Developer Meet And Greet from 2016-02-08

Developer Meet And Greet from 2016-02-08

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

Kyronix	Good Evening everyone, we'll get starting shortly! Started even
Mesanna	Ash lets get started
Mesanna	Greetings
Kyronix	Hello!
Bleak	Hello
Misk	hello!
Syl	Hey there Devs, Just two questions... forgive me if they have been asked before. First, I wanted to know if the team would please consider increasing the classic clients screen resolution. Has there been any plans or discussion on this?
Bleak	So we have tried this in the past. We found a number of issues we would have to address. The biggest is the performance.
Mesanna	If we can find a way to do it that does not effect the performance we would
Bleak	The alternative is the EC : )
Syl	Right. Love the CC tho
Mesanna	I have confidence in Bleak he will continue to try
Syl	Cool. Thanks...Secondly, any chance of a shard gate?
Mesanna	no
Syl	Hah okay. Well hey thanks a lot. Love UO. Take it easy
Mesanna	Thank you
Bleak	Thank you
Mesanna	have a good evening
Syl	You too
IDOC Life	*Good Evening All*
Kyronix	Also everyone, let's try and keep it to one question tonight so we can meet as many of you as possible.
Mesanna	Evening IDOC
Bleak	Hello
IDOC Life	I donno if you guys read Stratics Board or not, but many many people are really asking the Devs to change the current bad situation of the Idocers Life. Please "listen" to players wishes on change the time to 5 and 10 hours only. Pls understand that there is more things to do in UO and life than sit for an abuse. 15 hours to wait for a house to collapse. I understand you are trying to give the Owner of the account and extra 15 hours to recover his house and belongs, but he already had 90 days to do so!!
Mesanna	Its random it is not always 15
IDOC Life	90%
Mesanna	Then Bleak will look into it to make sure its random
IDOC Life	bc 90% is at 15, can we change to 5 and 10 as many are asking?
Mesanna	if the random worked it would be at those times as much as 15, Let us look into this first
IDOC Life	ty
Mesanna	welcome
Bleak	The chance is 33%
Vixen	hello
Kyronix	Hello!
Bleak	Hi
Mesanna	Hi Vixen
Vixen	I have my questions in a book if easier?
Mesanna	go ahead and ask
Vixen	How about added the Shadowguard tower to the Corrupted Crystal Portal or/and add it to the Public Moongate or allow us to mark a rune there and recall or gate in? or a teleport pad
Mesanna	doable
Vixen	one more then done. Can we get skilled level raised to 820, another 100 points for new skills would be very useful with crafters, tamers, mages, warriors.
Mesanna	lol we have talked about that alot actually
Vixen	that is all I have, thanks.
Samantha	Hi! from the Le@f Guild Atlantic!
Bleak	Hello
Kyronix	Greetings!
Mesanna	Greetings Samantha
Samantha	what I would like to see is something for fletchers like arrows with special abilitys bloodwood = blled
Mesanna	like an aoe effect?
Samantha	yes, give fletchers more to do, it has become somewhat boring.
Mesanna	That was done with the master abilities but I do understand what you are asking for, I agree would be nice to give them more to do
Samantha	please! look in to it and thank you very much.
Mesanna	we will bring it up for dicussion, it's a good suggestion, thank you.
Eins	Hello from Napa Valley!
Kyronix	Hello!
Bleak	Hello!
Mesanna	Greetungs Eins
Eins	The new loot generator has made over 200 artifacts (doom, major, minor, craftable, ect) obsolete, Instead of trying to come up with ways to make all of these outdated items useful again, How about a system similar to BOD or fishmonger quests? Turn in 50 old artifacts for something new? Require artifacts from every source so people are not farming the easily or most readily available. Come up with some new arties and deco for us to turn our old stuff in for.
Kyronix	So long as it doesn't invalidate the content we put in to get the new artifacts, It's a great suggestion and something we can explore further
Eins	It would be fun to have a reason to collect Doom arties again and all the other drops from champs and peerless
Mesanna	we will add it to our task list
Eins	and maybe one more small suggestion?
Mesanna	?
Eins	make the Grizzle mare statue the same as the Paroxy swampy :D
Mesanna	umm....what do you mean?
Eins	The unbreakable armor
Mesanna	oh oh ok
Eins	warriors ride the swampy for the added DCI but the mare has no real use. That's all I have. Thank you for having us!
