House of Commons from 2000-05-11

House of Commons from 2000-05-11

Jerrith	Greetings and thank you for attending tonight's UOHoC.
Jerrith	Tonight's chat topic is UO:R and The Faction System and as such we will accept questions related to this topic.
Jerrith	Jerrith will be our moderator for this evening. In order to submit questions, please /msg or /query XenaDragon, Niobe, or Zorn.
	Jerrith changes topic to "UOHoC - Please /msg or /query XenaDragon, Niobe, or Zorn."
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Jerrith	Correction. Tonight is Destiny, Jerrith, or Zorn.
	Jerrith changes topic to "UOHoC - Please /msg or /query Destiny, Jerrith, or Zorn."
Jerrith	The topic has been expanded from just "The Faction System" to include the rest of UO:R as well.
Jerrith	Thanks for coming, everyone. We will now begin accepting questions.
Jerrith	*Malt_R3fund* The new terrain in Feluccia (with desolation=on) is causing alot of rubberbanding. Will this be addressed anytime soon? I like the terrain, and I'd use it if I could, but the rubberbanding is just too much. :(
Jalek	that will be fixed with the next client patch :)
Jerrith	*Ness_Orbsydia* is it true that when a faction has captured a town, they can set NPC prices? i heard this rumor...
Sage	Yes. However, setting the prices down on the NPCs will have other costs. So, it won't be a free ride, so to speak.
Jerrith	*Lugh* It was mentioned that other cities may potentially be used as faction cities, will the primary residents of these cities on each shard get to decide if the city will go faction?
Sage	Also, NPC prices won't affect non-faction members
SunSword	Lugh, not neccessarily. First, we don't have a way of determining primary residents. Second, the faction system (as it was currently designed) doesn't have much affect on non-faction members.
Jerrith	*HC^Smythe* All the documents say that, "There will be four factions initially". Can you comment on the possibilities for after that 'initially'?
Sage	At this time there are only plans for four. Any comments on adding more factions would be premature at this time.
Jerrith	*Web_Question* Assuming a controlled town may still have normal guards, will the sheriff of a town have any control over the normal town guards, or just the ones placed for the faction?
Sage	The faction guards will affect mostly faction members for now, although they will recognize non-faction members. The town guards will act in accordance to their normal behavior.
Sage	I say normal behavior assuming that more events of the Minax flavor may affect certain rules.
Jerrith	*Honewright* Who decided that prohibiting members of warring guilds to be healed by non guild members and oranges was a good idea? Many guilds 'war' eachother as a sign of alliance, since there is no alliance option coming in the near future. Do you think it is worth it to disallow all forms of healing to these peoples just to stop 'blue healing' ?
Jalek	Yes it is worth it, blue healers are a HUGE problem...
Jalek	we are however, still working on an alliance system :)
Jerrith	*Lugh* will there be other positions or titles beyond the leader, sherrif, and treasurer?
Sage	Those are the planned professions for now. Once we feel that we are stable, we can start looking at other possible professions.
Jerrith	*Web_Question* What powers (if any?) will the faction leader have besides the ability to appoint a sheriff and financial minister in faction controlled towns?
Sage	Yes. Those are the duties the faction leader will have for now. There are some other possibilities, but they will not go in with the first run.
Jerrith	*Hythlodaeus* Since factions are supposed to provide battles with meaning, and there is always Trammel, why limit the effects of factions to members? If there is a war in your neighborhood, it will affect you.
SunSword	We're phasing in the faction system. All the players are going through a transition right now as they decide which facet of the shard they want to play on. After the initial migration of
SunSword	players to trammel, and after the skeleton of the faction system is stable, we will be looking at ways for players to have a more significant impact on the world through the faction system
SunSword	but it's not something we want to allow immediately
SunSword	I imagine that housing will happen first.
Jerrith	*Mr_Leif* Why won't my own horse stop attacking me when I accidentaly attack him while trying to open a corpse?
Sage	Horses have very long memories. Seriously, gauging intent is very difficult to do, so if you attack your horse, he is not going to know to forgive you.
Jerrith	*Ryu* What kind of History/background is on each faction?
Sage	Each faction will basically start with a small history or background. Pretty easy to gauge based on name. The actional histories will be developed by the players and their actions.
Sage	The factions have not existed before now. I think you will agree that the best part of UO is the ability for the players to drive the systems
Sage	and the factions give plenty of leeway for that.
Jerrith	*Web_Question* I understand that the faction point system will be based directly on enemies killed. Will there be any consideration given for support roles, such as healers/craftsmen?
Sage	Right now, killing your enemies is the way you will garner points.
Jerrith	*Sigurd* Are there any plans for the future to stop travel between the facets, forcing players to choose one or the other permanently, or will travel between Trammel and Felucca by moonstones always be possible?
Sage	No. Travel between facets will remain as it is now, at least for the forseeable future.
