Note these are all just concepts that are no in any particular organized maner, nor do any mean they will be diffidently seen on FD.

Some concepts are taken from Raph Koster's "resource system". Others are ideas of Ilutzio's or myself.
Lets discuss on any one feature you like in particular, ones you dislike or any you want to change.
Be constructive.

• Creatures have these basic abstract properties:
  
  Production
  Food
  Shelter
  Desires
  
  Examples:
  
  Rabbit:
  
  Production: Fur, meat
  Food: grass, flowers and vegetables
  Shelter: Grass, bushes
  Desire: Nothing, but have aversion to anything the produces carnivor-meat
  Fears: Wolves and human hunters
  Wander Instinct: Search of desires, shelter and other vermin
  
  
  Wolf:
  
  Production: Fur, carnivor-meat
  Food: Meat
  Shelter: Trees, holes and caves
  Desire: Nothing, but have aversion to anything the produces carnivor-meat
  Fears: Orcs and humans
  Wander Instinct: Search of desires, other wolves, in packs and shelter.
  
  
  Orc:
  
  Production:
  Food: Meat and vegetables
  Shelter: Forts, Caves and trees
  Desire: Gold, gems, weapons and hostages. To be evil all the time.
  Fears: Groups of humans, magic
  Wander Instinct: Shelter, vermin and other orcs
  
  
  Skeleton:
  
  Production:
  Food:
  Shelter: Crypts or underground/caves
  Desire: Instinctivly roam the world it onces lived in as human
  Fears: Magic
  Wander Instincts: Meaningless, search of crypts
  
  
  Plantation:
  
  Weeds grow around abandonded housing, outside of town.
  Plants grow near water sources and abundant shade/under trees
  During winter production is slow.
  During summer they grow rapidly but die quickly or produce bad vegetation
  During spring they abundantly grow near water sources and produce mass vegetation
  Trees turn into stups after being chopped at a certain amount
  Tree stumps grow back into regular trees by timer effected by season
  Leaves dissapear in winter
  Leaves mass in spring
  Occasionaly die in summer
  Trees can produce wood, kindling and vines
  Leaves can be harvested for certain alchemist needs and to make bedrolls for travellers
  Any plantation in town or next to occupied buildings require water
  NPCs water plants in town unless the home is occupied, occasianly missing some
  Players water their plants by choice, dead plants and trees raise their rent
  Trees can occasionaly fall over, killing the tree and blocking paths
  Rabbits and other vermin may use fallen trees for shelter
  Fallen trees may not be used for shelter by larger creatures
  
  Goverment:
  
  Certain guards patrol and post designated areas
  Guards stats are varied depending on the area of watch
  During the night a guards vision becomes weakened
  
  Criminals when caught by a guard are not instantly attacked and killed, they are given options:
  *Pay a fine and continue their day(depending on action)
  *Be arrested and held in jail, there they will have more options(see below)
  *Resist arrest and takes your chances evading the guards and become an Outlaw(see blelow)
  
  Jail:
  Depending on supply/demand in town by vendors, a prisoner will be required to do specific jobs
  (mine rocks, gather water into kegs, roll leather etc...)
  Your time in jail is determined by your law breaking action/s.
  Have the ability to escape depending on your status with certain familys that have such power
  Escaped prisoners will alert a guards range by double the usual.
  
  Outlaw:
  Similar to being "red" but without the reputation of being a murder
  Unable to purchase from town vendors
  No bank access
  No housing available and any houses owned prior to becoming an outlaw are ceased
  You remain an outlaw until your sentence is determined and served(based of prior actions and reputation)
  Occasional "black-market" trevelling salesman will patrol numerous routes outside of town allowing an outlaw to purchase a limited invetory of goods at nearly triple the price
  
  Vendors:
  Players may sell items that can then be baught by anyone at a price determined by the NPC
  Prices are determined by the amount of incoming goods
  It is ppossible that vendors can have little to no goods depending on trade traffic
  Players can open contracts with vendors to bring in regularly amounts of an item for a higher profit
  
  City Gambling:
  On purchases over the amount of X, 2% is put into a lottery pool and after one month (UO days) it is rewarded at random to a lottery ticket holder
  Duels - bet upon current and upcoming duels.
  Leaderboards - A list of the top 10 winners.
  
