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[UO] Come back, my Lads! - IPY 2.0
amateursuperhero
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Here's hoping it doesn't end up heading back down the path of original IPY.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Apparently all you had to do to get in beta was "friend" them on Facebook. That's how my buddy got in so he could play with her. Or more precisely, how she got him in so he could play with her.
Yeah, I agree. I'm a pathological macroer, but I totally acknowledge it detracts from the game. I don't know all the specifics of skill-gain on IPY2, but I know there's a daily skill cap, and then rare drops of like "+.1" skill scrolls in dungeons. So it doesn't totally destroy macroing, but puts all the incentives in going out and hunting in dungeons. People actually playing the game will be finishing characters before those sitting in houses, and that's the way it should be.
Right now one of my few concerns is boats as storage. From what I've read, they're really meant to be used mainly for moving to and fro from Ice Island and other otherwise-inaccessible places as well as hauling loot. Since they're now really expensive and I assume they can be sunk while you're offline, they seem kind of a bit too risky to use as any kind of semi-permanent storage in lieu of a house.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
When I did get back in to UO for a bit with my buddy on IPY 1.0, it took me a week to set everything up because to even be competitive I needed Razer and a bunch of plugins and a bunch of macros and shit setup to do stuff.
How is that gonna be handled with IPY 2.0? You said there will be a system in place to handle the macro crowd, making it better for people that actually play...but what about trying to actually police and ban people using stuff like Razer? Or are there parts of Razer (such as hot keys) that the developers don't mind? There are parts of Razer I like, there are other parts of it I'm like "Yah, this is flat cheating and sucks that everyone is doing it and I have to as well to keep up".
But yeah, essentially it's fine to macro healing on your buddy or something like that, but it's going to be bannable to run a script that automates running around and mining ore.
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I vaguely recall reading on the blog somewhere that there'd be a system to rent rooms/property in towns. I could be totally wrong, but if that's in there it would definitely help players who would be living in a boat down by the river but for the threat of pirates.
Interesting stuff. I didn't even know there was a thing called EasyUO :P I also didn't know there were "other" clients.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Give it another go though man, with the piracy/PvP systems it gives more to do than just grief, making it easier for people to start up. Also, with skill gain the way it's going to be, you won't have the typical three or four powergamers dropping earthquakes in the brit graveyard on like day three.
I remember T2A had just come out, and one of the first things my guild did was take me to the T2A zone, toss me a suit of GM studded leather with a crafted (but not GM) longsword and left me to fend for myself for a few days, answering questions via ICQ as needed.
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I'm ODB over there
also: you should add the new Smooth Boat Movement to the OP
this is amazing.
is the server pop high enough to do everything that's been discussed?
UOAssist was only like $5 or $10, one time pay, lifetime use. At the time, it was very worth it.
Dr. Twizter endorsed UOExtreme. It was basically UOA, but free. The stuff that it could do better than UOA were eventually fixed to the point where UOA and UOE weren't that different.
He also posted exploits and was generally a douche.
There were lots of other niche programs people made, too. My college roommate at the time crafted a program that macro'd for us while we slept / were at class (we macro'd taming trapped critters in our home
If any GM tried to talk to us, it would see the GM portion of the name, say a "Gotta go!" and log us out. Worked perfectly.
Also utilized it to make the macro'd character respond to certain commands from other people, but it was very basic and just basic motions / bows stuff. Could lag it out really easily.
PSN: Bizazedo
CFN: Bizazedo (I don't think I suck, add me).
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Good call. Added.
I'm pretty confident the population will be where it needs to be when the launch to make all of the new stuff good. Az has said a couple of times that the first time around he could hardly find anyone to beta test, and as anyone who played knows, the IPY1 ended up bursting at the seams. This time he's getting swarmed by people wanting to test.
UO gamers recently launched a classic-esque server called Revelation. It's kind of fallen into obscurity now because of a bunch of absolutely terrible dev moves, but they had like 700-800 clients on for the first couple of weeks with absolutely no advertising. I follow UO pretty closely, and I had no idea about the server until a few weeks after it came out. So I think the interest in general is still there. Moreover, IPY has a reputation that other freeshards don't, because it got SO big and crazy the first time around. A ton of my friends who were very casual UO players are definitely playing IPY2, but if I was just like "hey, come play 'some random freeshard,'" they wouldn't in a million years. I think there are a lot of people like that, who would only ever really return to the game for IPY.
Will there be mounts? Please tell me there won't be mounts.
Edit: I have decided I will play a mage with alchemy and cartography as professions.
Thieves are actually massively important with the new Order vs. Chaos system. You can rob enemy town treasuries. It's kind of like stealing sigils in factions, except your stealing lots of money instead of useless orbs.
Arg....
Do it! The worst that can happen is that it will ruin your life, and face it, what good is a life without UO?
Make IPY 2 your very extended farewell to the game ;-)
I'm pumped to see all the old faces. I remember the first time around with IPY1, it blew my mind all the people I saw that I had lost contact with. UO is one of those games where you think "aw there's no way that guy is still around, he must be a grandfather by now," but there he is, cutting off your head and calling you a n00b.
I miss my old shop. Had a little one on the road between Vesper proper and the Vesper cemetery. Would do a fair amount of blacksmithing at the forge in Britain as well to drum up business before I had that shop, and later just because it was habit and I enjoyed meeting new people there.
Things were never the same after Trammel opened, so I really don't feel bad about all the money I made placing houses in prime spots the evening it did open, and selling them on eBay. I got the ok to install the game at work for one night, and had it on 3 or 4 different computers as I ran back and forth recalling and placing, taking advantage of that T1 connection
I don't think so. They're pretty adamant about keeping crafting in particular really slow to make sure the player economy doesn't die out.