Jerrith	*Klaitu* Are there any client differences between the UO:R bought in stores and our patched versions? (such as a different entrance movie, different MIDI music, etc)
Jalek	The only differnence is the actual client.exe and support files, no music or anything, so when a new cd holder logs in
Jalek	they will be exactly like everyone else after getting the patch
SunSword	There's also a different move
SunSword	movie
Jalek	oh, ya, hehe, sorry
SunSword	The CD contains and addition to the intro movie with some scenes containing lord british and Minax
Jerrith	*Boeman* Regarding faction rosters, would it be possible to ensure that players can be temporarily knocked out of faction warfare if they incur a certain number of deaths (they will be able to join after the death "counts" have diminished to th minimum requirement of course)? These death counts could be reset to 0 at the first day of each month to ensure that each side can begin on a clean slate with similar numbers.
Sage	This is not something we are planning.
Jerrith	*Starbuck* Will the problem with not being able to lumberjack from trees while Canopies is set to 'off' be addressed? I like the new terrain and all along with the mystique of the changes to the land, but having to turn canpoies on just to LJ is a pain and lends itself away from the suspension of disbelief that you try to create in a game such as UO. Also, any chance of turning the wood resources up a bit?
Jalek	it is actually not a bug with TreeCanopies=off, it is having the circle of transparency on and trying to chop wood
Jalek	There is really nothing i can do about that :(
Jerrith	*Lucky* How can I raise stealing now ? because I will need 80 to steal town stones.
Jerrith	*Lucky* How can I raise stealing now ? because I will need 80 to steal town stones.
Jalek	quit spamming :)
Jerrith	Sorry. :)
Sage	Right now the more difficult the lock, the better your skill will raise. I realize there are currently some issues with raising stealing and we are actively looking into those.
Jerrith	*Xanthor-Pacific* Ever since new lands came out all the semi rares like wirerolls, horse shoes, dried flowers became permantly locked down. Patch said they would be released after server was patched but everything is still locked down and all our thieves are taking damage from opening these chests. Is this being looked into?
Sage	The rares which were in homes previous to the patch were locked down and should not have been. The "rares" which decorate the world will remain locked down. If personally owned rares are still locked down, it is an issue I was unaware of.
Sage	The patch should have removed the "locked down" or overweighted status of the personally owned rares.
Sage	The ones which should be stealable in towns are still being looked into. Good q and thanks.
Jerrith	Mocker* Any plans to let murderers get involved in factions? If so, how?
Jalek	We are looking into ways to allow reds to join the faction system, none have been decided yet, however
Jerrith	*Jeg* Any plans for some sort of looting-rights system for factions? Or is it just gonna be a gang-bang group for mad lewt like order/chaos?
Jalek	Ther are some ch3ecks for looting opposing faction members, we will test these to ensure they are good enough and no too strict though once the faction system is in testing
Jerrith	*BeBadd-GL* Is there going to be clothing or something to represent each faction? And whats going to come first... The Faction System or House Placing?
Sage	No clothing changes planned for this time, unless the players adopt uniforms. Both house placement and the faction system will go in when we feel comfortable with their stability.
Sage	This may be in tandem or they may be released seperately.
Jerrith	*Blackheath_THB* This is not really faction related, but regarding treasure maps in Trammel, what will happen with those maps that are located on the island that is now Haven...or will they simply not spawn on Trammel?
Sage	Treasure maps will not go to Haven. If they are, please let me know. I will fix it.
Jerrith	*Hythlodaeus* If only 10 people can run in a faction election, all the spots will be filled in about 10 minutes. Any chance this will change?
Jalek	Hopefully this won't happen, but, if we determine that elections are not fair or worthwhile we can change the way it works
Jalek	we really need to see the whole system functioning for while before we can make that determination
Jerrith	Dolan-El* What is the reason for not allowing house placement in Felluca (or on SP)? Nothing has changed here, save the new house designs, and there seems to be no reason to restrict this.
SunSword	We want to make sure the service is as stable as possible. Housing is a big stress on the service, so we've decided to eliminate that factor while we work out other issues.
SunSword	Once we're satisfied with teh stability, then housing will be turned on.
Jerrith	*Etrius* will any points be awarded for stealing town stones?
Sage	Yes.
Jerrith	*Perecles* Will the current system still work where the leader is chosen on a weekly basis and also will this just be a choice on the person who killed the most and not the most qualified?
Sage	Not at all. The leader will be elected but only the top point earners will be eligible to run.
Jerrith	*Jeg* I thought the reason poisoning was being changed was to give more advantage to the actual poisoner. Well right now they have the exact same advantage as they did before the patch, which is to re-poison during battle. Its still the only advantage but they have the extra step of wiping their blade now.
Sage	I feel that they actually have a lot more going for them. Poison is much more valuable in battle now, given that you must cure it first
Sage	Also, their weapons do not corrode as quickly as the non-poisoner.
Sage	Yes, they may need to wipe the blade, but that is true of any corroded weapon.
Jerrith	*Tash* with the faction system, will there be any measures, such as reduced scoring, to cut back on the "gang banging" in order/chaos?
SunSword	Yes
SunSword	after a player is killed, they aren't worth points to anyone for 5 minutes
Jerrith	And with that, we will end this evening's UOHoC chat.
Jerrith	Thanks everyone for coming, and thanks to everyone from Origin who answered, and to our moderators as well.
Jerrith	A log will be posted shortly on http://uohoc.stratics.com