Thank you for new soulstone hues..but
As you can see from the wiki,
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/items/soulstones/
there are now 8 colors of Soulstones. 1 color corresponding to each Virtue.
Having the Soulstones available in the virtue colors was requested on Stratics a couple of times. Posters both here and on Stratics have also said they requested individual colors via email.
So Yeh! Happy Dance!
Like the great and mighty Poo, I will buy them, so development mission successful.
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However, as you can see from the above link:
Green, Blue, Red, Violet - these are partially hued
White, Black, Yellow, Orange - these are not partially hued
@Kyronix, is there any way, just for the sake of consistency within a system, that the White, Black, Yellow, and Orange soulstones can be partially hued. Pretty Please?
For additions to the Soulstone system I would suspect we will see something more along these lines:
keeping the same shape/Kanji but with Tokuno colors
keeping the same shape/Kanji but with Natural colors
keeping the same shape/Kanji but with Plant colors
keeping the same shape/colors but replacing the Kanji with Virtue Symbols
keeping the same shape/colors but replacing the Kanji with Runes for Mantras
Elven Soulstones
Gargish Soulstones
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Color variation is a vanity desire so why give you a dye tub, when they can get you to purchase each color individually?
I love UO, but it is still a business.
Pure vanity variations, more money in the coffers, less development time, I don't think we're going to see much in the way of functionality changes.