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That's what i'm hoping.
I believe it may return as it was a core and fundamental vision of LB and the team. But delivering it with such a small team and in the timescale they had available was probably optimistic. Control points and regional banks may have given it a chance, but in such a small world, travel wise, and with so much whining about the Overworld, travel times and scene loads raising the risks to populations, I think they probably needed to step back. Much more sophisticated systems will be needed to get a regional economy working. Even with global banks, I imagine it's still possible if we have regional resources and such.

 

Exactly

 

I said this many times here but Trammel saved UO. I beta tested UO and I played if for the first 3 years and the game was going down hill VERY fast. I was in the forums back then begging people to stop killing or scamming brand new player sitting at the bank because they all quit. Many of us may recall how harsh the game was to start in and if you lost your gear in the first 30 minutes of playing you couldn't even kill a rabbit to try to earn gold. SOTA is in a similar situation, while it KILLS me to that they have to simply things (I love the complexity), its clearly not for the vast majority of gammers today and they have to change stuff to keep these people and frankly, I think they are making some very wise decisions right now. It amazing the similarities between the launch of UO and SOTA (which is why I still have faith SOTA will turn around).

2x XP permanent.... best decision in this game EVER.

 

What about local economy?

 

Have to disagree a bit SOTA had a great "launch" compared to the first 3-4 months of UO. WAY better.

 

I'd love to see them attempt some kind of regional economy with the other land masses when they come, would make more sense to me

 

So, you have fully embraced in-game purchases... sad....

 

Why would you fix that!?

 

@DarkStarr Any news on the bug that freezes our bodies upon being resurrected?

 

Does this mean the stretch goal of double xp from the most recent telethon will be replaced with something aethery?

 

Dead... Abandoned... No longer a priority or a design feature.

 

That reward was for every weekend in August and it was met.

 

This is dissapointing as polearms users are the only viable build against a mage/shield build in pvp. Is there a reason why? I mean a good reason lol Also think about when combatting ranged builds in pvp vs. Melee, I think it was great to make Knights Grace something we can use to counter those but that's one more thing we have to add to our combat bar. And melee builds require a lot of glyphs. Can we have two combat bars? I mean lets heat things up!

 

Woops my mistake I thought it was for September. Thank you.

 

A quick question on this. If I specialise in Death Magic (Which I do intend on doing) and end up with a negative life resistance, does that mean healing spells are more effective or less effective?

I would personally think more effective as you don't resist the effects of the spell but I don't really know how this works.

 

@DarkStarr @Chris The Ferocious Obsidian Bear and the Obsidian Destroyer Bear don't seem to be in game. Checked all the higher level zones for hours and killed 100s of bears that could be placeholders. Can someone please check that the bears are in fact added, last release people looked for the spooky doll that was never added to the loot tables. Could you please double check that the bears are in fact in game?

 

So much awesome!

The tomb entrance!!! Craftable standing stones! My necropolis home is getting a fantastic makeover this weekend!

 

In other news; Texas has declared a state of emergency as their stores of Red Bull, coffee and all caffeinated beverages are dangerously low! It seems that a few pale, tired looking people who were mumbling about wyverns and player made dungeons bought it ALL in preparation for something called "R57"! More on this devastating story at 10!

seriously tho guys... do you sleep?
Witcheypoo

 

You are, once again, incorrect.
I logged (hopefully) onto the QA server to see... I am in the exact same position I have been for the last 3 months, unable to advance the quest line.
I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of your claims.

 

I was basing this from reading this post, I had assumed it was fixed now. But possibly not.

Though that quest isn’t Main Quest related (and doesn’t interfere with it at all), it is only for a banner. Annoying certainly if it is however still broken. Apologies for my incorrect assessment.