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Indeed, still waiting for more stories !!

Hey mate ! What's up ? Not playing anymore ?

Hey Gasper,

I was reading the forum quickly, and was delighted by some new tales of your adventures !

Unfortunately, I've read those on the ***** forums long time ago

You are probably the most entertaining poster I've seen in my UO history and I hope to read more from you !

Keep up the good work (or the scoundrel one I should say)

Yeah I've stopped playing too, my shitty connection + those freeze were too much to handle... But I believe Vorsp found the bug and is about to fix it.

Anyway I hope the serv gets back to normal soon so you guys can enjoy it fully.

For my part I'm traveling again tomorrow, so I think I won't be around for a while... (months to a year) !

See ya and take care !

No problems.
The proplem now is to find the youtuber(s) with enough subscribers and willing to try the shard/Ultima Online. I cannot take care of this due to my connection, youtube drains an awfull lot of data, and I will be leaving in about 2 weeks.

This was to share what I believe is the best way to reach a huge base of potential players.

Tyrone, my suggestion wasnt to make a youtube channel. Sure it could help, but what I said is we should find an already "famous" youtuber interested in UO/MMO and have him do a playthrough of Pandora or a playtest or w/e...
Because people with 200k subscribers and more are gonna promote the shard a lot more than a "starting" youtube channel.

The point here is to reach new people not aware of UO. Those who would never type Ultima Online in the youtube search.

If I'm correct those stats (combat threat critical etc...) are new ones introduced by Vorspire. We may have to wait a bit before seeing monsters using them, I think it is aimed for future additions more than existing content.

Balinor you said my point... I feel like this is not a scarce item, but a controlled one...

And I get that you "only" need to PVP to get it, but... I was bad before when I had average HP, now people have more than twice my health lol.
I wouldnt pvp anyway, with that crappy connection I currently have

2k pvp coins ?

Sorry I thought every 3 first people on the PVP ladder got them every week, instead of 1/month(I think) when it was introduced.
So my reasoning was, 3/week is 12 a month, seeing the shard population there should enough neckies for everyone since its season 70/80(again if I remember correctly)

But if you have to get 2k pvp coins then yeah I guess the price is correct

30mill
I was wondering the price, because today everyone wears one, what was once rare looks now common... But 30 mill ?? What's the price of a robe of the sand these days ?
(dont want to sound rude, I'm really curious)

A mix of all of this... But I also used a pet a lot of time I froze. But very rarely with one or two monsters, most of the time it freeze when several mobs engage me.

Exactly Tyrone, I was thinking the same about the doni chest. Yes we still have one but it's empty. Yesterday we talked about it with Chicken, decided to begin to fill it again. Personnaly if I start on a new shard and the chest is empty, it looks like ghost or greedy server ehe.

We went in Doom with Xryon.

Engaged the Darkfather in the middle room, when he started spawning adds I froze. At this time I was using my hotkey to use first ability(armor ignore with pickaxe).
I reloged, was dead and teleported in Yomotsu Mines...

It happened to Xryon too, I believe at the same time. Froze, had to relog, died, tped to Yomotsu mine. He was using an assassin shortbow and I believe he was also using hotkey for ability.

It happened to me in a few places, PVM room, neira champspawn, I feel like when I get aggroed by a bunch of monster my screen just freeze and I have to relog.

[Also is there any suggestions for the leaders on how to grow the shard other ways? We use only 2 vote sites now (the best ones I gather from your post) and I do try to get people to join from Twitter(no idea if it works as well as I hoped but it's something)]

I have no problem donating. I do it as often as I can but as you stated it is summer and other things are more important then UO (to Kendra, not so much me) so maybe once things settle down I can go back to my weekly donating.

I also like Ladibugs idea of maybe a brief overview of cost, not specifics.

