Power Hour

[Saol Trosc]

I am not sure the era of this, but I do remember it any where from 1999-2001. I remember always logging on to get those skill gains during my power hour everyday. I am curious if this was T2A era and if so why is it not implemented in to the current shard?

[Kaivan]

Power hour was added in during the very end of the T2A era. Specifically, the 2nd to last T2A patch (March 9, 2000) where it was called the burst system:

• The chance to learn a skill will be increased during the first hour of play each day for each character. Note this only affects the chance to increase a skill, not the chance to succeed in using it.
  • The burst system will not affect non-difficulty skills that below base 70.0.

Since we have a cutoff date of November 23, 1999, for what patches to include (minus the housing changes), we do not have this addition here on UOSA.

[Saol Trosc]

Thanks for clearing that up. I was unaware that you all had a cut off date. That is why it was confusing for me not to see this in the shard. Thanks again.

[Pac]

What about 8x8? Or was that ever confirmed to be real vs placebo? (I never used it)

[Kaivan]

8x8 was a real function of UOR and was part of their anti-macro code.

[Pac]

8x8 was a real function of UOR and was part of their anti-macro code.

Which people quickly exploited using macros. So pro.

[Menkaure]

Power hour sucked. One of the reasons I quit. That's a lie, trammel was why I quit but power hour still suked

[montier]

Why did power suck? just curious on your perspective