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On January 17 2011 02:24 luuc wrote:I dont get how you can still trust the people running IPY? The original shard was a disaster. GMs creating gold and selling it for real money on ebay? Boosting Characters of Friends and influencing PVP? After alle the corruption got revealed the shard got taken down screwing legit players and the people responsible disappeared from the internetz after giving some lame excuses only to resurface a couple of years later. I dont understand how so much hype is happening after so many people have been scammed for real life money. A Brief overview of what happened the last time
Interesting read, and I can say I am a little concerned about this, but honestly I can't grasp the thought of spending real life money on anything in games, especially on an unofficial server. It does rub me the wrong way to think that other people in the game are cutting corners in order to get something done that took me a lot longer to do, but I'm just going to be playing it casual anyway, so it doesn't bother me as much as if I was trying to be the top player or something.
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On a freeshard where counselors are all volunteering their time, there is the chance that some people will take advantage of their position. The aftermath of that entire fiasco was a shard wipe and IPY was relaunched with more people than before.
Yeah, it sucked but shit happens sometimes. All I can say is with the amount of effort going into this shard, one of Az's priorities will be to ensure this doesn't happen again.
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I dont know the whole truth and i guess except the people involed nobody knows but Azaroth was propably aware of the corruption and at least indirectly a benefactor.
I have a hard time trusting someone who did nothing while people got ripped off for huge amount of cash. All I lost was the time training my character and since the shard was free I am not complaining about that.
Of course I have no real proof and my intel is based mostly on people that got ripped off or where part of the whole scam.
Something like that propably wont happen again but people should be careful. Greed is a strong motivation and the UO Community has never been known for its maturity
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Soooo. First and foremost... I love StarCraft 2, Quake 3... but there is only one game in my life which has completely filled me with bliss... that game is Ultima Online.
I was on Great Lakes, and I crafted like a mofo. Only then did I begin to work on Poison Fencers or high Magic Resist Mages. God, the billions of good memories from this game are flooding in.
I have a question though, and I hope it can be answered straight up, because I was a bit confused when reading this. I see there are new features for IPY2 and some of them look pretty cool... but I played a fairly popular Free Shard about 2 years ago, and I was utterly disgusted by how fucking SIMPLE they had made the game.
I HAD A GOD DAMN BEETLE THAT I COULD RIDE AND SMELT INGOTS ON...
I'm so not down for that. There was a certain charm to how "raw" UO Vanilla was. And I would only prefer to play that game. I quit playing around T2A when the game started turning into a shitfest of easy. Power Hour. HA! I crafted the last .9 of my GM Blacksmith in a rocking 12 hour marathon.
So where is IPY2's origin? The original client (even BETA) - which is modified? Or is it a modified version of one of the later and easier clients?
If this is closer to the original pre-expansion client. You better believe I'm ALLLLL over this, and I might even get my old 519 buddies to hop on board.
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I think I may have answered my own question from the SA thread but maybe someone can confirm:
IPY will not include blessed items, any wacky neon hues, and importantly no mounts.
And Importantly no mounts? Can I assume this means all the BS super assisted mounts I was raging about?
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Absolutely no mounts. Az would shut it down before people are riding teh beetle on his shard.
The shard will be using the most recent version of the 2-D client with some modified files that will be available at launch so it will feel pretty old-school. They needed the newer client for some of the features like smooth boat movement. But no support for the new 3-D client they have now (UO:Kingdom Reborn or some shit).
But yeah, definitely raw UO (no mounts, no item insurance, no blessed items, no neons, no trammel, tough skill gain). The whole idea of the shard is to go back to 1999 and have a new Renaissance, one where Trammel and such (elves/samurai lol) were never implemented.
Maybe you could give it a plug sometime Wheat? Would definitely help out tons (IPY Promotions).
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Best game ever! God damn, we Pked so many n00bs, it was just great.
Will miss this game 4ever...
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The flame beetle was part of the paid UO shards too. They also had things called Bags of Translocation (or something) and when you used it you could click an item in your backpack and it would be magically placed into your bank box.
You could mine for hours with a flame beetle and bag of translocation and never have to go to a bank or blacksmith. If someone came to gank you, you'd just send all your ore to your bank quickly before you die. Your pet was probably bonded (never dies), and your equipment insured (never drops), so there was no risk at all.
From what I read there are no mounts in IPY at all, not even horses. The reasoning is that it causes PvP imbalances, since mounted players have a pretty big advantage over players on foot. If you start a fight on a mount but you die once and your mount is killed, it sets you back pretty far. With no mounts everyone will always have the same movement speed in PvP which is nice.
