Classic Ultima Online: IPY2 Launch date: Feb 11th

[shiznitz]

Amazing.  Unsatisfied UO fanatics.  Will the surprises never cease?

[CharlieMopps]

So is anybody still doing this or did it go how it always goes? Anyway I looked over at Azaroth's last blog entry and read this:

I genuinely felt people would have more patience and pride in the last major hurrah for one of the greatest games of all time. When UO was launched, grandmasters were nearly unheard of bla bla bla etcetera

Please tell me that he's just using REALLY REALLY clumsy English to say that hitting GM in a skill is the last hurrah. He couldn't POSSIBLY have meant to say that "UO PVP freeshard #58372 with some original ideas nobody will like" is the "last major hurrah" for Ultima Online, could he? Because I'm pretty sure there will be people banksitting on a UO freeshard the day they unplug the last commercial WoW server.

I've been logging in to refresh my houses. Thats about it. Everyone else I know quit because of the ridiculous skill grind. After the server population dropped by 25%-30% he finally gave in and agreed to reduce the grind. But not before he introduces some bullshit changes that don't belong on a classic uo server. I'm talking about battlegrounds and raid dungeons.

Perhaps In Por Ylem is best described as a "Classic" version of Ultima Online, stepping back to before a time when the game was changed, in the opinion of many for the worse.

This is what brought people to the server. Nobody came to play UOWoW.

Of course Az's standard response to any criticism is this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3378168&pagenumber=27#post391395870

Saw another entry into the IPY banner contest:

Dude, stfu. Why are you on the server much less in this thread? there are 100 other servers you can go to... or better yet: START YOUR OWN
Then maybe we can start a thread on it and bitch endlessly about how it's not an exact reproduction of the moment in time on Origins servers when we had the most fun.

Seriously... go away.

[LC]

Dude, stfu. Why are you on the server much less in this thread? there are 100 other servers you can go to... or better yet: START YOUR OWN
Then maybe we can start a thread on it and bitch endlessly about how it's not an exact reproduction of the moment in time on Origins servers when we had the most fun.

Seriously... go away.

I remember someone ranting about a free game called wurm online not long ago. That person sure was a hypocrite.

[cosapi]

feck, I got permabanned from Moo.  Supposedly I was the 2nd person to have been permabanned from Moo. 

Reason: Causing too much drama.

What am I gonna do now? =( At least I can tame dragons, but... but.   

[LC]

feck, I got permabanned from Moo.   Supposedly I was the 2nd person to have been permabanned from Moo.  

Reason: Causing too much drama.

What am I gonna do now? =( At least I can tame dragons, but... but.  

I bet you are ready to start cutting yourself. It's such an honor to be accepted into a group of self hating internet nerds for the low fee of ten dollars. Unfortunately I don't have ten dollars I would be willing to spend to buy internet friends.

[Sheepherder]

I cropped something just to express my feelings for the state of this thread, enjoy:

[Slayerik]

The wreck is going down! Get out, before you drown!

[cosapi]

feck, I got permabanned from Moo.   Supposedly I was the 2nd person to have been permabanned from Moo.  

Reason: Causing too much drama.

What am I gonna do now? =( At least I can tame dragons, but... but.  

I bet you are ready to start cutting yourself. It's such an honor to be accepted into a group of self hating internet nerds for the low fee of ten dollars. Unfortunately I don't have ten dollars I would be willing to spend to buy internet friends.

Only joined them in the first place so I could hunt in deceit without getting PKd by them back when they were a bigger force. :P (I wasn't the only one to do this) Just happened to have an account there for years that I initially got for the purpose of getting free video game music before torrents went widespread. :P

[Slayerik]

Hit me up if you are looking for another guild, drama queen.

[LC]

Hit me up if you are looking for another guild, drama queen.

Or you can join my mostly inactive one man guild.

[WindupAtheist]

It may sound a bit pompous

It's extraordinarily pompous, and whatever the game's "last hurrah" turns out to be? Assuming freeshards even count as "the game" for such purposes? It'll come after EA finally shuts down the UO/DAOC office someday and the other 90% of people interested in UO pour into the freeshard scene.

[CharlieMopps]

Dude, stfu. Why are you on the server much less in this thread? there are 100 other servers you can go to... or better yet: START YOUR OWN
Then maybe we can start a thread on it and bitch endlessly about how it's not an exact reproduction of the moment in time on Origins servers when we had the most fun.

Seriously... go away.

I remember someone ranting about a free game called wurm online not long ago. That person sure was a hypocrite.

