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July 2002 News:
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^ top-UOPG Publish July 31, 2002
[Nieves] July 31 - 7:50 PM EDT | Finally got some linking errors fixed on Secret Gimp's site. Yes, UOPG has all the Gimp stories for your reading pleasure.
Also organized the Site Nav menu to the right so it makes more sense.
Enjoy.
Hasta. |
^ top-Dragon Empires Interview
[Nieves] July 31 - 2:02 PM EDT | GameRifts.com has an interview with Peter Tyson Community Liaison Manager in a first look at Dragon Empires to see what set's it apart from other titles in the
genre.
Check it out!
Also, you can read about the over 500 Modules that have been publically released for NWN here.
Hasta. |
^ top-Stat Locks
[Nieves] July 31 - 8:52 AM EDT | Released on Great Lakes and I believe Chessy so far. Maybe Pacific.
I don't know. I don't see it on UO.com and I am reading 2nd hand reports.
That is all.
You can go back to playing Warcraft 3 and Neverwinter Nights.
Hasta. |
^ top-Ooooh...Fansite Licensing!
[Nieves] July 30 - 7:13 PM EDT | You too can be licensed as a fansite by OSI!
Woowoo!
Read the fansite license and the requirements for being 'licensed' as a fansite before committing to it.
And let's look at what you get!
Membership is the UO.com News Alert mailing list
Ooooh. But, um, how is that different than the mass UO.com News mailings you do now?
A link from the fansite section of UO.com
YEAH! And then you can be listed on their next CD as part of their Fansite program! WOOWOO! Free promotion! Right.
A monthly fansite newsletter
You mean the one you update monthly now? Thanks!
Fansite kit, comprised of graphics and images available for use on UO fansites in conjunction with a fansite license
I got to say. The art is kick ass. But do I want to use someone else's art? Just so they can take it away later? Right.
Priority status in regards to chats and interviews, or the opportunity for a monthly scheduled chat/interview
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Who gets all the interviews and chats now? Two sites. And the 2nd one just started getting theirs. Mhmm...all for commercialism.
I will stick to my journalistic and personal integrity, thank you.
CORRECTION: The Herald has also gotten an interview recently (in the last few weeks). I guess I forgot about that one as I was writing this. My apologies Noleeens of The Daily Herald.
Oh, and if you are a panty ass site, you ain't getting shit for chats. You will get the opportunity to send in 20 questions.
The occasional bonus item, such as a signed t-shirt or poster, to be used as giveaways by the fansite
OOOOH! COOOL! Neat. Wow. A T-shirt. G, thanks. Oh, a poster too!? Woowoo!
Why don't you give me 6 months free game time on one account for supporting you? Yeah, now THAT would be cool!
Any bets Stratics doesn't do it? I mean, why should they? They already get all the preferential treatment they want anyway.
And look at all the popular UO Fansites out there now. How did they do without OSI's support? Yeah. Thought so.
I don't know about you, but I am not giving OSI that much control over my content.
Good idea. Too little too late. And you aren't going to control UOPG. Nuh uh. Never.
And OSi, you need me. Why? Because the world isn't all candy land and lollipops. Without UOPG, you wouldn't have anyone to question your methods or tell people you lie when you say it's a "smooth release".
Oh wait, that's what you want. Sorry.
Hasta. |
^ top-Ok Now
[Nieves] July 30 - 6:22 PM EDT | For all of you wantting to know where the Champion Spawn Locations are...go here.
I will be hard linking that page soon. If Deady deletes his page, I will find him and kill him. I know where he lives so he can't hide.
Hasta. |
^ top-OSI/EA has a Live Chat Tech Line
[Nieves] July 30 - 1:32 PM EDT | Check it out.
Also: Scenario 5 is coming along quite nicely and is steadily nearing completion. We don't have any spoilers on content quite yet for you (besides, watching you guys guess is so much fun) but we can tell you whenabouts it's coming.
We hope to have the first week of content to you sometime in mid to late August.
I wonder what this one will be about...
And finally: [...]Housing, Phase 2 begins on Monday, August 5th. Pressing that button will not set your house as a "Primary House" until Phase 2 begins, nor announce any change in housing status - although please be warned that, at this time, pressing this button both disallow you from placing or being traded a new house as well as condemn all of your other houses on that shard (but not on any other shard). We urge players to plan any changes in their housing status accordingly.
Whew, lots of information today.
Hasta. |
^ top-Knights of Virtue
[Nieves] July 30 - 9:41 AM EDT | The Pursuit of Valor will be designed to allow players who consistently protect the populace against the forces of Evil to challenge the greater Champions of the realm.
-Characters will be able to gain points in Valor through combating the monsters associated with the Champion spawns.
-Characters will be able to "spend" points in Valor to help advance the pace of a Champion spawn.
-Although the activation of a Champion spawn shrine is normally a random occurrence, characters that become "Knights of Valor" will be able to activate such a shrine.
So you want to be a Knight? |
^ top-Greywolfe Tells us What Evocare Meant
[Nieves] July 29 - 6:25 PM EDT | "worthless" is what Evocare meant to say and it is not. What he meant that as far as the Justice system went, the reds being res-killed had no point value to speak of--they were without a lot of "worth" as a kill. He certainly was not calling the character type unimportant as a whole. All characters are important to the breadth and depth of the game.
It's all right here.
Ok, thanks for clarifying it. I feel better.
Hasta. |
^ top-Is Your UO Group Being Shafted?