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On January 18 2011 03:51 Mazer wrote:Absolutely no mounts. Az would shut it down before people are riding teh beetle on his shard. The shard will be using the most recent version of the 2-D client with some modified files that will be available at launch so it will feel pretty old-school. They needed the newer client for some of the features like smooth boat movement. But no support for the new 3-D client they have now (UO:Kingdom Reborn or some shit). But yeah, definitely raw UO (no mounts, no item insurance, no blessed items, no neons, no trammel, tough skill gain). The whole idea of the shard is to go back to 1999 and have a new Renaissance, one where Trammel and such (elves/samurai lol) were never implemented. Maybe you could give it a plug sometime Wheat? Would definitely help out tons ( IPY Promotions).
So good to hear. I will definitely help promote (I know there's alot of old school UO players who tune in still cause everytime I tell an old UO story they're always quick to respond :D).
And glad to hear about the non-nubness. I'm so on this shit. I might even be able to get my wife to play as she never got a chance to experience the greatness that is UO.
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On January 18 2011 04:09 djWHEAT wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2011 03:51 Mazer wrote:Absolutely no mounts. Az would shut it down before people are riding teh beetle on his shard. The shard will be using the most recent version of the 2-D client with some modified files that will be available at launch so it will feel pretty old-school. They needed the newer client for some of the features like smooth boat movement. But no support for the new 3-D client they have now (UO:Kingdom Reborn or some shit). But yeah, definitely raw UO (no mounts, no item insurance, no blessed items, no neons, no trammel, tough skill gain). The whole idea of the shard is to go back to 1999 and have a new Renaissance, one where Trammel and such (elves/samurai lol) were never implemented. Maybe you could give it a plug sometime Wheat? Would definitely help out tons ( IPY Promotions). So good to hear. I will definitely help promote (I know there's alot of old school UO players who tune in still cause everytime I tell an old UO story they're always quick to respond :D). And glad to hear about the non-nubness. I'm so on this shit. I might even be able to get my wife to play as she never got a chance to experience the greatness that is UO.
miniWheat can learn how to collect resources and stuff for you guys 
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I'm tempted to try this out.
I originally played UO back in 98-99 at a net place, before home broadband was the norm. Since it was a pay-per-hour-place and I was a poor 14-year old without any income, I never got very far into the game, but I loved every second of it.
I've tried some free shards later years, but the new expansions and all custom bullshit as well as a general low population on those servers were a turnoff. They never kept me for long.
This server does sound promising though, if it's really based on the 99-type UO.
Edit: Absolutely no mount? I loved taming horses and riding 'em ;<
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WOOOOWWW Dj wheat playing uo too??? this shard its going to be epic! i've been searching for a shard for a year and this one finally seems to work out, I hope to get some friends too, they never played uo, so they are missing the ultimate mmo out there
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On January 18 2011 04:16 Nobu wrote:WOOOOWWW Dj wheat playing uo too??? this shard its going to be epic! i've been searching for a shard for a year and this one finally seems to work out, I hope to get some friends too, they never played uo, so they are missing the ultimate mmo out there
I love Ultima Online so much, that my wife knows she can get my attention at anytime just by saying something like, "Oh UO2 is coming out?" or "They are re-releasing UO?" Defeated everytime.
BUT NOW THE JOKE WILL BE ON HER!!!
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4 days left guys!!
It's gonna be awesome. We should think about making a guild or so...
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If there is a guild, I vote Minoc has home town. East of Minoc is an area which only has one entrance in a huge valley and several mines. Great place to take defense and know who's coming in and out of the valley. ^_^ My old home town in UO
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We should definitely start up a guild. I'd be down for setting up a base in Minoc. Dagger Isle is also one of my favourite places, my old guild house and most of my houses were on Dagger Isle.
Kind of a pain to get to if you don't have a boat or runebook, but the seclusion is also kinda nice.
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On January 18 2011 06:05 djWHEAT wrote:
If there is a guild, I vote Minoc has home town. East of Minoc is an area which only has one entrance in a huge valley and several mines. Great place to take defense and know who's coming in and out of the valley. ^_^ My old home town in UO
Wouldn't be a bad idea for a poll. I actually like Trinsic myself. Been so long since I played I can't really remember why, probably just because it's where I played back in the day.
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Apparently the GoonSquad is setting their sights on controlling Moonglow and Dagger Island (Ice Island as some people call it) so that might not be an easy task ;p
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lol @ GoodSquad. I remember them on Aion release on our server. Stole our guild name and some people's names and shit.
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