UO Second Age

I am all about getting it right, but this does not seem at all right. In short, I just think the fact that EXP/EB/HALLY does not work on a T2A system should serve as some sort of a bright-line test, and should warrant some very serious consideration. It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Georg...

I have experimented a bit with the changes on test, and I beg for further testing and tweaking to be done before this implemented on live UOSA. Many of the trademark T2A combos are utterly impotent in the system on test. As I am sure has been noted before, Explosion/Ebolt/Halberd is a laughably bad ...

Good finds Rea...

I shudder to think of a T2A shard where Exp/EB/Hally does NOT work...

No hicha, what he has proved is that there is a standing policy of not altering the reward items that are found to be inaccurate, but instead introducing era accurate versions of those items. This is in essence how I expect this issue to ultimately he addressed. Those still maintaining that the staf...

This is complete and utter BS. If they were known to be breakable back in the day, the second response on this thread would be Kaivan or Derrick saying "No sh1t sherlock, we did this on purpose obv. Like I have said, it has been known to be inaccurate for 18+ months, if not from the very, very...

Matron - re-read the past few page of this thread. The lion's share of your posts have been borderline-laughable strawman arguments with Blackfoot. To accuse someone else of constructing strawman arguments in the context of this thread is troubling.

Good list Matron, but it completely and utterly disregards the essential qualifier Blackfoot had: These custom turn in system items that get changed, grandfathering is the norm. Items are removed from the list and also altered. People who turned in for these prizes before the alterations are not sub...

o say Derrick knew this from the beginning is complete BS.

He has known about it for 18 months+, if not since the complete beginning.

It is not BS, and if I am mistaken, I would expect Derrick to have corrected me. He is well aware of this thread.

This isn't an item Derrick created from scratch; it was a preexisting item he made available via CUB and trophy turn-ins that had an incorrect RunUO property by default. This was never claimed, nor is it relevant to my argument. Pre-existing or not, Derrick knew that CBD's behaved differently on OS...

His phrasing leaves open the possibility of introducing era accurate bless deeds, while the old ones remain intact (or possibly with a different name). I also draw your attention to the all-important "we have not made any significant decisions as of yet." I have played this shard for 18 mo...

Those would be very apt names for those items if they could only be obtained directly from GM's who knowingly dispensed those items with era inaccurate properties. It has not been the policy of UOSA staff to change the items given from the reward system out, even if there is a known era inaccuracy. ...

Moreover, unlike those items which REMAIN on the shard, these items were deliberately introduced by the staff with full-knowledge that they were not era accurate, and "sold" to players with that same understanding. For a shard that extols accuracy, it was perhaps a short-sighted or misguid...

I don't recall Derrick ever compensating anyone for any previous patch which affected, modified or took away anything from a player in a negative or game-changing manner, so why should this be any different? It is different because unlike earnest mistakes that were corrected to ensure era accuracy,...

It has been known and discussed openly in IRC and in game since I began playing here in January of '09.

Derrick has known about this for 18 months+, and probably from inception. The trophy reward system was implemented with full-knowledge of this.

No, they told us they would not break. Why would I make any such assumptions about the future, Matron? The staff knew full-well of the era accurate path, and chose deliberately the one in effect. The lion's share of the trophy reward system is based off this operating assumption. I really do not thi...