Post Episode 1 Content Plans (aka the 2 year plan)

@DarkStarr

Please add a reputation system to the list. Let's start giving an XP bonus for people for killing outlaws or for being an outlaw.

 

I am really looking forward to hearing more about the Companion App. I would like to add some suggestions for it. Being a huge Texas Holdem Poker fan... I would love to see the intergration of online poker rooms that allow you to use in game gold for betting.

Also Ultima VII had a casino on Buccaneers Den. I would love to see a Casino or sallywags and the like make an appearance in NOVIA.

 

Same here, laptop with 16GB and it's my connection that is often the bottleneck.

 

I wouldn't hold my breath... Gold in game has a calculable real world value... This means you can use real world money to buy in game gold, and sell in game gold for real world money. Putting poker in-game would likely attract unwanted attention from law enforcement.

 

Being someone who badly wants the ships/boats that we own functional - I couldn't agree more.

Port mentioned that town size ship is coming down the pipeline & the viking longboats can fit in a village sized lot. What I'd like to see are rentable spots on the harbor and/or a way to let your ship dock, unload cargo and then park itself somewhere in the nearby waters.

Note that pack animals that can take the unloaded cargo at the harbor and bring it back to your home would be very useful.

 

If you outlaw outlaws, then only outlaws will be outlaws.

 

The game of cops and robbers is easy to implement. It's easy to maintain. But like any game you need to design it so there are clear rules that can't be abused.

If you make it so people can group up and hunt down solo players (like in Albion Online), then of course that's what's going to happen. But if you make it so the game is designed for solo pvp as much as it is for group play, then plenty of people will be outlaws, because it's fun.

 

How about a different reward than XP? We could have some interesting rewards for many things.

 

Can we now talk again of what we will see for Ep1 till release?
I dont even know when release is and we have lots of things to polish and maybe get into the game before release and before we talk about a 2 years Plan.
Nice list of course, really hope for whats anounced here.

But i would more like to know about what are you doing or Plan to implement for Ep1 and to Release.

Allianz Chat?
Agriculture improvements?
Brewery?
Fishing?
Treasure Hunts?
More Sidequests?
Not snowing in Houses?
Whats about these things.

Coming for Ep1 before Release?

 

Dear @DarkStarr, dear @Lord British,

there are a few things I would like to see
... to give the whole story and quests more importance

I believe, if more quests give decisions, like at the start with the Oracle (and in the past with the gypsy from Ultima IV ...),
we will take quests more serious. They aren't any longer "jump and run" for gold and xp. They have a meaning for what kind of Avatar we are.
But to work with it, the programm must save the (negative and positive!) progress

Not only death should be meaningful - more meaningful should the reason why we're here and what we do alive
I think people were wrought up, because the "meaning of death" and decay got more love than the meaning of our quest decisions for the whole story ...

As I wrote about the FIRST decision, who we are in this game at the beginning of our Journey:

Also important is the discussion about Master and Grandmaster - this could give the game another possibility to make specification more meaningful

And as I told a lot of times - we need a good Journal/Questbook to have fun while doing the quests:

 

@DarkStarr

Please add the ability to steal mounts.

Also, I don't see anti-virtue blessings. There was a lot of talk about that being something we might see in the future.

 

Not going to pick out any particular items, I'm just staggered by the scale of what's planned for what to me is already an impressive game. There are things in there which have been requested for years but seeing them all bundled up in one place brings home how high the team's aspirations are.
Thank you devs, look forward to seeing some of these appear in time!

 

Yes please.

 

Me too.

 

Don't forget horse racing and horse breeding. So many opportunities for mounts besides making travel a bit faster and for help in carrying your load. The Sky's the limit well or kinda.

 

Atm, but maybe they'll adjust travel speed and weight limits when horses and pack animals come in the game.

Despite complaints, these things are really lax especially with skills and buffs. You can spend hours in a mine collecting ore before you need to stop due to weight, then it takes a few minutes to bring it across a map. I think the load times and such are what annoys people the most, especially when you have to pass load screens several times, including with random encounters you didn't manage to avoid. I also don't think SotAMap is good enough to help people who aren't familiar with the world to find their way and still am holding hope that they finish and polish an in-game map system.

But still maybe when convenience features like horses and pack animals come in, these things can be re-evaluated.

 

Jousting!!!!

 

@DarkStarr,
It would be great to see a picture of the place or town, we enter.

Beside the hints, what about showing infos/statistics of
- short story (founder of this place, ruler)
- population
- vendors
- players/visitors there
- size
- empty rows
- possibilities for rent a room
- moongate?
- catacomb?
- amount of quests
- ...
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@DarkStarr

Please add special PVE invasions to the list. Large armies that would appear for only a single release and drop cool new rares, and offer new quests.

Example: The Barbarians of Norgard have chosen a new king who is set on raiding and pillaging the northern coasts. All towns around this area may be sieged during release 52! This barbarian army is using a new weapon (the great axe) and has new healing potion recipes. It is also said that the barbarian king possesses information of a lost treasure!

 

Good ideas. I think rare recipes, items and loot should be given as drops mainly(have said before), and doing something like this for a limited time would encourage players into the game to get the 'releases INGAME rares'. There might only be 15 axe or even recipes dropped in this time, forever, meaning playing the game and interacting with the released content is encouraged.

Careful Drocis, this is 3 good ideas in a week, you will suffer burn out