Alton - Good evening and welcome to Ultima Online Celebrity Chat. UOCC is a forum wherein we bring to you celebrity guests from the UO community, ranging from website administrators, OSI personnel, counselors, seers, and even roleplayers and PKs from your own shard! They drop by to answer your questions about UO, their experiences in it, and about their own contribution to the community.
Alton - Our system is similar to the UOHOC chats. All you have to do is /msg a designated question taker with your question or comment. However, when it is your turn, rather then a moderator pasting your question in the chat, instead we set +voice to you and allow you to talk with the celebrity guest yourself!
Alton - We ask that you please keep your questions on topic. Our guests are not on the DEV team and cannot answer when necromancy is going to be released. Also, this is not a forum for debates...if a particular thread goes on we may ask you to put it off until after the chat has ended.
Alton - Our question takers tonight will be
Alton - CJ and SaintTwinsen.

Alton - Advantium, and Helmholz why dont you tell us a little about yourselfs.
Advantium - Good evening, let me start by giving my background in the games that I first started out with.
Advantium - I have played all of the ultima series, and if many of you remember, they were built for the commodore 64
Advantium - had to wait for the slow disk drive for acess.
Advantium - I fell in love with the roleplaying aspect of it, then found a new world, the world of Ultima Online.
Advantium - Each and every day that goes by, I learn something new, and truly enjoy this rich world that I participate in.
Advantium - Let me give you some information about PTI
Advantium - PTI stands for Pacific Training Institute
Advantium - we have been here for about a year and a quarter and have served almost 20000 people on the pacific shard
Advantium - Now, I turn you over to Mylord Helmholtz
Helmholtz - I have been into RP games since college shortly after D&D was introduced (1976) . . .since then I have waited for UO to arrive in the world... Well, Within UO I have been involved with as many aspects of the game as I can find, like all of you here I am terribly a d d i c t e d to UO
Helmholtz - I have been happy to join with Advantium in her endeavors with PTI, it is truly a noble cause
Helmholtz - Advantium has opened a castle for public use, and all are welcome to come and visit
SaintTwinsen - OK, Now it's your turn folks. Let's bombard our guests with questions!
Helmholtz - Adv, are yu ready to answer any questions?
Advantium - aye ';)
Advantium - The process of the new players that come into PTI is truly neat.
Advantium - They meet with veteran players whom want to share their knowledge of the world we all are so familiar with.
Advantium - Then , those players become staff, and the cycle continues.

DarkBlade - Hello
Advantium - hello Darkblade
DarkBlade - I wanted to know what sort of things you teach the players
Advantium - Well, we teach the basics, survival, how to build their skills, ways of earning gold to support themselves, and roleplaying techniques
DarkBlade - Ahh
DarkBlade - Could you give an example?
Helmholtz - Also, what we teach depends a great deal on what they know, it varies from how to add a spell to a spellbook to how to refine stats when you have several GM's to juggle
DarkBlade - I'm just curious about this
DarkBlade - Well...What sort of rping techniques are there?
Advantium - There are many styles, from evil to good with roleplaying.
Advantium - FRom vampirism to orcs, we introduce all aspects of this.
DarkBlade - Wow
DarkBlade - Sounds pretty extensive
DarkBlade - Vampirism...*chuckles*
Helmholtz - Also, as the purpose of the school is so broad, many there dont know how to classically RP and sup dOoD is heard as well
* Advantium nods *
DarkBlade - Yeah
DarkBlade - Can I ask what sort of money making techniques there are?
DarkBlade - I'm not the greatest of money makers
* Advantium chuckles *
* DarkBlade would like to learn a little himself =) *
Advantium - there are many trades one can take on, from tailoring to smithying, scribing to magery for escorting, to monster hunting, carpentry and tons more
DarkBlade - Do you supply sources to get them started?
DarkBlade - Like donating gold or anything?
Helmholtz - We like to ask what kind of game a player likes to play, then find a craft to suit that style of play
DarkBlade - Ah
Helmholtz - We will teach the tricks of the trade on a level appropriate for them,. subtlties are not right when they dont know how to use a loom for example
* DarkBlade chuckles *
DarkBlade - Aye
DarkBlade - I just have one more question
Advantium - sure
DarkBlade - Do you teach anything about stealing? =P
Helmholtz - We try to enable, donating gold doesnt help them directly dontate next time to themselves
Helmholtz - We will teach rogue skills
* DarkBlade smiles *
DarkBlade - Good stuff they are
DarkBlade - Thanks a lot, both of you
Helmholtz - Now, stealing in the castle isnt permitted without permission from the victim
Advantium - We also provide a guildstone that the trainees get added to for the purposes of safe sparring
DarkBlade - I see
Advantium - Thank you for your interest Darkblade

Index - How do you keep people from looting and other antisocial activities
Index - like while they are training
Advantium - The only method we have available, and that is banning from the castle
Index - so all the activities take place in the castle?
Helmholtz - As mentioned genuine stealing is not allowed, as is murdering and other nasty deeds, removal, then banning if the lesson isnt learned
Advantium - well, we do go on dungeon hunts
Advantium - so no, activities take place outside the castle as well
Index - what does take place inside the castle?
Helmholtz - Since there are all craft tools in the castle, there isnt much need for crafting in town
Advantium - We do heavy sparring, lots of social interaction, we also have a cafe in the basement of the castle
Advantium - many come there to practice their magery, thus allowing others to gain with resist by sparring with the elements
Advantium - that were casted
Index - Wish we had a GLTI :)
Index - thanks for the information
Advantium - My wish was to extend to other servers, however, I am truly busy with just one server as it is

