UOG: Demise

...nothing seems to motivate the staff to run away from this failed formula that is governing this shard for years. Most people I know just play here because of the time they invested trying to get good gear, not because they are having fun while playing the game. I maybe question your data pool in...

I played in Halloween Town a bit. I'm still in the "gaining skills" stage since I returned. Actually started my first sampire, tho I've mostly been playing on my tamer mage and writing scripts to manage BODs. HTown was fun, but mostly I beat up orcs in the fort until the champ spawned and ...

i still think it's all strangely sexual.. second life also had a currency exchange thing with real world money if i remember right... wasn't it all like prostitution and unicorns with massive knobs? i dunno i didn't play it lol did research it at one point... and was kinda disturbed. lots of trans ...

"They still have the position advertised on their website, so I guess I didn't make the cut." you have no idea how much that pisses me off... but yeh, they all do it. no-one wants to train people that might leave for a better job, they wanna hire the person someone else has trained.. and ...

... you only have the extra +20 skills cos it took them 4 years to realize that in 10 years it'd be ridiculous. i dont think they planned that far ahead lol, or thought it would last that long. Agreed, but it was something at the time. As I wander the bottom floors of dungeons I could NEVER have so...

Can't really blame a bean counter for measuring success in beans, can you? :lol: UO has a hard cap of 720 skill points. That's true on production shards as well as here. I see it as a symptom of stagnation. We're also using a client with not really much in the way of new graphics in a decade. That a...

You mention C. Is Demise not using the RunUO base, and as such running C#? Semantical for discussion, but the two are different. One imagines that the server coded C# ought to have more optimizations for things like RNG. (I do have a copy of RunUO but I'll admit I haven't looked at the source in yea...

The industry definitely did make a shift from "nerds in a basement making a game they liked and people bought it" to "bean counters hired writers and directors and managers and programmers and on and on for a set amount of money and they churn out something that marketing data tells t...

According to https://www.uogdemise.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1387: When comparing this to OSI, yes, this drop rate is indeed too low. However, if everyone was able to obtain all their desired Doom artifacts within a day, there would soon be no point in keeping Doom around at all. The se...

I also got stuck at 119 doing studded do and burnt around 20k leather without gains. Was just gonna leave it until I saw this thread. Thanks for posting!

I had a similar issue, where I was deep in modifying a macro in one UO instance while my miner was macroing, and I look over to find my guy trying to run through a jail cell wall. The GM had literally just placed me there and was still in the room with us (another guy had been caught and he also was...

I PMed Selene & Larson through the forums with a similar account related issue (I have my original account and two new ones, figured out two old ones exist but I lacked the passwords and the desire to get busted for 5 accounts). Selene responded a week or more later. I took a couple days to retu...

Ultima Online is an old game. In many ways it is locked in its era, to be a relic we play when we want nostalgia, or to experience what 1998-2005 felt like. It's like breaking out the SNES/Genesis. Even to play UO on EA's servers is to play a well-worn, somewhat tired feeling game. You don't compare...

This was a nice trip down memory lane. Much of it not exactly my memories, so it fills in some gaps for me. Back when RunUO was getting on its feet from the ashes of UOX, when Ryan was Retalin and I was Loser, he and I butted heads (a lot) in the RunUO forums. I kept busy running a couple shards of ...

And now for a little Schrödinger's Cat exercise in UOSteam. Here is a snip from a larger script I've written to gather BODs and put them into common storage: while @findtype '0x2258' '1102' 'backpack' @setalias 'BOD' 'found' if @property 'Small Bulk Order' 'BOD' headmsg 'Found small smithing bulk or...