Features you'd like to see in Shroud of the Avatar

After watching the 6 month demo.
I see many large animals out in the woods or caves.
I'd like to see some critters running around.
Out in the woods animals like rabbits, skunks, raccoons, porcupines, birds, snakes etc and for sure some squirrels running up and down some of those trees.
If you want to go even further with that things like ants, mice, spiders, roaches etc, well we might need an exterminator skill for that.
In the caves there should be some animals like bats, spiders, rats, etc.
Maybe even some overgrown insects like glowworms or firflies to light up places.
Make the outdoors feel alive with all kinds of creatures.

And I like the UO style that newbs had a hard time killing bears or wolves or if weak enough would even get owned by small animals.
Back down to the sewer to kill some rats for skill gain.

 

Besides just creautes protecting treasure I'd like to see the homes of many of creatues in the game.
Places like
Orc Camps
http://tinyurl.com/pndahdv
Troll camps
http://tinyurl.com/kylovjg
Dragons Lair
http://tinyurl.com/lqguujm
Kobolt town
whatever that looks like

So the more intelligent creatures in the game at least having cities we could vist. If they don't kill us first.
And it could make for a good scene jam.

 

I guess I don't have permission to enter those forums, my face says it all. Kilrathi are the most honorable and least humble race period.

 

I don't know, the ability to export characters you worked hard on into future SotA games.=includes housing and other personal gear as well as skills and feats.

 

Pack animals should appear in, just that, PACKS! (animal congregations) Such as wolves for an example. Wolves should not be meandering individually in the woods or wherever.
How about gaggles of rampant, raging wild geese ganging up and killing players?
I once read "Skinning a bear should aggro all bears in the area" this philosophy should be implemented in SotA. It would contribute to making crafting exciting and non-trivial as one would have to be calculating and resourceful when sourcing resources from their sources.

 

Sorry - here's the results of the poll. 90 responses, 73% against playable non-human races in SoTA, 27% for.

 

I have not seen any Sirens or Merfolk in any of the Ultima series and would like to suggest there be some in this or later releases.
In my tale Harpies, Orphidians, and Gargoyles have alligned with some human pirates with the eventual goal of exterminating Lord British.
Sirens (mermaids) are being captured by this allience for their underwater capabilites. He is also seeking the lost secrets of Gargoyle underwater dome magic/technlogy . The pirate chief wants to develope an army that can attack on land, sea, and air and needs to dominate the submarine environment.
This is a link to my work so far
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AXPsj75k5YspQNcG7subslvSnW_-sdgjddyCyUJBdUU/pub
Any feedback would be welcome.

 

I'd like to see an extensive array of clothing and armor designs. Especially classic Avatar and companion costumes!
http://i.imgur.com/QwyFDHg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZRls8FL.gif

 

Just to throw in my point of veiw, an open world that allows players to enteract with it in a large variety of ways is awesome, but leads to problems with mass population and such. I would like to see Shroud of the Avatar play around with perfecting strange concepts of balance, for instance I would a system that balances out currency reward and skill gain reward, kind like a backwards powerhour, so for the first few hours or kills each day a player can make more money, but after killing too many enemies or playing too long the amount of in game currency they drop lessens while the players skill gain increases, other balances would of course be needed to make it work in full.

I am also heavily in favor of a barren world map which offers players to ability to make their own towns through the means of a system. I always wanted to see some player made towns on Ultima Servers but never found any that seemed like real towns on legitimate servers. So by offering a person the ability to build a single house that acts as a seed for a town, making a new point of interest, and offering more plots for other players to use would be good to see.

and I did see one post about having an "Underworld" section like from a previous game, by taking the heart of that concept and making more of a fantacy world with moving islands, truly epic cave systems, underwater exploration, and alternate dimensions is a good way to attract people to play, by making it more unlike reality, though the less like reality it is the hard it will be to play simplistically.

But the one reason I am making this post, and I am not sure if anyone has offered an idea similar, is that the test server could find new life in allowing community competition between player made content being tested for implentation, and the system by which people influence the game will be crucial to this games success, if the Shroud of the Avatar world finds a few to foster a player community that can generate good content, and that content is implemented into the game regularly, this game will be an amazing success. At least I would bet on it, though I did miss the pleadge period to have done so through kickstarter... I know that there are already going to be different releases as the story line unfolds, but having a system on the side of that for players to make, dungeons, island, continents, and such as large community projects would be an amazing feature to add to the game, say having a yearly player made dungeon contest, which the winner will be made into a public dungeon a year after it wins, or possibilities like that, that regulate and energize the games continued evolution through the input of players.

 

As a player of UO for more then 10 years ,I was saddden whit the split from Felucia.The land mass it was ugly to say the least,and the player base was gone. The point of MMO- RPG is others to play the game with,and make new friends.
I for one kept my home in the old land , not because I liked being PKed. But because with each new [teddy bear] land, and game exspansion, the game moved further away from what apealed about the game. [by the way, in all my time playing, I was never flagged a PKer ].
Ok now what I love to see in this game, is the hidden passages,the secret rooms,rare items for deco.taxidermy ect.
If there is going to be Pkers, let it have consequence!!! The old Ultima had the right idea, being flagged , jail time , ect.
Fact is ,a new game engine,with new camra view, and the features of the old Ultima, would be a game that would run an other 40 yers.

 

There will be secret passages. The 6 month video shows that.

 

More than one character!!! If nothing else, I like being able to experience the differences in game play between a "good" character and a "bad" character. It's fine to say that there are consequences to your actions and choices, but if you can't experience the other side of the coin without deleting your character and losing all your time and effort and stuff to try the other side, it's only a conceptual theory, not anything tangible.

 

What good history you are providing. I do agree we are looking for a game that is our fantasy home, that will persist and continue to be a quality game above games to enjoy for a very long time. So far nothing has been able to do that for me.

 

Magic Carpets / Balloons / Horses / Ships / Skiffs / Waterfalls -> Underworld / Whirlpools -> Underworld / Ambrosia

 

I thought this was a particularly well thought out comment.

 

Ok folks, this thread has now been unsticky'd.

There are lots of great suggestions here and many wonderful new threads on similar posts. I'm going to monitor this thread but what I'd like to do is ask a favour: think of your favorite feature for a potential stretch goal. Post it here if you like, or start a new thread. I'll try to pick a few and see what people think.

Great job, please keep it up.

 

I smiled when

I smiled very good.

 

Maybe an in game fe

Maybe an in game feature where you can ask NPCs about items?

 

Well maybe compromise on that. I remember having so much fun in the discovery of who had what. then I just marked their place in my runebook and you could lablel it too. Do you remember that feature in UO. We didn't need no stinkin auction houses lol. It was kinda like going yard sailing.

 

women that look like a woman, lots of clothes, npc kids in game , npcs milling around