First perhaps I'll introduce myself... Udrak, Orc ;) I'll confess now that I come from CoY originally and pretty much quit when it collapsed. Nor have I been around too long since I returned. Because of this you might call me an arrogant elitist for my suggestions but i think it's worth a shot if it has a chance of improving RP activity.

So far I've noticed there is barely any activity at all unless there's an organised event. I've popped by Trinsic occasionally and I haven't seen anybody for 3 weeks. Vesper's activity seems to be focussed at the Swagger's and I haven't seen anything but the occasional Cove guard. Disagree, of course, if you feel I am wrong, and I admit I don't spend my time during the peak playing hours running from town to town trying to find players (which in itself is the point).

I know you CoRE/ERPA lot are set in your ways and like your city-guilds and are used to teleporting all over the place. But I feel there is a lack of casual RP and the reason is that there is no one place to gather for it. I, personally, don't really enjoy scouring the whole of Britannia in an attempt to find somebody to RP with, especially when I'm roleplaying a lowly Orc who prefers to stick to his own territory. Everybody is spread about across the entire globe, and since the player base of UO is forever decreasing, wouldn't it possibly be better to centralize on one location and rearrange ourselves accordingly?

I know this sounds a lot like CoY... well, it is. Minus the strict rules. Whereas I, again personally, liked the CoY rules, I doubt very much you'd all be willing to go that far! I'm by no means recommending Yew as the central location either, especially since only GRD seem to live there now? Even though the guild I am in is based in Vesper wilderness, I think that Trinsic region could offer a lot more diverse guilds based on the fact that the city is surrounded by mountains, jungle, forest, swamps and islands (the latter, sort of).

The beauty of CoY is that you only had to walk 5 minutes to find somebody to interact with.

I'm not really proposing anything, but I am throwing the idea out there and seeing what people think?

Love the idea as always. Only problem is guilds have to be disbanded and renamed, as pretty much all active RP guilds now are city guilds. Unless we can find a sneaky and superb way of doing this, it will be hard for guilds to give up their history and start a new "life" I presume.

Lol @ thread #219347123921 on this subject.

G'lucky, buddy. ;)

You could always build an outpost or something in an area, you would have to think of a decent IC reason for that first though.

Thanks useless Troll! Being that I just came back to UO I wouldn't know, would I?

Yep... that's what I thought the problem would be. But if people want a centralized community then somebody is going to have to take a leap somewhere. But are people willing? That is the question of the thread!

The alternative location is the vesper-cove-minoc area.

loyalists have always had a connection to minoc for some reason, wouldn't take a great deal to move them there, and then vesper and cove are already "populated".

I always thought it would be the perfect RP area, along with quite a few others. Trinsic is just too hot and southerly. RP looks so much better in the rainy north, imo

But heck, I don't play and havne't played for years. doubt I'll come back, but just chucking it out there again.

I hope you get a more positive response to this than the other million times! these forums are absolutly dead these days though.

I spend about all my rp time in and around Trinsic and there is lately often people around at certain hours (especially after 2100gmt) Walking by the trinsic west gate, seeing nobody, doesnt mean we're not there

It's not personal buddy, it's just it isn't going to happen. I'd love a more centralised community, I too am one of the remnants of CoY still hanging about in these parts - but you're flogging a very dead horse. Everybody is for a centralised community as long as it's THEIR community that people move to.

Agreed. I live in the area and enjoy the same privilege. Sadly to many do not in my humble opinion.

I love the idea and would not mind moving personally. First we would in one way or another decide on a place, I hesitate to suggest a proper method of doing this though.

I feel Hedlyn makes a very important point here: Everyone is for a centralized community as long as it's their community people would move to. And by all means, this is a very natural thing. This shouldn't be seen as a critique of that.

I really like the idea of a more centralized role-playing community. The only thing that worries me is how it would be organized. As long as guilds remain as attached as they are today to their areas I can see no practical solution. Unfortunately, as Amel, I have no brilliant idea as to how to approach this either.

I'd try my best at supporting an attempt at your original idea Udrak. I hope this thread could start a more general discussion about the community and in what ways we can fix it. The usual moaning is useless unless you provide a good analyze or concrete suggestion as to what needs fixing: We are all aware that the Europa role-playing community is somewhat broken.

Best regards,

Being very selfish here of course ! I (and others such as stonekeep or where the vesperians are and the covians have their town i bet) would never move from where i am now. I enjoy my time in and with Trinsic. Not to mention those who build player places/towns have put much effort in creating those. Also the interest in roleplay is different between people, think of high and low fantasy, pvp-roleplayers and not so pvp-based roleplayers.

But i'll be interested to see how you are gonna pull it off so good luck !

(centralizing in two places may be an option?)