Ultima Online

Well there's a big difference. One could always wonder why the most successful guilds have chosen not to join CoRE.

I'm not beating on CoRE here but their biggest mistake was not to accept BoC into it when it was new, BoC is now bigger than whole CoRE is together, go figure !

Not trying to stir anything here.....but MyUO numbers would say otherwise, and then you have to consider the amoutn of alts people have spread around. I wouldnt say anywhere is bigger than anywhere else. Im just glad Grd is dwindling in numbers cause no one likes them anymore ^^

Dwindling? They went from 120 to 140 recently. And I guess that it depends on who you consider being part of CoRE as you happily put BoC in there, God knows who else !?

and the action is coming from where? Cause none of the big guilds even care to fight with them anymore, I do however enjoy fighting them with my lumberjacker....they die in a hit and a half cause of there great armour ^^ Its just a real shame they do things so rashly alot of the time without thinking of anyone else.

Originally posted by Vegster
and the action is coming from where? Cause none of the big guilds even care to fight with them anymore, I do however enjoy fighting them with my lumberjacker....they die in a hit and a half cause of there great armour ^^ Its just a real shame they do things so rashly alot of the time without thinking of anyone else.

Exactly who are you speaking of? Are you saying that the CoRE doesn't get any action? If so, that's true although that's about to change as it seems, Vesper has started  acting rude towards Covians (who where supposed to be their allies..), and become scurrilous and unfriendly. So a war might break out there (then again, I don't think they're part of CoRE either.)

But that's what you get with an unified community where some is in constant god-mode, pimping their shiny armour no one can penetrate, while the other half could care less and actually focus on the topic at hand: Role Playing.

Semantics of guild politics/relationships isn't the point of the thread, I think (Amusing to watch though!)

Back on topic...

I agree with every sentiment presented by the vets longing for the Good Old Days.  It just absolutely astounds me that the excuse generally flaunted as to why they do not put up a 'vintage' shard, is because it would be too difficult and unfeasible to reverse-engineer the coding...

Yet, you come across tens, hundreds, of player-run shards that have done just that, and have supported up to twelve-hundred players simultaneously with no notable problems - And this is from a handful of people - three to ten - who liked the old-school rules, and spent some time fiddling with the rules and code and et cetera out of their basement...  So it's obviously too hard a task for how-ever-many-more persons with much more coding experience and likely better equipment to do it officially?

Double-U.  Tee.  Eff.  Question mark.

I don't know.  I do agree with the sentiment that there's ALWAYS going to be that nostalgic, brand-new experience of logging into UO, wondering what the heck you're suppose to do, dying to a cat, then scavenging discarded potion bottles in a dungeon and selling them to vendors and thinking this is an awesome get-rich-quick scheme.  I do, and I always will.  Perhaps it's just me, or it was my cousin's monitor resolution when I watched him play over his shoulder excitedly or when I finally got my copy a few months later and started playing as well, but the grass literally did seem greener in this game, Back When I first started playing in '98 I think it was.

I'll also agree that it's a cop-out to say this is the ONLY reason the game seemed better, by contrast.  I still do play - I scrounge for artifacts in Doom to pawn off, troll through vendors looking for good deals on rares, and occasionally I might hunt with folk or just go a'wandering the landscape with my guild; Compared to what I USE to do, pre-Trammel, pre-item properties, pre-ninjas and paladins and necromancers and strange and question design decisions, it's a fairly paltry schedule.

Bah.  Now I'm all depressed and missing the massive RP community on Catskills, the neat Seers and Counselors, the awesome ShadowClan.  -Grumbles-

I dislike EA for being cowards and shy away from returning seers and counselors.

They are so afraid of legal issues that they rather prefer bland programmed content every 6 months (they actually managed to implement content quicker these months but that can change again) than have people put some originality into it.

UO is the perfect sandbox for seer run and player run events that can put out content quicker than any team of programmers ever could an they don't use it. Or rather only the players and hope for the best.


As for the COY CORE debate - talk is cheap - do something in game and write about it then you might claim something.

Both do events and write it up then on stratics and get people into roleplay again.