Platinum System Discussion

The ability to lift a ban from a house for platinum. This would allow the character/account to continue in their profession but at a cost. The chance to try again if you will.


Taken from this thread: http://uorforum.com/threads/thieves.30849/#post-301429
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If we are to nit pick at something I would like to address house bans. I think they should be on a timer.

Thieves need to have access to areas where people gather; shops, homes, casinos and other places people congregate.

Unfortunately a permanent ban from these type of establishments really limits our opportunities to play alongside/with the community.

Homeowners should definitely be able to ban a player, which should keep them on their toes always searching for the person in the shadows but it shouldn't be a one shot deal.

Sure if a thief is found they can be banned but the ban should only last, lets say a month of real time or game time. This gives the homeowner peace of mind for a time from that specific thief but they need to know that they don't get to just forget about them forever.

Especially since players are able to create macros to enter homes/doors, detect hidden and auto ban with Razor etc.

I don't think we need to make it easier for steals to be successful but I do think there shouldn't be a mechanic where an entire portion of the world can be shut off for a player forever. Our server population is only so big and people that do play tend to visit populated areas to play with others.

Bond process for a weapons

Awwww HELLL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Slade?

Just looking at the UO Veteran Rewards, some of them might be worth looking into, though I'll admit that most are horrible.

- Miniature house deeds
- "Coral the Owl" (Portable town crier)
- Banners (Chaos, Wall, regular hanging)
- Seed Box (If gardening ever gets implemented!)
- Ankh decoration
- Tree stumps
- Weapon engraving tool (Lets you add a line of text to a weapon)
- Davies Locker (Table that allows storing of MiBs/Tmaps)
- Koi Pond

Some of the rewards are pretty crazy though, there's a "Crystal Portal" that can be locked down in your house and used by friends to teleport you to a bank/moongate by saying "<Town> Moongate/Mint".

There's even objects that accrue items over time, like a sheep statue that produces wool every now and then.

Players who are PKd be allowed to pay in plat for temp statloss for the murderer once said murderer dies

A foe's head on a pike

If you add a lantern bless deed, could you also make it so lanterns don't drop when you cast. Kinda like a spell/rune book.

House wall plaque - Much like the best deco house plaques,, this one allows you to name your house - following common decency rules and will disappear if the house is ever dropped, either by choice or IDOC

Hitching Post - Plat per use charges. Stabling or retrieving a pet costs a charge - figure out the cost per charge along with a base purchase price for the hitching post- again disappears when house drops by choice or IDOC

Message Board for house - Plat to purchase, Plat to put up a message

Door Paint - Furniture Dye Tub Colors only, allows you to paint any door in your house

20k plat for a blessed glacial staff

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These are my suggestions:

-Adding additional hues to the runebook dye tub (no pre patch hues - no devaluing of existing books)

-MOTW dye tub. No one likes the poop brown. No one. Even if it was limited palette like existing mask dyes.

-Newbied items, when you make a new character and you choose specific skills give you specific newbied items, you lose them, because you're an idiot when your new. Let me re buy my newbied katana. Please. I want it back.

-House statues. I want to feel like a giant walking around my own personal mini map.

-Adding the option of an ethereal statue to the character statue selection.

-Adding an option to have a customisable statue like you would a vendor. So it's stationary but you get to see those sandals someone paid 80 mil for not in valourite hue.

I've tried to keep my suggestions era "responsible" and not anything that's going to have a dramatic knock on affect.

These are just things I would personally enjoy saving up for.

The one left field idea I have is a house courtyard add on for L towers. That back room could have a 4x4 square dropped on it with a lockable gate.

I figured we can't be fucking with the outside of houses to maintain the era accuracy and a big artwork mod/patch But a platform in the house that doesn't affect the exterior and look of everyone's L towers would be a middle ground.

I'm done.

Also rideable ethereal versions of yourself called "piggy backers".....no big deal.

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Plat rewards.

- A normal brown or white horse in place of ethereal.

- character movement deed, pay x plat to move chars between accounts (I know it’s CUB but maybe some people don’t want to pay with trash)

- Reg stone/Potion Stone. Gives you a bag of 50 each reg until it runs out of charges. Same with potions. Disappears until you buy another. Math should be easy. Cost of 50 regs x #of charges. Comes in multiples of 50

- different useable containers.

- recall stone. To be placed in your house, teleports you to a bank using no regs or magery. (chosen at random at time of purchase)

- add a place where people can place their character statues. (CTF waiting area, etc) for plat. Then they can really show off their excess.
- remove old plat rewards increasing their value. Adding fresh rewards as a plat sink.

I thought all of the new colored lanterns were blessed? Are they not? Sorry, I've been away a bit.

If you're talking about blessing regular lanterns, there are newbied lanterns out there. My healer carries one.