UO Second Age

The Idea

What's up UOSA? [mYm] is currently undergoing a MASSIVE project through which we intend to transform our town (Rivendell) into a comprehensive player-town. Our goal is to provide many of the same essential services a player would find in a traditional guarded town, but in a player-created and maintained environment. We want, YOU, the player to be part of this process and have done our best to offer real reason to be here.

The Proposal

We have several unused properties within Rivendell Proper (on the main road, or just off of it) for which we are seeking qualified craftsman and hunters to staff. Along with access to the property, we will provide contracts of employment and a weekly salary to compensate you for your time and effort. Merchants will take home their weekly salaries + 100% of earned profits. I want to stress strongly that we are looking for people who honestly ENJOY playing as craftsman and hunters to fulfill these positions. In order to recieve your full anual salary you will need to spend a reasonable amount of time within the shop itself, acting as shopkeeper. I realize that this is an old game and people don't have the time to dedicate to being there all the time or even a majority of the time. However, we ask that you dedicate as much time as you can to being physically present in your shop - be it semi-afk or what have you. All salaries will be agreed upon before shop ownership is overtaken and will be up for re evaluation after 5 weeks of successful participation.

Additionally, we have teamed with Blackfoot of [UoH] to bring regular Crafter & PvM events to the city. These events will be announced weekly via the Player Run Event subforum - Keep a lookout!

Available Stores

Blacksmith, Tailor & Tinker Shop - $3,600gp - 35,00gp per week (dependant upon shop upkeep and town participation)
Occupied: fooka [$$$]

We are looking for enthusiastic crafters to run our Blacksmith, Tailoring and Tinkering shop - located in the heart of Rivendell. Expectations - We expect that you'll keep your vendors fully stocked with the most high-demand items, which include but are not limited to: Crafted armor (both metal and soft), Crafted Weapons, Crafted shields, Crafted Clothing, cut bandages, bolts of cloth, scissors, sewing kits, trapped boxes etc. Obviously we won't require you to stock every buyable item in the game, but we expect that all useful and popular items will be present. Additionally - we encourage multiple people to partner up and tackle this project together.

Mage & Alchemist Shop - $3,600gp - $45,000gp per week (dependant upon shop upkeep and town participation)

We are looking for enthusiastic crafters to run our Mage and Alchemist shop. Your shop is located just a few tiles off the main Road and is in great position for maximum foot traffic. Expectations - we expect that you'll keep your vendors fully stocked with the most high-demand items, which include but are not limited to: full spellbooks, runebooks (both full and empty), empty bottles, empty kegs, full kegs, blank runes, 1st through 8th circle scrolls, bulk regs etc. Obviously we won't reqire you to stock every buyable item in game, but we expect that all useful and popular items will be present. Additionally - we encourage mutliple people to partner up and tackle this project together.

Jewler & Quality Wand Maker - $3,600 gp - $50,000gp per week (dependant upon shop upkeep and town participation)

We are looking for enthusiastic hunters to run our Jewler & Wand shop. Your shop will be located just a few tiles off the main road and is in great position for maximum foot traffic. Expectations - we expect that you'll keep your vendors fully stocked with the most high-demand items, which include but are not limited to: heal wands, greater heal wands, lightning wands, fireball wands, identification wands, teleporation rings, invisibility jewels, spell reflection jewels, strength jewels, agility jewels and cunning jewels.

We're starting with 3 shops (I've always been told to start small) in hopes that they will strive. We will consider expanding pending the success of these three.

The Duel Arena

Located in the center of our town is our most prized and used posession - Rivendell Dueling Pit. 100% securable (less outsider EQ's) - this arena is available for free 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If you are interested in securing the teleportation house for a private event - please contact a [mYm] member to help facilitate. Note : We as a guild use our arena on a daily basis. We are CONSTANTLY there doing 1v1's, 2v2's & 3v3's - so feel free to stop through for some duels or even just for some pointers. If we aren't there using it - invite some friends!


In closing, I really hope that YOU guys will help out by simply showing up. This entire idea is 100% dependant on you, the players, coming through. Once our shops are operational - I hope we can be a one stop shop for your stocking needs. I am going to be bankrolling this operation myself to get it off the ground and my hope is that we'll be able to develop this idea into a full-fledged RP operation. Any feedback is welcome and I'll be developing this thread throughout the week as we make progress and suggestions are made. I will also post illustrated directions for travel to/from our town. For the mean time - you can find a recall rune in the center of the pentagram located inside Roadkills Rune Library.

Let me know what you guys think.....

Meet Your Makers

I like the idea, seems a lot more involved than the typical add-ons that guilds get.

I'm down for running a smithy/tailor/tinker vendor.

Excellent Idea!! A player town run by the people for the people.
As I live not far from you town, this proposal is very interesting to me.
When i saw this topic it gave me hope for some sort of community.

