http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic. ... 3&start=30
nothing much has been talked about on this topic since then
Second Age devotes itself to the T2A era however allowing players to multiclient, ruining gameplay. Ultima Online was designed for a player to roleplay a character, establish relationships with others, and serve a role in the community. However allowing 3 clients at the same time, totally makes this game too easy, risk free, and no real community. Any character can gain skills off his other character. Where is the adventure, risk or even FUN in that? If you want to have 7xGM skills, 225 stats instantly, there are servers that offer that. However, the true UO Fans, the old school gamers, respect and understand the gameplay. They don't want AFK macroers. They want what the game originally meant. Risk and adventure. Crafting is pointless now, to an extent. Allowing 3 clients at the same time, means instead of 1000 ingots an hour, you can get 3000. Not to mention 3 clients, means 15 characters (105 GM skills EVEN though there are only 55 total) Where is the need for that many characters or need to have multiple characters on at the same time? Are people that lazy? Where is fun in stealing from your other character knowing it's safe just to raise your skill. Go buy a pack horse and steal from it. It's a little riskier. "Oh no!! My Red just died, let me get my blue character to come res him." Weird... no pride, no skill required, no risk, no adventure. Multi clienting eliminates the soul essence of this game. We need to make the appropriate fix... and that's making it a 1 client server. True UO fans, the ones who loved the old times, understand and respect where I am coming from. Some admit to being lazy. "It does take the fun out of the game, but it's easier to gain skills off another one of my characters that doesn't hit back." What happened to sparring?! That is what guilds are for. But you really don't need a guild if you can have and make everything on your own with multiple clients... I suppose... "Oh no, I just got PKed!! let me Alt Tab to my other client and come get my belongings, kill the PK and rez my player before it's too late." PATHETIC.... If you can't handle losing what you have, don't have it on you. That is the purpose of this game. THAT is why the game was ruined, with insurance, blessing deeds for everything. EA eliminated the risk. I am dedicated to this era in UO. And Second Age can do it. Making it a 1 client maximum is a big step in making this happen. I could go on with reasons why it will be better, but would get too long.
I have personally discussed this topic with various members of the UOSA community, the allowance of 3 accounts does limit some of the era accuracy, to quote Senses, he said
For example Kegs in this shard, its hard if not impossible to compete with keg prices, because players have created a market of kegs which are sold for break even prices, and selling them for more either dont sell or you get a lot of flack from customers, other things like Ingots, and even character building the amount of AFK macroers is astonishing! Not to mention 2nd, 3rd and even 4th & 5th accounts are being abused in the manor or ghosts camping IDOCs and PK/Guild Ghosts camping multiple Dungeons waiting for players, which is highly discouraging for PvMers, holding 10 - 15 housing spots ,not to mention various other multi account "exploits" that were not as readily used on OSI (while some players had 2 - 3+ accounts it wasn't common place)On OSI you used to make a crafter to make a profit and get rich, here it seems that you get rich and then make a crafter
My proposal to Era Accuracy is
Limit 1 free account per person (allow the transfer/deletion of characters to a single account for a time period duration)
Allow players to donate a set some of USD a month for and the donation reward would be the use of another account up to 3 total
I feel this is the best solution, players get a era accurate feel with singleton accounts and playability, and the server & shard benefit from a more stable donation routine,
Discuss!!
), but if your going to do something this big I guess the only way to do it is just apply it and hope for the best, the thing about letting your other characters come on your one account would work well to.