UOWoW

[sturmur]

I'd like to let you guys know of a ArcEMU server that just opened up. The owner is Hawthorne of the PvP 'The Regulators' and he decided in the wake of Darkfail to try his hand and making an enjoyable PvP game for fun. He decided that he'd like to replicate the UO ruleset as much as possible with a few added tweaks to a system that is already pretty stable.

I'm currently playing and it is so far pretty fun and with pop. growth in the future it can only get better. Here are the release notes from when the server released yesterday.

-Full world PVP
-Item drops on death or suicide (1-12 items from equipped and bagged)
-Protective guards in town and starting areas (but not invincible)
-100% inter-faction game-play supported
    -Guilds can have horde or alliance
    -Groups can have horde or alliance
    -Raids can have horde or alliance
    -You can talk to anyone from either faction
-No arenas (all PVP is world based)
-Mark/Recall spells (like Ultima)
-Reduced spawn rates of all Bosses, creatures, in the world and dungeons
-All instances are singletons i.e. anyone can go into an instance at anytime grouped or not because there is only 1 instance.
-Repopulated zones for higher level content control
-Repopulated resource nodes for crafters to control
-Guild and Player housing
    -Guilds will be able to control major cities as well like stormwind and ironforge
    -Decorate your house with over 1,000 items from our object database
    -Protect your garrison with CANNONS and other siege weapons.
    -Custom itemization and new world events and items.
-Money drops x 15
-Starting mount (under pets tab)
-Mob kill XP x 10
-Quest XP x 3
-Rested XP x 2
-Exploration XP x 2
-Green Item drop rates x 10
-Blue item drop rates x 6
-Purple item drop rates x 3

The website is at http://www.uowow.com

If you are interested, all you need is a WoW client patched to 3.0.9 (3.1.0 capability coming very soon) and follow the instructions on the site.

Hope to see some of you in the game.

[Sutro]

Er, geez.

That's pretty wild, and a pretty large recoding, seems. Color me impressed.

I see it as having great potential to draw larger lawyer aggro than other smaller scale efforts that fly under the radar, though.

[Soln]

that is interesting. Anyone got any screenies? 

Edit: signed up, no confirmation mail, no downloads.  Any ideas?

[sturmur]

Yeah, the website needs some work in terms of usability. Here's the lowdown on how to get started:

YOU MUST BE A REGISTERED USED OF THIS SITE TO PARTICIPATE! Steps to participate:
1) Download the UO-WOW Launcher http://www.theregulators.org/UltimaOnWow.zip
2) Make sure your comptuer has Microsoft.NET 3.5 Installed.
3) Download the WOW Client (http://www.theregulators.org/InstallWow.zip) and patch to 3.0.9
4) Run UltimaOnWow.EXE
5) Press Connect.
6) MAKE AN ACCOUNT ON THIS SITE. If you have already done so and did not get to register for the wow server please do so with this link: http://uowow.com/modules.php?name=WowSignup

[Falconeer]

This is weird. I am definitely curious, maybe even interested.

[Zzulo]

So this is legit? I had another guy on another forum advertise for this game as well, but that guy was very suspect. If it is legit, colour me interested.

[SnakeCharmer]

That sounds kinda..cool..actually

[Slayerik]

I'm kinda waiting on the word from other people around here......... :)

[Draegan]

This sounds frikkin awesome, kinda like my original thought of what WOW was going to be before I played.  Who's going to be the guinea pig?  Unfortunately I have stuff to do today so I don't have time to try it.

[Modern Angel]

I... hrm...

I need to hear more. There's too much shadiness around WoW stuff all trying to get my passwords and stuff.

This is also going to get shut down sooooo fast.

[Falconeer]

I am definitely giving it a try, but it'll take me 1 or 2 days to download the whole thing.

[Nebu]

How many copyright laws does this violate? 

WoW can't me made into a good PvP game.  There's just no way to do it.  As soon as a few groups get a gear advantage, they'll rule the server. 

[Hindenburg]

How many copyright laws does this violate? 

Not enough.

[Xanthippe]

I'd be worried that some nasty thing would be installed on my computer.  Like a password stealer.

[Falconeer]

You can only drop your password upon death.

[Rendakor]

Only carebears are afraid of malware. You have to be hardcore to play a game that tries to gank your computer.

[Nija]

Brought to us by the wonderful minds behind Dominus Online.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dominusonline/index.html

[Soln]

so has anyone tried this? 

[Sir Fodder]

-Full world PVP...

-Mark/Recall spells (like Ultima)...

Recall (as it was implemented!) was one of the worst game-mechanics of pre-Trammel UO. I say this as an former (mostly) anti-griefer/anti-PK/anti-GloriousLordSociopaths player.

[sturmur]

If this offers you any type of consolation, here's a online virus scan of the file: http://www.garyshood.com/virus/results.php?r=172c1df9797be7857aae8a26ea64c746


If not, you can edit your realmlist.wtf file in your World of Warcraft/Data/enUS folder from the Blizzard servers to "uowow.com" (without the quotation marks) But you will have to edit it back if you want to play on the Blizzard servers again.

