UO:Developer Meet And Greet from 2016-06-13

Developer Meet And Greet from 2016-06-13

This meeting was held in English. It was logged by EM Lyraa.

The first 28 questions had been submitted to the dev team in advance.

EM Lyraa	Good Evening all!
EM Lyraa	Guten Abend allerseits!
EM Lyraa	Good Evening Mesanna!
Mesanna	good evening
Mesanna	since I have your questions already
Mesanna	I will post them
Mesanna	then we will answer them
Mesanna	after we get thru the 28 questions
Mesanna	we will open the floor for any odd questions not asked
Nicnivin	please be aware that these are questions of some of us
Mesanna	sound good?
Kimba Deschain	sounds good!
Nicnivin	other people available might want to have a chance to ask questions too
Mesanna	first question
Mesanna	From Dexter
Mesanna	Are there plans to make thieves more relevant in PvP? They feel rather useless these days.
Kyronix	We have no immediate plans, PvP thieving is a tricky profession to build for
Kyronix	Given the current climate of blessed, insured, and otherwise unstealable items
Kyronix	if anything we’ll look to improve the role in Vice and Virtue in coming updates
Mesanna	From Belmarduk
Mesanna	What is the state of the graphics enhancements that were announced in the past – EC and CC?
Mesanna	That one is mine
Mesanna	*sighs*
Mesanna	The past producer said we were going to update the graphics
Mesanna	but
Mesanna	after doing the research on what would take to update all the art
Mesanna	we are looking at 5 to 8 years
Mesanna	to update all the art in UO to high Res
Mesanna	All the newer art is high rez but the other art will not be updated as stated originally
Mesanna	another question from Belmarduk
Mesanna	Which marketing measures are planned or ongoing to attract more players?
Mesanna	that one is mine also
Mesanna	We have a great plan for this
Mesanna	we are setting up a document on this for approval from EA
Mesanna	we hope to do this next year
Mesanna	as soon as I have this I will be letting everyone know our plans
Mesanna	I think everyone will be happy so please be patient
Mesanna	next question is from Seth Gecko
Mesanna	Why are dropped items with the Brittle mod at 255 durability, but reforged ones at 35?
Mesanna	Bleak has this one
Bleak	So we updated Dungeon Brittle items based on feedback to 255 durabilty which currently provides
Bleak	an advantage over reforged item. We will take a look in the future at re-balancing the items that
Mesanna	one sec guys
Mesanna	we will fix the hearing issue
Nicnivin	thank you!
Mesanna	thanks for letting us know
Bleak	So we updated Dungeon Brittle items based on feedback to 255 durability which currently provides
Bleak	an advantage over reforged item. We will take a look in the future at re-balancing the items that
Bleak	are reforged with Brittle.
Mesanna	Next questions is from Dexter
Mesanna	Auto revealing stealthed characters in the Blackthorn dungeon on the Felucca facet feels out of place
Mesanna	Felucca is the place to resolve such things in a more personal manner.
Kyronix	We added the revealing ability to those creatures to deal with some other issues
Kyronix	Down there, but since have added additional measures to deal with those same issues
Kyronix	So its something we can revisit, I’m a big fan of the stealther myself
Kyronix	And it certainly is a bother when you seem to get revealed over and over
Kyronix	So perhaps it also worth revisiting the balance between mobs revealing you
Kyronix	and the character’s stealth and hiding
Kyronix	So its certainly something we can look into for a future update
Kyronix	Great question, thanks!
Mesanna	next question
Mesanna	A pet crystal to send a pet into the stables (the opposite of the pet summoning crystal that already exists) would help tamers to not being stuck with a useless pet in a situation where recalling out and in again is not possible. Even if summoning another pet is not possible in the given environment and the pet is sent back.
Mesanna	long question
Mesanna	ok bottom line is
Mesanna	we will review this request
Mesanna	There would have to be a lot of restrictions on the pets
Mesanna	so before we say anything else we will have to discuss this request
Mesanna	next question
Mesanna	Why do the new masteries have such high mana requirements?
Mesanna	waiting on someone typing
Bleak	The strength of the mastery spells are higher than most spells in the game which requires a high
Bleak	mana cost.
