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on: January 01, 2011, 04:24:25 PM

In Por Ylem has been in development for quite some time now and is set to be released 1/21/11. While it is based around slightly tweaked t2a era PVP there is a lot of custom features implemented throughout the game. It is currently in closed beta with every major implementation fleshed out fully. I'd like to share all the marvelous details but the server is in closed beta. IPY will not include blessed items, any wacky neon hues, and importantly no mounts.

What are some of the major features you might ask? WELL LET ME TELL YOU.

Paladins
Paladins are designed to be a self policing force that punishes reds instead of a statloss based system. Wether you PK or not, reds are a huge issue for any server where they are left with no penalties. Paladins are gifted coins for killing reds that can be put towards rewards. These rewards give paladins an extra leg up on reds therefor evening out the risk v reward for being a red. Paladins cannot participate in Order vs Chaos PVP, so the rewards really be used other then laying the hurt on reds. Any murder counts will throw you out of the paladin order, so be careful not to get trigger happy.
Read more here! http://azaroth.org/2010/10/17/10-in-10-paladins/



Kings, Citizenship, Order v Chaos and more
Every major city has the ability to elect a King to control various functions of the city. For instance a king can decide on the taxation of vendors, to the level of guard security a town would provide. The king also has the ability to choose from one of the major perks that will be extended to all the citizens such as increased blacksmith gains or gold and magic item drop rate increasings. Citizen's of a town also receive massive vendor discounts. Appointed citizen's may place vendors inside the city limits as well. Order v Chaos PVP is based around capturing cities for the gain of certain PVP buffs that are only applied within cities themselves. While Kingship and Order v Chaos overlap, having your city captured by the opposite faction has only a small effect on the actual town dynamics beyond the ability for the opposing to steal your treasury. The treasury effects stuff like level of guard security and so forth. Each town also has a militia that takes place in the Order v Chaos PVP in order to protect its treasury. Its similar to the faction system used in UO and various titles are awarded and so forth.
Read more here! - http://azaroth.org/2010/11/07/10-in-10-kings-and-oc/




Portals
Portals are designed to appeal the the explorer/adventurer type. Portals are randomly generated all over the world that provide entrances to instanced custom dungeons. The level of difficulty scales with your skill level and let me tell you some can be brutally hard but rewards appropriately. The rewards vary from the usually gold, gems, magic items to unique rares. Currently it is a solo experience, but it will be expanded to a group environment later on in the server's lifetime.
Read more here! - http://azaroth.org/2010/11/22/10-in-10-portals/





Naval warfare and pirates
One of the more robust implementations, naval warfare is an interesting system on IPY 2. It features custom craftable ships/cannons, guild docks, pirate items and titles, shipwrecks and much more. The main goal of all pirates is to control Buccaneer’s Den in order to spend your pirate currency on various ammunitions, ship plans, to vanity rewards. You gain the pirate currency by ruining someone's day and sinking the hell out of their ship. Right before the ship is sunk, you are able to enter the ship for a short period of time to clear the hull out, then scram. One you have sunk a ship, the currency is deposited into your hull and you may no longer dry dock your boat unless you stable it at a cities dockmaster or your guild's docks. Smooth boat movement has also been implemented (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DVUUEeu0oU). There are also shipwrecking hunting as well. There is a lot more I haven't touched on this but just read more in the blog post.
Read more here! - http://azaroth.org/2010/10/24/10-in-10-yarr-pirates/
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Crafting
Crafting on IPY is designed to put a little more coin in a mule's pocket while providing with a more player based economy. For instance carpenters are the only way to get ships. Tinkers are the only way to get cannons. Inscription for the circle 7 and above can only be made with master scrolls making the scroll market more cutthroat and profitable. Alchemy will have additional potions that are more focus towards PVE that can only be found through random alchemy.
Read more here! - http://azaroth.org/2010/11/29/10-in-10-crafting/





Detectives
The detective system isn't entirely fleshed out yet, but has a lot of potential. While some might call it somewhat gimmicky, it implements another layer of player based policing. You collect clues from fresh murder scenes in order to pinpoint who did the murder. You file a report to a detective guild master and NPC bounty hunters are dispatched to apprehend the PK. If captured you are placed in an escapable jail. Its still being discussed if detectives will police thieves.
Read more here! - http://azaroth.org/2010/12/06/10-in-10-detectives/