Mesanna	thank you for your suggestions
Lady Grizabella	HI, Bonnie!
Mesanna	Greetings Grizabella
Kyronix	Hello!
Bleak	Hi!
Lady Grizabella	Do U have my 3 historical marker coordinates now?
Mesanna	If you emailed them I do
Lady Grizabella	Olde Deuteronomy, kkmay I have your fragment of Mesanna? Love the game; love you!!
Mesanna	thank you
Lady Grizabella	vet since Sept, '97
Mesanna	I will be doing all the banners tomorrow that I have
Lady Grizabella	keep up the good work!! love the game
Mesanna	thank you
Kilstra	Helolo!
Mesanna	greetings Kilstra
Kyronix	Greetings!
Bleak	Hello
Kilstra	:) YOu look Amazing LAdy M, hello to the DEVS :D
Mesanna	My winter wear =P
Kilstra	ummm couple questions..I wish I had your tailor hehehe...so I was wondering if you could adjust the bank gump so that the secure acct total and transfer acct totals show as well as the bank balance. I only see Xfer acct funds in the gump when I am ready to go
Bleak	Sure we will add that to the list
Kilstra	YAY!!! Also, you might already be thinking this but along the lines of the bow stringer, metal press, I'd like to see for cooking and alchemy.
Mesanna	its coming, we can only do so many at a time
Kilstra	awesome!!!
Mesanna	hope to have one for each type of craft, just have a little patience we are getting to them.
Kilstra	that will be great! One more question. Can there be a gump on the shard sheilds to show how many tokens they are holding? or mouseover
Mesanna	we will look into it and see if it can be added.
Kilstra	:) awweee I love you, I best stop asking things before I get in trouble...but one more quickie? on the house search?
Mesanna	have a good evening
Mesanna	no no no lol
Kilstra	is it possible? you were looking into it once
Mesanna	the house organizer to find items in your house?
Kilstra	yes, like vendor search but find items in house.
Mesanna	lol we have not finished that one but I will make sure Bleak has it on his list to see if its possible.
Kilstra	so like it's started? :D !! And doable? :D
Mesanna	No not yet, will let you know after research is done.
Kilstra	ahh ok I love you guys, *blows kisses* thank you!! :D
Mesanna	thank you
Kyronix	Just want to reiterate, there are a lot of folks in line, so let's keep it to one question so we can get to everyone. You can always email us your additional questions and suggestions!
Mesanna	Greetings Titus
Bleak	Hello
Titus	I just want to say you guys have done a great job keeping the game going so long...
Mesanna	19 years! Thank you.
Titus	i played back in 98 and recently came back...
Kyronix	Welcome back!
Mesanna	oh welcome back
Titus	is there a way to allow for new lands to be opened up for larger home placement?
Mesanna	We are not looking to add any new lands at this time
Titus	my other question was in regards to the skill levels being raised 10 820 which was already asked...thank you for your time!
Mesanna	Thank you, have a great evening.
Mesanna	Greetings Maxy
Kyronix	Hello!
Bleak	Hello
Moxy	hi its moxy actually
Mesanna	excuse me
Moxy	but my first part of the question is can we please extend the vendor name length
Mesanna	How long are you asking it to be extended to
Moxy	i have a vendor i was selling on and i wanted it to read Festical artifacts and treasure from mesanna. I had to call it fat mesanna and a overzelous em killed it
Mesanna	no they did not, a GM did. EM's can not do that.
Moxy	yes well can we extenmd teh vendor names pleas eso i can put in what i mean instead of what you think it means
Bleak	We will look in this this.
Mesanna	if not we will talk about a work around or something that will work
Moxy	ok ty and second part of teh question, both nails and norrington have told me broadsword take kickbacks from gold sites
Mesanna	Well I would not believe everything you hear then. if you believe that think about that
Moxy	comments please
Mesanna	we can't do anything about sites out of the US
Moxy	yes youc an
Mesanna	besides its all in EA legal hands, not ours. not going to argue with you regarding this.
Moxy	also is it true you like cakes, its a rumor circulating on atl
Mesanna	your facts are incorrect, good evening. Bye Moxy.
Mesanna	Greetings Moonweed
Moonweed	Will more pet eggs be used and will they be stealable?
Kyronix	Like the Dragon Turtles?