[Hennarr] July 29 - 4:16 PM EDT | | Segregation and hatred based upon differing belief systems isn’t something you would expect in a computer game. Unfortunately, that is the state of affairs in UO. Under the guise of freedom, freedom to be free from the effects of other players in a multiplayer game, the playerbase was torn in half with one side doted on and loved by OSI, the other side slowly destroyed and carved apart. A world that once supported all playstyles and beliefs concerning what type of game UO was became a place of separation and endless debate, with OSI blatantly taking one side of the conflict under their wing. Of course, this is old news. The UO status quo has been one of division and group hatred for over two years now. Even though an older dev team, long gone from OSI’s once hallowed halls for the most part, were the ones who created the Trammel vs. Felucca debate and hatred they left the old world reasonably untouched aside from looking hideous to most players. What do we have now that Publish 16 is in full effect? We have a Felucca that has been “fixed” and the neutering reference certainly fits. We have older playstyles, playstyles that personified the freedom in UO, whether it was good or bad, utterly neglected and actually attacked by the current dev team. You can read more here. |
^ top-A Player Explains OSI's Statements
[Nieves] July 29 - 7:11 AM EDT | Nieves, he meant rez-killed reds are almost totally worthless for improving your avatar's Justice virtue. Not that OSI considers players who play reds worthless (even if they do, he didn't mean to say it).
This is like the other day when your site published the rant about population control. What the GM meant there is that pub 16 acts as a way of controlling the number of new characters on shards, not by driving away old accounts, but by making it a more daunting task to build a new character on a shard other than your home shard.
By the way, nice couple of posts on the OSI boards. Thoughtful, clear, and well reasoned (and you didn't say fuck even once), I hope Cynthe pays attention. Am I a dreamer or what!?
Sluggo
Mhm.
Hasta. |
^ top-Shard News
[Lealla] July 26 - 6:52 PM EDT | Well since I haven't recieved anything from other shards this time around. Pull up a chair, grab a drink and lets head on over to some interesting stories taking shape over on Great Lakes;
From The folks over at The Daily Herald Comes a tale by Damon Omenborn leader of a dwarven guild.
Approaching Blackthorne's Castle (chapter 1)
‘Come on lads’, Damon Omenborn shouted in the rain. ‘The city’s
not far now’. Visible through the rain was a small band of dwarves. Burdened with heavy packs on their backs, following their leader, Lord Damon Omenborn, they continued on the path sloping up a small hillside. Through the rainy fog, a faint silhouette was visible in the distance. ‘Look lads! There it is. Can’t ya smell all that loot just waiting for us?’ a few of the dwarves cheered, the others grumbled something as they looked out from beneath their cloaks and stumbled on up the muddy road. Water washed around their boots as they marched on and left deep footprints in the ground. Soon, the prints were all washed away and nothing remained of the passing dwarves. Keran Blackstone looked up to where Damon had pointed a minute ago and what he saw did not raise a smile on his face. How did he ever get himself in to this? At first everything seemed interesting, but now this whole thing meant nothing more than another scar on his face.
The tale continues HERE
Now Over at The Royal Britannian Post There seems to be a lot of murder mysteries brewing.
First a tale that has 5 episodes already revealed, Written by Scribe Sidious. Lets take a peak at episode 1 ( all 5 episodes can be read following the above Royal Brit Link)
Read on, followers of light and Virtue. The recent squabblings of unfit Kings who possess not the will fortitude to rule this land are now the least of your concerns. In the following saga...the FINAL DAYS of Rath Stonesoul shall be revealed to you...as well as the mystery of a hidden bloodline to the throne....
THE FINAL DAYS OF RATH STONESOUL
Episode I
"Deathspawn Arcanus",
The leaves fell around the gates of House Stonesoul. The guards were relaxing at their posts and the gods were content. Rath had enjoyed the relative peace from what he considered to be the scourge of Sosaria...the occursed Temple of Mondain.
"Fret not, Avaris. The minions of Mondain are outnumbered and they know this. They shall stay to their hold and not press our interests here," stated Rath over his mid-day flagon of ale.
"Agreed," exclaimed Avaris. "But I definitely sense something afoot. They have been quiet for far too long...."
"...and my spies have reported that their numbers have not increased, their borders have not expanded and aside from troubles best left to the local magistrates, we are secure. Mordain is powerful, but he is no fool. Our alliances and disruptions have left them bereft of all aid. We've seen no sign of the Sisters in two seasons. Mordain’s back is to the wall in his desert, and that is how..."
The story continues HERE
And now a tale by Nira. A story called A Daughter's Love... If this is love... keep her away from me!
The halls of the castle had not seen this much activity in many, many moons. Until news arrived of a new King to be named, the servants had spent their days trying to look busy for fear of loosing their jobs. Now life had returned to the chilled stone halls of the castle.
The Coronation was grand. Plush red velvet carpeting entwined with gold was laid in the main hall of the throne room. Satin crimson and gold banners of the royal court were hung with tender care. Nobles and commoners alike filled the room as the letters from Lord British were read. Cheers arose from the crowd as Marcus was named. Many voices yelled out in opposition as well. Chaos seemed to rein.
After much debate King Marcus threw up his arms and was whisked to his private quarters by his guards. Many Ladies and Lords from around our lands had come to show support. But just as many heated arguments could be heard coming from the chambers.
As yet another day was drawing to a close, the new King showed signs of all the tension. Retiring to his chambers he sat penning a note. He smiled as he saw her enter the room, always a pleasure to see her loving face. Walking to his bed, she turned down the satin tapestries as she did each and every night. She helped her Master prepare for a night’s rest as she had done since the tender age of fourteen.
the story continues HERE
I hope you enjoy the reading as much as I did!
Till Next Time...
Lealla |
^ top-Knights That Go NI!
[Nieves] July 26 - 2:55 PM EDT | When Jade speaks, all you can do is listen...
Well, well, well...
I've been away from the game for a few weeks, but had some free time this week and decided to log in and check out the new publish.
Where to start?
Noone listens to Nieves....
Hasta.