Other features included
One of the more controversial implementations is that IPY 2 will have a RoT (Rate over Time) skill based system roughly based on that which was present on Siege Perilous. RoT has a rather negative connotation but RoT on IPY is designed for you to actually play your character in order to gain skill points. Yes macroing is very much so possible, but there is a daily cap on each skill to however much you can gain. The amount you can gain for each skill does down in value for ever tier, but is not a cumulative cap. So you can work on all 7 of your desired skills in a day. There is current talk of extending RoT to be a 2 to 3 day long cap with higher ceilings to gain within that time period to even the playing field for weekend warriors and such. Skills gain 200% in dungeons and decrease with the safety you are gaining in. Skills gain from fastest to slowest in dungeons, world map, towns, and then houses just like it does on Revelations. Macroing on a boat is more dangerous with the addition of pirating. Monsters also drop skill scrolls which increase the skill you're actively working on in varying degrees but only drop from monsters in your skill level. There is plenty I'm sure I'm leaving out but frankly this post is just too drat long. Ask any questions and I'd love to answer them for you.


-----------Above shameless stolen from Leisure on IPY forums-------------



http://inporylem.com/forum/showthread.php?554-IPY-Launch-January-21st-2011.&p=11732#post11732

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At this time we'd like to go ahead and proudly announce that IPY is planned to come online on the 21st of January, 2011.

We're extremely excited about this announcement, and we truly hope you'll spread the good news with all of your friends, family, and old Ultima Online fans.

In Por Ylem brought free UO shards into the mainstream, and we have absolutely no doubt that its successor will be a true step foward in Ultima Online gameplay.

January 21st, 2011. Finally, the time has come!

Feb 11th after delay.

I know it's Ultima Online, but it our f13 friend Azaroth's creation so I figured it was worth posting here.

For those not in the know about Ultima Online Freeshards, IPY was widely recognized as THE freeshard server post-trammel. High population, excellent PVP, and tram free being the main draws. This time around, Az has added the paladin system to help the victim and buff the Anti-PK. There are a lot of new systems , as shown on the homepage www.inporylem.com, and Az's blog azaroth.org. He has put a ton of time and effort into making this server great, and I hope that any F13ers that were a part of the 'good old days of UO' or missed the boat and were playing EQ should give this a try.

I will have a guild up for us, and some private forum/voice details if you PM me. We already have a decently large group, we should have a great launch and a lot of fun. Make sure to register at www.inporylem.com/forum. Long live UO.

EDIT: Stole much better post.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2011, 08:00:25 AM by Slayerik »

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Reply #1 on: January 01, 2011, 04:39:20 PM

So, I don't know how this freeshard thing works, how would I go about actually playing this?
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Reply #2 on: January 01, 2011, 05:06:39 PM

Gentlemen, tell me more about the massively multiplayer game 'ultima online' in the pre-trammel era, and what are your views on the pros and cons of the renaissance expansion?

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Reply #3 on: January 01, 2011, 05:07:43 PM

Gentlemen, tell me more about the massively multiplayer game 'ultima online' in the pre-trammel era, and what are your views on the pros and cons of the renaissance expansion?

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Reply #4 on: January 01, 2011, 05:53:51 PM

The renaissance expansion being the expansion that added a non PvP world to Ultima Online, changing the gameplay dramatically.

From their website, it looks like they haven't simply created a pre-renaissance version of the game but tried to expand the player-conflict elements of it with workable player justice and so on. It does look like fun.
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Reply #5 on: January 01, 2011, 08:42:52 PM

So, I don't know how this freeshard thing works, how would I go about actually playing this?

Download basically any client, patch with IPY stuff, play!


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Reply #6 on: January 01, 2011, 08:58:11 PM

So, I don't know how this freeshard thing works, how would I go about actually playing this?

Download basically any client, patch with IPY stuff, play!



We're actually going to suggest the newest (classic) client because of the smooth boat stuff.