Moonweed	yes
Kyronix	If it make sense, baby animals have to come from somewhere
Moonweed	things for a thief
Kyronix	We're always looking at ways of improving the thief profession, thanks for the suggestion!
Moonweed	thenk you
Mesanna	good evening
Amelyose	hello
Kyronix	Hello!
Bleak	Hello
Amelyose	ur gear is awesome
Amelyose	i type quick
Mesanna	lol
Amelyose	ok im wondering if its possible to add another 2 circles to magery so 9th 10th add more spells chain lighting Blizzard etc 120 magery has more purpose and scribes with gm or 120 magery a new thing to make.
Mesanna	Not sure we will ever add 2 more circles but adding a spell or two is not totally out of the question in the future
Amelyose	and use some ingreidents like taint to make certain scrolls
Amelyose	hrmm and the other thing im wondering is a craft idea for tailors/healers first aid pouchs. like quivers can be insured, lower weight healing bonus but limit # can carry and like 10 orange petals, 20 purples.
Mesanna	maybe a first aid belt
Amelyose	ya but to make it you need tailor and healing combined craft or vet kits for tamers but need vet skill and tailor skill.
Mesanna	thank you
Amelyose	ok you're welcome.
Mesanna	'Greetings
Lady Fatal	Hello. I may have missed it.
Bleak	Hi
Lady Fatal	I wanted to ask if new craftables are on the slate for castles/keeps.
Mesanna	not at this time. if you have any suggestions please feel free to email me with them
Lady Fatal	Okay, thank you.
Mesanna	thank you
Mesanna	Greetings
Baal	hi my question is about the newsletter
Bleak	Hello
Mesanna	ok
Baal	i have been asking about the unbound at the last few meet and greets
Mesanna	and we have answered it
Baal	i didnt understand the newsletter response. Oh ok so it's drop of 8-12 items is the way you want it
Mesanna	one sec
Bleak	Correct
Baal	in the newsletter you said drops are based on difficulty of critter it has 20k hp and drop less then a balron
Mesanna	we did confirm it was dropping legendary items but that is all random
Baal	ok sorry i just wanted to make sure you looked at it drops tuy
Mesanna	Greetings
Variable	my question is about the spell resist skill
Mesanna	ok
Variable	was wondering if you could change the effect to give bionus to the elemntal resist
Variable	rather then a flat amount soorry typing is bad for instance say at 100 5 pts to each resist not exceeding the cap tho
Bleak	We have not plans to change how resist spells works at this time
Variable	so it not going on the list ok
Mesanna	greetings
Kyronix	Hello!
Bob	hi! my question was similar to earlier about outdated artifacts, was wobndering if you could have a treasures of monadin type of thing for mondaind arties
Mesanna	so the suggestion for a turn in like the ToT for old artifacts
Bob	yes
Mesanna	I am pretty sure it would cover all types of old artifacts
Bob	:) ty vm
Mesanna	welcome
Kyronix	It is so good to finally meet you!
Spock's Beard	So I've got a couple things but I type fast and don't need replies really. Okay, one, mastery cooldowns. Way too long. Bushido has a 7 sec debuff with a 1 hour cooldown. wut
Kyronix	Changes coming to that in 92
Spock's Beard	Also, the time limit before an NPC will rez a pet? Needs to go I know you want people to keep Vet on their temps
Mesanna	looking at that also
Spock's Beard	But there needs to be a better way to incentivize that. Okay third, here's my real thing. Right now about 80% of the game's content is invalidated due to dropping stuff nobody wants. I humbly suggest you make an effort to come up with a huge list of Stuff People Will Want. Talk to us on the forums, get creative, maybe vanity pets, mounts, deeds for new titles I dunno But then you take that stuff and you put it in Doom, and on Peerless, and places like that And increase the relevant content available to us without having to add any actual content
Mesanna	this the TOT idea which is a good idea and would not have to redo alot of the older content
Spock's Beard	Right. Doom is super fun. I'd like reasons to do it again. Anyway that's my two cents.
Mesanna	If you have suggestions for new artifacts send them to us
Spock's Beard	Okeydoke
Mesanna	we are always willing to read those emails, just don't write I want a I WIN Button and call it a day'
Spock's Beard	Oh yeah Amethyst in chat you missed her email and are worse than Satan
Mesanna	no comment
Spock's Beard	lol Anyway, thanks for your time!
