Hello everyone.
I'm starting this thread for everyone to post and discuss what types of quality of life improvements everyone would like to see implemented in UO for 2019.
When i think of quality of life in UO it's the simple things that come to mind. Something that maybe you find a bit annoying that could be changed to make game play a little more enjoyable.
Major overhauls or complex issues such as PvP balance, Loot system changes, expansions, IDOCs, exploiters, cheating and so forth would be better suited for another thread due to their complex nature.
I'll start it off with a few of my own that i would like to see....
1- Update pets in the Enhanced Client so that rare hues are visible.
Void and Metallic hue Mares for example are not recognizable with the enhanced client.
2- Update backpacks in the Classic Client so that you can toggle to grid style view when needed.
This would be most useful when using the classic client and you are trying to purchase a vendor item that was stocked with via the enhanced client. Currently the nature of the two clients clash creating a situation where items stocked by the enhanced client can not be viewed with the classic client pack design. I've often found it frustrating having to switch clients (and often patch) to the enhanced client just to make a simple purchase.
3- Eliminate rubber banding.
We've all experienced it running into steps of a private home but the true annoyance for me comes from running through the jungles of fel when the smaller trees are animated to be nothing more than twigs that cause rubber banding.
4- Eliminate the stat buff reset caused from crossing server lines.
To better explain this i'm talking about the stat buff that you get from your suit. Hit points, stamina, mana increase. All of the those buffs are at max on your heath bar but as soon as you cross a server line they drop down to your base stats (without suit buffs) and need to be regenerated again.
So there's just a few of mine. I'm sure i'll think of more as the subject mater lingers in my head.
Lets hear what you would like to see happen to improve your quality of life in UO for 2019 and with any luck perhaps a sympathetic developer could take heed our woes and make life just a bit better for all of us.
Make more things stack that are identical.
I use it all the time UOHomeOwner, UORudder and UOAutoMap
I cant get automap to work for me, did everything Kojak said, but it will not calibrate and track...sure miss it. I gotta check out rudder and homeowner tho, sounds good!
Quality of life improvement would be to have an official Automap, and not a third party one. But yeah, I know
Finally put in the new vendor option
Here's a good one in the newsletter!
"a new way to identify hues in the classic client"
Thats awesome!
A note for Kyronix and Mesanna: I do wish you would consider giving 17x17 and larger, and keeps and large towers the same storage as castles.
I think you would see an exodus, from some of us, back to the smaller homes, thereby freeing up a bit of land for other homes.
And allow 2 homes per acct, on any prodo shard.
While I appreciate my campaigns to make the game mechanics more open and less elitist are being noticed by someone. I’ve all but given up the fight, Bleak’s latest suggestion to further complicate the hidden rules on parrying just serves as an example of 1 step forward, 2 steps back with this game.
I don’t think they want new players.
When we lore another players pet it would be helpful if we could see the remaining training points it has.
This would be useful when purchasing a partially trained pet so you know exactly what you're getting.
Inventory/backpack bug in EC. When scrolling or even opening a container, rows will be missing or not even show at all. Happens very very often.
The ability to put information on pet lore or first page in Magincia stalls that can be seen by shoppers.
The shard transfer shield to behave the same as the tree stump, mining cart, bee hive, ship painting, and the scrolls of transcendence painting and show us the number of charges stored in the shield.
Bigger font for runic atlas.
Sortable rune in runic atlas.
That's all I want for 2019 lol
Add the Eodon slayers to the list of slayers in the Vendor Search Query gump
Add Book/SpellBook to the list of equipment in the Vendor Search Query gump.
Crystal Portal and a Corrupted Crystal Portal at every bank in UO
A hitching post in Doom would be nice for tamers
Since we’re just wishing here... vet rewards have no time restriction it’s just a pool to choose from every year. With a veteran being accounts over 12mos, to even this playing field. Or can we see a pet trough add-on that insta bonds pets a few times a month? Or how about a hair-styling chair that lets you change to new hair styles, colors, race, gender, and name? Even better lets get a magical paint set that lets you have unlimited uses of pigmints of tokuno of all colors available.
A tinkering workstation that utilizes the complete tinker's tool menu. The current one makes 1 item, golums.
Vet Reward turn in system on a 2-1 scale.