« Last Edit: January 01, 2011, 09:37:45 PM by Azaroth »

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Reply #7 on: January 01, 2011, 11:04:18 PM

You know, I never played UO.  Seems like it'd be worth a look.  Any specific pointers on where to get a client?  I'm assuming the client is either commercial or abandonware? 
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Reply #8 on: January 01, 2011, 11:15:27 PM

You can snag the client for free here:

http://www.uoherald.com/downloads

Go with Classic.

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Reply #9 on: January 01, 2011, 11:26:00 PM

Cool, thanks.  Is there somewhere we can try stuff out before the Jan 21st launch?
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Reply #10 on: January 02, 2011, 12:25:19 AM

Having played UO on Atlantic from 1997 to 2000 (quitting one month after Renaissance in disgust), I think I'll definitely have a look at this  awesome, for real

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Reply #11 on: January 02, 2011, 01:03:58 AM

I think we're gonna need some macro program in order to make it tolerable. I'm not sure if I recall correctly, it's been more than a decade.

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Reply #12 on: January 02, 2011, 07:54:32 AM

The game is played standard now with Razor - a UO Assist like program that you can record macros in. Az is giving bonuses to skill gain in dungeons/graveyards/ruins, along with skill scrolls that will raise the skill over the RoT cap. It will actually pay to play this UO, and not just macro for a week and have a 7x grandmaster character.

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Reply #13 on: January 02, 2011, 08:00:55 AM

Full, pre-Ren theft system?  If so, count me in.

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Reply #14 on: January 02, 2011, 08:01:08 AM

hahah, I never macroed anything back in the day; actually, one of my fondest (early, of course, 'cause then macroing became the norm) memories was "manually" (as opposed to macroing) practising swordmanship in the Trinsic Training hall while chatting with other like-minded people about the game, or roleplaying.  Heart

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Reply #15 on: January 02, 2011, 08:03:48 AM

Full, pre-Ren theft system?  If so, count me in.

Absolutely.

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Reply #16 on: January 02, 2011, 10:34:16 AM

You need to find out where McFly is and make him put his webpage back up.

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Reply #17 on: January 02, 2011, 10:37:50 AM

For those who want to know more about IPY, UO, and free shards, spleens.net last updates are still referring to IPY in its first incarnation. Griefing and stuff.

http://www.spleens.net/

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Reply #18 on: January 02, 2011, 10:56:28 AM

You need to find out where McFly is and make him put his webpage back up.

It's actually coming back!

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Reply #19 on: January 02, 2011, 11:09:22 AM

Gentlemen, tell me more about the massively multiplayer game 'ultima online' in the pre-trammel era, and what are your views on the pros and cons of the renaissance expansion?


Good try ;) Na, this thread is meant to get some interest in what is going to be a great experience. Don't miss the boat.




Oh yeah, fuck Trammel.

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Reply #20 on: January 02, 2011, 11:39:00 AM

Woohoo!  Wish I could have gotten the client working when Alpha as going on.  I really liked the testers/devs I met - good group working on this iteration.

I will do some testing later this week - I gots me some vacation coming up.   awesome, for real

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Reply #21 on: January 02, 2011, 11:59:41 AM

We're hopefully fixing problems with the new client today/tonight.

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Reply #22 on: January 02, 2011, 12:27:14 PM

Woohoo!  Wish I could have gotten the client working when Alpha as going on.  I really liked the testers/devs I met - good group working on this iteration.

I will do some testing later this week - I gots me some vacation coming up.   awesome, for real

Yeah, sure ya will. I'm starting to doubt that you are even gonna play at launch :)

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Reply #23 on: January 02, 2011, 12:43:48 PM

Just when I had almost forgotten about this whole thing.

(this should have been a 2 or 3)

When a shard launches there is usually a little bit of spam comments on my Youtube videos. It is okay, I delete them. But a couple fanatics from IPY decided to just go nuts. It is pathetic.

I feel like making a video about why player run shards suck just to counter it. But that would be work and I am lazy. So I'll let it slide as long as they stop spamming.
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Reply #24 on: January 03, 2011, 01:49:23 AM

The f13 "Come fellows, we shall play this UO freeshard and it shall be grand!" routine is practically a time-honored tradition around here. At least among the usual four or five guys. A month later there will be a few sporadic "yeah I been real busy but I'll be on this weekend probably" posts. Two months later no one even humors the idea.