Mesanna	thank you
Ghrom the Savage	hail and thank you for literally everything in game :) as a team, you have inherited a situation where an account that is unpaid for 90 days can still hold a house. As the current team, what is your feeling about this?
Mesanna	Ghrom, let me start off by stating this. we have made it so you can get you house back up until the last hour. once a house goes OSI its gone
Ghrom the Savage	fair nuff
Mesanna	those houses you will see are going to be dropping
Ghrom the Savage	next part, same question
Mesanna	yes we still have bugged houses in the game and we are putting in a fix for those also
Ghrom the Savage	do you share the same feeling as some of our stratics friends...charachterizing people who use this as: "the same type that park in handicap parking spots and steal from charities" Ultimately, what is your view on this rule which you inherited?
Mesanna	changing the 90 day is not something we are going to do anytime soon
Ghrom the Savage	and Is this under review by your team?
Mesanna	I would much rather reward the players that pay the full year by giving xtra vet rewards or something to that effect
Ghrom the Savage	fair nuff - but youe would not characterize those that balance accounts with 90 day payments as theives or charity stealers?
Mesanna	I dislike it yes
Ghrom the Savage	understood, just looking for some perspective to share with the community
Mesanna	well rewarding the players that are not cheating is the message that should be passed along
Ghrom the Savage	so then are they cheating? in your eyes?
Mesanna	I am not going to get into this its not something I want to address here I am sorry
Ghrom the Savage	get yourselves a stance on it, would be my suggestion
Mesanna	Have a good evening
Mesanna	Greetings
Kyronix	Greetings!
GANI	just to say bout ea games vs uo acct management plz credit card update and the uo migration on secret word lost guildhouse through idoc
Mesanna	hold on
GANI	that i acquired from fast players
Mesanna	you have 90 days to get cc issues fixed
GANI	i did understand yu guys got busy
Mesanna	I want to get it so you guys can link and unlink your own accounts, we are still looking on improvements
GANI	but paid the accts for 5 years credit card expired couldnt update it coz of secret word
Mesanna	you can identify your account with more than the secret word
GANI	yes
Mesanna	secret word trumps all
GANI	had email and ea password but quit working anyways brought it to yur attn
Mesanna	[email protected] and the ea email are two different areas and I sent it on to support
GANI	but
Mesanna	hrm
GANI	just saying ty for coming its over now anyhow recovers guildstone from peeps that reeturn it
Mesanna	email me these details
GANI	will do
Mesanna	I am sorry you had such a hard time thank you
GANI	ea didnt want my money ohh well thanks again
Mesanna	I have heard that alot thanks
Mesanna	Greetings
Wedgie	Hola so
Bleak	Hello
Wedgie	the gear switching macro in enhanced
Mesanna	Bleak will answer this one
Bleak	We will add this to the list
Mesanna	sweet possible then
Wedgie	nice cheese? :p
Lady Bendie	Greetings My Lady I have just 2 things really fast
Bleak	42
Lady Bendie	one is there any way that we could have our champ spawns in tram have powerscrolls added it
Mesanna	no we will keep that in Fel
Lady Bendie	to it so the ones that dont want to deal with raids?
Mesanna	we did add the transendence scrolls to them
Lady Bendie	not even smaller ps for tram?
Mesanna	would rather leave those alone
Lady Bendie	ok next and last been loving the shadowguard whole idea been alot of fun but is there anyway of giving 5 mins to loot instead of 3 to spend all that time doing rooms
Kyronix	Sure
Lady Bendie	and have half the loot left behind sucks even with 10 ppl there cant get all the gold and loot. cool, Thank you kindly
Mesanna	thank you
Mesanna	greetings
Jemms	chessy dragon watch remodeled 7 keeps an 3 castles we are wondering can the stone paver tag be removed
Mesanna	nice send me some pictures
Jemms	will do on pics also if there is not a stone tile under grass or snow you fall thru can this be fixed
Kyronix	It's something we'd have to look into. The grass and snow predated the stone tiles So we'd have to make sure there are no unintended side effects
Jemms	thats all i had people were asking about the tiles
Kyronix	Thanks for the question!
