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Sounds like UO is being run by a company that just got taken over and looking to find any reason to get rid of an employee ( players)..
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So I just got suspended for mentioning stratics
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I'm with you on that one. Sounds a little fishy to me. Methinks they might have been suspended for something else they said or did....or maybe made up the whole story??
So am I, I don't believe it
Less commercials in UO the better in my opinion.
Modernish Urls spammed in a medieval game is so unmedievalish, don't you agree?
For to long players have been allowed to break rules left and right in UO, so it's a real shocker to them to suddenly be punished for it, I can understand that.
Maybe EA could have handled the url rulebreakers a little more gently since they allowed the rulebreaking to go on so long unchallenged.
A 24 hour suspension is just a teeny tiny wake up call in my opinion.
EA for sure needs to work on the UOHerald website and either make UO Stratics the official UO forums or remove all links/entries that say UO Stratics is the official UO forums website.
If everyone in UO plays by the same rules then yes, I'd say that this all turning out for the best.
because banning for url's is so much worse than scripters
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AdamD
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Could always log in, and ask a gm if the Stratics URL is ok or not.
I would imagine it's a no no, given the banner adverts on the front page.
'Wait we better not talk about it here or (dielock) will call a GM on us.
I wonder, no, (he) probably does snitch on everyone in real life too. Must be real frustrating not to have friends and can't figure out why. After all (he) does everything by the book."
Well yes, now that you mention it, your words do seem quite humorous, after I substituted your name in place of mine.
1st - i have to say i'm strongly suspicious of the op's 'banning'.
2nd - the article below is from uo's own website...announcing stratics as the official message boards for uo.
Changes for the UO Message Board Community Mar 17 2003 2:22PM
The Online Community Relations (OCR) team here at Origin feels strongly that communication is crucial when running an online game. When we first opened the MyUO forums in the year 2000, our goal was to provide players with a central place to gather and exchange feedback with each other and with developers. Over the last three years, though, we’ve learned that it takes a lot more time to moderate boards than to simply post on them! In an effort to spend less time as “the police” (locking and deleting threads, sending warnings, finding lost passwords, etc.) and more time on effective communication, we’re going to allow one of our oldest and most dedicated fansites, UO Stratics, to handle message board moderation and administration for the Ultima Online forum community on the currently established forums at uo.stratics.com.
So why choose UO Stratics? Well, not only are they part of one of the largest massively multiplayer gaming networks on the web, but they have the most active and established UO community outside of MyUO and a vast set of forums spanning every play style. Some of the benefits of the Stratics forums include:
* a more upgraded version of the same software used for the MyUO forums, with all the features MyUO users are accustomed to
* the ability to bookmark certain threads and posters
* thirty different board color schemes to choose from
* a fully functioning “Who’s Online” page
* a “Dev Post” page showing all posts made by OSI team members
* forums for each profession and each shard
* seventeen general forums, including an ideas forum, an off-topic forum, and yes -- even a rants forum!
In case you’re wondering if this change means that UO or the UO.com website is being scaled back, the answer is a resounding no! Not only has Ultima Online only now reached its all-time high in subscribers, but we have great plans for the future of the Ultima franchise. We are not short on web bandwidth or hardware; this change is specifically geared to free up the Community Team’s time for things that will improve communication, such as reading and responding to players' posts, researching game issues, and writing important news updates. Our time spent on the boards won’t change much – we’ll just be reading the Stratics forums instead of MyUO, and we won’t be spending any time on moderation or administration tasks.
The MyUO Forums will remain open until 2:00 PM Wednesday, March 19th CST to allow players to share their Stratics board names with other posters or make plans to meet friends from MyUO in specific Stratics forums. Anyone who doesn’t already have a Stratics username will need to sign up on the Stratics forums themselves here; we will not be providing players’ UO or MyUO login information to Stratics.
I know this is a lot of information to digest; we invite you to discuss this move in the following threads:
To discuss the move in general, go here.
To share your Stratics name with others on the MyUO forums, go here.
To browse the UO Stratics forums and see what they have to offer, head here.
you can find the article quoted above here:
http://www.uo.com/cgi-bin/newstools.pl?Article=7403
2nd - the article below is from uo's own website...announcing stratics as the official message boards for uo.
Changes for the UO Message Board Community Mar 17 2003 2:22PM
The Online Community Relations (OCR) team here at Origin feels strongly that communication is crucial when running an online game. When we first opened the MyUO forums in the year 2000, our goal was to provide players with a central place to gather and exchange feedback with each other and with developers. Over the last three years, though, we’ve learned that it takes a lot more time to moderate boards than to simply post on them! In an effort to spend less time as “the police” (locking and deleting threads, sending warnings, finding lost passwords, etc.) and more time on effective communication, we’re going to allow one of our oldest and most dedicated fansites, UO Stratics, to handle message board moderation and administration for the Ultima Online forum community on the currently established forums at uo.stratics.com.