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Reply #25 on: January 03, 2011, 02:42:13 AM

The f13 "Come fellows, we shall play this MMO and it shall be grand!" routine is practically a time-honored tradition around here. At least among the usual four or five guys. A month later there will be a few sporadic "yeah I been real busy but I'll be on this weekend probably" posts. Two months later no one even humors the idea.
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Reply #26 on: January 03, 2011, 06:18:16 AM

The f13 "Come fellows, we shall play this UO freeshard and it shall be grand!" routine is practically a time-honored tradition around here. At least among the usual four or five guys. A month later there will be a few sporadic "yeah I been real busy but I'll be on this weekend probably" posts. Two months later no one even humors the idea.

We are just missing you, bro.

Actually, this time around I give a shit about the server...so it matters to me more than 'random UO freeshard #345'. You should try it out with us.

Or don't. Don't you have some stratics thread to troll? Maybe explain to us once again how awesome Trammel was?

Regardless of the usual shit, I am quite pumped about this server and hope as many people as possible join at launch. It is something you will want to be a part of from the start....and even if it only lasts as long as WUA suspects, that's as much as I usually get out of MMO's these days anyway.

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Reply #27 on: January 03, 2011, 06:28:42 AM

It is something you will want to be a part of from the start....and even if it only lasts as long as WUA suspects, that's as much as I usually get out of MMO's these days anyway.


This is pretty much how I'm looking at it, and if it sticks, all the better.
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Reply #28 on: January 03, 2011, 08:37:17 AM

I will at least download a client and make a character. Never played in a guild, so I am interested in how it plays when I am not beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and tyranny of evil men. Maybe I should start in Magincia...

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Reply #29 on: January 03, 2011, 09:38:00 AM

WUA, Classic UO isn't compatible with your soft, impressionable and highly vulnerable personality, and I suggest you avoid it at all costs, least your fragile sanity will take a turn for the worse.

As for the rest of us, link to client download would be helpful.

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Reply #30 on: January 03, 2011, 09:42:08 AM

I downloaded the classic client from here: http://www.uoherald.com/downloads  I assume we need to wait until the 21st to get the IPY files.
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Reply #31 on: January 03, 2011, 11:01:54 AM

WUA, Classic UO isn't compatible with your soft, impressionable and highly vulnerable personality, and I suggest you avoid it at all costs, least your fragile sanity will take a turn for the worse.

As for the rest of us, link to client download would be helpful.

So you are going to give it a shot, Sinij?

Also, updated OP to make it prettier and tell a bit more.

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Reply #32 on: January 03, 2011, 11:12:16 AM

Full, pre-Ren theft system?  If so, count me in.

Absolutely.
Which rules were these? I played a thief for much of the game and hated most other thieves, which basically boiled down to bank snatching teams or pks trying to flag other players.

Does it go back to going to Dark Lord for stealing, greying out, what are ze rules?
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Reply #33 on: January 03, 2011, 11:13:20 AM

WUA, Classic UO isn't compatible with your soft, impressionable and highly vulnerable personality, and I suggest you avoid it at all costs, least your fragile sanity will take a turn for the worse.

As for the rest of us, link to client download would be helpful.

I guess, yes, maybe it also depends on your personality and how you reacted to that harsh world. Even though I was your typical PK prey, I embraced that aspect of the game because, well, it was a time when MMOGs still meant "living in a alternate world", with dark and light playing together.

Now it's all about theme parks, cockblocks, silly no cross faction communication, and a more "gamey" approach overall to MMOGs: the market says "yes" so undoubtedly they are right in continuing to bring out such games, but for me the best part is still that original approach that Raph Koster (and his colleagues) envisioned with the original UO.

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Reply #34 on: January 03, 2011, 12:18:26 PM

The f13 "Come fellows, we shall play this <insert flavor of the month> and it shall be grand!" routine is practically a time-honored tradition around here. At least among the usual four or five guys. A month later there will be a few sporadic "yeah I been real busy but I'll be on this weekend probably" posts. Two months later no one even humors the idea.

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