Wurm has 1 server, and its not free. Seriously, go away.

[Sheepherder]

The wreck is going down! Get out, before you drown!

It was actually going up at the time, but the point remains.

[Slayerik]

The wreck is going down! Get out, before you drown!

It was actually going up at the time, but the point remains.

Sorry, was just singing Soundgarden in my head and thought I'd post it :)

[LC]

Wurm has 1 server, and its not free. Seriously, go away.

Then neither is IPY. They sell items for real money.

[palmer_eldritch]

This is what brought people to the server. Nobody came to play UOWoW.

Of course Az's standard response to any criticism is this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3378168&pagenumber=27#post391395870

Saw another entry into the IPY banner contest:

What a thread. I guess it proves all the chill Goons are playing Eve. Come to think of it, this thread right here is pretty terrible.

Slayer, you should make a shard. I'd help out a little if you like.

[Azaroth]

Amazing.  Unsatisfied UO fanatics.  Will the surprises never cease?

It's been an absolute pleasure. ;)

[Slayerik]

BTW, loving the patch Az. Fun again to group up and dungeon! Many other good things as well:

Patch notes

http://inporylem.com/codex/index.php?title=May_18,_2011




"
Skill Gain

1. RCB (RoT) soft caps have been increased.
2. Dungeon skill gain boost increased.
3. Skill scroll drop rates increased.
4. All skill gain rates increased.
5. The speed of all “rested” states has been increased, to provide better gains when first logging in for the day.
6. Town Square bonus to crafting skill gain increased.
7. Skill scroll drop rate nerf for groups is removed.
8. All O/C/B militia members may macro inside of houses at 100% of the normal rate.

O/C/B

1. OCB Recall and Gate restrictions now active only during OCB time slots.
2. Baron's Rings now provide a 20% skill scroll drop rate buff.
3. Murderers may not join militias.
4. OCB clothing items now function only during OCB time slots (aside from Baron's Rings, of course).
5. OCB town militia buffs are now active only during OCB time slots.
6. OCB now occurs on Sundays (3-5pm Eastern) and Thursdays (8-10PM Eastern).

Paladins and Detectives

1. Paladins may no longer perform beneficial acts on a murderer losing their Paladin status.
2. Bounty Hunter strength decreased.
3. Bounty Hunters will now apprehend murderers even as a ghost.

Travel Spells

1. Murderers having killed an innocent may not recall or use gates for 5 minutes.

Kings

1. Guard costs reduced.
2. The effects of guard levels are now increased.

Melee & Monsters

1. Damage of all macing weapons increased slightly.
2. Armor level of monsters decreased.
3. Poisoning skill of the character applying the poison now affects application rate, up to a maximum of 25%.

Wind Battleground

1. A daily O/C/B PvP game for control of The City of Wind becomes available immediately Active every day starting at 7:00pm EST. (WindOCB)
2. Wind now provides the dungeon skill gain bonus.
3. Wind now provides 200% skill scroll drops at all times.

Soon To Come

1. Number of hired militia guards available to Kings is now based on guard level
2. Double and Combination town buffs added.
3. Wind now provides an entrance to the Fire Dungeon.
4. The Fire Dungeon added as IPY 2's first raid dungeon. Testing ongoing and access will be enabled shortly.
5. The Pinnacle, a battleground for mid-level characters, active soon."

[Amaron]

So is anybody still doing this or did it go how it always goes? Anyway I looked over at Azaroth's last blog entry and read this:

I genuinely felt people would have more patience and pride in the last major hurrah for one of the greatest games of all time. When UO was launched, grandmasters were nearly unheard of bla bla bla etcetera

What the fuck?   How fucking bad are peoples memories?   I got in on the few days early thing because the CE shipped to my house quickly.  There were fucking grandmaster mage/swordsman before the game hit the shelves.    Sparring made it dead simple.   After that the only reason there weren't fucking GM mages EVERYWHERE was there was a reagent shortage for a while.   Anyone who knew though was a GM swordsman via sparring in the first week.

Any other lack of GM's was SOLEY due to newbs ressing on the spot to try and rescue their gear.   I simply can not understand where people get this idea that classic UO was time consuming.

[Slayerik]

Um I remember macroing THE FUCK outta magery and being very damn proud of my Grandmaster Mage status. I started in beta. I'm not sure where your memories are from.

[Xuri]

I played for 1 1/2 years without GMing any skill  But then again I was roleplaying a bard ;P

[Reg]

I started playing in September '98 - a year after the real old timers but even then it took me literally months to GM magery by summoning elementals behind Empath Abbey.