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^ top-Reds Are...Nearly Worthless
[Nieves] July 26 - 7:14 AM EDT | Kehleyr - *Bladefire* What will be done about res-killing of reds to gain justice points? As it is now anyone can get a friend who is red and keep killing them over and over for points...
Evocare - Hanse, you aren't going to tell them about the special blue-shirt BOD trick? Oh wait, nm.
Evocare - *coughs*
Evocare - As far as res-killing goes...
Evocare - there is a timer limiting how often you can get justice points
Evocare - it scales based on how many justice points you got off your last red kill
Evocare - if you're killing worthless reds, it's not a very long delay. then again, they're... well... nearly worthless.
Evocare - Honestly, Justice points aren't supposed to be very hard to get.
Evocare - The idea is what you actually do with those points.
Evocare - Simply having the points doesn't do you a darn bit 'o good.
Evocare - (other then the title)
Nah, OSI isn't out to get the Murderers of the game because it's a legitimate playstyle. Oh, and you Reds in the game aren't totally worthless, just nearly.
I will be breaking down this IanStorm chat today.
Hey, I even got to talk to Peaches.
Hasta. |
^ top-Stat Locks On Test Center
[Nieves] July 26 - 7:07 AM EDT | To go in on Monday.
That is all.
You can go back to playing NWN now.
Hasta. |
^ top-Communication At It's Finest
[Nieves] July 26 - 7:06 AM EDT | Actually, there are no stealth or stealing scrolls in the game, and I very much apologize for the documentation being out-of-date... I have just updated it now. We will actually answer this in more detail in an upcoming Tuesday Q&A in the FYI section, but for now, all I can tell you is that stealing scrolls were removed due to a hard-coded limit in the skill itself (abilities to steal are based on weight), and stealth was removed due to a potential balance issue.
It's possible that these may return as power scrolls, but for now, I'm afraid they will not be in the game.
Thanks for understanding,
Cynthe
Well, at least she apologized.
Hasta. |
^ top-It's Not An Exploit
[Nieves] July 25 - 8:37 AM EDT | Wait, yes it is..
Ok, that's not a direct quote, but that's the theme of the year. What the fuck am I talking about?
Check it.
Hasta. |
^ top-Dovo...lick.
[Nieves] July 24 - 11:02 AM EDT | I was given this link and read a story about a little 13 year old boy wanting to play with the big boys. Well, I think I should share my own.
Read all about Dovolick here.
Hasta. |
^ top-Sorry About this Folks But Nieves told me to!
[Lealla] July 23 - 3:53 PM EDT | Attention All QfB Members
Well Folks the rumors are true The QfB message boards and main site have been deleted. Does that mean the end of the QfB?
A resounding Hell no! was heard throughout the lands.. As my grandmother always said." One door shuts in front of you, open a window" New message boards and a New QfB web site will be up and operational soon! So stay tuned folks.. together we shall overcome!
There will be a meeting Tomorrow evening at 9pm central for all QfB Gm's or their Representative.
We will gather at the Serpent's Hold Councillor's Hall and then gate to the meeting location.
We ask that each guild to please send only one representative. |
^ top-Character Generator
[Nieves] July 22 - 4:00 PM EDT | Updated for Publish 16.
Thanks to Talen (Gavin) for the update on the Character Generator.
And good luck getting that answer from OSI about you getting the verbal spankage from that GM. And it is a legitimate concern.
I mean, the inconsistancy of that situation, bleh.
I am sorry it's taken 2 emails to get a response. And I am sorry they have decided to pass it on as opposed to handling it immediately or maybe even take it to the department they asked you to email it to themselves. I mean, all they have to do is hit forward, put in an email address, and a note to look into it right? But wait, that's too easy! Why call it customer service when you have to service yourself? Oh wait, that means doing your job and servicing the community! Sorry, I guess I misunderstood what being a Community Rep meant.
Even so, I am sure the next person you emailed it to will see to it ASAP. Third time (3 emails and counting) is usually the charm right?
Update-16:20CST: Char Gen link taken down because there is a bug. Talen is working on it now.
Update-17:05CST: Bug worked out.
The problem was: " A form name was duplicated on the main page....caused only the last form of that name to be recognized.".
See, tell the people there is a problem, then fix it. Is that so hard to do?
Hasta. |
^ top-Ancient Smithy Hammer Problems
[Nieves] July 22 - 3:15 PM EDT | You can read today's story here or yesterday's here.
Is it me, or are some people slow to the news these days? UOPG included...
Hasta. |
^ top-I Serve
[Nieves] July 22 - 9:25 AM EDT | Epyon has now left to serve in the United States Army.
His dumbass self wanted to be a Ranger instead of taking my advice and using his degree to be an officer and take a desk job and order around all the privates and sergeants that would be at his beck and call (yah right). Call me lame for saying so, but, while in the service, you take everything you can and do forself. Believe that. I don't mean to say you shouldn't give your all or "be all you can be" (Army of One Is Bullshit <-- That goes against the Teamwork Principles the Army taught me). But you got to take care of yourself and, in the end, make sure all your shit is right and proper.
Anyway, I blab. He wants to be a Ranger. More power to him. I think he will do very well and I wish him well.
Epyon was there for me from the beginning. He became a UOPG Updater before I did. Even though our styles clashed at first, we became good friends and each other's sounding board from talking about how stupid Lawyer can be sometimes to how fucked up a relationship with a girl can become. He was never afraid to tell me the truth about anything and was always willing to hear my bullshit. I owe him much and will miss his council.
Good luck Epyon. Your friends will miss you. Remember that when you read the markings on the M18 that says "this part towards enemy", it means, point that shit away from you.
Hoooah.
Hasta. |
^ top-OSI Financials By Galahad
[Nieves] July 20 - 12:09 PM EDT | If you have been with UOPG for over 2 years, you will remember Galahad. Long time UOPG reader, friend, and Updater. He gives us his take on OSI/EA's financial reports.