Jemms	thank you
Mesanna	thanks Jemms
Jemms	and will send pics soon
Mesanna	have a good evening'
D of the E	Greetings dark lord
Mesanna	Greetings
Mesanna	Dark Lady
Bleak	Hello
D of the E	To have traveled around the realms to go here and there to not see the populations that we once had to see that there might be more decline, to wonder is there will be a server merger in the future
Mesanna	thats still not getting us closer to combining shards
D of the E	we are loosing people due to people coming to there old homes to find no one there to adventure weith
Mesanna	its hard to please everyone
D of the E	aye tis true
Mesanna	if we could find a seemless way to do it we would so no one loses a house
D of the E	transfering homes would be a great idea
Mesanna	yes anything else?
D of the E	to play the game from time of old, to be the teller of many storys , to value your time to wish you all well to wish i could stay for more than a spell Clan drunab Salutes you dark Lady!! hope you find fortune in your travels and to bid you a good eve
Mesanna	you also
Wiggles	Hello everyone! So there have been rumors that hawkwinds robe is going to be alterable and powder of fortification will work on shadowguard artifacts such as enchantress cameo, minax sandals, and hawkwinds robe etc. Do you mind clarifying if planned for a future publish and if can be added to the do list if not?
Mesanna	Kyronix has this one
Wiggles	:D
Kyronix	We've discussed it But just remember that at some point we have to cycle these items out of game To encourage a vibrant and functioning economy So they won't last forever
Wiggles	what about the alterable to hawkwinds. gargs need some love too :(
Kyronix	It's our hope to introduce the equivalent at some point, need some art first
Mesanna	We are giving you a mining glove conversion
Wiggles	xD I can't say that's really... the same... but thank you none the less xD but no on the pof right?
Kyronix	So some limitation on it. That we are still fleshing out the details on
Wiggles	Sounds like good of an answer to me. Hope you all have a wonderful evening. Thanks again!
Mesanna	Greetings'
Lord SIR DRAKE	i am seeing 19 mods items in uo now... is there an end boss around the corner?
Kyronix	An end boss? Can you be more specific?
Lord SIR DRAKE	the game is to eays
Lord SIR DRAKE	if i get excalibur i know i am about to kill the end guyu
Mesanna	the day we walk about the door to be closed down we will put in one kick butt final mob till then nothing is final
Lord SIR DRAKE	and i think about doom adding owned by tages and may be a set of armor
Kyronix	And that isn't anytime soon
Kyronix	:)
Lord SIR DRAKE	that is all thank you
Capricorn	hail
Mesanna	Greetings
Capricorn	ok i got a few things
Mesanna	pick one
Capricorn	are you ever going to dey you mask again 1 i benn in line a hour
Mesanna	its not the top thing on my list to get done, when I have time I will I don't have the hue for this shard or I will do it while we answer other questions
Capricorn	ok can the towns that have gov use one the building in each town forn a town hall get them set up where they are usable
Mesanna	'you can set up a meeting stage for those
Kyronix	What do you mean by useable?
Capricorn	so dose skara and minoc
Mesanna	alot of towns have empty buildings fixing that is easy
Capricorn	a tool
Capricorn	but it would be helpfull
Kyronix	We aren't going to give players the ability to lock things down
Capricorn	ok
Mesanna	no send locations to towns I will set it up
Kyronix	Instead you can work with the King and we can improve one of the buildings To add to the Library of Improvements. We've done things like Jails, Peace Summit Tents, that sort of thing.
Capricorn	why cant we ride the tamed tigers, we have the art.
Mesanna	ok lets move along please
Capricorn	it may have been a usable pet mounted
Mesanna	I am sorry we still have a long line
Capricorn	lastly what is going on with the decay rate on wepons and armor stuf is breaking lot faster did something change? ok well that all i had thank you
Mesanna	thank you
Mesanna	greetings'
RipTide	wondering if we could have more champ spawns like primevil lich with spawning deco maybe,.,
Mesanna	we can add deco to spawns or stealables'or something like that
RipTide	ooo there ya go nice meeting you guys
Mesanna	nice to meet you also
RipTide	ems doing good jobs
EM Ashmedai	:)
RipTide	go to as many as i can
Mesanna	Ash has been doing great I think
RipTide	keep up good work
Mesanna	thank you
RipTide	aye sure has! thanks!