Bleak	So spell strength == mana cost
Mesanna	The fencing mastery Thrust seems to not working. At maxed skills and level 3 primer the damage bonus/reduction is still 0%.
Mesanna	Bleak will be answering this one also
Kyronix	it’s just hard for him to type with those talons
Bleak	We will look into this report.
Mesanna	It is obvious that it is desirable from a design standpoint to constantly remove items from the game to be able to introduce new ones. The concept of Ephemeral/Antique doesn’t seem to be well received by players though, since it is a tremendous effort to assemble the ‘almost perfect’ set. Do you have a concept to resolve this conflict?
Kyronix	As the question points out, everything can’t last forever
Kyronix	Despite the desire to the contrary, it isn’t healthy for the economy or the gameplay loop
Kyronix	If the best items last forever
Kyronix	The more powerful an item, the shorter its overall lifespan
Kyronix	There are ways to prolong the lifespan, but this is a balancing concern because we don’t want
Kyronix	To completely jack up the power creep
Kyronix	So how do we deal with it?
Kyronix	When we revamped the loot a couple years ago we tweaked how these negative properties
Kyronix	Were applied in contrast to increasing power levels
Kyronix	The result has been a pretty fair balance
Kyronix	I think a more poignant question in the context of this question
Kyronix	Rather than how do you resolve the conflict of crafting the perfect suit
Kyronix	is whether you should be able to craft the perfect suit? What is perfect?
Kyronix	Great question though, and a worthwhile conversation to have!
Mesanna	Are there plans to introduce means to enhance the abilities of governors to communicate with their citizens? The first implementation of the city boards allowed citizens to post there.
Kyronix	We added new bulletin boards to act as an in game newspaper style announcer
Kyronix	To try and streamline the bulletin board UI
Kyronix	If a governor would like an old style bulletin board, we can place one
Kyronix	Just have to ask for one
Kyronix	And we can place it
Nicnivin	Thank you!
Kimba Deschain	We will quote you on that one :)
Mesanna	What is the standard for melee fighters, in terms of designing new encounters and monsters? Sampires are able to kill almost anything solo.
Mesanna	Most other melee builds have little chance of surviving	, even with support, against enemies using special attacks or massive damage. So, how high is the bar set?
Misk	Very high.
Mesanna	The randomly generated maze down at dungeon Wrong seems to be not solvable most of the time due to the teleport sparkles blocking the way out of the dungeon. Is this intended?
Mesanna	sounds like it might be broken we will look into this issue
Mesanna	One detail about Humility Hunts was that pets are unable to stealth. Are there stealthing pets? I would expect a Raptor having that skill, but they never actually stealthed after being tamed.
Kyronix	The intention for the humility hunt is for to show your humility in the face of an opponent
Kyronix	by facing them with reduced resists, stealthing isn’t going to help you in achieving paths of humility
Kyronix	So I’m not sure what the intent is there, stealthing pets are a separate issue
Kyronix	And something we’d really have to evaluate before we did anything like that
Nicnivin	the question is: are there pets able to stealth
Dogard	orc brute
Mesanna	What about a Focused Fighter? There is a Focused Mage. Any chance to not having to pick Chivalry or Bushido as a melee character and still being effective
Misk	This is something that we will need to discuss further, but I agree that not requiring those two
Misk	skills would be a wonderful addition to the game!
Mesanna	The random combat moves of dinosaurs are very unnerving if you are a melee fighter. Every dinosaur at the turtle spawn can do every special move. Melee fighters are the ones who have to constantly run, possibly loosing their mount after being area poisoned after a dismount. If specific opponents had specific sets of abilities (one type dismounts, mortal strikes and paralyzes, the other poisons, armor ignores and disarms, …) the targets could be picked in a more tactical manner.
Kyronix	All the dinosaurs have a preselected set of stats, resists, tactics, and special moves
Kyronix	So you can learn about them and make a tactical decision as to how to best face them
Mesanna	Why does offline time not count against changing active masteries or resetting the pet training timer?
Bleak	The mastery timer is based off in game time.