So why choose UO Stratics? Well, not only are they part of one of the largest massively multiplayer gaming networks on the web, but they have the most active and established UO community outside of MyUO and a vast set of forums spanning every play style. Some of the benefits of the Stratics forums include:
* a more upgraded version of the same software used for the MyUO forums, with all the features MyUO users are accustomed to
* the ability to bookmark certain threads and posters
* thirty different board color schemes to choose from
* a fully functioning “Who’s Online” page
* a “Dev Post” page showing all posts made by OSI team members
* forums for each profession and each shard
* seventeen general forums, including an ideas forum, an off-topic forum, and yes -- even a rants forum!
In case you’re wondering if this change means that UO or the UO.com website is being scaled back, the answer is a resounding no! Not only has Ultima Online only now reached its all-time high in subscribers, but we have great plans for the future of the Ultima franchise. We are not short on web bandwidth or hardware; this change is specifically geared to free up the Community Team’s time for things that will improve communication, such as reading and responding to players' posts, researching game issues, and writing important news updates. Our time spent on the boards won’t change much – we’ll just be reading the Stratics forums instead of MyUO, and we won’t be spending any time on moderation or administration tasks.
The MyUO Forums will remain open until 2:00 PM Wednesday, March 19th CST to allow players to share their Stratics board names with other posters or make plans to meet friends from MyUO in specific Stratics forums. Anyone who doesn’t already have a Stratics username will need to sign up on the Stratics forums themselves here; we will not be providing players’ UO or MyUO login information to Stratics.
I know this is a lot of information to digest; we invite you to discuss this move in the following threads:
To discuss the move in general, go here.
To share your Stratics name with others on the MyUO forums, go here.
To browse the UO Stratics forums and see what they have to offer, head here.
you can find the article quoted above here:
http://www.uo.com/cgi-bin/newstools.pl?Article=7403
a. urls to websites that break EA's rules, does not apply to ALL urls.
b. a rule is a rule, I don't see the difference here?
Rulebreakers are probably getting paid $5 a month to advertise a gold selling url and probably making $5 a month running their scripting operation.
There is no difference.
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AdamD
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Yes but look at the date of that article
When Mythic took over, the "official forums" status of Stratics, was revoked, along with the cancellation of the fansite program.
I did ask about it and the response was
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That page is over 5 years old.
Alot has happened in the past 5 years in regards to UO.
Pretty sure Jeremy posted that this is no longer true, after Mythic was put in charge of UO.
I think it is fairly common knowledge that the UOHerald pages are currently being worked on and updated.
This is certainly an area that needs immediate attention.
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I'm just going to repeat that this whole URL suspension thing is compleyely and utterly STUPID.
In their quest for a "fairer" UO, the devs have created a situation where a player can be suspended for having the audacity to HELP another player by a third player who is little more than a waste of pixels griefer.
Well done UO support staff. That's MUCH more important than banning dupers or scriptors. Thank heavens we're getting rid of those awful URLs!
I'm just going to repeat that this whole URL suspension thing is compleyely and utterly STUPID.
In their quest for a "fairer" UO, the devs have created a situation where a player can be suspended for having the audacity to HELP another player by a third player who is little more than a waste of pixels griefer.
Well done UO support staff. That's MUCH more important than banning dupers or scriptors. Thank heavens we're getting rid of those awful URLs!
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Synyster Gates_MT
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Wow. thats lame, they will suspend for saying the url of a game to help them, but then when there is a couple hammers duped and 4872 speedhacks on GL all they say is visit the knowledge base or fill out a form, its rediculous
You must of been or are right now a high school hall monitor or something...
Is that a hall pass I see peeking out from underneath your pompom?
well, I surely missed all of that, Adam, thank you for this important bit of information
do have a question and/or observation regarding it all, tho
were your questions posted on these forums, your own or elsewhere?
and "part of the implication" really doesn't cut it for me... not with the nitpickers around here.... do not imply, tell me precisely
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I'm just going to repeat that this whole URL suspension thing is compleyely and utterly STUPID.
In their quest for a "fairer" UO, the devs have created a situation where a player can be suspended for having the audacity to HELP another player by a third player who is little more than a waste of pixels griefer.
Well done UO support staff. That's MUCH more important than banning dupers or scriptors. Thank heavens we're getting rid of those awful URLs!
"In their quest for a "fairer" UO..."
Someone posted that they were combining GMs for UO, DAoC and Warhammer this weekend.
Maybe their quest is for fairer all three games?
Or maybe they quest to make just Warhammer more fair?
