The Midnight Watch

Hrm. Perhaps a rule whereby you can only rob someone if there's someone currently online? Maybe even if -they- are currently online? Creates a hint of danger for the thief, and increases the likelihood of them noticing and generating RP from it before everyone and their mother realizes their crates are open and enters a stealing frenzy.

I also disagree with the notion of armor dropping on monsters. The entire point of removing that was to force people to actually do business with the local craftsmen, and to maintain a high level of demand for quality equipment. The big problem on Europa was that everyone could just repair their armor repeatedly, and it'd last them -years- unless they got wiped in Karnaugh or something, and even then there was insurance as a parachute.

A big theme of this shard is meant to be desperation. Resources should be scarce, people should be forced to make hard decisions about how to spend them. That means that not only does someone passing things out for free because they've macro'd up 10,000 of it harm the integrity of the setting, it discourages other people from running their own businesses in a realistic and RP-intensive way. This is the main reason that I created characters like Samuel Baker and Mary Carleton - to control the quantity of goods in the system, and force people to continue buying things.

This is also the reason I'm opposed to secure storage. With the ability to trap chests that are locked down, the need for GM Lockpicking to get through a locked door (at a loss rate of 9 picks per door), and the ability to make and place decoys and mines, I see no reason to provide a 100% secure storage system.

Dis shard keps geddin mitiyer an mitiyer

We're going to start telling stories about how Torrak's greatest rival defeated himself with a contraption known as the Goatbow.

Witness the power of our fully functioning storage space!

*Scrawled in nearly illegible chicken-scratch at the bottom of the same note.*

Isn't it the militia's job to sort out enforcing the laws?
- Corrin

@Erjana: Make sure you have your options set up to display gains. >_>

See, the issue here is that the value of gold doesn't really pair up well to what it'd realistically weigh. I'm not going to steal something if stealing it won't matter - neither to myself, nor the person being stolen from - because it's chump change that just happens to be all I can realistically carry. This has always been one place where suspension of disbelief comes in. Most people carry stuff around in their packs that they could never carry. No one could carry dozens of ingots worth of ore on a long hike back from the mountains, but it happens and no one blinks.

If you really need to reason through it, say that the coins come in different denominations. That there's, say, a 100 Crown coin, and that if someone is walking around with 2,000 gold in their pocket then they must have several of those.

@Erjana: I'd blame that on overhunting. The spawners are set to replace them at a rate of 1 per X period of time, so if someone clears the whole forest at once, the next few hours are going to be pretty difficult on anyone that tries hunting after them.

@Althalus: I'm concerned that people will build mansions and/or giant white marble cubes, and that a lot of the empty space will get used up. I -like- empty space. So, we'll look into it but things aren't terrible the way they are. We'll see!

Deer aren't exactly known for their tendencies to stand around in huge clusters so you can shoot them more easily.

You could always see if UOGateway is still a thing.

Yeah, that's a product of the wacky pre-AoS combat system as far as we've been able to tell.