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They don't get it AT ALL. A new dev team that's actually COMPETENT is needed. Earlier this year on LS, when people were talking about UO*****, she thought they were talking about the game being ON Steam.
It's funny that the telestorm crashes only occur on Mugen... It IS every shard, One reason some people don't crash as much is because they use a #$%king Script to hide other players/pets so there are less particles on their screen. Which reduces lag & their chance of crashing thus allowing them to have an overall better chance of obtaining EM Event drops. It's not just the multi-boxing/dual client... Mostly when there are ~30 or more people + pets/summons there in the same area. also depending on the mobs we're fighting the more particles the more lag/longer lag spikes.
Worst response I've ever read, not the first time she's said similar lines (to different questions)... but uhm...does it have to be easy? Responses like these make the team sound lazy as hell.
Hey, that's when she said there were only 3 "clean" people at that unscheduled meeting, again, unbelievable... They need to find a way to prevent connections through non-approved third-party programs... Sad day.(several years, actually)
Off the top of my head, I can't recall ever crashing DURING an event (although I probably have), but I do know that the lag at some of them is unbelievable. The last LS event I did (which had a drop) was extremely laggy with all of the pets, players, summons, etc. Same with the last Legends (drop) event. If I were on anything but a thrower (or archer, by extension), I probably wouldn't have been able to do anything at either event; however, that's part of the reason I use throwers in the first place (well, that, and I never need to worry about getting a mount.)
This... I've lost all faith and hope for UO. To me UO has become the Free Mesanna shard I pay for... It's no longer OSI or anything else it's Mesanna's free shard we all pay for... It just happens to have several shard selections available to chose from but it's still no more than a really rather sad and lacking free shard. When many free servers can out perform an actual DEV team it's time to give it up... I've given up any hope that they will ever understand what they are doing to destroy the game that we love. From the lack of "getting it" about the art and it's perspective to the lack of caring about how the game performs. How anyone could look at that art and think it BELONGS in UO I don't know... The artist needs to either go back to school or learn to adapt to the game he's in... LOOK at the art that made the game... THAT is what we want.. that is the style that should be used to create new stuff... you know what gets me is the artists that did many other expansions got it right... Why can't this guy?
As far as I know, this was always possible (and legal), especially when everyone had Windows XP. Just open UO with two different usernames, and switch between, I believe? I remember hearing of one guy on Pacific years back getting banned for it though - I think it was Ooji. Story was that he only did it to res his own pets, but if that's the case, it's hardly a ban-worthy offense.
Wow!! I so wish I could agree with you more than 100%! UO used to be about so many different templates, there were many professions to play, something for everyone, but now it seems that there are so few templates that can compete. I am so sick of people telling me my Paladin should be a Sampire.
Wait, Pincos is illegal? I didn't know that! That upsets me, actually, since there was an official thread on stratics where I found out about it. I haven't been able to use it lately but now I feel bad donating.
Multi-clienting: Having more than one client logged into a character at once, manually switching back and forth between said clients to perform actions with a character. Used a lot in RP situations. COMPLETELY LEGAL.
The way I see the events is a bit different I suppose...
Following isn't the issue... it's the ability to perform actions across all clients with a single keystoke that is the issue. Disabling following wouldn't do a thing to those who use a third party app to multibox.
Using scripts, regardless of how many accounts you're running at once, is illegal per the TOS. It's just not enforced. At all. Broadsword has no spine.
This is a well-trodden, fairly contentious topic. Be prepared for dramatic, long-winded responses with a thin veneer of wobbly logic covering shameless greed.
She is happy to bury her head in the sand and pretend all is well...
I doubt it. I figure the "official forums" will be nothing more than a cheerleading section, heavily regulated with perhaps even game account actions taken against severe abusers.
This is from NEWS - Transcript of Developer Meet & Greet 04June2014 - Atlantic Shard
You are %200 correct about your account being in danger. When UO had its own forum any action taken against you on the forum was also applied to your online account because they were one in the same as fa as UO was concerned. A friend got a 3 day suspension for disagreeing with a MOD/DEV on the forum and could not log on to play UO also.
Not to say multiboxing isn't an issue, but all your picture really shows is that a bunch more people showed up... Unless of course you are implying that all the characters in your second picture are being controlled by the same few from the original picture.Just wanted to add a visual for anyone who is unaware of the multi-box/Multi-account issues at EM Drop Event Nights
15 Minutes into the event, just us Originals listening to the story told by EM Auma
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Same location an hour later
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Lag was horrible, thankfully I didn't crash but I thought I was going to a few times.
Pictures speak a thousand words
Sadly most times the DEVs do something to thwart scripting/cheating it ends up costing the legit player more every time..... lets take the randomization of ores and wood.... did that stop or slow any scripting bots? Heck no.... they are still recalling in and out and in and out and in and out 23/7... amassing massive quantities of all stuff... the legit player now to mine anything of Valorite or Frostwood has to spend days and weeks just looking for a small drop of the stuff...
We can think of solutions all day but it won't help a bit when the producer is not even pretending to see a problem at all
I just use alt click to follow and attack on 3 characters. It's not hard to keep up with 3 accounts casting colossus. Pretty easy actually..
Actually, that was my point. Official forums will be a sycophant echo chamber, a safe space to trumpet continued mediocrity as if it were mana from heaven. It will be a reactionary control freak's dream.
Personally if it were up to me I'd just stop the drops all together... In the beginning we were fine when told that there would be NO drops... the events were fun, challenging and engaging... people were fairly respectful to one another and no one had a problem with not getting anything.
What was it before? At one point (way back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth
), I believe it was "item was on corpse" instead of backpack drop. Which was lol. But even if that remained, I don't think it would have changed a thing about the multi-boxing, especially with instanced corpses (not that it'd be much of a deterrent for a loot script, whether instanced or not)
No pretty sure he's one of those 10 or 15 backside hurt ones who use to get the drop every single time back when it was based on the "top damagers" ... and no one else ever had a chance without having a super internet connection, uber multi-billion dollar suit, and flavor of the month build character.What was it before? At one point (way back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth
Where do you get your numbers from and for your information I resent the fact that you are including a lot of honest people in that %95 and I resent being called a cheater.
For as long as you have been playing it still surprises me every time you speak. You really have ZERO understanding of game mechanics. The 3 things you listed that were a 'must' have further proves that. It wasn't the suit, it was the template. I could achieve exactly what I needed with an imbued suit and jewelry set.
It was top damage; which catered to the competitive, competent player. When that was the system there was ZERO issues with Multiboxing, Rares were not over saturated and the economy was strong. I stopped doing events once the average price dropped to 100ish mil. I do way better farming gear.What was it before? At one point (way back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth
It really is funny isn't it..these are the same people who complained their herder/thief wasn't getting drops doing 8 damage a swing with a halberd 53 dex and no swing speed cause they role played a character with 0 synergy to UO templates..