Vet rewards be for sale in the store for sovereigns. Just don’t see the point of all that dev time every year for what? 6 people? The gold sellers? The I have 54 21 year accounts just for vet rewards? I mean still give these folks their FREE rewards for playing but let us plebs buy them from you. On my new account i can get a spider mount for free in 2040 or you could charge me 20 bucks for a vet pick.
Shard bind any consumable item. Use it or lose it, or keep it but where you got it.
You're off topic.
Paying for vet rewards is not Quality of Life but pay for play. I agree that Vet rewards system is broken and need some change but that would have wide game effect. So start a thread and we can go at it. (I strongly disagree with your position)
Three posts diverting the topic have been removed. Please do NOT hijack this thread with more discussion of shard shields. That topic has already been discussed at length.
QUALITY OF LIFE- make all power scrolls, stat scrolls, tokens, rewards, and EM rewards shard bound.
QUALITY OF UO LIFE IMPROVEMENTS
1. single-click looting gold in Classic Client
2. a real moving crate. packs up everything in your house and can be accessed at a new house.
3. change vendor daily fees to a sales tax model
4. add 1 or 2 more 20% bank & storage upgrades. you keep giving us more stuff.
5. add a gate travel type spell to Chivalry on Siege Perilous and Mugen.
LESS QUALITY OF LIFE BUT PLEASE FIX
1. custom house foundation art that doesn't go all the way to the sw edge of the house walls.
2. fix the boots graphic where the left leg boot appears to be cut instead of tucked into boots.
Please. Please. Please. Please.
6. to the house customization tiles set; for stone walls; PLEASE add two more pieces of short walls. add one that's double height the current piece and one that's triple height the current piece.
These pieces exist for other wall sets. shouldn't have been left out of the stone walls set. Without the different sized short wall pieces you cannot build proper crenelations. What's a castle without crenelations. Just another big building.
7. craftable teleporters from the house customizaton tool. for use inside one classic non-customizable house.
Let us turn in more than 3 bods at a time before retrieving new ones.
Fix all known bugs.
Allow a pet training wipe, make an in store potion for all I care but please allow pets to be brought back to their base.
Bring back a power hour, all skills aclarity for an hour.
Bring in spec focus for warrior and bard. I’m saying maybe give a focused warrior an extra base wep damage increase of 100% or more for wep skill, anat, tacs, heal, resist and parry. Not a pvp breaker imo and not a pvm breaker. Bushido honor gives 100% modifier alone... just sayin. Bard should be able to have no cooldown between skill use if 400 pts spent in bard skills. Also can we get some instruments equipped in the paperdoll? Add some stats to them babys.
Thanks for listening
New security setting for door that targets a specific player/account.
Only owner and that player/account can open that door. Player doesn't need to be co-owned or friended to house and other co-owners & friends can't open the door.
Player would still need access to house unless house is public.
Remove shard bound property on primers
The transfer comment was sarcasm, and as a returning player I had no clue you could combine powerscrolls.
I think your view of the game is the problem with the game. PvP should be consensual always especally in pay to win. If it’s so important it will thrive.
I mentioned this over on the TC forum but two changes I’d like to see made are having a more convenient way to dye metals the traditional metal hues (currently you have to track down tokuno dyes on vendors, if you’re lucky and there is no way to dye verite or valorite hues) and removing the account bound restriction from deluxe starter kit tokens. If someone pays for a deluxe starter kit they should have the flexibility to use the tokens as they choose, whether that’s on their own account, given away, traded or sold. No other item has such a restriction other than soulstones but at least with those you can still buy/sell/trade the initial token.
Something actually high seas related: Show the player's reputation score with the fish mongers on the player's loyalty rating gump.
Just sorting Loot bag and thought it would be nice to have some quick easy way to tell an items Imbuing "weigh" and count. May be list it on the top level of the imbuing menu as well as what is shown now after the power was added.
Would make it easer to tell if an item can be tweaked or is just raw relic fragments.
Power Scroll discussions are off topic as they are not a "Quality of life" item and so contentious that they will soon result in this tread being shut down. So please save it for another thread.
Some of these are covered in High Seas or Cleanup, but are related suggestions for this topic:
1) Please delete all whining posts about getting killed while hunting PS in Fel, talks about game revenue and UO population prediction etc. It makes life so much enjoyable reading uo forum post.