Mesanna	have a good evening'
Johnny Depp	Hello and welcom is there anything in the pipe line for us old diehard fisherman like robes or su
Mesanna	Greetings
Johnny Depp	hello
Mesanna	like new artifacts to the chests? is that what you are asking
Johnny Depp	yes new robes or arties thank you and welcome hope you can continue to make new inprovment
Mesanna	we will add it to our suggestion list
Johnny Depp	thank you
Mesanna	thank you
Mesanna	Greetings Thor
Thor	hi all i would like to be able to ride greater dragon or turtle and 100 more skill point is great idea
Mesanna	Riding a gr dragon is not easy for art the way you sit is not pretty on the dragon. I do want to have a nice new mount though for 20th year. alot of people have wanted to ride a gr dragon for a long time.
Thor	or sum good pet 20 =o i look forward to 20 years if i live that long lol
Mesanna	me too, can't wait for 19 this year. going to give out something pretty kewl. Anything else?
Thor	nice talking to you
Mesanna	Nice talking to you also
Thor	and thanks
Mesanna	'most welcome
Thor	ok bye
Thor	=]
Dreamy Lingerie	*hugs everyone!*
Mesanna	*hugs*
Dreamy Lingerie	Ok now. I have an issue with Enhanced client's health bars. For instance, at turtle spawn. I have to relog about 3 times Because the health bars freeze and will not update.
Bleak	Are you using the Default UI?
Mesanna	or just default
Dreamy Lingerie	It's default
Mesanna	k
Dreamy Lingerie	Just would be nice to not have to run to the side every 10 minutes and relog. Because the health bars freeze and will not update.
Bleak	Are you using the Default UI?
Mesanna	are you using Pinco's UI or just default
Dreamy Lingerie	It's default
Mesanna	k
Dreamy Lingerie	Just would be nice to not have to run to the side every 10 minutes and relog.
Bleak	That should have been fixed. I will have QA look into this issue again
Dreamy Lingerie	Muchas gracias. very much so. Secondly... These pretty little lanterns the helpers for for the rare fest received Could we extend at all, or use for deco?
Mesanna	lol no they have timers on them
Dreamy Lingerie	I know! I tried scrubbing it off!
Mesanna	cute though huh
Dreamy Lingerie	stinkin cute
Mesanna	tsk tsk =)
Dreamy Lingerie	*slips another copy of her em app under the rug* you all have a good night, and you made mine with the hugs.
Mesanna	you also
Mesanna	Greetings
Shadow	Are there any talks to change Idoc timers? 5-15 hrs is to over the top
Mesanna	no, we discussed this first this evening
Shadow	And for Kyronix, Can you rethink making the Cameo Talisman powderable? Warriors take to much damage. the conjuerers trinket has no durability
Kyronixs	We'll evaluate it with teh other PoF changes
Shadow	thanks for coming this evening
Mesanna	thank you sir
Mesanna	Greetings
Frost	I have 2 things. first new tamables. something cool, not a turtle.
Mesanna	got it
Frost	really?
Mesanna	yes we already have our little heads together coming up with things
Frost	like a shaow wrym
Mesanna	we can give you a baby shadow =P
Frost	second I know of pep using razor/steam to play multijple accounts. my thing is that if you can beat them, join them. how about EA coming out with a much better assist program like steam
Mesanna	The direction of Steam is in EA's hands at this time
Frosts	trying to lvl the playing field
Mesanna	as far as people using multi accounts, we can't always tell but if they are called upon and they are macroing then we can get them for that. But CS has to see it.
Frost	I know of people that use 3-5 accounts to go hunting
Mesanna	send them to CS they will look at them for macroing. anything else
Frost	the last thing is that this game has gotten very complicated. how about coming up with ways to make it less complicated
Mesanna	we would be happy to read your suggestions. ok frost is that all
Frost	i guess
Mesanna	hi
Caradoc	Good Evening! Could you please make Grass & Snow tiles like the new Pavers or like Carpet? where they dont take lockdowns? and add Sand tiles?
Mesanna	we will talk about it
Caradoc	also will there ever be a trade in for vet rewards?
Mesanna	nope, not since we made all the changes that everyone can use the rewards
Caradoc	ok so i can throw away all my dragons and liches: lockdowns are a serious problem
Mesanna	if we turned those in it would be a high return
Caradoc	if so you might? so i should save my dragons and liches?
Kyronix	Can always buy more houses!
Caradoc	i have 5 full ones now lol 200 lockdowns for a snow floor *sobs*
Mesanna	if we ever did a turn it, it would honestly be limited items that could be turned in like the statues
Caradoc	ok i shall keep them
Mesanna	watch the next news letter
Caradoc	more lockdowns then?
