Getting started

[Fireball]

Hi,
I'm an old UO vetand I've come to have a look around!T2A is myfavourite era of all. I played from December 1997 full time until late 2001 early 2002 and then with my guild moving to other games the amount of play time I had there reduced until 2008 and then finallyin 2010 I dropped my houses and closed my accounts. <wipes a tear>
I know you havea huge amount of work ahead of you (and I know this because I am working on my own Siege Perilous style shard)but as I have just logged on here I thought I would throw a spanner straight in the works! I hope you will take this in the spirit intended, which is to help you get it right for the people who will surely come.
As a new player on any shard the first thing I normally do is go and pick some cotton, flax and sheer some sheep and either tailor to make gold, or just sell the cloth thenspools/balls of wool until I have enough gold to buy some skills. I sometimes do this all the way up to buying a small house so that I quickly have a base to work from.
I have found that I cannot do this here nearly as easilybecause there is no cotton or flax spawning in the cotton and flax fields on Moonglow island. Yes, I could run over to Yew sheep pens and hopefully find some sheep there to sheer, but that cotton and flax spawn needs to be added. I've not checked the Cove field or Skara but if you haven't added the farmable cotton in 'Glow yet I would wager that you haven't spawned the others yet either. I lived in Moonglow at the start of OSI UO on Atlantic so I know that these things should be there and it was a similar story on Siege Perilous although you can't sell anything to NPCs there so it's the bandaid route.
On running back to Moonglow from the flax field I noticed there is no gate on the cemetery, and working on my own shard I know that this is something you have to add with your Godly powers :-)
I hope I can find some way of getting it going here, because starting on afresh, empty shard and building something is a wonderful experience and I do so love the 1999 era. Right now I'm hitting the dummy in 'Glow to get my strength up before venturing out some more later.
I applaud you & wish you luck in tweaking things into shape.


FB

[Jack]

Hi Fireball,
Thanks for sharing and the encouragement.
Cotton and other farmables is on the list of things to spawn. I can add some basic cotton spawns when I am home from work today. Do note these are on a very slow timer currently (from recollection, 20 minutes), however we will be patching quite a few things this weekend and I will put a reasonable spawn rate for cotton on the list. We will try get these on a timer that isn't too quick or too slow, as other shards I played on had extremely fast cotton spawn in their early life, which made it extremely profitable/easy.
There are 3 sheep pens in yew, with a reasonable spawn timer that you can use in the meantime.
Thanks for bringing this to light, it was something I looked at before launch but slipped under the radar.

[Creager]

Welcome to the server brother!
If you need any help with anything my skype is Lajurn.

[yakka]

couple other things in my short appearance so far. A shortage of bulls in jhelom, can't sell books to scribe, only one wool on sheep, no sheep in Skara pen.

[Jack]

Regarding sheep, I believe it was only after the double resources in Felucca that 2 shorn wool became the norm.

Here is a link regarding sheep in T2A which says "1 wool (sheared)". The only difference in wool is that when a killed sheep is shorn, it gives bloody wool which yields less yarn.

Regarding selling books to scribes, are you talking about the blue and brown books? I will add those to the sell list. This will take effect from the next patch, likely next weekend.

I've updated the Skara and Jhelom spawners, thanks.

[yakka]

yeah good for newbie thief to steal from bookshelves in town and sell.