Mesanna	When decorating your home sometimes items occur above others that were placed below them after reentering the house, re-logging, or at some other event. Why is it so random which items are on top? Sometimes it feels like it switches every other day. That limits decorating in many ways This is an issue that has been around from day one almost.
Mesanna	not sure we have an answer for that at this time
Mesanna	When wearing gauntlets the chance to disarm traps is reduced (not that many do that by hand anymore). Is there an armor part worn by gargoyles that reduces these chances as well?
Mesanna	We are going to have to confirm this
Mesanna	one sec
Mesanna	It is as design that it will reduce it by the amount of armor on your hands
Xen‑Eru Nemisis	do we not see the players speech?
Coco Zamis	all are muted
Xen	-Eru Nemisis: the crystal is only Mesanna, do we see the player questions?
Soul.Train	mesanna is reading the questions given by players and is answering
Coco Zamis	somebody has send a long list of questions
Xen	-Eru Nemisis: we were supposed to send her questions?
EM Lyraa	No, but players collected those before.
Coco Zamis	i hope i can ask unlisted questions
Mesanna	right now we are answering the questions turned in to us, we will take a few questions after
Xen	-Eru Nemisis: so i should wait till next one?
EM Lyraa	Just wait a few more minutes… there are more.
Gator	will this be the format of m&g’s going forward?
Mesanna	no
Mesanna	Why are both of the new Eodon armor types medable? There seems to be a shortage of melee armor
Kyronix	It worked out that way based on the materials that were available from the natural resources in
Kyronix	Eodon
Kyronix	We experimented early on in making some heavier armors, but the look just wasn’t right
Kyronix	So a combination of say dragon turtle pieces with leather that more minimalistic fit better
Kyronix	aesthetically so we wound up with two light armor types
Mesanna	Tiger and turtle armor can’t be enhanced by using better leather types, so stat wise it is worse having these new armor types drop, compared to existing armor types.
Kyronix	This is something we hope to add in a future publish, its in our backlog
Mesanna	Are there plans to introduce new rewards for the hunters trophies? Possibly something expendable, since the market for the currently available rewards seems to be saturated.
Kyronix	We added some new trophies for last years update, this is something we can keep in mind
Kyronix	When looking at a future update to the Huntsman’s Quest
Mesanna	Why are Greater Dragons and Cu Sidhe not accepted as donations at the Moonglow zoo?
Mesanna	Because we have not updated the zoo in a long time to be honest
Mesanna	there is no other answer than that to be honest with you
Mesanna	When we do the pet revamp we will look at the zoo at that time
Kimba Deschain	thanks for your honesty
Mesanna	If a pet or summon has mysticism, spellweaving or necromancy skills, is the skill reflected by the value for magery (as shown by animal lore)?
Mesanna	this is a good question
Mesanna	we are not sure…lol
Mesanna	but great question
Mesanna	we will find the answer for you guys
Mesanna	Could town criers be enhanced to announce official events in a way that they mention the time of the events more detailed when they come closer, like “happens in two hours”, “has started”. They could also automatically stop announcing the event after it has ended.
Mesanna	This is the responsibility of the EM’s
Mesanna	maybe you should talk to your EM on your shard and request this
Mesanna	Do you have statistics of all items unraveled? Do you track which are sought after or considered junk?
Mesanna	no we do not track this
Mesanna	if we did our data base would be soooooo big
Mesanna	The stacking box for grass and snow tiles is very useful, could you include small blackrock to be stacked in a similar manner?
Misk	Due to the varying tiles used with small blackrock, making them stackable is not a possibility, sorry
Mesanna	We can remove Damage Increase from weapons, I would really love to remove Splintering from weapons
Kyronix	This is something we can investigate and see about adding in a future update
Kyronix	Thanks for the question!
Mesanna	ok we will open the questions now
Mesanna	Lyraa you want to pull in a few
EM Lyraa	Yep…
Mesanna	Hello Coco
Coco Zamis	*pushes fast forward*
Coco Zamis	*looks a bit nervous*
Coco Zamis	Welcome on Drachenfels my Dark Lady, ruler of the shards.
Coco Zamis	Greetings to the EM, (GM) and dev team.
Coco Zamis	First i have to thank you and your team for the hard work
Coco Zamis	which you have done in the last months.
