UO Second Age

I'd appreciate not bashing other shards or their staff on these forums. We are not going to make decisions here based on what other people have or have not done, or what players we do or do not want to attract to the shard. The goal of the shard is accuracy to the era, mechanically.

Regarding the cure rate for potions and spells, we have gone to great extents to verify that the formulas we are using are correct, and there are extensive previous discussion on these issues. We will not just make up a cure rate for poison, but we would happily look at this if there was new information. The formula we use is from OSI code, and is defended by ad-hoc chats and other era web resources. I understand that some remember this differently, but the inability to reconcile memory's is a good motivator for finding more information, but it's not justification for a change.

The points made on the uselessness of poisons are valid, and of course it makes logical sense for them to be more difficult to cure, it just doesn't appear this was the case.

As far as the ghosting, it's really the same answer unfortunately. Many heads have been beat against the wall on this, but in the end it's an accurate mechanic. But additionally, if we did decide to combat this outside of the realm of accuracy, I don't see how this can be changed without effecting normal game mechanics and play in ways completely unrelated to this issue.

On both of these questions we'd going into game design if we were to meddle with these mechanics, and we do not want to do that.

Caswallon wrote:Most Div player who come here whine like little girls and end up rage quiting because they cant adapt. Div players calling UOSA unstable. I switched in May, this place is about a trillion times better than Divinity, its a trainwreck, if people cant see that, they are beyond help. How many of these thread actually bring about change? Very few. They are just giving you excuses not to switch, not valid reasons.

Caswallon wrote:Nah I think blatant GM corruption, making players staff, lack of diversity, complete and utter lack of leadership, negligence and poor management from Mr McAdams killed Div.

The single biggest reason I jumped ship when I did, was because I saw it coming, tbh I wish now that I had started here at the end of Feb instead of wasting 2 months there.

Nothing gets here change here unless it can be proven incorrect, peer pressure is not an issue as far as game mechanics go, is it?

Einstein wrote:1 account would reduce ghosting, or at least make it more of a hassle for those looking to use it.

As far as the ghosting, it's really the same answer unfortunately. Many heads have been beat against the wall on this, but in the end it's an accurate mechanic. But additionally, if we did decide to combat this outside of the realm of accuracy, I don't see how this can be changed without effecting normal game mechanics and play in ways completely unrelated to this issue.