That is simply nonsense. KR and EC are simply sh*t, and that is why not as many people use it. Few want to play a client where its the 2D graphics in the CC, but blurrier. Few want to play a client that crashes frequently.
I would say it is the EC fanbois that are holding back UO. They are preventing UO from getting a real 3D client.
Exactly.
The suspicious side of me thinks that maybe these guys are trying to portray the CC crowd as irrational in an attempt to marginalize their opinions. I can only assume this is because they have invested time into the modding of the EC and hate the prospect of that time going to complete waste. You're right that all they're doing is hurting UO. It doesn't matter how much you can tweak the EC to be almost playable, the fact is, that monstrosity isn't going to garner one single new player nor inspire one former player to rejoin.
You can't paint everybody who plays the CC with that brush because the VAST majority of us are people who just find the EC nauseatingly abhorrent.
What we need is a real 3D client. The sooner you guys stop making excuses for the EC, the sooner it can be dropped (like Third Dawn) and manpower can be diverted.
All of this is wrong. Maybe there are some EC "fanbois" out there who cheerlead it like it is a complete solution, but there are far more CC users that think the EC isn't every bit as capable as the CC, and all because "it look blurry" and "the grass doesn't look the same", and a couple sprites aren't "traditional" like hiryus and swampies. Big deal. the EC is much more capable than the CC ever was. I have played them both, and I prefer EC simply because:
1. The zoom factor lets me see much further than the static CC can, which lets me see things much sooner and not blunder into nasty situations. Also, if you zoom in in a champ spawn after you kill the boss, it looks blurry (Waaaaahhhh!!!) but the piles of gold are now huge, which facilitates grabbing them because instead of occupying an area of a square half-centimeter, now they occupy the area of 2 centimeters.
2. The macros. There is not one thing you can do in CC that you can't do in EC, and do better. Even
with UO Assist, you can't do half the things you can do in EC with
no mod support. While I'm at it, the CC users that complain about people modding EC haven't said anything about UO Assist, and probably most of them can't live without UO Assist.
3. Containers: Instead of having a bag that looks like a messy woman's giant purse, where you have to root through the whole thing to find what you need, or carefully, painstakingly organize it to utilize ever pixel of the pack to be able to see what you need (and then having the things you loot cover all of it up), You can have a grid pack where nothing gets unorganized when you die, or when you loot. You can have everything you
want to see at the top of the pack, and all the stuff you
don't want to see at the bottom, where you have to scroll down to see it. I put all my weapons and armor and talismans and potions and bandages and regs or whatever at the bottom of the pack, and access it via macros. If I die, not only does all my stuff go back where I put it in the pack, instead of getting scattered all over the place, I can put on my
full set of armor with a single click of a button in the space of 1 second flat, switch weapons and talismans with another button, instead of having to find them in my littered pack, dragging my current weapon out of my hand, leaving me defenseless while I root in my pack for my other weapon, and dragging it back to my hand.
4. Looting. Instead of pulling up a corpse container littered with garbage that you don't want sitting on top of what you do want, I can see everything in a corpse or chest, for you treasure hunters) without moving a thing. Furthermore, if I see something I want, i just right-click it an it's mine. Piles of gold, essences, gems, just right click, and it's in my pack. I see a lot of people who don't loot corpses. There are 2 reasons for this. First, they might have so much gold they dont need any more. Second, in CC, it's a pain in the a$$. I think it's more the latter reason. I can loot fast enough to loot in champ spawns, and I usually get more gold looting than in the gold drop at the end.
Those are the main reasons, and there are many more where they came from. It's a little blurrier (Waaaaah!!) but EC is a lot more effective. With other UI mods, you can do
way more than that.
If we are going to drop anything, why don't we drop the CC, which has half the capabilities of the EC? In reality, I don't want them to drop either client yet. When they ditch the tile system, and re-create the game in full 3D to current graphical standards, I'd like them to take the code for the CC and the EC, and run it through a degausser, never to be seen again. No option to stay mired in the past. Like a previous poster said, bring all the players of the game, regardless of the client they like, kicking and screaming into the future.