Coco Zamis	I love it, even if some parts are hard.
Coco Zamis	*bows*
Coco Zamis	My thanks goes also to our local field helper named
Coco Zamis	“Quick” GM River and “Deathrobe Machine” EM Lyraa
Coco Zamis	*smiles and bows*
EM Lyraa	*coughs*
Coco Zamis	I just want to make clear that i won’t ask anything about HAB
Coco Zamis	*blushes*
Coco Zamis	Now to my few questions:
Coco Zamis	*looks into the notes starting at page 5*
Coco Zamis	Will you change the VvV tagging out of VvV towns?.
Kyronix	Could you be more specific?
Kyronix	What do you mean tagging out?
Coco Zamis	if you are in a vvv town it is ok to be tagged as vvv opponent
Coco Zamis	at other locations, for example champs
Coco Zamis	i doesnt think so
Coco Zamis	blues will not go red anymore
Kyronix	We have no plans to change that
Coco Zamis	ok
Coco Zamis	Is possible to re-size the CC game window? Think about new monitor resolutions. UO game window will have the size of a stamp with 4K.
Mesanna	we have already talked about it and Bleak is looking into it
Coco Zamis	thanks
Coco Zamis	There is only a minimal chance to get good dexxer loot compared to good mage armor. Is this with intent?
Mesanna	last question
Coco Zamis	was last
Mesanna	I think we have others behind you
Coco Zamis	should i repeat
Coco Zamis	the last one?
Mesanna	nope we have journals =)
Mesanna	alot of the properties can be used for both
Mesanna	if you have an idea of what you would like to see for a dexxer send it to us
Coco Zamis	well mh, i will looking into it
Coco Zamis	have a good day
Mesanna	you also
Mesanna	how many people here are asking questions?
Mesanna	wait
Mesanna	we need you to line up
Finley Grant	hello
Mesanna	Greetings
Kyronix	Hello!
Finley Grant	first of all, good job with that eodon thing
Kyronix	Thanks! Glad you enjoy it!
Mesanna	thank you
Finley Grant	one little hint, please use not so many dynamic maps and so on
Finley Grant	in EC this sometimes causes issues
Finley Grant	when u press STRG + Shift to get bars and so on
Kyronix	We are looking at a solution for this for Shadowguard
Finley Grant	sometimes you have a screen full of “floor tile”
Finley Grant	“dungeon floor”
Finley Grant	like at events
Finley Grant	when the EMs make their stuff at “secret” locations
Finley Grant	ok my Question
Finley Grant	can you please tell the EMs to 1. put down really all stuff in advance at the calendar
Mesanna	Lyraa
Finley Grant	2. maybe also ask them to speak english
Mesanna	what he said =P
EM Lyraa	Yes… I always do.
EM Lyraa	*grins*
Finley Grant	lyraa is doing great
Finley Grant	not pointing to her
Finley Grant	more to APAC
Mesanna	but you are on Drac =)
EM Lyraa	Tsk.
Finley Grant	yes
Finley Grant	but god gave us more shards
Mesanna	if you have a complaint about another shard email me then
Finley Grant	sure,
Finley Grant	thanks
Finley Grant	*)*
Mesanna	and I will address it with the correct EM
Finley Grant	go on with good work
Mesanna	thanks
Finley Grant	thanks
Finley Grant	bye bye
Ithildin Balbeth	Errm
Mesanna	hi Ithildin
Ithildin Balbeth	Hi all together
Ithildin Balbeth	Just a small question, if maybe other hued llamas would be an opportunity?
Ithildin Balbeth	and maybe speckled horses?
Mesanna	we will review it during the pet revamp
Ithildin Balbeth	Great, thanks, keep up the good work =)
Mesanna	any hue changes will be tasteful
Ithildin Balbeth	*smiles*
Ithildin Balbeth	I think so
Ithildin Balbeth	Thank thee
Mesanna	most welcone
Mesanna	welcome
Aby	Hello
Mesanna	hi Aby
Aby	i came back to uo
Aby	the most ppl older i am 54 years old
Aby	started UO on 1998
Aby	so the small pieces of items are not so good 4 old ppl
Aby	a ring is very small
Aby	i hope u understand me
EM Lyraa	Sag es sonst auf deutsch…
EM Lyraa	Du meinst zu kleine Items zum Anschauen?