I'd think Warhammer might rank a bit higher on the importance list than UO does this weekend.
Does anyone find it suspecouse the op of this post has five posts total but only two are still on the forums?
Seems to me this is either just another complainer with an agenda or a liar or both.
Seems to me this is either just another complainer with an agenda or a liar or both.
Agreed! This is one of those things that is so unbelievable that i have to see proof to not call BS. I know they wouldn't have the nerve....
While you wait for Adam's reply I can say that I read the same thing front page UOHerald.com, possibly it was still UO.com at the time.
Possibly around the same time Jeremy announced the change of name from UO.com to UOHerald.com?
For sure it was since Mythic took over and there was a thread about why EA would not fund official forums like they used to right here in UHall.
I'm just not as patient or skilled in looking old posts up as some people are.
All I can say is:
LMAO
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AdamD
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Jeremy did confirm it here on Stratics, but I'm not sure if the original thread is intact or not
The original thread was titled "I feel abandoned, someone reassure me"
There's a copy at uoforums however - http://www.uoforums.com/f580/i-feel-abandoned-someone-reassure-me-31631/
The quotes in my original post were from Emails I received from Jeremy.
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Because a moron with a chip on their shoulder messed up the event via griefing a horribly poorly implemented rule of conduct.
Is it REALLY that hard to understand?
Because a moron with a chip on their shoulder messed up the event via griefing a horribly poorly implemented rule of conduct.
Is it REALLY that hard to understand?
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Trebr Drab
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I agree completely and commend you, slave. I used to be that way, but pretty much gave up when so much obvious stuff, especially house names, went unchanged and unchallenged. Although there were a few times that a GM did do something about one of my notices over the years.
By the way...slave to UO? I get that if that's it. Or it can be "slave to RL job", but there's always those who don't like hearing the truth to try to turn you into something else.
I am very, very happy that UO is taking a strong stance on any and all cheating and associated links to it. Now, if only they will change the game play to take the incentive for cheating down a few notches, and turn it into a more "worldly" game so that roleplayers can do their thing better, and casual or time limited players can be more than "gold fodder" for the "e-l33t".
It's evident to everyone who has read this thread who the troll is here.
You are most deserving. Sorry we couldn't get it engraved. That would have been an extra $0.75
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Not being able to mention stratics in game is just another push into the oblivion. It becomes more and more obvious that the people who run this game do not play it.
slave girl, I notice ALL but five of your posts are on this thread....upping your post count??
After reading your posts, I put you on ignore as I have a hard time dealing with half-wits and trolls.
And for the record, your name DOES offend me since there were multiple members of my family who were still living as I was growing up who had been slaves. Too bad the ignore feature doesn't eliminate your posts AND your name. Unfortunately I still see your name and the posts you make when someone quotes them.
After reading your posts, I put you on ignore as I have a hard time dealing with half-wits and trolls.
And for the record, your name DOES offend me since there were multiple members of my family who were still living as I was growing up who had been slaves. Too bad the ignore feature doesn't eliminate your posts AND your name. Unfortunately I still see your name and the posts you make when someone quotes them.
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Yalp
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There is a palpably poisonous atmosphere in the game these days.. created by the developers of the game.. and we pay our hard to come by cash for the privilege of "having fun" with their product. At some point, we will decide, each on his own level of comfort, that we have had enough, and will stop giving EA/Mythic those precious hard to come by dollars.
Whether the OP is telling the truth or not.. EA/Mythic has created an atmosphere in which we are willing to believe it.. (wwr suspensions for example).
This, (unchecked and corrected) action by EA/Mythic is creating the death of the game. It has no other course but to cause the failure of their commercial product. When it ends, there will be much noise making on the sadness of the loss of such a long standing product in it's genre... but it will also be unmistakable, the products own creators will be those who hold the blame.
Whether the OP is telling the truth or not.. EA/Mythic has created an atmosphere in which we are willing to believe it.. (wwr suspensions for example).
This, (unchecked and corrected) action by EA/Mythic is creating the death of the game. It has no other course but to cause the failure of their commercial product. When it ends, there will be much noise making on the sadness of the loss of such a long standing product in it's genre... but it will also be unmistakable, the products own creators will be those who hold the blame.
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Deb
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Hmmmm, smells like a troll...just seems to me that people are not happy
unless they are causing some kind of drama on these forums.
And for it is worth I refer people to Stratics all the time and have yet to
get a suspension..I definitely do not believe this poster at all.
Also, sounds like he/she has a beef with Stratics.
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Eslake
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EA has always owned UO. Origin Systems Interractive was just a division of the company.
Am I the only one who thinks the OP was just trying to stir up trouble?
EA isn't going to suspend anyone for sending you to the very forums THEY send you to.