Over the past few months, the world that we know as Sosaria changed quite a bit. While some will walk away from the new landscape of Ultima Online, many will stay. The question on my mind has been: Why did they make all these changes? I mean I understand some of them but many simply are beyond reason. Then I began to think...who is calling the shots at OSI? Is it the developers? Hell no. Its the CFO of OSI who is answering to the CFO of EA to ensure that UO's subscription revenues to not decrease in the coming fiscal year.
To understand this I'd like to describe the business environment that OSI / EA is working with. Think of Flux...where to be profitable the number of new subscriptions must be more than the number of subscriptions that are leaving. If the number of leaving subscribers is increasing at a faster rate than the new subscribers then the business unit will eventually go out of business. Now here is how I see it: From EA's annual report there was 16 million in 2000 subscription revenue; 28.8 million in 2001; and 30.9 in 2002. As you can see, the growth in revenue is decreasing rapidly. So what must OSI / EA do? They must develop a way for new subscriptions to increase, for current subscribers to stay longer, and to minimize the number of subscribers that are leaving the game. I must say that OSI / EA is doing an impressive job at these tasks at hand.
Now that we know what OSI / EA must do to ensure profitability in Ultima Online, let us look at what has happened to the game in terms of the three goals outlined above. First: new subscribers. They began this initiative with Trammel, now continue it with the new marketing ploys (UO:LBR and the just announced UO:AOS) as well as the GGS system (if you promise someone achievement, it is more likely they will actually began the path to that achievement). In terms of the second goal, (current subscribers staying longer) this is what Publish 16 was designed for. First, now that skill caps are at 120, veterans will want to have the best characters and will stay in the game to get that character. It is similar to what Sony did with EQ increasing the max lvl from 50 to 60. Second, new housing changes will make it so that more veterans will have fewer houses (in contrast to many veterans having many houses). Third, GGS: this is very interesting actually and it took me a while to figure out why the hell they were doing it. Here is what I came up with: If you have a 6-12 month player that has pretty much maxed out his skills / stats that player may get bored with the game yet if you make it so that it is nearly impossible for that player to max out his skills / stats in 12 months, OSI hope that the players will stay excited longer to accomplish the goal of Gming skills and the like. One more point on this second goal it is interesting to note that OSI just announced the new expansion in a point where many veterans were thinking about quitting because of Publish 16. By doing so, OSI hopes to keep veterans from leaving and waiting another 6-10 months (at ten dollars a month) for the changes the new expansion may bring. The third goal, of keeping veterans from leaving, is also accomplished by the announcing of a new expansion as well as changing the game so drastically that veterans may stay because they find new fun in an otherwise boring world.
I hope everyone understands that these are my opinions and thoughts. You may disagree or agree, but I’ll wager I’m pretty close to what’s going on in the minds of OSI / EA executives. 31 million dollars in annual revenue (with an enormous margin) is something that corporations just cant turn their back on. Hope this helps understanding from the corporate side of things.
Good luck to all in getting them Power Scrolls :)
-Galahad
Thanks Gal. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you are doing it as well as you did when you were with us here at UOPG.
Stop by and say hi sometime.
Hasta. |
^ top-Stat Lock Info
[Nieves] July 19 - 4:04 PM EDT | Copied and Pasted for your pleasure: The way stat locks will work will be identical to skill locks. You will have a choice of setting a stat to rise, lower or lock.
Similarly to skills, if you get a potential gain in a stat but the stat is set to lower or locked you will not gain a stat point (it obviously will not count against your GGS stat timer though). So to answer your question: no it will not give auto-gains in a skill that raises more then one stat, you will have to use the skill a bit more until you get a potential stat gain for the stat you are trying to raise.
It is this way because that’s the way the code currently works. The code chooses your stat to rise for a skill, then makes the chance roll to see if you gain a point of stat. I would have had to rewrite the entire stat gaining mechanism for you to be able to get auto-gains if one stat is locked. Not something I had time to do if you wanted to see stat locks anytime soon. J
As well if you are the stat max, then you must set one stat to lower to be able to gain in another stat (again identically to how skill locks work).
I guess.
Hasta. |
^ top-New Vet Rewards Out
[Nieves] July 19 - 3:56 PM EDT | Freaking Marketing Geniuses is what OSI is now.
Anyway, read about it here.
Only thing that might excite me is the 'free' skill cap bonuses and maybe some of the statues.
Other than that, the rewards are variations of the same old themes. And when exactly can we expect these rewards to hit? With Age of Shadows?
Anyway, you guys can judge for yourselves in the above link.
Hasta. |
^ top-UO Meeting
[Nieves] July 19 - 3:47 PM EDT | Meet Other UO Players in Your Hometown!!
from Heather-GL
I stumbled across a new site this week:
Click Me.
The next worldwide UO meetup is Monday, August 5th, 2002. Looks interesting.
Meeting once a month informally on a regular basis might be fun. Whatcha think? If a lot of UO players started using this site, it might turn into something cool. Or not. Who knows...?
In the meantime, if you are in Texas, I try to have UO get togethers here somewhat regularly. Check out the Austin UO Player's Community. There are pics from past events in the Archive. You can also sign up for our mailing list to receive emails when we do events in Texas. You can email me here, or PM me on the UO.com forums (posting as HeatherGL).
Thanks to Heather for the information.
Meeting people you play with is always cool. No, it's not about lame events or whatever, it's about people.
Hasta. |
^ top-OSI GM Gets Cool Points
[Nieves] July 19 - 12:41 PM EDT | New info: There was a broadcast message on Europa from Maleki that said to page for help. Well Maleki himself came over to the logcabin we were in and started turning people blue again.
