*RTLFC*

There are several reasons I don't play Siege, and none of them were on the poll... so I didn't answer the poll.

I only have time to play one shard. I've been playing Baja since I started nearly 10 years ago. The guild and alliance that I'm a part of has spent those years building up holdings, landmarks, and a player town on Baja. I have no intention of giving up the history on Baja.


I'm a Baja player... that's it. Just as there are many who love their shards for their own reasons and have intention of leaving it.

Sure Siege is great, but it is not anymore great then any other shard that someone started on & enjoys.

Just my 2 pesos.

I have a similiar feeling to Nok's I was born on Great Lakes, thats my home. That shard has its own history! Everyone remembers when the Temple of Mondain guild completely took over the felucca towns and uterly destroyed the bloockrock clan of orcs! Everyone remembers the Malas land rush and the very old fel pvp guilds made a run for the new lands with tram rules yet could say they wernt trammies.

Even though players come and go their spirit stays. There are actually player written books hanging around in NPC bookshelves written by myself and other role players back when greatlakes rp was huge! It has all but dwindled but the history can still be found! Im sorry to say I was born here, will live here, and eventually die here.

Switching shards is like going to a completely different world and getting a new address, driver's license, and birth certificate.

I love my UO friends and consentrate 100% on them and the shard we share.

None of the above are really the one and only reason, but I don't like constant PvP. Having the choice of going to Fel when I feel like it is fine with me.

Also I have plenty of stuff to do on Europa alone, couldn't possibly split my time between two shards.

One more thing that bugs me is the Siege players on Stratics always butting in on threads basically letting everyone know they should play Siege and Siege players are so much better than the rest of us (okay, exaggerating, but still).

I guess the bottom line is I just CBA

agreed with the above hard to split time

It is hard to split time between shards. After setting up 3 chars on Atlantic in addition to Great Lakes, my playing time is still spent about 90% of the time on GL. I simply wanted another shard for the change of scenery and the fact that when my guildies aren't on I can hunt solo on another shard (although I may get in a guild on Atlantic when the chars there are done and I see the Atlantic guilds in action).

I have a character on Siege, but I never play there. I enjoy going to Fel, and don't mind pvp'ing, but I don't want to do it constantly. On the positive side, it might be nice to not have to spend a kajillion gold pieces putting together a suit lol.

I have a few questions for those who chose "Get PK'd too much"

HAVE you played on Siege and been PK'd??

Have you played on Siege and been PK'd more or less than the usual on a production shard in Fel??? (if you haven't spent significant time in Fel on a production shard, please say so)

ARE you just assuming you'd be PK'd without even playing Siege?

I'm asking 'cause I split time between several shards and know that can be difficult, but I feel the whole PK thing is blown out of proportion.

I feel if you are social character on Siege you will get PKed less than on a production shard... One main thing about Siege is there is FAR less trash talking in PvP then any shard I've ever played before. One thing to keep in mind if playing Siege is there are a lot of friendly help nice player who are "red" where as there are plenty of backstabbing dry looting blues. It is unqiue...

The gains are to slow on UO for most people they don't have that kind of time to devote to gaining skills.

i havent played siege before but what i did notice in fel the reds and blues who kill p'k and hunt are just trying to have a great experience so i take it all in if i get pked so what if i hunt with a blue great but from what you all beenn saying siege sounds kinda fun i might give it a try when i have time

That's why I asked, I doubt half the people that voted for "Get PK'd too much" actually played on Siege and in Fel/Production Shard for any amount of time to actually come to some sort of opinion due to facts other than worrying about being PK'd just from stepping foot in a consensual PvP environment.

For all purposes, on Siege, it was the blues who were the worst offenders (using some type of bug/exploit to get you g-whacked and dry looting).