[palmer_eldritch]

I made a lot of money selling runes for a long time because it was unusual to find a mage capable of using the sixth circle spell required to scribe a rune. The highest level spells in the game were eighth circle.

[Amaron]

Um I remember macroing THE FUCK outta magery and being very damn proud of my Grandmaster Mage status. I started in beta. I'm not sure where your memories are from.

I didn't say it didn't take time but people act like it took a month or something.   If you macroed it for 40 hours straight you had it no problem.    We clearly had GM mages on day 1 due to the early start on pacific.   I remember because everyone was bitching how the early release people got magery up high before the reagent shortage kicked in.   You remember the shortage right?  The whole reason they started making reagents spawn on the ground was because of that.

I started playing in September '98 - a year after the real old timers but even then it took me literally months to GM magery by summoning elementals behind Empath Abbey.

Oh no doubt they nerfed the hell out of fast gains by then.  Of course they'd nerfed the game out of the entire game by then too.

[palmer_eldritch]

Well the code for skill gain used some weird system which meant skills rose more slowly if you used a skill which a lot of other people were also using.

For some reason, this meant that skill gain was much faster on a new shard than a shard that had been around for a few weeks. It's not that skill gain was nerfed - the code remained the same - it was a quirk of the system.

[WindupAtheist]

I still can't imagine why skilling up on a UO freeshard should take any longer than a couple weeks, tops. Enough to keep everyone from rerolling the moment they suffer whatever the murderer penalties are or otherwise acquire a negative reputation, but that's it. It's not like they're outleveling meticulously-crafted instances.

[Dren]

I played for 1 1/2 years without GMing any skill  But then again I was roleplaying a bard ;P

I was like this too, roleplaying or not.  I just played the game to play the game.  I started at launch and knew nothing about the details of the game.  I was a newb with no guild.  I had one friend that played with me maybe once or twice a week.  I remember I started in Vesper and stayed there for probably the first 2-3 months.  I would kill anything in the woods around there and made my way to the dungeon up north (Deceit I think...been too long.) 

I wore crap, had crap.  I'd skin things and sell to NPC vendors to scrap together some gold.  I'd run back to the bank as quickly as I could to save everything because 50% of the time I'd run into a random mage PK that would have me dead before they appeared on the screen or a thief would just lift it from me while I wasn't paying attention in town.

I eventually got to a point of killing things in the dungeon.  I'll never forget the day an entire PK guild sat outside the entrance and killed everything and anything that came in or out.  They would strip you clean even with your vendor trash stuff.  This was around 10-15 reds just sitting there putting paralyze fields up so you had nowhere to escape.

I survived through all that and continue to go on to find a guild, get my GM status, start my own guild, then set of guilds, and then a player made and run town.  This was all before Trammel.

It wasn't about level'ing or skilling up.  It wasn't about the loot or killing that new boss.  It was about surviving and eventually thriving in a cruel unfair virtual reality.  To a lot of people, that wasn't fun.  I can understand it.  However, I loved it.  The bad thing is.  It can only be like that exactly once in my life.  Never again.

[Slayerik]

Hey, it was cool hanging with ya on Metropolis :) Still playing here if you ever get the itch.

[Malakili]

  The bad thing is.  It can only be like that exactly once in my life.  Never again.

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of all MMO discussion on every forum on the internet is based around people trying to recapture this feeling.

[Azaroth]

GameSpy has a look at IPY:

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/ultima-online/1169826p1.html

[Dren]

  The bad thing is.  It can only be like that exactly once in my life.  Never again.

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of all MMO discussion on every forum on the internet is based around people trying to recapture this feeling.

Yep, and I'm still trying.  I have fun with MMO's still, just a different kind.

[Dren]

Hey, it was cool hanging with ya on Metropolis :) Still playing here if you ever get the itch.

Seriously tempted, just a matter of priority with my game time.  Basically, I'm hitting up RIFT now and doing good old fashoined twitch PvP combat with my sons in Special Ops on PS3. (They kick my ass.)

The real issue with UO now is that it REQUIRES a very active shard/guild.  The game in and of itself isn't entertaining enough alone.  The last two times I tried to rekindle the faith, lack of active players killed it for me pretty quickly.

[Slayerik]

Our guild is active if you are American. Be glad to help ya get rolling....

[Slayerik]

Still having fun, our guild has taken over Serpent's Hold and it is growing into quite a decent community.

I am .3 resist from being 7x Macer mage. Resist is a bitch, but I feel like I will have earned that GM!