If they could gurantee that there would never be any hacks, duping, exploiting of any kind, I would gladly do this. The economy would finally be at a balance, and I wouldn't mind starting new characters. I do it all the time when I'm bored so it's not a problem with me. As for the sentimental attachment, it's just pixels. I'd get over it pretty quick. Especially if they can uphold that claim of no hacks/dupes/exploits.

Haha I can see this! That would so funny to hear!

-RMS Carpathia-

**nods**

No way i'd start over. A big part of why I won't play free shards is it's not just the game that keeps me but the history.

Take away the history, and the game is gone.

p.s. that's also why i get GBH angry when they nerf my characters and force me to change my templates or even worse to drop skills.

Can I just point out that its is simply impossible to stop people running scripts. They claim they can, but look how UOA works, scripts feed off the same outputs as UOA. SO i'm sorry guys, but you'll still get scripters. However, they can fix many of the other bugs in game. Such as dupes. So apart from the scripters it will make it a better game. As for starting over with characters, I'd be straight over to another MMORPG. I've invested into my characters alot of time and money, deleting them would be an insult of the highest order.

Point blank honesty....if I had to start a whole new game I would pick one that didn't just p*ss me off by completely wiping out all my hard work, time, effort, and not to mention wasting my money {look at previous 3 reasons and think about what I had to spend to use all that stuff}.

They have already announced that the new KR will not delete the accomplishment that's already be done. If it's anything like any other game about the only thing that is really going to happen is graphics and maybe some game machanics will change not items or charcater skills, etc....Like give Everquest for example. Back when they released "Shadows of Luclin" it was basically the equivlant of "Kingdom Reborn" a new screen set up, new graphic engine, etc...and that's all that changed, the screen, some of the machanics, and the graphics. Nothing else was lost, characters stayed the same, items aquired, though may have changed graphics but not deleted them.

I'm honestly not worried about the Blackrock thing being some sort of shard wipe thing. I think it's just a very long and drawn out way to introduce a new material for crafters to craft with....just one Tamer's opinion.

<I'm honestly not worried about the Blackrock thing being some sort of shard wipe thing. I think it's just a very long and drawn out way to introduce a new material for crafters to craft with....just one Tamer's opinion.>

You are probably right about the blackrock being a new crafting material. I wonder what kinda mods it will give? Good mods of just plain resists? I hope it is good mods like the new wood gives.

I think Blackrock will be just like the old Crystal Balls off Liches back in the day. There will eventually (if not already) be too many where people do not even save them anymore and then they will be out of the spawning loop where they are Uber valued.
Honestly, to the question at hand though, I start new charactors all the time for myself and for friends. This being said, I like making new ones but always go back to my old ones. I have built up a nice pile of pixles and friends. If they ever were to completely wipe UO servers and start fresh, I can't picture myself paying a dime to play anymore cause many of my friends would'nt bother either.

I personally think Blackrock is going to be used to open pathways to a new realm, kinda like moonstones.

That would be cool

I don't know if I could start over. It IS just pixels, but then you have to remember how much real-life money you put into the game. If you've bought 8th & 9th Anniversary and UO Gold...for current players, those were just bought to get the extra pixel crack that came with them. I'd be pretty upset if I lost all my Heritage tokens, soulstones, etc. that I'd paid $19.99 each time a box was released. I bought two of them, so that would be $40 that is completely and utterly wasted.

But...yeah, the blackrock. Its definitely going to be used to introduce something big. A new land, a new, long-lost race....this machine that the mages are building which is supposed to scan the entire world for blackrock is going to uncover something big.

Kylana