Rhykan - How do you recognize people who donate their time to the PTI?
Helmholtz - The people who donate time and energy to PTI are asked to be on staff... presently there is little besides a title to recognize them.
Helmholtz - There was a plan discussed this week to set up an incentive based system to reward service
Advantium - They do have vendors set up to help support their reagent use for healing , and many consider it their home
Helmholtz - What it will be hasnt been formulated
Rhykan - Have you had much assistance from veteran players as of late? How's the Interest Program looking for you?
Advantium - With the introduction of the newbie plan *young* status,
Helmholtz - We have many vetrans on staff
Advantium - we have had more veterans than newbies
Helmholtz - Daine the Wary, a 2 yr GM Smith recently joined as well to offer his sage advice
Helmholtz - The interest program....
Helmholtz - Adv, want to answer that?
Advantium - The interest program, welll, I hope to see more quests set up for the newbies that come into our world
Advantium - I also hope to see more programs geared for after newbie status as well
Rhykan - Okay. Thanks a bunch.
Advantium - Thank you
Helmholtz - We havent received any 'official' help, but the kettle is brewing

SaintTwinsen - Fot asked me to ask his question,...
SaintTwinsen - "What, if any, support has the PTI guild had from OSI? Are they doing anything to help you advance the guild?"
Helmholtz - Ahh, the Interest Program peeks out again
Helmholtz - We have discussed several things which the castle might like to see
Helmholtz - Initially we were concerned with courtyard exploits
Helmholtz - but it appears they really cannot be solved
Helmholtz - so, we moved onto other things
Helmholtz - We would like to enable the castle roof for events
Advantium - We have had a seer visit us several times, with promises of return visits
Helmholtz - since we are a school, our needs are few, personally I would like to see a wooden stage for the sparring and friendly duels
Advantium - And a stable for safe keeping of players horses
Helmholtz - So, as we have been told 'the wheels of OSI turn slowly" we patiently wait
* Advantium nods *
* Advantium nods *
SaintTwinsen - Cool... What type of things have you done yourself do accomidate for not having seer (or higher) support, if any?
Advantium - In the past, we ran a quest, that was very involved, and many players felt then that seer involvement was apparent, when it truly wasnt
Advantium - it was a blast
SaintTwinsen - Hehe, neato!
Advantium - we plan on running many more quests, and are in the process of developing a quest team
Helmholtz - We have set up little quests, some of which had the staff certain a seer was involved.. *chuckles*
Advantium - aye that was sooo funny!
SaintTwinsen - Last question for myself, what is the URL for your website, incase our viewers wish to visit your castle?
Helmholtz - PTI is looking for people interested in setting up quest events
Helmholtz - http://www.pti.caendryl.com
SaintTwinsen - Ok, thank you :)
* Helmholtz nods *
Advantium - Your most welcome SaintTwinsen

Quacking_Up - For the person who hasn't heard a lot about PTI, what kind of "one-time" events have you hosted?
Advantium - well, we just spoke of a quest we had run in the past, currently we are now doing every weekend dungeon trips for staff and newbies
Helmholtz - Since out 'students' are mostly new, a dungeon trip or T2A hunt is quite exciting
Quacking_Up - Set aside my experience, a trip to a dungeon or to T2A can still be quiet enjoyable..
Quacking_Up - I really apreciate the work people like yourselves do for our community, keep up the good work!
Advantium - THank you !
Advantium - It truly is most rewarding

* Patience_Euro waves *
* Advantium waves back *
* Hochepapa glowers *
Patience_Euro - Hello!
Advantium - Hi!
Patience_Euro - What is your interaction with other groups (Role Playing or not) on the Pacific Shard? I understand PTI is geared towards training newbies in UO skills, but what about running actual plotlines and events with other groups?
Advantium - well, we were involved with Pra, which is pacific roleplayers association
Advantium - One point in time, pra kind of went into hiding, and now they are back in full force, creating quests for the pacific shard.
Helmholtz - Patience, you hit upon a strong need with PTI, we have been really trying to become a good school, and involvement with the RP groups of Pac is a desired element
Patience_Euro - Do you feel that your acceptance of all types of players (Non Role Players specifically) drastically hurts your ability to interact with these other RP-Strict groups?
Helmholtz - Teaching more new players to RP will make Pac a better shard, hopefully to build a more cohesive shard history
Helmholtz - I think that is possibly a factor, it is hard to reduce the mechanical talk from the teaching
Patience_Euro - So when Elowyn of Yew comes to your castle and someone starts talking "sup d00d" what do you do?
Advantium - Many are willing to learn the many different styles of game play, and we dont tell them that they must choose our ways, we just inform.
Advantium - Patience, we dont change them, we just educate them by setting examples
Advantium - They catch on!
* Advantium smiles *
Patience_Euro - Aha.
* Patience_Euro smiles *
Patience_Euro - Thanks
Advantium - Thank you Patience!

Alton - Thank you for attending tonight's UOCC. Remember, UOCC occurs every other Monday night at 7pm CST. The log of tonight's chat will be posted tomorrow on http://uohoc.stratics.com.
Alton - Please feel free to join us here in #ultima-online at any time of the week for help in game, the latest UO news, or just to chat. Have a nice evening.