I'll say this is very very nice of them (GM's Maleki, Ash and Pax).
Removed our counts and wished a good night with a smile ^^.
I won't say a thing about the dev team pff.
Well, it was handled properly. Got to give the GM and his managers 50 Cool Points for that.
That puts OSI at -9,050 cool points. I wonder if they even give a shit about earning enough cool points to be on par with me again.
Hasta. |
^ top-Tajima Speaks
[Nieves] July 19 - 9:03 AM EDT | I saw this yesterday, but really didn't give it a hard look. Well, this time I did.
Interesting to say the least. And oh boy does it look like a fun one to break down. But...
I am going to do something different today. I am going to just put it out there and let YOU, the players, break down what's being said in Tajima's comments on Age of Shadows.
Here is the text.
Feel free to express yourselves in true UOPG fashion.
Hasta. |
^ top-When it Rains it Pours
[Lealla] July 19 - 8:48 AM EDT | Ever have one of those days when nothing seems to go right? Break a shoelace, hit every red light on the way to work when you are already 15 minutes late? Well seems OSI has been having a few bad days!
SHARD ISSUES
Log-in Servers Jul 19 8:10AM CST (GMT -06:00)
Due to a twisted ankle HamsterJoe powering the Log-in Servers will be unavalible today. We are hoping for him to heal quickly and return to work ASAP.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Thank you Virus for this entertaining information.
So tell us OSI what's up??
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^ top-Do NOT Hunt The Harrower
[Nieves] July 18 - 4:22 PM EDT | If what I am hearing is true, it is giving out murder counts
I will have a more informative post once I have all my information together. At that time, I will confirm or refute this post.
Hasta. |
^ top-Gankage BC Style
[Nieves] July 17 - 8:52 PM EDT | Walking around Felucca, I saw something that caught my eye. It was a lone BC. All by his lonesome, doing nothing in a home. He probably wasn't even at the computer or might've lost con. And he was shining a bright red. Do I leave him be because dropping him in this state is wrong?
Nah, can't. Gotta do it. Earthquake x 2 plus poison plus Kryss swipe = Dead BC.
I hope he wasn't in stat loss.
Thanks to the changes to Earthquake and him not responding, it was a cheap-ass kill. One I normally wouldn't take ANY pleasure in. I don't like killing reds unless I have too. Stat loss is the serious suck. I know. And killing someone when they are AFK? It's just wrong to drop someone like that.
But, know what? This one felt good. Very good.
To put it in BC Verbage: Another heathen has been cleansed from the world.
Hasta. |
^ top-The Quest For The King Of Brittania
[Nieves] July 17 - 4:16 PM EDT | For all of you that play, or have played on the Great Lakes Shard and been a part of the RP Community, this is for you.
Due to time constraints, the overflow of ideas between Red William, Editor Lealla, and those that choose to remain nameless, as well as the fact that Red William’s hands can only draw so much before suffering severe chaffing, Today’s comic is being replaced with a humerous written dialogue, written by Red William, who will most likely suffer carpal tunnel from all this (Thanks a lot Lealla!)
Disclaimer: The following is faked. The names of those involved have not been changed to insure the maximum humor and humiliation possible. Any relation to those portrayed is pretty much on the money. References to Dupre, Dawn, Lord British are copyrighted to Origin and EA. Richard Garriot is Copyright to that…other company.
You have been warned.
I am still laughing my ass off about it.
Hasta. |
^ top-UO:AoS - The Secret is Tossed out of the Bag
[Hennarr] July 16 - 3:40 PM EDT | | Finally we get the skinny on OSI’s secret project, touted as the most ambitious expansion ever created for UO. This shouldn’t be any big news to anyone, if you paid attention you would know that OSI publicly acknowledged that a big expansion was coming quite a while ago. Publish 16 was obviously phase one of this expansion. The surprise has to do with the details, timing of this press release, and the fact that we players are initially hearing about it through EA’s PR firm and not OSI themselves. OSI is pulling out all the housing stops it seems, afterall UO house ownership is one of the remaining major draws of UO and a lot of people aren’t really paying for UO itself insomuch as they are paying rent for virtual homes. Necromancy, being a paladin, new spells and a house design tool that sounds like something out of the Sims are being trumpeted as the major features of this upcoming expansion. What’s not to be happy about? Shouldn’t we all be creaming our collective pants with joy? You can see if I’m creaming my pants right here. |
^ top-Give This Motherfucker Some Love
[Nieves] July 16 - 10:09 AM EDT | To the asshoe that owns this website:
Your layout belongs to me. Remove it immediately or face legal action.
You have 24 hours to comply.
Hasta,
Nieves,
Owner/Operator
UOPowergamers.com
nieves@uopowergamers.com
UPDATE: I guess he saw my message. Thank you Orbitz for handling the situation promptly.
Hasta. |
^ top-Necromancers In UO.
[Nieves] July 16 - 10:03 AM EDT | In addition to building homes, players will have two new professions to master: a Paladin and a Necromancer. The chivalrous Paladin is a courageous warrior fortified with awesome new powers and the cunning Necromancer is a wielder of the darkest magic and forbidden secrets. As players role-play either of these two opposing forces they will discover a large new landmass to conquer and settle.
Read about the rest of it here...
Could it be true?
Hasta. |
^ top-GM Redcell Tells A UO Player Why Publish 16.
[Nieves] July 15 - 2:44 PM EDT | Well out of my five years of play, working with dev team in beta stage, and being a GM/Counselor back in the day of working out of the house Here is some information for the Young and the Veterian Players.
What else did the GM have to say?
Hasta. |
^ top-NWN Module Downloads
[Nieves] July 15 - 2:25 PM EDT | Get 'em while they are hot.
How many people do you think are creating their own modules? Thousands? So, how many different modules do you think will be released on a weekly basis? Talk about replayability and never having to play the 'same game' twice.
