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Several reasons, none of which has anything to do with Sylvan or UO.

More work, less time for play. New games (Dawn of Discovery, Mount&Blade, Dragon Age) meaning less time for UO.

Also, as my son gets older, there's more time devoted to activities outside the home during my free time. When I'm at home, it's better to have a game I can pause with a child around.

UO itself is more of a journey than a goal. When I log in, I don't ever think "Today I'm going to get the X I've always been hoping for". It's much more of a "Today I will do the tasks I enjoy doing such as mining for val to so that I can get x(more sockets, more cash), so that I can improve my X (fighting ability, house, etc.). With that being said, I don't think that's as attractive to me (with my limited amount of time to devote to it) as playing another game where I can sit down, play a couple of hours and go.



Something I've been thinking about for a while now with Sylvan is that simple attrition might eventually mean no more players. A certain number of players will stop playing every year, that's a simple fact. As it gets harder and harder to play (this old version of razor, this obsolete program to launch, you have to actually want to play UO, etc., etc.) for the FIRST time, the new players coming in may not be able to keep up with those lost.

Well, to get one item hued a "special" hue is at least 10,000 atones or 2 items for one VS. If there's a stack of 5, that's easily 1 item, if there's a bolt of 25 lying around, that's somewhere between 1 and 7 items, depending upon the item.

So, if the GM's are ok with an items with an equivalent worth of 3.5VS lying around to be stolen, this idea is ok.

hrmm, thanks! Would be nice if the book were to say that instead of saying "Ham". Especially since I collected 150 "Hams" to cook when I needed 30.

Quest completed!

ok, issues are mostly fixed now with the crafting quests get new books and try it.

I got a Cooking book today and was able to complete each part EXCEPT for the "Ham". It does not accept either "Raw Ham" or "Ham" (which is the cooked version), stacked or unstacked.

5th and moving, lets vote it up!

Hey good point, what we REALLY need as some point in the far distant future is the ability to transmute them in the Gem box!

huh?

FYI:

Skill Quests

    * Lumberjacking
    * Fishing
    * Fishing II
    * Alchemy
    * Inscription
    * Tailoring
    * Tinkering
    * Smithing
    * Mining
    * Fletching
    * Cooking
    * Carpentry
    * Necromancy

My only complaint (so far!) is that most of the crafting quests result in a usable item and a named "Trophy" item, except for Tailoring. For that one, no Trophy. I'd like to have a Trophy item added to that quest.

Just curious, in my searching of the boards, I read that you can trade in 75 ancients for one legendary and 50 for one mythic.

That seems too high, unless your intention is for people not to do it.

A lesser rate of 30 ancients to one legendary and 15 legendary to one mythic would still make it incredibly hard (and expensive!) to do, but would be within the realm of possibility.

I think this issue hasn't really come up because people see the rates and think "ok, not gonna do that". Thoughts?

Hrmm, I'll go with true, though not like normal people. I usually can go to sleep anywhere/anytime I want, max of 60 seconds from eyes closed to sleep and now with some additional stress, it's taking me a few minutes to go to sleep.

TPBM has had insomnia.

Just wanted to mention, looked in the chests again yesterday.

First, there are some very nice items of all types in there, very suitable for a new player to use. Thanks to everyone who helped out with that.

Unfortunately, there were also some very bad items mixed in again. Simple (normal) weapons with no special effects or damage bonus, same with armor and shields.

Please, try to place nicer items in the boxes.

Everyone is different, but I'll give you the rule I use for the boxes. I have a certain level of item I think is worth keeping for my own use, or selling. Anything that I am "on the fence" about keeping, I put in the box. That means the item will be useful, but not incredible. I don't place incredible items into the boxes because our crafters and merchants deserve to be able to get a fair price for items they sell.

I think of the donation boxes in the same way I think of starting characters getting a bump to their STR/DEX/INT. You still have to work on them to get them up, as you should. Same with the box, it's a little helping hand to get you on your way to be able to attain the really nice items.

Might be reasons to do that, but when I speak to new players it is always something they mention as being a nice thing.

I'm sure the same thing could be accomplished with free items on vendors or asking someone for a fencing weapon, but it can be hard to find the right vendor as it is, and I know I'd not want to start playing and go begging from the other players.

and they choose

And now we're only 4 votes away from 10th place on Extreme Top 100! Let's get it!

it will go past without Razor?