Hope to see you ingame.

[Jack9]

I've tried a number of 3rd party WoW servers. Ultimately, it's the same gameplay (usually lesser quality) with less people and the knowledge that anything you do will probably be gone in 6 months.  That puts the kaibosh on any fun I might have.

[Register]

Item drops on death or suicide (1-12 items from equipped and bagged)

Does that mean that the items are no longer bind on pickup? Can a person pass a blue/purple quest item with no lvl required to use to a lowbie by letting the lowbie (new alt?) kill him before guilding it?  How about quest items - can the system distinguish between quest items and other items - imagined ganked on the way to quest turn in and losing your quest items - and your ganker getting nothing of value unless he is intentionally try to grief you.

If you are interested, all you need is a WoW client patched to 3.0.9 (3.1.0 capability coming very soon) and follow the instructions on the site.

On one hand I see an adherence to legalities on F13 demonstrated by making sure posters do not violate NDAs; yet it is surprising that a link to a site that obviously breaks copyrights (by modifying the wow client) is advertised and accepted. What is F13's official stance on such?

[Mrbloodworth]

So, this real in any way shape or form?

[sturmur]

Item drops on death or suicide (1-12 items from equipped and bagged)

Does that mean that the items are no longer bind on pickup? Can a person pass a blue/purple quest item with no lvl required to use to a lowbie by letting the lowbie (new alt?) kill him before guilding it?  How about quest items - can the system distinguish between quest items and other items - imagined ganked on the way to quest turn in and losing your quest items - and your ganker getting nothing of value unless he is intentionally try to grief you.

If you are interested, all you need is a WoW client patched to 3.0.9 (3.1.0 capability coming very soon) and follow the instructions on the site.

On one hand I see an adherence to legalities on F13 demonstrated by making sure posters do not violate NDAs; yet it is surprising that a link to a site that obviously breaks copyrights (by modifying the wow client) is advertised and accepted. What is F13's official stance on such?

To your first question, I am not a developer of the server so I do not have an idea how the system works in its extent. I'm sure that you can ask that question on the forums and one of them would be happy to help you out. The system is pretty new and I can see some loopholes being created, but those will be ironed out over time.

To your second question, I am sorry if I have broken any rules on F13 in regards to posting potentially illegal activities. If F13 believes it to be an illegal activity you can delete this post at any time.

[Segoris]

Why the hell not, I'll guinea pig for this. It does seem there are a few things that are great and some things that really need to be worked out, like any game and especially like any private server. One thing to mention: on this server the instances were turned into dungeons that are open world 

edit: Also, if anyone else wants to join, it would be nice to get a solid group going. I'd have no problem playing a wildcard class of whatever is needed if there is interest in testing this out in a group manner.
edit 2: didn't see that the instances being turned into dungeons was listed in the op. Still, it's awesome enough to mention again because it's about damn time this was done again, and done right.

[NiX]

On one hand I see an adherence to legalities on F13 demonstrated by making sure posters do not violate NDAs; yet it is surprising that a link to a site that obviously breaks copyrights (by modifying the wow client) is advertised and accepted. What is F13's official stance on such?

From what I understand, the adherence to NDAs is more to prevent premature bitching and to keep F13 in good standing when it comes to beta testing as a group. Plus, you decide if you'll do it, he just posted a link. I could also be wrong and this could get denned.

[FatuousTwat]

To those that say this is going to get closed down really soon, I know of quite a few servers that have been up since before Burning Crusade that are still going, easily found with google.

[WindupAtheist]

When Slayerik and I think Cheddar and some other guys all decided to go play some UO freeshard, they got a forum put up for it. Granted EA has never displayed any interest in doing away with freeshards. /shrug

[schild]

I don't really see a problem. Even if we discussed it as an experiment - it's worth discussing. We're not gonna host any of this crap though.

[CharlieMopps]

Someone try it and tell me if its worth the download.

If it works, Blizzard should buy it... not shut it down.

I never did understand why SOE got so upset about the free servers for EQ1. They should have taken the hint and started selling server space. What your own server? $100/month and all your players STILL have to pay us.

[Nebu]

Since many of the people related to this site openly violate copyright law with music, movies, tv shows, and software, I find it hard to believe they would have a problem with this.  

I have a problem with this, but I'm strange like that.  

[CharlieMopps]

Since many of the people related to this site openly violate copyright law with music, movies, tv shows, and software, I find it hard to believe they would have a problem with this.  

I have a problem with this, but I'm strange like that.  

Don't get me started on that subject. I'll win. 

[Nebu]

Don't get me started on that subject. I'll win. 

We both have a right to our opinion.  How about we peacefully coexist? 

[patience]

Coexistence is never an option.

[Falconeer]

Can't login.
Says my account/password isn't right basically, "Unable to validate game version", but the reply isn't UOWOW custom, just the default Blizzard one.

Need to manually patch WoW client from 3.01 to 3.09. Couldn't find how within 4 seconds of Google-fu and because of that my interest is waning...

Remember to patch from 3.01 to 3.09 and DO NOT install 3.10.