2) Add Door stoppers to keep doors opened at home.
3) Soulstone book. Also helps CC users, as the graphics are really huge.
4) Spellbook Dye Tub.
5) Show Stats above avatar (like those CC hacks in PVP videos).
It is such an old system only being able to see the life of monsters when we click them. Allow this option to see the HP stats of all mobiles, hover directly above their avatar.
6) I am not sure but can EC map try to match UOAM's features? Specifically, have a hot button where we can call for help, and the map will show us how to get to our buddies.
7) Show a summary of which recipe a character has consumed.
8) All items should have minimum Cleanup points.
9) Untrain a pet and return back the PS it has consumed... not sure if the latter is a good idea but anyway for discussion.
10) Curse to Antique or Brittle Converter
11) Antique to Brittle Converter. Works maybe except for Legendary items.
12) Records of what we purchased from the UO store. If there is no guarantee for items we bought, I may not dare to buy more things.
13) Create a new web page for players to submit ideas to database, and allow players to vote up or down, and link them to forum post if required.
Benefit: Dev team can then sieve through faster and find the popular suggestions.
14) Since there are cases of ships disappearing even when they are linked to lighthouse, and the bug cannot be solved....
Suggest to make ships non-decay like a house as long as they are on paid account and linked to a lighthouse.
To avoid overparking in popular places like city docks or beach, kick them out of the area like the sea market after 20 mins of inactivity.
Remove the 'account bound' restriction for stable slot increase tokens.
I bought one too many on a tamer because the stable slot increase is so damn cryptic and now i feel ripped off because i cant use it, sell it or give it to one of my other accounts.
MONJA: when do we get pet pigments?
MONJA: to color them in our own way
Mesanna: you don’t
Mesanna: and that is not somethjing we are going to address any time soon
MONJA: mesanna u look greatwith ur outfit ^^
Kyronix : The only pets we offer in different hues are via the rare pet hue spawn
Mesanna: thank you
MONJA: allright
MONJA: no to remove a bad training on a pet
MONJA: do you understand what i mean?
Kyronix : We cannot implement that feature, sorry
Kyronix : yes
Kyronix : It’s not something we can do
MONJA: to reset a pet … i meant
Kyronix : Yes, I understand. Unfortunately, we can’t do it
That is why people keep saying to copy your Tamer to TC as many times as needed to get your pet trained the way you want it before doing it for real on your shard. Problem solved.
I know this is a minor thing, but it would be great if they could change all those items in the crafting menus to be all lowercase as most of the older items already are. It looks a little messy.
The same goes for NPC and creature names. Again, I know this is a very minor thing, but seeing 'Crimson Drake' instead of 'a crimson drake' makes it look like they're a special creature, which I'm sure can confuse some. But also, the all lowercase names fits the original naming model better, I think.
You people do understand that there is a place called TC that you can copy your Tamer with its pets and do all your builds there and you can do it as many times as needed till you get it right.
In the classic client It would be nice if we could put in spaces and numbers when renaming pets
I thought you could copy paste to put a space in, or does that not work?
It’s not within the spirit of the game to call anything a number but if you must, use Roman numerals.
(Also i think there’s an issue with issuing spoken commands to pets with spaces in the name)
Please keep this thread on topic. Some troll posts have been removed
A Default setting on the house sign for things locked down in that house.
I normally set everything to "Friends" and it is a pain to have to click that gump ever time I secure or lock something down. It would be nice if as owner I could just set what the default.
Could be risky Tim, if you have a long break from playing.
Garht_Gray as much as I may agree with you. Power Scrolls are not Quality of Life and you are off topic.
A bulletin board that changes appearance(showing a pinned note maybe) or color if there is a new post since the last time owner checked it.
Enable the Classic Client macro system to recognize the mouse wheel scroll up / down as key strokes so they may function as macro commands.
This one is huge but the only reason i'm even thinking of it is because UOAssist is currently down and i lost the ability to target self and last target with the mouse wheel.
BODS for sale searchable in the vendor search.
If there was a way to get more people to join the game, that would be the ultimate improvement
BOD books don't have a price on them unless you are selling the book itself. Even if the BODs in the book are priced they do not appear in VS.
Something has changed then because they use to show.
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