Am I the only one rather excited about the house additions?
Oh trust me as the owner of a Keep and Castle I couldn't be happier and I'm looking forward to such things... but I have a feeling they just might take too long to happen for me to care totally.
I mean at this point I'm still extremely frustrated with my inability to really play and enjoy UO anymore. I waited through the time I couldn't use Pinco's anymore because they were updating and upgrading the base UI for the EC... Took what seemed like AGES.... but then we got the client back in a FAR worse state than it had been in. Like it took two tiny steps forward with the UI and 10 MASSIVE LEAPS backwards giving us back bugs and problems that had been fixed AGES ago and reintroducing them back into the client along with all sorts of crashes, hang-ups, Lag ..... odd art weirdness... etc... NONE of which have been resolved well.
I still have to deal with the fact that I can't read a book in the EC that isn't red leafed.... I can't write in a book and have anyone in the CC be able to read what I wrote.
I can't see anything that has an animation if I use the Circle of Transparency. Makes it hard to lock down most of the cool EM event items when you can't see it after you drop it down unless you always remember to turn the circle off before you do it. I can't see the big multi-colored horde minion used by some EM's as a Mob Boss... totally invisible in the EC.
I can't open a public corpse at an EM Event, after a Champ Spawn, Can't open Corguls corpse after it goes public... Can't open the corpse of a Peerless boss after it goes public.
If I die it takes up to 1 full minute for the death animation to take effect so I stand there frozen unable to get a rez or know where my corpse is or what is going on in-game for up to a full minute after I die... Meaning if this happens at an EM event on the final boss I can't do any damage, can't get looting rights, can't get back in the game until after the Boss is dead.
If I try to customize a house the longer I take the more laggy and laggy the client becomes until it crashes. It does weird crap like leave trails of wall tiles along everywhere my mouse cursor goes.... because it fails to realize I quit hitting the button ages ago... I will erase half my house if I try to erase one tile as it continually erases tiles everywhere my mouse cursor goes as it get more and more laggy the longer I remain in Custom Mode.
If I try to put in a roof often I can't see that the whole bottom row is orange for no reason and I can't commit the house until I log out and back in to the 2d client to see what is orange since I can't see it in the EC.
Things like this become more and more frustrating until I just want to quit.
As for going back to the 2d client won't ever happen. I am not going back to having a game play window that's 1/16th the size of my screen... I can't read most that junk and I can't see what is in my pack or anywhere else for that matter. Not to mention my speedpad doesn't like the 2d client and i have to make a separate profile for each and every one of my characters to use in order for it to work right..... that's over 800 characters. I'm SOOOO not doing that. In the EC I can make one base profile and drop what I want into it so quickly I can get a character up and running in a matter of minutes with full macro's... I think I'd rather quit UO than go back to the 2d client.
I had hoped that they would have addressed some of these issues. There is a HUGE list of bugs and things that need fixing in the EC. Don't even get me started on clipping issues and such with the wearables.... I'm seriously hoping the "new" wearables don't suffer many of the same problems.
I'm also hoping that "old" stuff isn't forgotten. I still would like a new mempo of fortune that isn't butt ugly and doesn't cover up my face. Sure looks like crap to have a nice new dress instead of a stupid robe but then to mess it up with a butt ugly Mempo. I don't want to look like Hannible Lecture.
So I waited for the publish for a long time... and supposedly the two BIG issues with performance at the EM events were fixed. NOT fixed. Now I have to wait some more. I don't know how much more waiting I'm willing to do.