1. What are you missing in
UO and could it be improved by us players?
Missing....hrm, not that much really, dont miss the whines on icq, dont miss the whines in the guildchat, dont miss parts where people always seemed to go out from their way to annoy others...for..no reason *shrugs* other than they fancied they could do so anyway. Miss maybe the points when things used to be lighthearted and not scripted to such high levels...and miss the times when fights used to errupt randomly...and not after 15 minutes of babble while 25 of the mans mates turned up randomly as the fights used to occur. Can the players fix this? doubt it as much as the question should be "should the players fix this?" its been the norm, or was anyway, for 2-3 years prior to myself leaving.
2. Do you think we don’t do enough story lines for interactive roleplaying and character development?
Stories used to be random...used to be nonescripted...Kain twothumb getting killed by LB took...5 minutes to come up with and that was that, the end of the planning. The rest was random. The curse scenario took a tiny bit more planning (in the most sparse sense of the word planning ever) "ok, we goto skara, we fight between the guilds, whoever still stands after can take it whichever way from then". Then...came the 5-9 week preplanning for....a moot, for a small battle, for a small war etc. It got too much, people who thought it wasnt, took the limelight...an stuff started to only involve 2-3 people mainly...with the stagehands carrying out the fight. Instead of randomness prevailing.
3. Any suggestions what could or should be done overall to improve roleplay and get more people having fun at it?
As numpty welshboy said..less talk, more playing. But, looking here and elsewhere the boards (unless private boards are busy) are dead or quiet in anycase. Also maybe not being an arse ingame because you think someones an arse out of the game too. Play the game as that...as entertainment, not a competition to the levels of the olympics, or the european qualifiers and yer not england.
4. For those that left, do you consider returning and what would ea have to do?
Make it a subscription free game, even then...would be doubtful. Maybe stop trying to copy bits off every other mmorpg lately too >.>