UO Second Age

Soma wrote:I couldn't care less about the silver involved in any of these events, if events could be reinstated without any reward incentive it would be fine with me. I'd also be happy to pay a "joining fee" of about 5-20k for any "free-use" events, effectively this could act as the shards first and only gold sink (IDOC's don't count... players since 2008 have been refreshing houses). Otherwise it's not like bringing your own regs/pots to events is incredibly difficult, the economy here is so inflated that anyone can make millions in a few weeks.

The thing I liked about the automated events was that with a schedule you knew when an event would start, for most people that have jobs/friends/family and live in the non-master-race-timezone it is incredibly hard to attend player run events due to the fluctuating start times and the fact they're usually held at peak hours for US players.
It was great knowing that one or two days in the week I could get home after work and take part of a large event, I understand that a large amount of players hated the fact that events had fixed times due to how some players only logged in during events (To quote Lelouche: "1v1 Tournament is Scheduled to begin in 15 minutes" "Sandro has logged in"), but honestly I'd rather have people playing a little over not at all.

It also added a lot of variety, as the period before/after events was usually packed with PvP action around the graveyard, it was a great learning experience as those were some of the first field experiences I had on UOSA. Considering nowadays any time I go to the graveyard for more than two minutes, a pack of 12 year olds with raging e-peens and precasted flamestrikes try to come down on me harder than pak's dad comes down on him after a few beers.

The trammel aspect is the only thing that bugs me, unfortunately without it the events become a contest of "who has the most friends with precasted flamestrikes" which has little to no skill involved.

I know they'll never come back; but I still love the nostalgia. This shard will never be what it once was, but it's always nice to reminisce.

farnk wrote:Until then my desktop will sit back in Wisconsin <3

WarmApplepie wrote:

farnk wrote:Until then my desktop will sit back in Wisconsin <3

GO PACK GO

farnk wrote:

WarmApplepie wrote:

farnk wrote:Until then my desktop will sit back in Wisconsin <3

GO PACK GO

How bout dat draft?! #superb #owl

kill drizitz wrote:The people against events cant bring up any real reason, only talk about the people who want them crying. They just don't understand the value something like this gives as an incentive to play UO. NEA is ridic because OSI held events as STAFF.

Boomland: GM ran events are quick, organized and documented. The ranking system and the shortness and ruleset are why people enjoy them. Non GM run events suck- all of them. They get griefed, are small, unorganized, and take forever because of this.

It doesn't take a someone with monkey intelligence to understand why this would HELP the server. Its ridic to think otherwise, and those who do are just ignorant. I would agree that back in the day- the PVPers were a small but vocal group, but now- they are the majority (SMALL because pop is down so much) the rest of the shard are new, and probably wont last. Serisouly, I look at the "online now" and 50% of them are TG macroing off counts, and alts of decent pvpers. the other 50 are either PVM chars of these PVPers, or complete new chars, with a small percentage as chars who care less about pvp. Sad but true.

kill drizitz wrote:The people against events cant bring up any real reason, only talk about the people who want them crying. They just don't understand the value something like this gives as an incentive to play UO. NEA is ridic because OSI held events as STAFF.

Boomland: GM ran events are quick, organized and documented. The ranking system and the shortness and ruleset are why people enjoy them. Non GM run events suck- all of them. They get griefed, are small, unorganized, and take forever because of this.

It doesn't take a someone with monkey intelligence to understand why this would HELP the server. Its ridic to think otherwise, and those who do are just ignorant. I would agree that back in the day- the PVPers were a small but vocal group, but now- they are the majority (SMALL because pop is down so much) the rest of the shard are new, and probably wont last. Serisouly, I look at the "online now" and 50% of them are TG macroing off counts, and alts of decent pvpers. the other 50 are either PVM chars of these PVPers, or complete new chars, with a small percentage as chars who care less about pvp. Sad but true.

JBURNS wrote:anyone able to understand that? lol...I can understand Crab better...