Mesanna	we will try to come up with a solid answer
Caradoc	ok thank you
Mesanna	thank you
Mesanna	greetings
Hickory	Hello! Two questions... First, could sugarcane please give seeds? It is the only resource plant that doesn’t at this point and farming them is grindingly boring.
Kyronix	Something we can look into, would need to find out why that's the case in the first place
Hickory	okay! Second, could the Dragon Turtle get some artifacts and such on it? All that drops from it is 1 egg, some scute (to 1 person), and maybe a few low level primers. How about a stuffy turtle toy and such?
Kyronix	We distributed the loot in a way that made each area of Eodon reward something different
Hickory	The turtle doesn't reward much of anything though..
Kyronix	It has a high loot score for random generated loot, a new pet, and a good chance at primers So I would disagree with the assertion that it doesn't reward anything
Hickory	Well... think about adding more champ-style drops to encourage participation. Anyway, thank you.
Mesanna	thank you
Kyronix	Thanks for the suggestions!
Mesanna	greetings
Lord Al Revelstoke	thanks for all your hard work you changed me from going to quit to playing every night. 2 thing one could you make manikins show nubers like paperdoll char sheets would make making armor sutes easer
Mesanna	we have talked about this. I think its already on the list to be honest with you Bleak?
Bleak	Yes
Mesanna	Thanks Bleak...anything else?
Lord Al Revelstoke	yes Ive always felt that if you got to the effort of making a maching suit say all plate you should get a small bonace like with the Hounor set
Mesanna	that would say in our hands not the players though'
Lord Al Revelstoke	yes maybe a little extra resit or something
Mesanna	*nods*
Lord Al Revelstoke	would make it worth wile not to mix and mach
Mesanna	its getting late can we get the next one in please
Mesanna	agreed, anymore ideas please email us
Lord Al Revelstoke	Thank you most kindly
Mesanna	thank you
Mesanna	Greetings took you long enough to get here =P
Lord Uranium	ok, so i have been thru some rough times in life and could not afford to keep account active
Mesanna	Sorry to hear that'
Lord Uranium	would be nice to have a way to get those months back on age of account. this one is from 2000 and only 87 months
Mesanna	to buy account age? I don't think that is fair though
Lord Uranium	if your account was created that long ago
Mesanna	I think that is a can of worms I would not want to touch to be honest with you
Lord Uranium	just sucks i will never have shard shields and have had account since 2000*pouts*
Mesanna	there are only a few vet rewards that stay with those vets. Shard shields will be one of those
Lord Uranium	Just a thought that i had. dont want to waste too much of your time
Mesanna	yes we have heard it several times
Lord Uranium	:)
Mesanna	thank you though
Lord Uranium	ahh, maybe its a good idea then! haha
Mesanna	if you have any other ideas please email us
Lord Uranium	ok have a good one
Mesanna	hi Brian
Brian DeSpell	Ma'am, i brought nothing to dye, but Pacific is 2511, if you needed. :)
Mesanna	I did thank you
Brian DeSpell	Could you take a look at ice island and see if the spawn is broken since ToL?
Mesanna	we can look at it tomorrow
Brian DeSpell	My castle there has only 6000 items, with stone stuff, but lag has become terrible since dec. seeing 30-40 polar bears spawning out front, as well to the point now, i just stay out of my house lol. anyhow, thanks :)
Mesanna	thats not good
Brian DeSpell	and thanks for all your time here :)
Mesanna	take down some of the items and see if that helps
Brian DeSpell	it's mostly stone at this point just very tedious to re-lay if i remove it :p
Lady Mesann	Buck he has been standing there for a while'
Mesanna	hi Buck
Buck	hmm hi
Mesanna	no questions
Mesanna	welcome
Mesanna	you 4 can ask one question then its a wrap
Mesanna	Buck thanks for coming' do you have anything to ask?
Kyronix	Thanks for having us Pacific!
Buck	Not to rude, but i just want to know if your going to fire the design team? A turtle is not great
Kyronix	Wow
Mesanna	next
Donkeylips	Hello!
Mesanna	hi one question please
Donkeylips	My question is , more of a would you consider. With the VVV, and the flagging system within it.. It gives smaller guilds that like to pvp a huge disadvantage in large scale fights That choose not to be VVV. IS there any possible consideration, to change the flagging system, to more like factions to allow those who want to just take counts, or flag grey.. nto have to get flagged oranage every time they happen to come across someone whos in the VVV system.
