Events or Scenarios?

21st June 2006, 09:40 PM

I voted for scenarios. Those were the times I'd made some news friends in UO. I'd show up almost every night to help out a newly made friend keep the area around her shop scenario monster free.

Terrance · 21st June 2006, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Adam

Which did/do you prefer? Events? or Scenarios?

Events. Events are much more interactive for the players present and many get to actually personally interact with the event characters. Scenarios, like the Inu one we have going, are drawn out, take place half in-game, half on websites, and are confusing if you're not on the exact same page as everyone else. I've hated having to glue my eyes to U.Hall the past few weeks with a decoder wheel and chicken bones while trying to soak in parts of the scenario that everyone talks about out of sequence and with a lot of false information. EM events are much more realistic to me as well, as the characters don't stand there for weeks on end.

Hazard · 23rd June 2006, 11:29 AM

I've always felt they've needed a combination of the live feel of events and the more structured and advance programming of a scenario.

While scenarios were fun, they are a bit dry/lifeless. Live events also have their obvious weaknesses as we've all witnessed (either through a EM without imagination, lack of EM tools to use to make the event epic, or major lag that destroys the events for those with low grade connections), but you can't beat interaction with non-AI.

I believe they are supposed to re-introduce the EM's again in the coming month(s), which will be good only if they've programmed in some scenario-type devices for the EM's to utilize or manage events around.

Wild Flower · 27th June 2006, 12:12 PM

I can't vote because I like it all -- it all keeps the game changing and therefore keeping it fun for me. I hate doing the same thing over and over and over so between the two I get to do a lot of different things and enjoy them all.

Lady Lynn · 29th June 2006, 08:56 PM

At this point i voted for neither....

I never hear about events until after the fact...

The last 'scenario', if it's considered one, that I was involved with was the undead invasion of Luna....
Now my problem with it was the fact that my vendors were at a house by one of the town entrances, surrounded by Rotting Corpses... and I have 'boonie dial-up' connection so guess what happened when I recalled in, unaware of the spawn, to pay my vendor with my smith on a fully loaded bug??!??

By the time the houses and spawn loaded, my smith was dead and so was her bug...
By the time I found a helpful stranger on the road headed out of Luna (cant go in there for the lag on a normal day) and was able to get back to the vendor house through that same spawn, all was gone....
By the time the invasion was over, the vendors had walked off due to lack of funds, thank goodness the stuff is saved in the house menu....

**Maddux** · 5th August 2006, 04:43 AM

Scenarios of course

**DiP** · 5th August 2006, 05:30 AM

Why not both?

Eowyna Rohanna · 5th August 2006, 06:10 PM

Both are good!

But I prefer scenarios for the added content.

Slaveone · 6th August 2006, 11:15 AM

I'll have to go with senarios i play atlantic so events are few and far between but from my experiance the events only reward a few random people who luckily stumble across them at the right time or who are pre warned of them coming rewarding these few who are either supremely lucky or who are buddies with the EMs with rares that then are supposedly worth 100s of mils which is a total joke. Personally i think they should do away with events completely and make everything senarios on all shards no shard specific rares or events giving a handful of people super rare items that they can then cash in on for millions upon millions. This is more than a little unbalancing and honestly totally unfair to your average player. I say pump out the senarios and do away with the events or at best incorperate them together and make the events more than a 1 shot thing for the EM's buddies to cash in on. Most specifically do away with the special items these events insert into the community and the dupers they always tend to bring out of the woodworks. On a side note the lag is terrible for events making them hard to even follow or causing even pimped out cpus to crash right in the middle of them leaving you in the dust. Also alot more of the idiots seem to show up for the events than the senarios they may still be there either way but at least with a senario they are spread out not all gathering together at the same time.