A lot less horse riding back on OSI

[keuse]

for a few months i didnt know there was alt+p for paperdoll so anytime i bought a horse id dismount and lose it when i came back online so i stopped buying them

qft

[Kamora]

Horses wasn't used in those days because of 56k connections. Running on a horse with a 56k connection is just as slow as running on foot.

This was so true! You were no faster on a horse. In 1999 we had the 28k modem, running on a IBM PC Compatable, lol. Only after you "upgraded" to the faster 56k modems (which came out later) were you even able to move your character in a crowded place like the Britian bank. When you saw someone able to run through the crowd at the bank, they were noticed, and of the few able to do this

And also there was the many times we killed our own horses by mistake. If you left yourself in war mode while on the horse, and the horse would get hungry often and you were dismounted, or you just wanted to dismount, you would be attacking your own horse, and had to finish by killing it, or it killed you

There were corpses everywhere, lol! In the forests, at the banks. People made a character, logged into the game not knowing a thing, and try to attack a guard We got our stuff from picking it off the ground. You could not run away from the mong bat...hehe. Some were even in the trees, and would swoop down on a newbie fast, looting his golds. It wasn't untill i was level 70 that i could kill the mighty mong bats then. Probably because of the lag, and not knowing how to heal.

[biff]

for a few months i didnt know there was alt+p for paperdoll so anytime i bought a horse id dismount and lose it when i came back online so i stopped buying them

qft

Hmmm. So why didnt you just get off, open your paper doll, and get back on? When you buy a horse, it doesnt automatically put you on it, so obviously you knew how to mount it.

Im a little confused.

[Mor'Sereg]

I can recall being on foot and running past someone on a horse. People use to have all different kinds of lag back then. I was a cheater back then cuz i used UO extreme which would double your run speed and allow you to last target off screen. I think they invented last target ;p

[Red]

UOExtreme did invent last target, as wellas bank anywhere, and see invisible..

[Slimeball Jasper]

I believe this was due also in part with that horses costed really close to 1000 gold, not 550 as it is on here.

[Faust]

It was around 720gp. This wasn't that much of a deterrent compared to slow connections.

[kingtoad]

I believe this was due also in part with that horses costed really close to 1000 gold, not 550 as it is on here.

I recall them being 750gp - 900gp.

[RoadKill]

I believe this was due also in part with that horses costed really close to 1000 gold, not 550 as it is on here.

I recall them being 750gp - 900gp.

I also remember the price being different from visit to visit, I never remember being able to memorize exactly how much it was, I'd always bring 1k and then run back to the bank and drop the change.

[XaN]

I say we do a shard wide vote for Mount speed to be the same as run/walk speed on foot. I never used a horse back then.

[Faust]

If this was a pre-t2a shard this possibly may be considered. I doubt it will be since it isn't in all honesty. I know that I used horses from late '98 all the way up until I quit after the UOR publish. There obviously wasn't a reason not to use one unless you didn't use UOE. However, any PVP'er that was decent used it for the most part. What needs to be verified is the horse speed itself.

[BlackFoot]

i remember only one guy in our guild rode a horse with us and we were pvpin mostly, cause his lag was worse than ours he used a horse to keep up

so im thinkin most people didnt use horses cost of cost and dying so much during t2a, pkers were always mounted

[keuse]

Back when I played yeah the people on horses were the laggers and epople generally with gm skills.

It was incredibly hard to GM any skills, so it was incredibly hard to get gold, I remember when 3k gold was considered a lot of gold... Sometimes it would take me a whole day to get 3k gold, and I wouldnt waste it on a horse especially when/if I would just get paralysed and die in 3 spells to a pk.

I remember as well you had to take 1000 with you because the prices woudl be random between 750-900gp.

[RoadKill]

It was incredibly hard to GM any skills, so it was incredibly hard to get gold, I remember when 3k gold was considered a lot of gold... Sometimes it would take me a whole day to get 3k gold, and I wouldnt waste it on a horse especially when/if I would just get paralysed and die in 3 spells to a pk.

This was more of a pre-T2A fact, by the time T2A hit, gold was pretty easy to come by, farming with a character in the 80s skills was easy enough as well. I remember not using horses for 1 main reason. You'd run run run, lag, run run run, lag. Every 3-4 steps you'd take a pause. Slower computers, slower servers, slower connections were the reason I want to say, but I think it would be neat to find out that default RunUO Horse speed was off, just another prod at the flawed emulation

[keuse]

It was incredibly hard to GM any skills, so it was incredibly hard to get gold, I remember when 3k gold was considered a lot of gold... Sometimes it would take me a whole day to get 3k gold, and I wouldnt waste it on a horse especially when/if I would just get paralysed and die in 3 spells to a pk.

This was more of a pre-T2A fact, by the time T2A hit, gold was pretty easy to come by, farming with a character in the 80s skills was easy enough as well. I remember not using horses for 1 main reason. You'd run run run, lag, run run run, lag. Every 3-4 steps you'd take a pause. Slower computers, slower servers, slower connections were the reason I want to say, but I think it would be neat to find out that default RunUO Horse speed was off, just another prod at the flawed emulation

naw everyone was on 56k back then and pinging 250-300 plus the LOADS and LOADS of spam going on at brit bank/so many people doing so many different things. People that had cable/t1 and pinging 20-50 i remember were unbeatable and had the same speed - or better - on osi shards during t2a and uor