Greetings and salutations everybody,
most of the taming community still seems to be a little confused about the news, or they haven't even heard them yet. /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif So here's a little guide which will hopefully
clarify everything "legacy" pet related.
Let's begin with an introduction of "legacy" pets.
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(1) What are "legacy" pets?</font color=blue>
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Legacy is a term choosen by the OSI Dev Team to describe several kinds of animals that used to spawn in at least two different variations. More precisely, they are
nightmares and white wyrms. A while ago, there was a patch which changed the spawn to one "standard" body, so Ultima Online: Third Dawn would recognize them with the
new client, and display them as nightmares and white wyrms. So four different bodies of nightmares (2 short maned, one "blue long maned" and one "pure black") and two
bodies of white wyrms ("dark" white wyrm and "pure white" wyrm) were reduced to one.
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(2) Okay, but how does that affect me?</font color=blue>
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Since the variety of "colors" has been reduced, those newer tamers or those who didn't tame one yet will never be able to tame some kind of pets, because they don't spawn
anymore. In addition to this, tamers selling those legacy pets ask insane prices for their "rares".
In UO:3D it also affects you in a different way. All legacy pets will not properly show with the client. Nightmares will show as horses, while white wyrms will show as
dragons.
This image was taken from <a target="_blank" href=http://www.tamingarchive.com/>The Taming Archive</a>, but slightly resized and converted into a *.jpg file so it would display with all browsers.
In the top picture you see a "pure" white wyrm -> legacy pet, next to a current white wyrm. In the picture below you clearly see that the legacy wyrm doesn't display as a
white wyrm at all, instead it appears to be a red dragon.
Here is a picture of the nightmares in 2D and 3D. The mares in the back row are all legacy pets. The single mare is the new body of nightmare, the only one which currently
displays properly in 3D.
Legacy mares rom left to right: Easter, Blaze, Hope, Drusos
Stand-alone new nightmare: Chance (R.I.P. 05/14/01)
Thanks to <font color=blue>
Elyssar</font color=blue> for providing Drusos, the "pure" mare in this picture!
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(3) One second, why are the short maned mares in that picture horses in 3D? I thought all short maned mares would look okay?</font color=blue>
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No, but that's a common mistake /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif. It's that OSI chose the body of the short maned nightmare which leads to this confusion.
All nightmares which spawned prior
to the patch are legacy mares. And since there are two kinds of short maned mares as well, this of course goes for them, too. Had OSI chosen the body of the "pure" mare
it wouldn't have been any different, only the mares from
after the patch do correctly convert yet.
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(4) Are legacy nightmares real horses in 3D, or do they still have nightmare stats?</font color=blue>
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Legacy pets still possess their full abilities in UO:3D, which is very bad in the case of nightmares, since they look like ordinary horses. It is only their looks which are wrong,
their stats remain the same.
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(5) So will that be fixed?</font color=blue>
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Yes, the Dev Team at OSI is currently working on a fix for that problem. It will not affect any legacy pets in 2D, as stated by
<font color=red>Calandryll</font color=red>. It will only fix their
appearance in 3D.
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(6) What's the rumor about pure mares returning, then?</font color=blue>
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The Dev Team discovered that they could easily change the standard body of nightmares and white wyrms back to the different variations, because of the way the legacy
pet fix works.
<font color=red>Calandryll</font color=red> has also clearly expressed on UTB that he is looking forward for them to spawn again, because he feels that every player should
have an equal chance of owning such a pet, and "not just those who possess enough money to purchase one". He said "they were never meant to be rare".
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(7) Does that mean they also make different skins of mares for UO:3d?!</font color=blue>
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Currently, there is no real info on that. It was said, however, that they're "not yet working on that", which could mean everything and nothing. They might eventually come, the
possibility is there. But if so, then it is likely not going to be too soon.
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(8) So when's that going to happen?</font color=blue>
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Not in the near future, I am afraid. The fix requires a client
and a server side update, so they can't implement it right now. However, it was important to
<font color=red>Calandryll</font color=red> that it will go in as soon as possible. Which doesn't mean too soon, sorry for discouraging some of you now /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif
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(9) I saw a "pure" white wyrm / a "pure" black nightmare, is the fix already there!?</font color=blue>
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No. I've been getting a lot of questions like this, people even saw "pure white wyrms" spawn, but it can't be more than maybe a server glitch (I don't see how, but you never
know...) or something similar, including mass halluncination *lol* /php-bin/shared/images/icons/wink.gif. I made sure to check back with
<font color=red>Calandryll</font color=red> regarding those sightings, and he pointed
out again that the fix would also require a
server side update, so a patch will
not and
never "just" make them spawn again. B'sides... imagine the uproar on
Stratics and UO.com, so you wouldn't miss it .... /php-bin/shared/images/icons/wink.gif
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Note! There is one exception, and that is the test shards. </font color=red>
Calandryll <font color=red>was kind enough to let me know that the fix is currently being tested on them, so prepare for legacy sightings there. Not on the regular shards, yet...</font color=red>
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Okay, this was my brief FAQ regarding legacy pets /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif Please don't hesitate to ask me any more questions, I'll gladly answer them so we can collect a lot of topics
which need to be addressed here.
Thanks for your input,
-James<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">
Edited by James of GL on 05/17/01 05:36 PM.</FONT></P>