So, an hour after your post, i logged back on and ran into mYm town to see if some of you guys were on, to talk, to get a better understanding of the plans for this grand idea. To see how and if there was a spot for me in this new mYm town.
What i find is Blade, Mentii, Damios fighting in the arena, and without two words they teleport out and take the fight to me.I'm no leet player and in short time I'm dead and am told "Welcome to hyenaville, nigga"

What kind of town is mYm trying to establish, or is this all a scam to gank noobs.

Ok, Clearly these people dont represent the mYm as a whole, I'm not suggesting they do!
And the thought of a RP town was to much to resist. I've been a table top roleplayer for over a decade, and would love nothing more then to a have a true visual environment for for fantasy roleplaying. Hell!! I wouldnt mind getting pked if the asses would at least rp a bit, like have some fun with it.
If part of your "comprehensive player-town" involves offering the same services as a guarded town, then maybe some protection from pkers is in order, or are we suppose to do business looking over our shoulders, paranoid all the time?

neither of those players are in mYm. i can't see any of our members preying on players who wouldn't be able to fight back (unless we're out PKing in dungeons, which we rarely do).

sorry to hear about your unpleasant experience, but we can't police our town 24 hours a day.

Clearly its unrealistic for someone to expect mYm to police there own town,
and yes i know they are not of your guild, I believe they had $$ above their heads.

Don't take my post as whinning, but as constructive critisism.
I think actualy playing the vendor would be fun to roleplay, and would give me a reason to get back on track GMing my Archer/bowcrafter.

Damo wrote:Excellent Idea!! A player town run by the people for the people.
As I live not far from you town, this proposal is very interesting to me.
When i saw this topic it gave me hope for some sort of community.

So, an hour after your post, i logged back on and ran into mYm town to see if some of you guys were on, to talk, to get a better understanding of the plans for this grand idea. To see how and if there was a spot for me in this new mYm town.
What i find is Blade, Mentii, Damios fighting in the arena, and without two words they teleport out and take the fight to me.I'm no leet player and in short time I'm dead and am told "Welcome to hyenaville, nigga"

What kind of town is mYm trying to establish, or is this all a scam to gank noobs.

Ok, Clearly these people dont represent the mYm as a whole, I'm not suggesting they do!
And the thought of a RP town was to much to resist. I've been a table top roleplayer for over a decade, and would love nothing more then to a have a true visual environment for for fantasy roleplaying. Hell!! I wouldnt mind getting pked if the asses would at least rp a bit, like have some fun with it.
If part of your "comprehensive player-town" involves offering the same services as a guarded town, then maybe some protection from pkers is in order, or are we suppose to do business looking over our shoulders, paranoid all the time?

ROFL!! I cant even believe this was posted...
The best part is... "What kind of town is mYm trying to establish, or is this all a scam to gank noobs."

... definitely sounds like a full scale noob-ganking scam if you ask me!!!

Aside from that ^^ it would be cool if that did all work out... Everything in one location, properly stocked, etc. etc...

"We're starting with 3 shops (I've always been told to start small) in hopes that they will strive."

I know you meant thrive, but I think perhaps strive might be accurate too.

Runehouses really aren't doing their part. Runes to player establishments never seem to be updated, there are just runes to dead player towns. Last time I wanted to goto Rivendell (to watch felix grudge a known scammer), I had to run there from Vesper because I couldn't find a single runehouse with a rune there.

Damo wrote:
What i find is Blade, Mentii, Damios fighting in the arena, and without two words they teleport out and take the fight to me.I'm no leet player and in short time I'm dead and am told "Welcome to hyenaville, nigga"

What kind of town is mYm trying to establish, or is this all a scam to gank noobs.

sounds like a pretty neat town to me.

Sounds like a good place to feed. The Zarvera shall have to visit.

I once wizard killed Menti 1v1 with 0 resist. MYM rara for most active town, UOH booo for biggest ghost town.

Sorry this post has gone inactive - I got in a car accident a few days ago and haven't had a lot of time.

I've had a lot of interest in players wanting to run the shops, and have sent out some PM's to qualified individuals and teams. More to come soon.

HI IM MIKE wrote:Sorry this post has gone inactive - I got in a car accident a few days ago and haven't had a lot of time.

I've had a lot of interest in players wanting to run the shops, and have sent out some PM's to qualified individuals and teams. More to come soon.

Hope you and your passengers are doing okay, and the damage was minimal.

MatronDeWinter wrote:Hope you and your passengers are doing okay, and the damage was minimal.

We are, and it is. Thanks for your concern.

Also, I should mention that I've began to update the initial post with what positions we've filled. I have the Tailor/Smith/Tinkering Shop & The Alchemy/Mage Shop taken care of. I am still looking for an active PvMer who is interested in running the Jewlery/Wand shop.

Our first crafter event is in the works, stay tuned!