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Re:Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was de... by lordnacho on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:03PM (#18748993)
Sounds like they just left it to pure ecology to somehow balance? Did they think of making depopulated species harder to kill, or make them mate faster?
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Re:Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was de... by Raph_Koster on Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:02PM (#18750240)
We actually wanted the scarcity, so it would affect prices and desirability. We just didn't expect everything to be scarce.
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