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Post by Admin on Jun 30, 2013 13:54:09 GMT
I'll check the poll tomorrow after work - 3-4 pm AEST time. I'll then based off the answer adjust spawns and flood the auction house with e/n books. for like 1k gold.
Keep in mind if we do this there is no going back. Any future reopen of the shard would require a item/account wipe.
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Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2013 6:24:34 GMT
I'll check the poll tomorrow after work - 3-4 pm AEST time. I'll then based off the answer adjust spawns and flood the auction house with e/n books. for like 1k gold. Keep in mind if we do this there is no going back. Any future reopen of the shard would require a item/account wipe. I'll hold off until more people post. I'm not going to completely screw the server for 2 people. Sorry. I'll check it daily.
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Post by Boomer on Jul 1, 2013 8:30:37 GMT
Awww I only just started playing and hunting! Does it cost a fair bit to keep the server running?
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Post by sad sinacle on Jul 1, 2013 10:12:09 GMT
Not massive amounts but there was an expectation of having a large player base and when that wasn't met down she went as, correct me if i'm wrong, admin got no joy from 2-5 players.
In my opinion the traditional 6-10month build up to a really good shard is now destroyed even if it does go up again (option 2) because i for one am very unlikely to invest time after seeing it go down so suddenly.
Option 3 is plausible but a shame after what i imagine was alot of effort to set up what seems to be a bugless shard
Option 1 has worked in the past for a short term (~3 weeks?) action packed ending, its no where near as fun as building up slowly but it's the best fall back optiion as far as i can see and in an ideal situation it will bring people out of the wood works (no fear of wasted time with resource gathering, progressive farming etc)
unless i see it stay up for a because now i've seen how unstable the future is.
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Post by Deluxe on Jul 1, 2013 10:15:13 GMT
I thought the server was great! These are a few of My Ideas!!!
Starting stats : 130 str / 130 dex / 130 int Mages / Warriors / Thiefs / Crafters / Rangers / PP's : Can start with 130 all skills.. Advantages: Will make for faster pvp / hunting - Quicker gaining of resources with crafters mining / lumbering - People will be out of there houses and not spend there gamming time watching there macro's, they will be will be able to do things they need to get done and have some fucking fun . - People who are new to join the server wont have an unfair advantage of catching up to those who have max stats. - This games not about macroing anymore lol its about hunting and getting suits and PVPING!! THATS WHERE THE FUCKING FUN IS!! -
HUNTING SPOT IDEAS: A gate from a certain area of Admins choice: It can be a hunting area, like farming areas that you see in other MMO games Spawns would include : UF's / Balrons / Golden dragons / Undeadmenace / Balron Lords: (Its sort of like how they had the old Bally room in gmgy) and may i say that was fucking awseome it created so much pvp and had such a high chance of losing your equipment at the same time.. It would make for thiefs being stealthy and waiting for a group to enter and jumping at teh chance of the group diend and looting all their items. It will make for awseome pvp around that area.. and it will make for high end loot so people can gear up ...
BUT!! if you didnt want people being able to do the room and rock out with good suits in a few weeks u could tweak the creatures and not have so many high end mobs in there or just tweak the spawn times.. ITs just a suggestion but i think its a fucking good idea ... wouldnt be hard to create either..
ADMIN ITS UP TO YOU !! YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT
PEACE.
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Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2013 22:57:35 GMT
I hear you Sin. If people had groups they would enjoy the server alot more. The server is built around group PVE and PVP like all prevouis version of ZHA.
Loot level's are lower then many people realise. Sure some people had some OK gear however this was due to the stupid amount of spawns that people were farming.
For the server to go live again and stay live more people need to be intrested and want to play. It's extremly dishearting to login and find 1 or 2 people online and in some circumstances noone online.
If we had 20 players online the server would still be going, more people would be grouping up and the whole experence would have been much more posative.
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Post by Boomer on Jul 1, 2013 23:27:52 GMT
It is extremely hard, I know myself I have maybe a few hours a week to hunt. The problem is most of us have grown up now and there just isnt the time to spend grinding away for suits. I would really like to be able to log on for a few hours a week to get my UO kick and start developing suits. I do however understand that these things cost money, I think there would be a fair few people in similar circumstances.
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Post by Renuo on Jul 2, 2013 7:31:33 GMT
Hate to say it but even I (who has played every round of ZHA from nearly day 1 of the original shard) can't even be bothered this time around.
Like Boomer says we are all about 10 years older now and our lives have changed. This game isn't the one to attract new people to it either
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Post by Dicko on Jul 2, 2013 7:53:30 GMT
I agree with Boomer and Ren. I first started playing this 10+ years ago when there were hundreds of players online, towns were full of activity and brit bank would be packed. I remember watching a guy tank a Reverant in brit GY and thinking "man that dude has a cool suit" lol. Before there was a button for Light (inj), you would see crafters mining the walls north of brit with a torch or candle in hand, glowing in their full suit of Icerock. I cant even remember the last time I have seen someone cast Night Sight! Times have changed but I keep returning to this game hoping to feel like I did when I first played. *sigh* Time to move on I think. PS4 perhaps?
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Post by timpo on Jul 2, 2013 8:32:13 GMT
Yeah i think the main problem is people don't really have time for it since back when i was a student i could spend 10-15 hours a day on UO but it will be about 40 years till i have that sort of time again but i was still playing since its been a while since i had some good ol UO time.
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Post by Deluxe on Jul 2, 2013 9:52:02 GMT
So everyone is agreeing on time factor.. they would rather play when they get home from work and on the weekends in the spare time and just be able to play straight away no macro times etc.. This would be easy to achieve just add vendors that sell your resources (BUT MORE OF) so like bulk blank scrolls/ bulk arrows/ bulk reags / ebook/nbook if you wanted to / bulk of everything .. so people can get into hunting / pvping..
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Post by Boomer on Jul 3, 2013 1:03:30 GMT
Personally I only play for the pve anyways so doesn't bother me if there isn't anyone online. And with time constraints I can just log on for a few hours to hunt. I would love the server to remain up but I understand it does cost money. Deluxes post above has some merit.
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Post by Sad sinacle on Jul 4, 2013 4:12:55 GMT
New spawns , easy gold/scrolls etc are a blast should be some very nice suits with 4-5h oh hunting now!
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Post by bojangles on Jul 5, 2013 10:00:31 GMT
Yeah I also think making 130 skills is a good idea! No one has the time for macroing and it will promote more pve/pvp quicker which is what the game is about!
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Post by Elderad on Apr 30, 2018 8:11:05 GMT
Hi there guys. We know that the Ultima online community has been a bit slow. But before there was TFR. There was Zulu Hotel South africa. There is a new Server up that has been running since October 2017. zuluhotelomega.com/ Zulu hotel omega is a combined International Shard where most of the Best Zuluhotel Players from around the world has joined so far. We are not a lot of people at the moment ,. But we can always more people to join us. We are now at 20 But the shard is still new and in every day development. No pay to win just like the old original Zulu Hotel. Macroing is enabled . And there are tons of awesome better bosses and legendaries. The shard runs on POL 099 I believe. And every day the developers are updating. They might not always announce it on the Shard website . But you can definitly see it in game. There are some great people online and we could use the extra people to make this shard great. I will be posting like this on all the old Shut down Zulu servers around the world to get this shard running up good. Please join us and have some fun. We are a English speaking server even though its international . Hope to hear from you guys soon.
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