Can other games say that? I didn't think so.
Oh, by the way, Publish 16 is on Great Lakes. Just thought I would add that.
Hasta. |
^ top-I Just Can't Do It.
[Nieves] July 15 - 9:43 AM EDT | I sit here reading the news from Q&A and I want to bang someone's head through a fucking cement wall.
More things being changed without them being publically announced. More bugs that are being diplomatically written off.
Why do you, the Ultima Online players allow this to happen? Why are you allowing this company to lead us around like sheep?
Why aren't you, those that aren't happy, emailing them and corporate (EA) telling them you will not accept a shoddy peace of design work and craftsmanship?
Publish 16 has already been proven, as a whole, to be a shitty patch. Let them know, in a professional tone, how you are not happy with it.
Let them know that you will not accept anything less than quality work and quality designs for the money you pay. If anything OSI makes off of us is pure profit, then that profit needs to pay for providing us, the players, with profitable gameplay.
That is all.
I have bitched. I am now content. You may continue with your regularly scheduled programming.
Hasta. |
^ top-You Never Know Who Is Coming For Dinner
[Nieves] July 14 - 1:52 PM EDT | Adam Ant might just come over to say hi.
Hasta. |
^ top-Er...Um....
[Nieves] July 11 - 11:23 PM EDT | Publish 16 Roll-out Status
Give us the status, that you are evaluating the roll-out, then post the schedule all in the same day? Um...someone is LATE!
We understand many players are looking forward to using some of the new systems, and we want to release it as soon as possible-but it's even more important to make sure that the worldwide release is smooth and free of surprises. With this is mind, we are currently working to iron out a few last issues, after which we will set the schedule for the publish to be released to the remaining live production shards.
Read about the rest of the issues here.
Hasta. |
^ top-UOHoC Thursday July 12th, 2002
[Nieves] July 11 - 10:50 PM EDT | Well, while I was sick in bed, they go ahead and have the UOHoC.
For the record, there are two reasons why Nievesy Pooh doesn't attend UOHoCs. Originally it was because I wasn't in the mood to have my questions ignored and stupid questions asked. Now it's because I have my bible study on that night. Hey, don't look at me funny. All that use of the word Fuck will send me to hell. I got to do something to set it straight.
Well, time to break it down. You guys ready?
Hasta. |
^ top-An Interview with "Oaks"
[Lealla] July 11 - 7:44 PM EDT | Noleens over at The Daily Herald had the chance to sit and interview Jonathan "Oaks" LeCraft - Designer
Last night I had the opportunity to sit down and have a little chat with Oaks....
... Clothing Bless deeds are comin back!!!
... More pixel crack is on the horizon!
... Ever wonder why one animal is stronger than another - even though they are both fresh tames?
... I offered him the ability to blend time periods, things, people, and events into one days' grand adventure.....
Step inside and read the sordid details....
~Nols
Definetly an interesting read... Enjoy... Lets hear your thoughts Here
Till Next Time...
Lealla |
^ top-This just Posted
[Lealla] July 11 - 7:11 PM EDT | 'We are targeting to release the “Publish 16” changes, currently live on the Pacific and Test Center shards, to all remaining shards starting tomorrow, Friday, July 12th CDT. Barring any issues, each shard will have this publish active following their respective morning maintenance periods as per the schedule below (listings are in chronological order). Each of the related maintenance periods may last around 90 minutes.
Read the rest Here
Well folks, looks like the time has come (until they change their minds again)
Till Next Time...
Lealla |
^ top-UO = The Matrix?
[LadyGrania] July 10 - 1:57 PM EDT | 
*Chuckles*
Go check it out from the beginning here.
LuvYaBye |
^ top-UOPG Chat
[Nieves] July 10 - 11:58 AM EDT | Dupree, our UOPG Chat Room Moderator is hosting a chat. Check out the details here.
Hasta. |
^ top-A Bandage Until Stupid Stat Gains Are Fixed.
[Nieves] July 10 - 11:42 AM EDT | Hey Nieves,
This is copy and pasted from the UOBoards. Gamma_Zulu gets credit for this post.
The actual link to this post here
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I've been doing some experimentation while visiting on Pacific, trying to figure out how I'm going to manage my characters stats given the current coding with publish 16. There's some simple solutions here that I've been experimenting with.
First of all you don't gain stats on a skill that's marked down. For 7X GM's, you can point all skills down, and nothing will move. Now you don't have to worry about this problem anymore. So at least my 7X GM characters are set.
For 6X GM's or less, what you do is buy a skill that's high on the decay list (like anatomy, alchemy, arms lore). Then set all your GM skills down.
You'll decay from the purchased skill, and won't touch your other GM's.
You will still gain a stat or so here and there as you gain skill in the skills marked up, but to counter that you can set one of your GM skills that gains in the stat you want to either locked or up. Use that skill in the next hour mark.
For my bard, I'm going to have to use Arms Lore from time to time. So Arm's Lore will need to either be locked, or in the "up" state. One option I'm considering is setting up a macro that first uses Arms lore on a dagger in my backpack, then waits for 2 seconds and then uses the provoke skill.
That way the music (dex) and provoke (dex,int) skills will be checked always after a strength based skill. Using this macro, the net effect should be a gain in strength over time.
It's all a bandage until the stat locks. But it should be workable.
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Get the word out.
Hasta.
-Skywise
Weeeeee! We get to play Stat/Skill games! Watch it though! Messing with the system like this could be an exploit!
BTW: Hasta is Copyrighted. My laywer will be contacting you briefly to discuss payment.
Hasta. |
^ top-Here, Have Some Gains
[Nieves] July 9 - 9:15 PM EDT | Publish 16 Changes-
There are a few fixes, but this 'fix' interested me the most.