Aby	ob das spiel für ältere leute etwas besser gestaltet wird
Aby	ein ring ist sehr klein
EM Lyraa	She means the items are too small… like small rings.
EM Lyraa	If this could be changed, bigger graphics…
Aby	einfach etwas freundlicher für ältere spieler
Aby	Danke
EM Lyraa	*nickt*
Mesanna	thats an art question that I would have to address with them
Mesanna	but
Mesanna	understand not all players like for us to change the art
Mesanna	to make it easier we do have different hued backpacks we can put in
Mesanna	so we can see items easier in the back packs
Mesanna	anything else?
Aby	no thanks
Mesanna	we will take a few more
Mesanna	Greetings Soul Train
Soul.Train	good evening together
Soul.Train	i only got 2 questions
Soul.Train	it is possible to make brazier and candelabra dye-able
Soul.Train	the vet brazier to :)
Mesanna	we will talk about it
Soul.Train	and
Soul.Train	its not possible to built closed rooms in castles etc
Soul.Train	there is sometimes
Soul.Train	free space
Soul.Train	a solution for this would be great
Mesanna	define a closed room
Soul.Train	u cant do corners
Mesanna	do you mean with a roof
Soul.Train	nope
Soul.Train	in the main room
Mesanna	you mean corner posts
Soul.Train	of a castle u cant built a closed room
Soul.Train	yep
Soul.Train	there will be always
Soul.Train	free space
Kyronix	You can try and put the corner piece in a choppable container
Soul.Train	no way
Kyronix	And then place that in the space where it would normally go
Soul.Train	i tried this
Kyronix	And you can get it to flush up
Soul.Train	nope
Soul.Train	wont work
Soul.Train	be sure
Soul.Train	:)
Kyronix	If you can send us some screenshots
Soul.Train	sure ill do
Kyronix	It would be more helpful to understand exactly what you mean
Kyronix	If there is something we can do maybe we can
Kyronix	Thanks!
Mesanna	and reproduce to find a solution
Soul.Train	ill do asap
Mesanna	thank you
Soul.Train	thank u too
Soul.Train	*bows
Soul.Train	btw
Mesanna	?
Soul.Train	Governor for Serpent Holds would be great
Soul.Train	*waves
Kyronix	Serpent’s Hold is a military base
Messana	greetings!
Mesanna	Hello Messana
Messana	hello real Mesanna
Mesanna	really close on the name huh
EM Lyraa	*laughs*
Messana	your name isnt allowed
Messana
Mesanna	lol
Mesanna	for a reason
Messana	i have 2 quick questions
Messana	are there plans to allow cameo talismans to be powder of fortable?
Messana	or no dura like the slither
Kyronix	This goes back to what we talked about earlier about things not lasting forever
Messana	sorta…
Kyronix	We have to evaluate it for balance and longevity
Kyronix	There stuff out there that probably shouldn’t last forever
Kyronix	And stuff out there that probably should last forever
Messana	but you were talking about random powerful loot
Kyronix	And now you’re talking about specific powerful artifacts
Messana	cameo is 200 mil item… and breaks
Messana	how come slither has no dura
Messana	its hard because it loses $ value quickly if used
Messana	bad investment
Messana	the enchantress cameo im referring to
Messana	so the answer is no then? no plans for that?
Kyronix	No, the answer is we have to look at the big picture
Kyronix	Before we change it
Messana	okay
Messana	my other question is, mesanna will you help me with something on Atlantic for 2 min after this?
Messana	lol GM told me to find you about something
Mesanna	talk to me after
Messana	thanks for listening
feeda	hi all
Mesanna	hello Feeda
Kyronix	Hello!
