the golden land...

[Jay]

The European and Asian Comunity won't be able to compete with mounts, it's sad but true, it's not even about liking the new system or not, it's just that we can't.

My concerns is that new facet will overcome the old one, absorbing all the good action, so we 'll have an old underpopulated facet and a new populated one.

An incentive to keep the old facet populated could be no houses in the new one? that would force everyone, more or less to spend time in the old facet no matter what.

Same same, I won't be keeping up on mounts.

I'm worried this won't drastically increase the population as a whole, maybe by 20-25% but then that's 25% more people split over twice the area.

Also, I know Sen will work his ass off to ensure people can't **** the system and land inside caslte walls, but as an owner of one of the only safe ones on the server that's been up a long time
and that no one has runes to, I worry that someone can still find a way in that gets overlooked, mark 50 runes and have them out and circulating with no way to fix it in a day.

[Az]

New land with no item cross over equals more [donationshop. The lotto runs the economy, and to think most of the decision behind this isn't for financial gain/server upkeep would be foolish.

Relax about this. The only thing that crossed my mind making any of these decisions was our population and the health of the shard. I've even been listening to concerns about this sort of thing in this thread and making changes to our plans based on those concerns.

What you're doing here is either trolling, or just plain insulting.

[Alfie Garganey]

u say and i quote For the longest time, everyone in the UO community has wondered how to reignite the population of an Ultima Online shard short of a wipe or opening a new server. The truth in the observation that it’s simply impossible.

i just dont get it. there have been many things that could have and still could be done before resorting to splitting the shard into 2 realms. it kills me that 2 things that i have felt would bring back your player base all along removal of stat loss and implementing factions is now going to be given to uor players in this new realm while the rest of us get the short end of the stick. dont get me wrong this golden land idea is better then nothing but why wouldn't you just try to add factions/remove stat loss/ or many other major changes that could be done to help bring back your player base on your existing shard before doing something like this. if it doesn't work you can put it back the way it was and add your golden land idea. it just seems way more logical to me.

I agree with you, even tho i'll wait for 2.5 to judge it, i feel that Az is too careful with changing mechanics and ends up missing the prime moment that mechanic would benefit the shard. Like the no RoT patch.. everyone had finished chars when that came out...and even tho skill is easier it's no where a BIG change on the skills that truly matter.

[Poe]

In the least we can look back to when times were good:

http://www.youtube.com/user/rybreadus/videos

[KY JELLY]

Relax about this. The only thing that crossed my mind making any of these decisions was our population and the health of the shard. I've even been listening to concerns about this sort of thing in this thread and making changes to our plans based on those concerns.

What you're doing here is either trolling, or just plain insulting.

It isn't intended to be either. Why don't you get a group of vets together and brainstorm on changes that would help the server instead of winging it? There is 20+ pages of loyal players here telling you this is the wrong idea...

[Az]

It isn't intended to be either. Why don't you get a group of vets together and brainstorm on changes that would help the server instead of winging it? There is 20+ pages of loyal players here telling you this is the wrong idea...

I see the same few people doing the bulk of the negative posting, as is always the case.

[KY JELLY]

I see the same few people doing the bulk of the negative posting, as is always the case.

What do you consider a few? The bulk of the first 15 pages are all different people complaining. Irc was flooded with people saying the same. I'll eat eat my words if this turns out well, but it just seems so foolish to ignore what so many are saying.

[Cush]

I remember recently reading that you did not want achievements to be "grindy" Az. But what do you think creating a new facet with no transfers of items/skills is?

Haven't we already lost enough players due to the grind? Who is going to want to start on this server knowing that each character has be to leveled x2, stock farmed x2, etc? And how many of the players that stuck it out through the grind are willing to do it again? I am not.

[Luthius]

I remember recently reading that you did not want achievements to be "grindy" Az. But what do you think creating a new facet with no transfers of items/skills is?

Haven't we already lost enough players due to the grind? Who is going to want to start on this server knowing that each character has be to leveled x2, stock farmed x2, etc? And how many of the players that stuck it out through the grind are willing to do it again? I am not.

That is a pretty good point.

[Nothing personal]

I remember recently reading that you did not want achievements to be "grindy" Az. But what do you think creating a new facet with no transfers of items/skills is?

Haven't we already lost enough players due to the grind? Who is going to want to start on this server knowing that each character has be to leveled x2, stock farmed x2, etc? And how many of the players that stuck it out through the grind are willing to do it again? I am not.

I spent a lot of time creating characters/buying houses/stocking said houses so that I could just do what I wanted and have this game stop feeling like a job.


Yayyyy start over! No thanks