GGS gains have been altered to allow players with higher skill values to gain at an appropriately faster pace.
So those uber gains are as intended.
Thank you OSI.
Hasta. |
^ top-Neverwinter Nights Support
[Nieves] July 9 - 10:03 AM EDT | Thanks to Prophet for this link.
Hasta. |
^ top-Enough said
[Lealla] July 9 - 7:16 AM EDT | | Happy Birthday Nieves! |
^ top-Love Thy Neighbor
[Boot] July 8 - 1:54 PM EDT | | Is it just me or is there a lack love and mutual respect in UO? Yeah, I know, another vet griping about how things used to be, but damn, its gotten so bad you cant turn your head without someone flinging feces at you. Continue the article over yonder. |
^ top-Feluccan Convert For Life.
[Nieves] July 8 - 1:46 PM EDT | A Born trammys perspective
Ok I know I'm coming late to the thread but maybe I'll get some feedback.
My account is currently 17 months old. My first chars were born and bred in Trammel. My first experiences with other players were with trammys.
I played in Trammel for about 7-8 months venturing to the "PK laden griever 12 year old lands"(As they were explained to me) if Felucca. By some twist of fate I was indeed PK'ed the first time I went to Fel, that at the time sealed it for me and I decided it wasn’t for me. Well turn the clock forward to the end of my 8 months as a trammy. I couldn't work one single high-level spawn without some bard, some tamer, or just some hapless archer looking for gains interrupting my sport. It was doubly nerve wracking when these bards/tamers would simply laugh at me and call me a newb for wanting one or two gold heavy monsters for my own self.
Long story short, these grieving idiots drove me to hate the game of UO, I mean literally hate, I did nothing but rant to people about how fucking stupid people in this game were.
So I get ready to cancel my account.
Before I did that I figured I might as well spend my last couple weeks in felucca, cause I got nothing to lose. So for a few days I gate hoped and watched the O/C and Factions and others duke it out, I became intrigued. So in any event I find myself standing in front of the True Brits Faction stone. I go ahead and join up. Naturally I died, allot. But I found that even the dying was more exciting than the days of unfettered gold farming in trammel. So I put a stay of execution on my account and continued on the factions tip, I made more respectable, helpful, and kind associates in one week than I had in 8 months in trammy land. Felucca was not the dismal place I had been told it was, it was chock full of mature and level headed players like me, yes of course there are allot of idiots, but I would wager there are 80% less grieving children in fel than in tram.
In any event I learned that the true interest in this game is risk vs. reward. UO is not sitting in destard in tram with a bard and Pwning the spawn, its not sitting at the west bank in daemon Armour with a glacial staff and a pure mare. No Uo is about getting out there, dealing death and having it dealt to you.
Dying to a player that is your better is what makes you want to be better. So you can kick their ass next time.
So even though I was born a trammy I understand the frustration of all the vets here. Trammel did ruin UO, it ruined it for me, and I nearly left without discovering the true heart of UO. I’m not here to talk about pub 16 that has been covered, I just want all the trammies posting to know that Trammel did do everything the vets claim.
My only regret is that I did not give in to joining this game back in 98. I knew my addictive RPG personality would kick in so I denied myself UO for a long time knowing it would destroy me. It has
Later,
Greyhame
Fellucian convert for life
Thank you to Grimhawke for showing me this reply to Frozenfire's write up.
Hasta. |
^ top-NWN, Hard Core Style
[Nieves] July 8 - 11:42 AM EDT | HARDCORE RULESET
by
Archaegeo Neosophy
The HardCore Ruleset is something that started on 20 June as an attempt by me to make DM's more capable, and to make NWN behave more like the DND3e rules. Its grown, with lots of help, into an open source RuleSet. Almost all of the Features are optional, able to be turned off by simple setting a variable in hc_inc to 0 instead of 1.
Get HardCore here. |
^ top-UOPG Publish Update July 7, 2002
[Nieves] July 7 - 7:48 PM EDT | July Archives page set up.
I want to thank everyone that donated to UOPowergamers.com. UOPG's financial position is secure now.
Hasta. |
^ top-Publish 16, take two
[FrozenFire] July 7 - 1:55 PM EDT | UO History repeats itself. With publish 16, the tradition that started with reputatation and murder counts will continue with the Trammelization of Felucca.
Oh, the motivation was reasonable enough: Trammel is overused and Felucca is empty. So why dont we figure out a way to give all those poor crowded Trammel players an incentive to venture back to Felucca. On the face of it I agree with that. But Trammel should never have happened in the first place, and now that it did, many things could have .
Yes I hear some of you. PK:ing was commonplace. Newer people had a tough time learning the ropes of the game. Player run cities and the events staged therein became disrupted by roving bands of PKs. The self policing that Raph Koster intended had failed spectacularly.
And so instead we have a tradition of patching in coded restraints, of which publich 16 is but the latest. But was it the only way to go?
Read the rest here. |
^ top-New IRC Chat Channel
[LadyGrania] July 5 - 1:41 PM EDT | Greetings one and all! It's been a long time since I had much to say. Today, though, I have an important announcement!
In conjuction with upcoming NWNPG site, there is now the #NWNPowergamers chat channel on stratics IRC.
Please come in to teach and learn the new addiction in gaming called Neverwinter Nights!
LuvYaBye! |
^ top-Dex Capped at 110?
[Nieves] July 5 - 7:32 AM EDT | That's what Thalen tells us.
Did anyone see this in a document somewhere? I didn't...
I will refrain.
Hasta. |
^ top-Allow Me To Retort
[Nieves] July 4 - 11:34 PM EDT | Tap tap tap.
Tap tap tap.
Tap tap tap.
That’s the sound my finger makes as I ponder this past week. Wondering why it is that some people just don’t get it. Tapping sounds that follow the sounds emanating from the woofer sitting just to the right of me.