Then again, you never know if the GM you're dealing with has ever played UO or has any idea what is allowed and what is not.
I would share why I refuse to attend said "events" or event runner's websites, but there's too many people here on the boards today who can't think of anything better to say than YOU'RE A TROLL.
(They can't explain why you're a troll, they just feel that you are with their 7th "it's a troll" sense I suppose.)
WRR is in business to make money, and they utilize alot of free labor ingame to advertise their website. I don't really call that an ingame "event" so much as an ingame advertisement for their website that sells items for cash.
Advertising websites ingame that sell items for cash is against the rules.
Uhoh, thats why some WRR employees got suspended.
Is it not enough to work for free for WRR but does WRR really expect them to jeopardise their accounts to do so?
Guess that's just one of those business expenses that all business owners have to deal with from time to time.
recently a cop pulled someone over on our road and sat out there with the flashing lights on at 2AM for 1 full hour walking back and forth from his car doing whatever. then the cop gave the person a ticket or something and sped off. wasn't even anything serious like a DWI. the funny part is all the drunks took the opportunity to clear out of the local bar and drove right past him drunk while the cop was sitting there detaining someone who wasn't.
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lucksi
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Good god, I don´t know what is more depressing.
a) That we have reached a point in this game where it´s not surprising if something like this would have happened.
b) That we have reached a point where the majority of posters here believe that this happened.
c) That other stuff just as ridiculous as this already has happened?
d) Another point that says the same
So no, I did not get a suspension for mentioning stratics.
@5 posters who doubted it: Thanks for existing.
@ whoever mentioned asking a GM to find out: Ask a GM? Yeah right. I have been playing UO on and off since the turn of the millenium. I´m on my 4th and 5th account now. Amount of times I have seen a GM: Zero.
I think it´s quite funny -only in a non funny way- that an entire guild and more can page on the same scriptors over and over again for almost a year and noone shows up. Our beloved gold farmers are always in the trog cave. Not to mentioned the afk miners, the dupers and so on. But mention an URL and a GM shows up?
Hmmm, I think when I see the scripter next, I shall page on him and put "Lol, he wuz spamming a websight that letz u saerch for luna vendors" ...typing like this makes my brain hurt...
@Slave: I would totally script too if I could make 5$ a month off it. That´s almost a quarter of what I have to pay for a single account monthly after all.
To sum it up, yes my post was me talking out of my hat (or rather something else that is round and inappropriate)
I thought it was funny to add totalitarian to the already existing things like racism and sexism that we have in the game.
Like armor that is only for elves, but no armor that is only for humans-racism
Armor that is only for females but no armor that is only for males-sexism
a) That we have reached a point in this game where it´s not surprising if something like this would have happened.
b) That we have reached a point where the majority of posters here believe that this happened.
c) That other stuff just as ridiculous as this already has happened?
d) Another point that says the same
So no, I did not get a suspension for mentioning stratics.
@5 posters who doubted it: Thanks for existing.
@ whoever mentioned asking a GM to find out: Ask a GM? Yeah right. I have been playing UO on and off since the turn of the millenium. I´m on my 4th and 5th account now. Amount of times I have seen a GM: Zero.
I think it´s quite funny -only in a non funny way- that an entire guild and more can page on the same scriptors over and over again for almost a year and noone shows up. Our beloved gold farmers are always in the trog cave. Not to mentioned the afk miners, the dupers and so on. But mention an URL and a GM shows up?
Hmmm, I think when I see the scripter next, I shall page on him and put "Lol, he wuz spamming a websight that letz u saerch for luna vendors" ...typing like this makes my brain hurt...
@Slave: I would totally script too if I could make 5$ a month off it. That´s almost a quarter of what I have to pay for a single account monthly after all.
To sum it up, yes my post was me talking out of my hat (or rather something else that is round and inappropriate)
I thought it was funny to add totalitarian to the already existing things like racism and sexism that we have in the game.
Like armor that is only for elves, but no armor that is only for humans-racism
Armor that is only for females but no armor that is only for males-sexism
uh-hunh.
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Harb
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Bye Lucksi.
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UltimaSword
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LoL running around paging on everything you see is ridiculous. I guess some people need to feel important.
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lucksi
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Why Bye Lucksi?
Think that will get me banned?
If you ban people for making stuff up that some people belief it to be true, ban all the story tellers and especially those that make up new events and post em like they are real, like RavenWinterHawk.
All I did was point out how ridiculous UO must have become if over 90% simply took my "suspension" at face value.
Think that will get me banned?
If you ban people for making stuff up that some people belief it to be true, ban all the story tellers and especially those that make up new events and post em like they are real, like RavenWinterHawk.
All I did was point out how ridiculous UO must have become if over 90% simply took my "suspension" at face value.
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