Also is there any suggestions for the leaders on how to grow the shard other ways? We use only 2 vote sites now (the best ones I gather from your post) and I do try to get people to join from Twitter(no idea if it works as well as I hoped but it's something)

I was talking to some other vet players and we noticed that it's not getting the people to the shard, it's keeping them here. I mean I could be totally wrong and it's people just making new chars to try and get free stuff but I think we do get some traffic coming in we just don't keep as many as we would like to and I have no idea why. I wish others would join the msg boards and input their opinions. The Young players are who I'd like to hear from on what would make them want to stay? A lot of us give  free gear (not junk) and powerscrolls amongst other things and it just doesn't seem to be enough. I know I've talked to Chicken about giving away free stuff and it feels like were just throwing things away because they stay a week or 2 and poof their gone.

I was actually thinking about all of this, saw Kon message (wich was deleted not much time after posting) and was wondering if I should put what I'm about to say in suggestion or directly PM one of the staff... Well here we go :

I've always been a fan of video games, and for the last years, I've grown more and more fond of youtube videos/let's plays and streaming. It allows you to see better players / different gaming styles / parts of the game you wouldnt reach without MANY hours put in the game, or simply relax while watching smthg else than TV.

But what I've noticed recently, is with medium to big youtubers (and probably streamers), they can make the buzz for "unknown" games... I've seen quite a few games being reviewed by some "big'' youtuber's channel, and then you have an afflux of thousands of people coming to the game's website/servers...
And this last week I've been asking myself : "What if Pandora could find one of those "influent" gamer, and make him do a playtest or w/e on Pandora?".
I bet you it's gonna bring more people than any voting website, since it will touch new players, unaware of UO.
However there are 2 issues with this :
Would it be "legal"... I know UO shards are tolerated, but I'm not expert.
Since a lot of those youtuber monetize their videos, can a video promoting an UO shard be monetized ?

Second point : The gear and progression.
I remember when I started here, having to raise pretty much every skills... Well ok, MACRO pretty much every skills. That could be a tedious process, since you're not actually playing the game but looking at your character doing the same stuff over and over for hours. But in my case, I loved buying/macroing skills untill 60% or so, and just go hunting.
And I liked it because the UO from nowadays remember me Diablo in the loot aspect... If you are lucky you can find good gear. I actually equiped myself "ok", and then with the gold bought runic armor pieces by pieces in vendors.

Today for a newcommer, the tediousness of the macroing is removed, wich is good.
BUT what I think kills the game for a lot of people, is the obvious : The loot is the s**t.
You get some mobs with MASSIVE lootpacks, dozens of items, but after a few of them you quickly realize it is no use of looting anything... You're way better not loosing time sorting the backpack but just getting gold and slaying the next mob etc... Get gold, buy stuff, get more power.
So I feel Pandora removed a very important part of the game process. The feeling of self achievement.

When I started playing here, of course player made items were better, but you could find ok gear on mobs, and it was actually worth it to enhance them with ingots or leather.
Today, even runic crafted items looks crap compared to imbuing. Especially with the "new imbuing". Now you can get +15 stats and +20hp/mana/stam increase, things you'll never be able to see on a regular drop... Before looting a talisman 6/6/6 was golden, today you dont care, you just need any talisman, remove everything and imbue it to be stronger than w/e you can find on a monster.

So it all comes down to finding enough materials to imbue, and to get imbuing PS to not fail crafting. But to get them, you already need powerfull equipment. Or farm millions of gold to afford fully imbued items after fully imbued items bought from already established players.

I'd like to see a vet doing a new character, not getting any gear from anyone else, and doing champs/minichamps by himself... (in less than 4 hours)

And thus, giving free gear/PS won't really help, because once you get there, what else do you have to do for a new player ? It spoils the point of "new begining".

I might be wrong / having biased opinion on this points, but I'm pretty sure that's a problem for new (even non new) players.

/Discuss 

Cmonnn, Im playing using my phone's hotspot !

Well, Ok, I have to admit this is... 

Come back soon !