rez gates or healer ?

[Shivers]

I think you guys are missing the point. Derrick doesn't want to add any staff-built areas/items into the game. His entire goal is to make this server as accurate to the T2A-Era as it was on OSI. The players don't always need staff to make things convenient for them, and it's ok to go out of your way sometimes..

But Osi wasnt designated for a low population like Second Age.

On one side , i agree the philosophy that everything should be the same as it was on this era , but on the other hand , the low server population makes it very difficult to bring a decent challenge to the noobies.

From what i understand , you basicly need either a mage , provoc or tamer to Hunt in the late dongeons , or else you are kinda stuck.

I personnaly played on private servers that added an ankh at the entrance of each dongeons ( not really giving any advantage here , since theres usually always a healer near dungeons entrance ) to make things convenient for everyone. you still have to struggle to find your corpse , but it gives you a little chance.

But as it is now , i'll just stop hunting as it gives you no chance at all. I had the nice idea to go to deceit end's yesterday. when i died i just realised i was basicly stuck there dead (stuck menu used already.) since that even if i resed , there was no gate or anything to get me back to a city. and im not a fan of dual client ...

A Rez Gate Could be only a gate that brings you to Brit or Bucs when you are dead ; it doesnt actually res you , only teleport you if you are dead.

All in all , im just discouraged at hunting at all. i always been a pvm addict , but certain things really killed my urge to kill monsters.

I would also like to talk about loots. i kinda found some loot to be really disapointing considering the skills and levels of the monsters i was fighting.

What is the point of going in the lost lands , up to the ophidian forteress if they drop the same things as an earth elemental ?? for me it makes no sense at all , i take alot of risk into going to the lost lands , having no way to recall (on my last server they allowed recalling into the lost lands ( thought it was the same here :S )) or get my body back if i die ( cause usually , you have to walk for 15 min to get back to you body. )

theres like a too much big gap on the loots for the difficulty of the monsters in my opinion , even if i do know its accurate , for me , accurate shouldnt pass ahead making it fun and logic to the current situation of a server. Again all this stuff should be discussed , as my knowledge about T2a era seems pretty low. ( I really played mainly in the UO:R Era )

I think it would be Very interesting to maybe Bring custom contents into your server ; But Making the custom content Relevant and logic to the T2a Era , keeping the same philosophy. I personally think it would add something very interesting to the second age.
( By custom stuff , i talk about maybe new places to hunt , new spawns ( with existing monsters or balanced new ones (with logic loots , not overpowered ones)). You could even create new unique PvM Rewards , should it be cloths or w/e , that would randomly drop on any monsters with a very low %. ) It could be only Decoration stuff like statues , that would drop at a very low % from their according monsters , therefore encouraging the killings of monsters that are usually never hunted.

All these suggestions comes out of my head like this , i dont really ask for a change , it was just a thought on the moment. Keep going with the good work guys , your server is pretty amazing as it is.

Just my 2 cents. ^^

[platy]

I see your point Shivers
However I would just like to say thanks to Derrick for the Red Healer in Lvl 3 Wrong: I've already met Driz there and had a few with him.. If anyone wants to practice PVP just take a trip over to Wrong LVL 3 and we can duel it up

[Derrick]

But Osi wasnt designated for a low population like Second Age.
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On one side , i agree the philosophy that everything should be the same as it was on this era , but on the other hand , the low server population makes it very difficult to bring a decent challenge to the noobies.
Just my 2 cents. ^^

Thanks for the feedback and I do agree with much of it. However our top priority is accuracy. It's what sets us apart. I do intend to add some unique encounters but we are honestly still trying to get the bulk of accuracy finished first, as We've only just added converstaional NPCs over the last two days, and although this may seem mundane to a nw player just trying to bring in some loot, it's an important aspect of the game that has been very missing.

Loot on monsters is not always proportional to their difficultly. I think you'd find Wisps hugely disapointing as well. Dungeons like deceit are remote and dangerous and it's always been a problem getting out of there solo unless you had anouther mage in waiting. If this is a common problem it seems to me like someone should put up a vendor with heal & recall regs. We will leave it to players to solve a lot of these problems, it's what makes for an interesting game.