Kyronix	We don't have any plans to change that. One of the most common concerns we heard with factions Was related to flagging, Particularly the case of the "blue healer" problem
Donkeylips	VVV Should be limited to town fights and then out of that, it =could be ffa im, That way people who dont want vvv could still pvp
Kyronix	We have some ideas on the table for enhancing VvV, but as far as flagging is concerned, We don't plan on changing it
Donkeylips	And can we have clarification on what upt o EA means on the cheater programs that lots are usin. steam is a cheat program, they dont mean the steam gaming client. its a uo type of thing that cheaters use fyi
Mesanna	3rd party programs are not up to EA to do anything about, its if our CS can catch them
Donkeylips	Well he asked about steam which is a cheater program, and you said it was up to ea
Mesanna	we have to prove they are using them
Donkeylips	Cause we have people posting screenshots on stratics with the cheat programs on them with the fields turned into tiles and the hovering hps over their head
Mesanna	no when someone said Steam I want straight to putting UO on Steam
Donkeylips	can we email these in so you can take care of them?> thats not what they meant
Mesanna	and that is in EA's hands right now
Donkeylips	steam is a cheat program similar to uoa
Mesanna	yes its a cheat program I know
Donkeylips	okay, watch stratics pvp forums.. lots are being lazy and still keeping it in their screenshots. it sucks to fight these people who have this huge unfair advantage by using these programs with no remorse
Mesanna	Yes I will tell CS to keep an eye out for that but bottom line its in their hands to do
Donkeylips	Id be happy to post you the urls: they are everywhere
Mesanna	ok thank you
Donkeylips	Okay, i just wish if it wasnt going to be dealth with its just said so we can all use them even the field thank you for yoru time
Mesanna	ok
box	hello
Mesanna	Hi Box
box	first off i would like to ask if there is anyway to renew the castles island in malas
Mesanna	no
box	on smaller shards it is a shame to see no houses there
Mesanna	those few castles in Malas were marketing castles
box	ahh ok
Mesanna	anything else?
box	and 2nd off is there anyway to make an additional animal slot seeing tamers on gargoyles flying with gd
Mesanna	more than 5 probably not going to happen
box	is little unfair than a human on foot like 1 slot to ride an ethy. well that was a bust than, thanks I guess.
Mesanna	sorry but most welcome
box	take care have a great rest of ur night
Mesanna	Archie are you in line'
Archie	Thank thee your heiness, your graciousness is greatly appreciated!
Mesanna	hi
Mesanna	NO Buck I am not going to fire my designer for the turtle) HAD to put this in here :)
Archie	As one of the few characters in the lost art of thievery I was hoping you would consider a mastery to help revitalize my profession. In the absence of such a mastery I find the current area effect spells namely thunderstorm
Mesanna	what profession
Archie	thievery, and the skills of tracking a detect hidden to be quite the thorns in my side. I do sincerely appreciate the shadow ability greatly, however the cap on weight for stealing is a bit harsh. Any assistance you can provide me in my quest to redistribute wealth would be stellar. Archie: p.s. I shall return your purse after the q & a. :)
Mesanna	That is a Kyronix question to answer'
Kyronix	Are you talking about stealing from other players in relation to the thieving profession?
Archie	yes I am indeed sir!
Kyronix	It's one of the favorite professions I've ever played, the only problem is the other 99% of the player base considered you a griefing nuisance, So it's a challenge to try and rekindle that in the modern gamescape
Archie	I couldn't agree more, however the other elements of the game have evolved
Kyronix	But if you have suggestions we're always open, as if you ever played a thief it was definitely a blast!
Archie	actually I still do, thus the nature of my topic :) one great thing would be to increase the stealing weight limit
Kyronix	Feel free to send us an email and we can begin a dialogue
Archie	or perhaps add an extra tile or two based on skill. excellent, thank you very much for your time and castle ladders on steps would be great, thank you kindly for sharing your time with us today
Mesanna	Thank you Pacific for coming and sharing your ideas with us
EM Ashmedai	Thank you Mesanna, Misk, Bleak, and Kyronix for visiting with Pacific!
Mesanna	Make sure you keep an eye on the newsletter for upcoming publish tasks
Bleak	Thanks Everyone!
Mesanna	I am pretty sure you guys are going to really like some of the plans we have, good night all!

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