proper move's, Either get rid of all the events or quit dodging around corners controlling the silver population and giving out free silver.

I'm not the biggest fan of the "events" to begin with, however, I think that Clyde's proposal is vastly superior to the current system. 1 event type per week in times of high server activity will make each individual event much better in quality. It's silly to give out silver rewards for a 4 person tournament.

I voted no because it is another case of "I have been here awile and now I am gonna cry threads"

"Entitlements! I want entitlements." "Me,me,me, I,I,I." Same BS different person is all. Crying over free game pixels is hilarious....

or we could just remove the schedule and make people actually have to log on to know when events happen you know play UO the game and then omg whats that a event message maybe il go that not idle in irc and check myuosa for the event schedule. Events during prime time take everyone out of the field and they log seen it all to many times Brit gy Destard other areas packed with fighting "signs for 1v1 have opened" no one out anymore dungeons empty etc event ends people log in trammel and the few other people recall home and hardly anyone if anyone is out actually playing the game its clear you guys want a series of event gates rather then play uo whats next instanced housing?