  Crafting:
  Skills - smithing, alchemy, tailoring, carpentry, tinkering, hydroponics
  
  
  Storage:
  Banks may only hold gold
  
  Merchants bank: May contain only items crafted by the bank renter at a daily charge depending on the amounts of items held
  
  
  Wearables:
  
  Armor and weapons have a chance to rust if not repaired by smiths regularly
  Rusting or rusted items durabiliy and damage is decreased
  Rusted items return less metal upon smelting
  GM crafrted items have less chance of rusting
  
  Guilds:
  
  Guilds are formed socialy not by stones or automated systems.
  Guilds do not exsist in a roster or stone, simply player ran
  Asign outfit colors or requirements, those who chose to follow will be loyal. Those not, might be outcasted and/or slain or regulated by other loyal members
  
  
  Hunger/Thirst:
  Being too full can cause you to occasionaly run out of stamina quicker, swing slower
  Being too hungry can make you lose stamina much quicker, lose health and lower strength
  
  
  
  Night/Day
  Nights will become very dark, thus leaving players and NPCs the choice of magic or candle light.
  Day will have random temperatues, at highs a fully geared warrior may become very thirsty
  Low temperatures can occasionaly cause lowered dexterity and lower hp
  
  
  Housing:
  
  Doors can be attacked
  Doors "life" willbe considerably high
  Alerts guard range by more then double due to the "noise"
  Broken doors can onl be replaced by the owner purchasing or constructing a new door from carpenters
  Housing will be effected by your criminal history.
  Private guards can be hired to protect your home.
  
  Voting:
  After X amount of time, town leaders are re-elected.
  Each NPC has special offerings and can be altered depending on bribing and player loyalty
  Specific areas of towns can become outraged and begin to start fires or attack other mobiles depending on item production and earnings
  
  Townfolk:
  At certain times, certain npcs will close their shop.
  Shops can be broken into
  Each shop contains a locked crate of items when the shop is closed that can be broken into
  If your caught stealing from shops, certain vendors may refuse to sell to you or increase their prices
  Children will randomly trip you, steal from your or taunt you. They may also beg for food, candy etc..
  Guards occasianly will "shake-down" players for no reason, sometimes taking items from their backapck.
  
  
  Reputation: (not karma or fame)
  Is determined by past convictions, income of sold goods to vendors and voting/arresting participation
  
  
  Bounty Hunting:
  Apply for the task of hunting down a specific bounty/outlaw, rewarded gold/bounty amount

This list is not complete, merely just some thoughts...

Great concept ideas Draconis (and Illutzio). I do not regret a second that I found you guys and will continue to play this shard (once I have a little more free time).

Some ideas are actually the same I was suggesting. It's all right that I don't have any credit on this list. I was a dick last time so I understand why you hate me. Anyways guys, 'your' ideas are great so far.

I would like to point our few things.

Reputation. Great so far, however it could be something like Civil council reputation (if a player is a politician) or Guilds reputation (if he is a member of the merchant guild, buy/sell actions) and Overall disposition (anything else, such as if you give food to beggars or if you are evil your disposition may change).

Also, an idea on Guilds. There could be several NPC ran merchant guilds. In fact, a player could not be able to practise a certain craft legally in Britain without joining a certain guild. For tailoring - Tailors guild, for blacksmiths - Guild of tradesmen, Alchemy - Mage's guild etc.

If player does not want to join any of the guilds but wants to be a freelance crafter, then legal shops will not buy anything from him and/or prohibit him from running his activity. He may be charged with fines and even be put in prison. Here we come to above mentioned 'black market' fence, who could ilegally buy/exchange your producs with profit.

If a player chooses to join a guild, then he has to pay a certain percentage from his every operation to the guild. A player could be able to make a career there (by producing as much goods as possible), and perhaps even become a leader and become incredibly rich.

Same goes for a Thieves Guild. A thieves will be able to freelance, however they are at risk of being killed by the members of the thieves guild, since it ruins their monopoly of their business.

Player guilds are another story, of course. IMO there should be guild houses avaiable. Some houses in Britain are too large for one player, but would be enough for a guild. Some even have underground levels and second floors.

Politics. There should be a Town hall meeting for election needs as well as giving out orders if you have a certain political office. If you guys dont plan on having a Bards Guild then this building perfectly suits for a Townhall (after a little modification). Just an idea guys.

Also, LB's castle SHOULD have a purpose.

Banks and city gambling. Somebody has to run both. Banks should be able to give out loans and gambling operations should be ran by somebody.

Both banks and gambling houses could be robbed. Both should be crowdy. Banks at the day time and gambling houses during night time, for instance.

Thats it for now. Cant think of anything else atm but again guys, if all this happens that would be the best UO ever made. Not because of online count, but because there will always be something to do even with low population because of the small map and the fact that NPC's actually play a role in the gameplay. So even two people will be able to change the gameplay dramatically. Even more than 1000 douchebags could change it on IPY2 haha.

Ohh...forgot about permadeath. I still think that gameplay should be about strategic thought rather than mindless slaughter. So permadeath would be reasonable. And there should be a court too. Perhaps a detective system (Forensic) where you could spy for possible criminals and/or investigate crimes and find scents left after commiting a crime. The more serious the crime is the more obvious scents it leaves. Thus, a murder may be found by a detective and put into court. And if evidence is high enough he would be put in prison FOR A REALLY long time (in case of murder). Perhaps forever, but he could be paid a bail for and released sooner, for instance.