cups
Grandmaster
Bindings of devotion. What a handy item. They are an item you feed you your meta pets that will increase their length of "wild" loyalty from 8 hours to 24 hours. It costs 10k dono, a bit steep, but the value is well worth it. Unfortunately, I don't think most people recognize the value of 24 hours of security so the item is often times overlooked and not purchased. Sadly, the results for this hurt.
I won't go on my usual anti-pet stealing rant that I normally go on. A maxed level 7 meta with all the relics is gosh countless hours and valued at 20m gold.. typically a user will spend more than that on their pet of they start from the beginning. It's a lot to lose with one mistake.. one bad day, or one day where it slips your mind.. you forget to stable and you go to bed and wake up and go to work the next day... by the time you get home from work its 18-20 hours later since you last played. In my experience most people that lose these level 7 metas lose them because they didn't realize they had been taken. They had pet balls with charges.. they could have rescued their pet.. but for a simple slip of the mind or a simple distraction they forget to stable and their pet is taken. And they lose it. A HUGE loss. Now I know the typical response is, "but this is UO..." sure, it is UO, but at it's conception nobody could lose a 25m 500+ hour pet because of one simple mistake. You can't lose talismans, right?
So my suggestion is this: we cut the price of bindings of devotion in half. instead of 10k dono we charge 5k dono. I think that more dono will be spent overall on bindings of devotion if the price is 5k versus 10k. I would guess at 5k more than twice as many people would put that protection on their pets. I really think its something that should be considered because I love this game, I love what UOF has done with this game, but 20 years later the community is fighting an uphill battle. we need to preserve population and nothing will kill a person's desire to play if they get home from work one day and realize they lost their pet they've spent millions on and building for the past nine months. Lets increase the availability on pet security. Cut the price in half.
I won't go on my usual anti-pet stealing rant that I normally go on. A maxed level 7 meta with all the relics is gosh countless hours and valued at 20m gold.. typically a user will spend more than that on their pet of they start from the beginning. It's a lot to lose with one mistake.. one bad day, or one day where it slips your mind.. you forget to stable and you go to bed and wake up and go to work the next day... by the time you get home from work its 18-20 hours later since you last played. In my experience most people that lose these level 7 metas lose them because they didn't realize they had been taken. They had pet balls with charges.. they could have rescued their pet.. but for a simple slip of the mind or a simple distraction they forget to stable and their pet is taken. And they lose it. A HUGE loss. Now I know the typical response is, "but this is UO..." sure, it is UO, but at it's conception nobody could lose a 25m 500+ hour pet because of one simple mistake. You can't lose talismans, right?
So my suggestion is this: we cut the price of bindings of devotion in half. instead of 10k dono we charge 5k dono. I think that more dono will be spent overall on bindings of devotion if the price is 5k versus 10k. I would guess at 5k more than twice as many people would put that protection on their pets. I really think its something that should be considered because I love this game, I love what UOF has done with this game, but 20 years later the community is fighting an uphill battle. we need to preserve population and nothing will kill a person's desire to play if they get home from work one day and realize they lost their pet they've spent millions on and building for the past nine months. Lets increase the availability on pet security. Cut the price in half.
