Alright, so this idea's a little out there, but bear with me. Recently, through the help of the love of my life Mikaela aka Dita, I've procued a nicely sized house, 18x10 or so, near the Trinsic swamps, near this sorta peninsula-thingy. It's a surprisingly awesome area of UO/Britian that I've never been to. Unfortunately, I'm a few years late. A few other guilds/rpers moved in much prior to me, and set up what seems to be a town.

I, being a Yankee bastage, cannot, will not, leave well enough alone.

A player-run town. That's right. While we do have Vesper, we all know that can get a little boring sometimes; theres really just not that much going on there. Which is why I propose this idea: An 'extension' of Vesper if you will. A stronghold of sorts, maybe four or five buildings, militaristic-like, where seiges and scenarios can take place. Example, Everyone knows before you get to a main city, you have go to through it's defences. This has held true in History. The alamo, for example, couldn't be attacked until the front lines in Texas had been breached. This "New Vesper" (name pending; probably something along the lines of xxx-Fort, xxx-hold, etc) will serve as Vesper's first line of defense. Here's how a story could play out:

Trinsic finally amasses a fearsome (hah!) army, and decides to march on Vesper to settle things once and for all. Before they hit Vesper, though, they have to come through this fortified area. Let's say there's three forts. Each must be attacked individually, or simultaneously depending on the numbers. Once the enemies take a base over, it must be recaptured, and so fourth. If they manage to capture all three and Drive the Vesperians guarding it back, then Vesper is free to be marched upon and war is waged at home.

I think this adds a certain realistic element, as it's never preferred to wage a war on one's hometown. The location , I think, is pretty nice. It's to the way-east of Britian, between the town itself and the swamps. Now, here's where you folk come in. There's a lot of castles, keeps, large towers, etc; now I'm not having delusions of grandeur, but there are some smaller houses. I'd like to know if any of you liked this idea. If so, perhaps we can work something out along the lines of gathering enough gold to buy out some of these houses; There's two more, relatively small house spots remaining, to the tune of 11x10, and 14x9. I, personally, think this can work.

Feedback, please. Let me know if any of you are interested.

Yours,
Draxen aka Vince

I think its a nice idea tbh Draxen, but how are we going to find people to hold the houses is the question. i especially liked it when you said "Bear with me" ,
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I am in favour of the idea becuse it really can be done as you say.
only need a few houses in an area a bit away from Vesper and we can call it an outpost.. and the fact that its damn near impossible to find a house in vesper means it gives vesper folks another place to group up and not feel totaly left out.

Ofcourse this requires we built the houses in a Vesper style or it will not really work

Hmmm... Vesperian fortifications tend to be bathed in flame.

But I cant see any other.. issues. Except ofcourse that other people in the area may be equally desiring the properties...

well, we got a few rich guys in the guild so lets find a spot with a handfull of houses that look good, (or as i understand, draxen already have) and see if we can take hold of those .. AND have people willing to live there ofcourse

Awsome, thaks for you're imput guys. All we need how are some funds, like Twoey said, and people who have the desire to move and help out with this.

I think the player run town that was there was Darkmoor or some such - all red and black flags... but that was some time ago. My first house was just north of there.

Well Its already started, I have bought the 17x18, twoey owns the one next door.. You guys need start buying the others now

Personally I thought it was going to be near trinsic or something as its basicly in vesper anyhow but a good idea.

its halfway to minoc and great news that you got the house nextdoors.
That means .. 2 more houses there.. behind yours and... the other large house on the other side of my house.

oh and Cid ,... we need his house either designed to suit better or if he is not playing right now , transfered to someone who can hold it.

There's a problem with this kind of thing though - buying houses north of the glittering river and making forts out of them is hardly going to stop folk from romping across Vesparicia in the south and straight into Vesper, is it? Love the idea though, and I'll hold one of the forts on my second account if necessary.