UO Second Age

This is a completely legitimate poll, please answer honestly.

put a bit of explanation in kthx

Gold is a heavy stone, and should not be easily stolen. You should be able to steal within a certain range relatively easily. However, it is not fair for thieves to have a high success rate on a large amount of gold. No matter if in or out of town.

Regardless of the claim in the first post, this poll is pretty illegitimate in my view as is describes nothing about a proposed change. This could mean anything from "double click player to get gold" to "all items in backpack are transparent"

If this poll described a legitimate mechanic that is in line with OSI mechanics, you might get valid results.

The answer to any all all questions about implementation, pose a counter question: Is it era accurate? If so implement it.

This poll is just baiting.

You want us to vote "no", and then claim the server is biased against thievery.

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The poll is just here to show that if a voting system was enabled to decide the features of a particular item (in this case the server), the results will always lean towards the majority vote.

http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7490

If the polling question was "Would you like to abolish Pre-casting", the results would most certainly remain the same as the majority rules. The point is that enabling a voting system of the masses, defeats the purpose of "UO:Secondage". Majority voting is what led to the implimentation of Player-Friendly features such as Trammel, and equal distribution of Fame/Karma, on EA-Servers. I hope that the players here (myself included) play here to experience T2A, as the era-accuracy is what seperates this from a run of the mill neon-item festival with item bless deeds (other shards).

MatronDeWinter wrote:The poll is just here to show that if a voting system was enabled to decide the features of a particular item (in this case the server), the results will always lean towards the majority vote.

http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7490

If the polling question was "Would you like to abolish Pre-casting", the results would most certainly remain the same as the majority rules. The point is that enabling a voting system of the masses, defeats the purpose of "UO:Secondage". Majority voting is what led to the implimentation of Player-Friendly features such as Trammel, and equal distribution of Fame/Karma, on EA-Servers. I hope that the players here (myself included) play here to experience T2A, as the era-accuracy is what seperates this from a run of the mill neon-item festival with item bless deeds (other shards).

I don't believe this is the reason you posted. No offense, I just don't

If it is era accurate I think it should be done.

If it is not, then NO.



NEXT!

Whether this post is legitimate or not isn't going to matter, its whether or not this topic is era accurate.

If polls influenced shard implementations versus keeping era accuracy, I'd like to see the statistics on a poll to allow magic damage in town.

Proselyte wrote:

MatronDeWinter wrote:The poll is just here to show that if a voting system was enabled to decide the features of a particular item (in this case the server), the results will always lean towards the majority vote.

http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7490

If the polling question was "Would you like to abolish Pre-casting", the results would most certainly remain the same as the majority rules. The point is that enabling a voting system of the masses, defeats the purpose of "UO:Secondage". Majority voting is what led to the implimentation of Player-Friendly features such as Trammel, and equal distribution of Fame/Karma, on EA-Servers. I hope that the players here (myself included) play here to experience T2A, as the era-accuracy is what seperates this from a run of the mill neon-item festival with item bless deeds (other shards).

I don't believe this is the reason you posted. No offense, I just don't

Read the thread I posted and then look at the Date/Times.

Gold coins being loose and theivery being ultra subtle-like in a real case scenerio would make it easier to steal say a halbard then it would be a thousand gold coins. Theives have it way too easy as it is after their skills are maxed. Everyone has to keep buying equipment to go out and risk their lives everyday from monsters and reds. I think they should suffer a penalty when a character is in war mode actually and they should suffer temporary bans from even within the places of trade within cities when they have been caught in and punished for their crimes whether by guard or Player. That would force the theives to evolve from lowly banksitters to honest to goodness highwaymen taking the same risks everyone else does each day.
Of course perhaps driving people away from places like Britain is a good thing...mostly killers out there in the wilderness. It would be nice to see some friendly faces, rather then those who jump you when you are most vulnerable out there on your own.
I would like the thieves to work towards positive ends like to either kill or make red the blue characters that spy for killers by provoking them to attack the theives after they run thier packs with clean hands.
There is a place for theives...I have a theif character on hand myself I am working on. But let's pull them away from the city banks and away from the poor minion slave characters who work their trade each day. It's not so much about gold for me but my character's place in this world. Snoop and bandage for example.
And how about more roleplaying from reds! Why not have a warcry, a phrase, or question you ask before engaging in combat set in your hotkeys? It's like everyone has to have a spell prepped and then reprepare it every time the target dissappears whenever anyone goes anywhere. See a Red? Pop him with that meteor/flame strike you readied several screens back...because you know they do it to you.
I know I jumped off course from the question but the real gold to me is the experience of the game...and you got to earn that the only way you can. Who cares if you have a plus 50 sword of vanquishing with 30 earthquake charges if you miss out on the role playing aspect? And I have to say alot of the theives though not the best combatants have proven themselves to be the best roleplayers and worth every item or piece of gold I lost.

The problem with thieves on this shard is that they are no-goodniks only out to have fun for themselves. They don't try to make you have fun. They will even go as far as to steal from you, which isn't fun for you even though it is fun for them.

They need to play differently.

I propose the following changes:

1. If a player steals and is caught, then he is guardwhacked--whether in town or not.

2. If a player steals and is not caught, a GM should be told, come to that player and wag his finger. And then he should be guardwhacked.

3. After either of these scenarios, if a player steals a second time, his stealing and snooping skills should be converted to an equivalent level of music and provoking. I feel this would make players play as I want them to play.

4. Finally, if a player steals again after rebuilding stealing and snooping, his should be drawn and quartered, his corpse paraded around WBB, his accounts banned during odd numbered hours of the day and even numbers of the night (EST of course) and then Trammel should be implemented.

A significant Karma loss via theivery should result in a red flag similar to murderers. It isn't era accurate...I am just whisiming at the idea.

ArchaicSubrosa wrote:A significant Karma loss via theivery should result in a red flag similar to murderers. It isn't era accurate...I am just whisiming at the idea.

Your a fan of Capital punishment and Zero tolerance huh?