You see, i played on seige a few times over the years, both post and pre AoS. And this is not a second seige. First of there is only the fel facet. Less landmass is equal to more interaction with other people. Something i missed for many years. And no blessed crap.
Please cite your source.
its not. It just demonstrates how clueless and out of touch Cal is with the community, what they want and what UO is about.
The relevant text.
Why?
First, the comment highlighted above is from the author of the post, not from a representative of EA/Mythic.
This.
exactly!
I think hell just got a couple degrees colder.
Yes I realize that, but Cal has not stepped forward to deny that he said this, and curse is well known in the mmo community, mostly for their client but still they aren't a shady source.
The only test is for the population, look we get it, it is nowhere near classic what they did was throw down the basics of old school gameplay as I've said open pvp/no item insurance/fel only to get an idea of what the turnout will likely be for that ruleset.
In case you missed the OP...
Yes. they. have... They removed ROT from Seige and called it Classic!!!!
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I don't even want to exist in the world where what you think of as semi sensible is taken seriously.
Yes don't over exert yourself.
There are a number of ways they could fund it, but apparently they already think it's worth looking into. Like I said it may come to pass it may not but arguing about it at this point is rather futile.
The PvM aspect of UO is better than it ever has been and I love what they've done with adding new content. I hope they continue to build upon it.
real pvp'rs ? the old school type that only relied on timing and mana conservation, team play and coordination?
if that were the case then why have archers been dominant since artifacts became common place ? you only need 5 or 6 macros MAX for a geared archer to compete at the upper levels. That is NOT complex.
hence "classic" ? aka the purist shard ? a throwback to when the game was really fun and took a little bit of skill and timing.
I would argue otherwise. I hope that there are still enough "old schoolers" around to confirm that pre pub 16 there were no Mega Zerg Guilds. There were multiple guilds in Facts - O/C - PK guilds and Noto guilds. Small to medium sized groups that hung out with friends and had a great time fighting.
sadly I will have to agree. No matter what the devs do, they wont be able to satisfy 100% of the uo playerbase.
well if I was a mage that saw that happening, I would have pre cast explosion and then prep a heal. He would take damage, then I would heal myself to full in 2 spells. I was up on mana and his stam was low from the explosion.
the game was actually balanced. If you had no skills or were a newbie you played the easiest class to be adept at - a dexer. Once you were good at the game and were a great dexer you accepted the next level of hard mode - a mage.
easy enough. carry around 12 to 15 trapped pouches. impossible to be para ganked. just like people carry around trapped dart boxes now. Only back then you still had to invest 100 points into resisting spells, now most of the newbies dont.
that wasnt a tank mage. that was the first 6 months that the game came out and only heavy xbows and ebolts were OP.
Yes anyone can say well I woulda done this and that and whatever, but I'm not talking about the upper echelon of pvp players, I'm talking about the average player experience in pvp.
Actually what it was and still is, is a lot of mages who got butthurt when their precasting bug was removed and they actually had to try in order to win fights.
Yes for those of us who figured this out early on it was pretty simple, but you would be amazed at how many dex monkeys were still falling to that para/hally combo, and yes resist was huge back in the day.
Actually you are terribly wrong here, the term tank mage denoted specifically a mage who was clad from head to toe in plate/bone armor hence the term tank mage as in armored like a tank with completely long range weapons which were silly powerful and made kids run and scream at the sight of said character.
Average by their own physical limitations ? or because they chose the easy way out to roll dexer/townies instead of dying on a mage, losing and practicing their way up to being decent mages ?
If you rolled a townie after being a mage, then I can only say that you were a bad player and a horrible mage.
the top 2 percent may have been mage pvp savants. but in the field all of the good mages and great mages were feared by silly townies.
not really. I adapted when precasting was removed. I was fine up until pub 16 that then added 2fc and 4fcr. Actually at first you could cap out at 4/9 magery with no capy on SDI. I remember making a mockery of the new system by chaining flamestrikes faster than the plebes could mini heal.
because a good dexer is akin to getting a gold medal in the special olympics. See what i did thurr ?
Those were the lowest of the low. Those were the "bad dexers"...like saying the "bad bads"
Yes, and we were talking about hally mages were we not ?
Spot on! Pre:UOR with precasting was the most balanced PvP System UO has ever seen.
No average as in not everyone did enjoy pvp 24/7, the players who were not the most experienced in battles. All you see is the precipice of fail that you have built for yourself.
I did roll a townie for Order/Chaos but I never abandoned playing my mage, your simplistic either or attitude is very telling, and the fact that you are sitting here saying that playing a mage was hardmode, kid just stop you are embarassing yourself at this point, mages were the most powerful template in the game during it's best years, because pound for pound no other skill could deal out the pure amount of damage that magery could.
Someones been drinking the kool aid for a long time, now we can generalize people by the template they play rolleyes:
I see what you are doing now and it doesn't make you very smart to be honest.
You were erroneously saying that hally mages = tank mages and I corrected you. Now you ignorant little twerp, I have never been an advocate of trammel, I played UO and PvP'd during the best years the game had to offer, this silly little smear tactic you have going, it would be funny if it weren't attempted by every single noob that ever graced these forums.
I agree with this, anyone who is mad at the developers over this is not thinking clearly, the devs have never said anything about classic. What we have is a statement that Cal supposedly made saying that he was using this shard to gauge the interest for a possible classic shard, now obviously if that is the case it's true that it's far from a perfect way to test such a thing, but at the same time that's only if you don't consider the many other things they likely have going on.
And yes, this does make me clever...Try harder next time!In case you missed the OP...
Yes. they. have... They removed ROT from Seige and called it Classic!!!!
No, no it doesn't, not one bit actually, and for the record since you two haven't figured it out yet, check UO.com..no no I'll link you directly to it so you don't get further lost in your own ignorance.
You should be a lobbyist.
Says nothing about this test shard being classic.
Only mention of classic is on stratics not on UO.com where it says specifically what the shard is.
calFinally!
For all of you who posted 6 years of "beating dead horse" emoticons...........
(Checks to see that it's not April).
classic shard
