Tent Idea

[Sir.]

I remember back when UO had tents. What if they came back but to prevent them from hogging all kinds of land, what if they only had a timer of 24 real world hours of being up until they fell? Whatever is in the chest inside the tent after 24 hours is deleted or left on the ground in a pile like an IDOC; just give a BIG warning message when you place a tent that you only have 24 hours before the tent is permanently removed and all items in the tent chest will be thrown on the ground. Make tents a stealable deed that goes back to the owners backpack when the tent falls.

They also require camping skill to setup mwahahaha

Neat, no?

 

[Hexoplex]

Purpose of such a thing?

 

[Deadpool]

Not sure why anyone would want a tent then...

 

[Li Meiyang]

Would be useful for storing loot and having a place to log in/out while farming, particularly if T2A lands open up. But for now... I think they'd just be used for blocking and make a mess of things. If they had to follow the same placement rules as sm houses, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Kinda cool actually. You could do yurts and stuff. Tailoring + Camping skill to create larger ones with more secure storage. Options for canvas (cloth) or hide. Hide tents maybe last longer.

These would be great for new players, or those choosing to adopt a nomadic lifestyle.

 

[Dig'em]

Maybe let youngs set up tents until they lose their young status?

 

[Li Meiyang]

OR make the refresh rate even stricter, like 3 hours. That way people won't keep them up permanently, but can skill have fun using them in the field for short periods of time while farming.

Anyway, I think they're a little too busy coding up content for tamers to ever get around to something like this.

I like the idea though.

 

[wreckognize]

allow to place (only?) in dungeon
make every tile of tent passable; nothing blocking
make it smaller, like a pup tent with a single regular backpack inside
make tents drop as semi rares at brigand camp instead of purchasable

 

[Sir.]

Yeah the idea is for storing loot safely for short periods of time. Just a few hours would be cool too, and i like the idea that every part of the tent is passable except for your chest... I wanna make use of some of the land out there too small for houses

 

[Hexoplex]

I can see these getting dropped at IDOCs in an attempt to "hold" the spot for someone else to place a bigger plot later and/or used for IDOC loot storage. Also outside of RDAs and champ spawns..just something to think about.

 

[MANKRIK]

If the tents are small (like 3x3) it might be interesting to introduce a farmer's market type of thing on weekends where everyone can put up temporary tents with a vendor in/near a city and hawk their goods. It'll give a lot of people without $3m moongate guard zone houses a chance to sell some stuff, but won't affect real estate prices much because it'll be for only a few hours a week.