Developer Meet And Greet from 2016-03-07

Developer Meet And Greet from 2016-03-07

This meeting was held in English. It was logged by Larisa.

Mesanna	ok Lets begin
Mesanna	hi Pallis
Pallis	hi, im following up on the talisman prot and killer properties
Mesanna	from the last meet and greet?
Pallis	Yes, my testing shows they only work on the one creature they name, so an orc protection works just against the orc itself and so on, is this what you want it to be?
Mesanna	I have to be honest since the last meet and greet when this was brought up, we have been busy getting this publish out the door and QA has not had time to do any testing on it
Pallis	no problem just wanted to tell you what i found out tyvm
Mesanna	Thank you
Mesanna	Hi Rose
Rose	hello, i have a quality of mining wish
Mesanna	ok?
Rose	could you make all the ore the same size instead of 4 sizes?
Mesanna	umm why
Rose	it takes four times longer to unload and smelt. takes up more space also
Mesanna	it all smelts
Rose	and can blackrock be bigger? maybe..ty
Mesanna	Honestly we will have to see if there is a reason for the smaller ores before any changes are done
Mesanna	Remmy
Remmy Soulblade	could you possibly put healers in fel dungeons
Mesanna	why?
Remmy Soulblade	since i cant recall i die alot when rl interfers
Mesanna	don't you think it makes it to easy
Remmy Soulblade	come back to dead toon running to a healer in an unknown location?
Mesanna	this game has gone 19 years without them
Remmy Soulblade	or i dont understand
Mesanna	we would honestly have to have a discussion about this
Remmy Soulblade	actually i used to be able to recall out when i had to leave game in those 19 yrs but ok np
Mesanna	Hi Mirime
Mirime	dont know if this is possible, but wanted to ask if for 20 year anniversary if you could repeat events from the past as kinda a highlight reel of uo.
Mesanna	what events are you talking about? how about this, send me a list of the events you would like to see, there have been a lot. I would like to know the ones that made the most impression.
Mirime	ok certainly, ty
Mesanna	most welcome, good idea though
Drakelord	Hail Mlady Welcome to Sonoma, Welcome Bleak and Misk as well
Mesanna	Greetings
Bleak	Hello
Misk	thank you
Drakelord	two and I will be done, Please make a moongate on Sonoma at the Brit Bank in Tram. Can we get our skill cap set another 100 points higher to 820, thank you I honor thee
Mesanna	should have been in the original design
Drakelord	true I screw up
Mesanna	and we have talked about raising it but we are still talking about future changes
Drakelord	nods
Mesanna	we will never go up 100 points though I can tell you that
Drakelord	I see ok
Mesanna	way to many balancing issues
Drakelord	did not hurt to ask
Mesanna	so true!
Drakelord	thank you
Mesanna	most welcome
Drakelord	farewell
Mesanna	Have a good evening Drakelord
Mesanna	hi Joyce
joyce	hi is the bag drop for navery broken
Mesanna	bag drop?
joyce	yes
Mesanna	what do you mean by bag drop? loot drop?
joyce	most time navery gives bag drop but lately nothing
Mesanna	ok you are talking the loot in general right? no clue what a bag drop is that's what I am trying to figure out
EM Willow	Give us an example of a bag drop joyce
Agnes Wanderfar	I think she means special items dropping driectly in pack instead of on corpse
joyce	when you fight navery she give loot in your bag
Mesanna	we will look into it to see if something has changed
joyce	ok like tangle navery eyes
Mesanna	Joyce no one else has complained but we will look into it to see if we can see any issues, thank you.
Mesanna	hi Darkstar
Darkstar	Hi, Can you get the spells fixed so that you always get the cursor ?
Mesanna	I will let Bleak answer this one, client?
Darkstar	2d
Bleak	Which spells?
Darkstar	invis, healing ones, rc
Mesanna	you are not getting a target curser?
Darkstar	not always
Misk	are you casting via spell icon or via macro?
Darkstar	both
Mesanna	can you send us an email as to what you are doing when it does happen so we can reproduce it easier?
Darkstar	spawn hot key set in options for most thank you
Mesanna	Greetings Sticky
Mr Sticky Finger	evening my lady. so got a couple for you tonight. Split skill trees / 8th char slot, longer decay on boats and shared bank box
Mesanna	boat decay we agree, umm skill tree,we have brought this subject up several times. main and sub skills right?
Mr Sticky Finger	ya put things that dont afect game balance can be learned and wont take the skill stuff
Mesanna	hrm I will put it on the list to talk about it but Bleak would have to answer that one. and the shared bank box
Mr Sticky Finger	ya shared bank box for chars so if you play multiple shards and cant place a house you will be able to transfer from on char to another with out the drop item and pray you get it before some one grabs it from you
Mesanna	wait you mean shared across shards?
Mr Sticky Finger	ya
Mesanna	can't share it across shards
Mr Sticky Finger	maybe one bank box for all chars on that shard not cross shard
Mesanna	on same shard maybe. ok just making sure I understand your request
Mr Sticky Finger	but so that instead of a bank box that holds 125 items per char one bank box that would hold 1000 items and be accessed by all chars on that shard
Mesanna	we will talk about it and see how bad we could exploit it. if we can't we will see about putting it in
