Checking the history and time-line of Maginica…
Rebuilding Maginica… Is it another LIE? OR is it the most overdue event in UO history that has finally come to pass?
So… lets see.
The destruction of Maginica was thanks to an invasion. These giant monsters would take so much damage and then blow up… dislodging everything from plants to walls and almost everything else. That’s where most of our odd-ball rubble came from… and the palm trees I love so much. Scripters made out more like bandits on our shard, ruining it for most. I remember that clearly. Such a mess.
So the invasion was over… the island was a super-duper-mess ever since.
They had some kind of crazy void in Moonglow, that led to a parallel dimension… that was said to somehow have some kind of connection to Maginica. It didn’t.
Then… there was yet another invasion force that gave us the dread mares… and hung around until no one cared anymore. It seamed to have zero connection to Maginica.
Then… a year… more, less… I don’t know… they had all these hooded ghosts running Maginica. THIS, they said, was the start of the rebuilding. What it gave us was threads. This went on for many-many months… until people didn’t care anymore. And then, a new NPC was placed near the old Maginica moongate that took these threads and traded them for yet more rubble. Rebuilding nothing.
Ok… that was another lie. Then 3 more NPCs appeared taking an old robe and more threads from Maginica and making very minor interesting robes.
Now the Bane. They remove the moongate at Maginica and infest the lands with this horrible spawn that now invades all cities, yet again… camped outside the Spirituality Moongate and also calls Maginica home.
Someplace in-between these events… there was a big spring cleaning event that was also rumored to be part of the Maginica rebuilding and that was also a lie. Frankly, it was GREAT… lots of new and wonderful rare items, but had nothing to do with Maginica other then 1 of the type of items that could be traded in was the rubble from the destruction of the city. All the loose garbage, dust, wall rubble, and ordinary looking plants… clogging up storage went right into that.
We have to be talking about at least 5 years. Anyone know the exact date this all started?
I mean… I really can get behind the idea of remodeling old and otherwise unused areas… but there should be a 3 month plan, before the staff looses interest… before it becomes a scar on our game. They still haven't made New Haven all nice and shiny new. I believe they were rebuilding it in phases… and then just lost interest. It needs a lot more polish. So, staffers… please don’t ruin our towns. Ruin Luna. That was the worst idea ever and it needs to go.
Rebuilding Maginica… Is it another LIE? OR is it the most overdue event in UO history that has finally come to pass?
So… lets see.
The destruction of Maginica was thanks to an invasion. These giant monsters would take so much damage and then blow up… dislodging everything from plants to walls and almost everything else. That’s where most of our odd-ball rubble came from… and the palm trees I love so much. Scripters made out more like bandits on our shard, ruining it for most. I remember that clearly. Such a mess.
So the invasion was over… the island was a super-duper-mess ever since.
They had some kind of crazy void in Moonglow, that led to a parallel dimension… that was said to somehow have some kind of connection to Maginica. It didn’t.
Then… there was yet another invasion force that gave us the dread mares… and hung around until no one cared anymore. It seamed to have zero connection to Maginica.
Then… a year… more, less… I don’t know… they had all these hooded ghosts running Maginica. THIS, they said, was the start of the rebuilding. What it gave us was threads. This went on for many-many months… until people didn’t care anymore. And then, a new NPC was placed near the old Maginica moongate that took these threads and traded them for yet more rubble. Rebuilding nothing.
Ok… that was another lie. Then 3 more NPCs appeared taking an old robe and more threads from Maginica and making very minor interesting robes.
Now the Bane. They remove the moongate at Maginica and infest the lands with this horrible spawn that now invades all cities, yet again… camped outside the Spirituality Moongate and also calls Maginica home.
Someplace in-between these events… there was a big spring cleaning event that was also rumored to be part of the Maginica rebuilding and that was also a lie. Frankly, it was GREAT… lots of new and wonderful rare items, but had nothing to do with Maginica other then 1 of the type of items that could be traded in was the rubble from the destruction of the city. All the loose garbage, dust, wall rubble, and ordinary looking plants… clogging up storage went right into that.
We have to be talking about at least 5 years. Anyone know the exact date this all started?
I mean… I really can get behind the idea of remodeling old and otherwise unused areas… but there should be a 3 month plan, before the staff looses interest… before it becomes a scar on our game. They still haven't made New Haven all nice and shiny new. I believe they were rebuilding it in phases… and then just lost interest. It needs a lot more polish. So, staffers… please don’t ruin our towns. Ruin Luna. That was the worst idea ever and it needs to go.
or cruising the streets of Sosaria thumping the latest invaders.
Trust me... I'm not putting down events... just this whole ruining a town for all these years. Is 5-6 years reasonable to have a broken area of the game world? I don’t think so. Like I said in my post, I’m all for a little remodeling lesser used areas, but they should have a 3 month plan or just not bother with it at all. The staff ruined Haven with no storyline what-so-ever, then it was rebuilt just as quickly. That wasn’t so bad. However, we were talking about the totally unreasonable amount of time they had Yew turned into a swamp… and still… they ended up fixing it in a fraction of the time Maginica has been a mess.