Mesanna	10 more minutes guys
feeda	i heard the bods system would change and i was wondering if this is true
feeda	or just rumors
Mesanna	yes we want to redo it
Mesanna	especially the reward system
feeda	yes it would be great to have a point based system
Mesanna	exactly
Mesanna	thats what we have been talking about
feeda	would make people use smaller bods and wep bods
Mesanna	agreed
feeda	thanks
feeda	just one more question 😛
feeda	i had some undyed masks and was wondering if i could get them dyed after the ending of the meet
Mesanna	probably not today but I will return
feeda	oh ok
feeda	well thanks anyways
Mesanna	or you could give them to Lyraa
feeda	that was all
Mesanna	in a bag with your name
Mesanna	and after I dye them she can return it
feeda	hmmm i could go get a book i guess 😛
feeda	just drachfells not my main shard so not here many times hehehe
Mesanna	*smiles*
Mesanna	I will return promise
feeda	alrigth i will go out so others can make questions too 😛
feeda	ty
Mesanna	hi Erisa
Erisa	Hello
Erisa	just a short question about the EC bugs
Erisa	any idea if it will get fixed?
Mesanna	umm which EM bugs
Mesanna	EC
Erisa	Spellbooks
Erisa	soulstone use and relogg
Mesanna	we are constantly fixing bugs
Erisa	always crashes it
Erisa	nearly all spellbooks, if you right click em
Mesanna	spellbooks?
Erisa	and sometimes in doom while stealthing, but i couldn’t redo it
Erisa	yes if i open a magebook, and cast out of it or drag a spell
Mesanna	please send me those observations in writing so we can try to reproduce them
Mesanna	make sure you give alot of details
Erisa	ok i will
Erisa	thanks for ya time
Mesanna	so we can reproduce it
Mesanna	thank you so much
Gator	hiya
Mesanna	Hi Gator
Gator	my question in a confusion on antique property
Gator	the quide say it can be pof 3 times
Gator	but i can never get it to work on my ring
Gator	I’m i doing it wrong?
Misk	No you simply cannot POF jewelry at all
Misk	No matter what properties they may have
Gator	on purpose?
Gator	they wear out very fast compared to armor is that intended?
Mesanna	one sec
Mesanna	talking about this
Mesanna	talking one sec
Mesanna	yes that was done on purpose
Kyronix	Yes it is on purpose because jewelry is one of the few things left that has a finite lifespan
Gator	why have any be antique at all then?
Gator	oh well i nm im gonna lose ty
Kyronix	Ok, thanks for the question!
Madilyn Gastley	Good evening!
Mesanna	Good evening
Madilyn Gastley	Two easy questions: House Search Tool; Any news? and Can we we have Kings Collection added to the shop
Mesanna	No news yet on the house search tool
Mesanna	and as far as the kings collection it still has to be put in on the account management page
Mesanna	so for now that is also a no
Mesanna	at this time
Madilyn Gastley	ok
Madilyn Gastley	Thank you!
Mesanna	you are most welcome
Mesanna	ask me again in a year =)
Mesanna	lol
Madilyn Gastley	lol
NinaLuna	good evening all
Mesanna	Hello
NinaLuna	i have a question for the quests
NinaLuna	could it be possible to give out a message
NinaLuna	max 10 quests at a time
NinaLuna	i think that would save bug reports
NinaLuna	and GM efforts
Mesanna	I agree that it should be common knowledge or atleast the limitation known
NinaLuna	thx
Mesanna	It is a common issue from the players
Mesanna	we do have a bug in the system on it
Mesanna	anything else?
NinaLuna	no i hope the pet revamp next year
Mesanna	we are gearing up for it
NinaLuna	will be done well for us tamers .)
NinaLuna	thx
NinaLuna	and bye
Mesanna	It will be done for everyone =)
Mesanna	good bye
Mesanna	Thanks Drach you guys had some great questions
Kyronix	Thanks Drachenfels!
Bleak	Thanks Everywhere!
Kyronix	*waves*
NinaLuna	yes thank you for being here
Mesanna	ok thank you for having us Drachenfels
Nicnivin	thank you for answering our questions
Ithildin Balbeth	Thanks for all the hard work on our behalf!
Ithildin Balbeth	Dankeee, gute Nacht
EM Lyraa	Thanks a lot Mesanna, Misk, Bleak and Kyronix, for your time!
EM Lyraa	Okay guys… that was the Developer Meet & Greet tonight! Hope you had fun!

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