Mr Sticky Finger	cool and thank you
Mesanna	welcome
Mr Sticky Finger	have a great evening
Mesanna	you also
Shaggy	hiya
Mesanna	Hi Shaggy
Shaggy	any chance of getting legacy tamables? like silver steeds?
Mesanna	not silver steed thats on siege only
Shaggy	that was a quick no....
Mesanna	sorry
Shaggy	why? we have nightmares, dark steeds, dreadmares
Mesanna	we are talking about redoing pets making the old ones valuable again
Shaggy	how are you looking at fixing taming? it once was the best char to play
Mesanna	we do not have it finalized but it is something we have talked about and are going to do. When we do we will let you know. But I agree the old nightmares, the old WW's I am sure some of you still have. I know I do, that just sit in the stables. I would love to be able to use them again
Shaggy	yeah we just use whatever the newest powerful tamable
Mesanna	yep we know
Shaggy	with a smaller server like this getting a group together to go kill something isnt that easy. a sampire is more powerful than a tamer....
Mesanna	yes but you have to understand that we can not develop for individual shards so yes it does make it harder on the smaller ones
Mesanna	anything else?
Shaggy	nope thats it take it easy
Mesanna	thank you keep an eye on the newsletter
Sammie	hello
Mesanna	hi Sammie
Sammie	i was just wanting to see if we are able to fix britain turn in points to shard bound like gold is now.
Mesanna	wait wait, you want them to be account bound or shard bound?
Sammie	account so even if i turn in on one char all char can use um
Mesanna	ok thats different than shard bound just wanted to make sure
Sammie	ok sorry
Mesanna	its ok. Bleak is going to have to look into it to see if its even possible
Sammie	i have like 4 char with 100k points and would love to add um together
Mesanna	right now we are working on a in game store for our next publish so I will not have an answer for you till at least the next newsletter
Sammie	ok thanks for letting me ask
Mesanna	we will talk about it and see if it can be done
Sammie	ok thanks
Mesanna	have a good evening and thank you
Sammie	good evening to ya
Cinderella	have you considered making a book to hold recipes? i hate throwing them away when i don't have room for them
Mesanna	nope we haven't actually. ok so question, are you wanting a book that holds the recipe for storage?
Cinderella	yes like we do for the scrolls and for primers if possible
Mesanna	thats possible good suggestion
Cinderella	i always keep them in case someone needs them, thank you
Mesanna	welcome
Rose	the mystic npc's in ter mur any chance the 2 that respawn daily could be anchored?
Mesanna	hi Rose
Rose	hi sorry forgot to ask
Mesanna	will look into it thats not hard to do
Rose	they reset all the progress buiold up in the buying so if im at 999 goes to 10 again at server up. ty
Mesanna	yes, welcome
Mr Sticky Finger	ok so the pet question gave me a thought
Mesanna	forget something?
Mr Sticky Finger	tailoring for a shard would not wor cause people would just shard transfer them but to address the idea of stronger pets on smaller shards would be to have a buff
Mesanna	sorry we can't do that
Mr Sticky Finger	the pet system could see how many are on
Mesanna	it would have to be the same across all shards
Mr Sticky Finger	and boost to compinsate based on how many were on at the time so str of pets would adjust based on how many players are in the area
Mesanna	that is a balancing nightmare
Mr Sticky Finger	probably and i know it would be odd to track your pet when it changes stats based on whats in the area but was just a thought
Mesanna	I get your idea but the time to do that would be so long
Mr Sticky Finger	anyways ty
Mesanna	welcome, thanks for the input
Elviria	have you thought of making binders for the masteries,like the scroll binders for power scolls
Mesanna	no not yet. I can say right now we probably would not do it on the primers, the number would be huge since they spawn so fast
Elviria	thank you for your time
Mesanna	thank you
Shaggy	hiya again
Mesanna	hi Shaggy
Shaggy	any chance on a legacy server?
Mesanna	not at this time
Shaggy	that has been UO stance since publish 16
Mesanna	we know everyone wants one
Mesanna	anything else Shaggy
Shaggy	is that how you treat people who play? you know people have been asking for this for years i came back after 7 years
Mesanna	a legacy shard?
Shaggy	because i wanted to play this game again. yes a legacy server
Mesanna	its not that easy
Shaggy	its not?
Mesanna	no its not, stripping all the code is not easy.
Shaggy	i can log into one right now on razor, its not a the same as a UO server but it can be done. There are back ups for the old servers.
Mesanna	no there isn't, we would have to strip it down.
Shaggy	maybe not with you
Mesanna	OK guys please remember to sign up for the newsletter hope to see you guys send in screenshots
Bleak	Thanks for coming out!
Misk	Thank you for having us Sonoma!
Mesanna	Thank you Sonoma for having us, answers to some of these questions will be in the next newsletter for the ones we need to talk about first
Agnes Wanderfar	When can we expect the next newsletter?
Mesanna	I try to get them out the first week of each month
Agnes Wanderfar	OK thank you
Mesanna	night guys, thank you again.

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