Click me so you too can tap tap tap right along. |
^ top-The New Age PowerGamer
[Gator] July 4 - 11:01 PM EDT | With the advent of Patch 16 the entire way to gain skills as we know it will be changing. This is due to the new GGS, otherwise known as the "Guaranteed Gain System". By definition OSI describes it's purpose as:
The core of this system is the guarantee that if you play "normally," you will gain skill.
Of course, first glance at this system will send any "rookie" Powergamer to his knees. For us seasoned guys its just an issuance of a new challenge. Read on to get your Gains.... Guaranteed. |
^ top-myUO Redux
[Hennarr] July 4 - 6:06 PM EDT | I’ll try to, without profanity or attacks, explain why myUO is rife with problems, and in the worst state I have ever seen it. You can find it here.
-Hennarr |
^ top-Dungeons and Dragons Websites
[Nieves] July 4 - 10:45 AM EDT | I was looking over at NWN Stratics and ADND Downloads and noticed some very cool tools for your would be D&D Gamers.
Dungeon Crafter is a program you can use to build maps of areas. I am going to download it and play with it. If it's as functional as I think it is, I will use it to build the model to any dungeon or area I am going to build in NWN. When building something, you always start with a model. I think this tool will satisfy my modeling needs.
DND Adventures has a lot of neat little downloadable tools and files for your game playing pleasure. I especially like this tool they have linked to from the Wizard's game site. It allows you to create Adventure Hooks on the fly. Adventure Hooks are what drove my own personal AD&D campaigns.
Example, princess was killed, you walk in, pick up a dagger next to her body. The dagger is covered in blood and you look at your hands. Then the guards bust in. They look at you, you look at them, you notice the blood on your hands....
As you make your escape, you realize there was a new guy from the western heartlands visiting your village. He had disappeared that morning...
That little scenario started a 2 year campaign for Vasiliss and our gaming group. And little side "hooks" were spawned from that campaign. Like the time Vasilias and his partner decided to visit "Glenda" while her husband was away. Her husband was bigger than Vasilias thought he was...as was the big axe he carried.
We still cherish that campaign.
Anyway, check out those sites and I will continue to find more for you.
Hasta. |
^ top-Happy 4th of July
[Gator] July 4 - 9:09 AM EDT | My fellow Americans, happy 4th of July. Take the time today to reflect on how we are as a nation. Take the time to reflect on the men and women who have done what they could do to see thsi county strive. And by all means, treat each other with respect and dignity....
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.
HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.
HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.
HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.
HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of the Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and the Convulsions within.
HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.
HE has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.
HE has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
HE has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us;
FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:
FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:
FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rules into these Colonies:
FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.
HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.
HE has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.
IN every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.
WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
John Hancock.
GEORGIA, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton.
NORTH-CAROLINA, Wm. Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn.
SOUTH-CAROLINA, Edward Rutledge, Thos Heyward, junr., Thomas Lynch, junr., Arthur Middleton.
MARYLAND, Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Thos. Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
VIRGINIA, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Ths. Jefferson, Benja. Harrison, Thos. Nelson, jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
PENNSYLVANIA, Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo. Ross.
DELAWARE, Caesar Rodney, Geo. Read.
NEW-YORK, Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frank Lewis, Lewis Morris.
NEW-JERSEY, Richd. Stockton, Jno. Witherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra. Clark.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Thornton.
MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, Saml. Adams, John Adams, Robt. Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry.
RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE, C. Step. Hopkins, William Ellery.
CONNECTICUT, Roger Sherman, Saml. Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Wolcott.
IN CONGRESS, JANUARY 18, 1777.
Later and God Bless
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^ top-What Have We Become?
[Nieves] July 4 - 5:30 AM EDT | 
Image, characters, and artwork the property of PvP Online.
Hasta. |
^ top-Publish 16 Has A Stat Cap?
[Nieves] July 3 - 8:17 PM EDT | [...] In other news I've been playing around with stat gain on Pac and it looks like they put the SP stat rules on Publish 16. You can only gain 1 point an hour and there's a limit of like 6 gains per 24 hours. Those numbers are still a little fuzzy, I'm not possitive about the max value being 6 but I think that's right. Anyway I don't know about you but in infuriates me that they "slipped" that in without mentioning it. Not that they would have paid attention to the feedback saying "GOD NO ARE YOU CRAZY" ... since they're going ahead with the patch anyway.[...]
-X
Thanks X.
Well son of a freaking beach monkey!
Thanks for telling us this one OSI!
Rumor is it could be reverted. Well REVERT IT. If I wanted to play by Siege rules, I would play Siege.
Hasta. |
^ top-Guest Piece By Blitz
[Nieves] July 3 - 5:39 PM EDT | I am sure everyone goes to UOPG for its information on howto gain skill effectivly. But sadly with the upcoming of Publish 16 the playstyle seems to be totally changed in a way that may make powergaming a problem , at first GGS was introduced a system to remove powerhour. Ofcourse this system looked interesting cause it influenced normal gameplay to make gains and perhaps help people to gain who don't like to powergame.
Somehow the Following doesn't add up:
"I made a brand new character to try out the GGS. In 45 minutes of playing, I gained 1.5 tactics and 8.2 swords. That isn't too bad but I had ZERO in both of those when I started. So that equates to 3-0.5 gains in tactics ie only 3 gains in 45 minutes and not a ton more in swords. Add in that it was my understanding that gains only came from successful using of the skills and I gained repeatedly from failed healing and I'd have to say there are issues with the gaining system at very low levels. Even after buying some swords and tactics I gained little. I tried NPCs, mongbats, gators and ratmen thinking it was difficulty baded and nothing helped. I even spent 10 minutes trying to kill a gator |
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