UO Second Age

rouss wrote:

Oswald wrote:
In reality there were less PK's back on OSI and, as you said, nobody was ghosting spawns back then.

well that's because much less people knew how to play uo well back then

I think it had to do with several factors. a) People were paying for the game monthly. Few people had more than 1 account, maybe 2, rarley 3. On this server I have an entire account just dedicated to ghosts to check out a spawn before I recall in. b) At the time, stat loss SUCKED, few people were willing to risk what would've been (at the time) months of macroing to get back in shape. On my server (Catskills) - 99% of the PvP was done through guild wars & Order/Chaos. Which at the time, was fine. I never had a problem finding a fight. But the days of roaming gank squads were gone as soon as the reputation patch went in.

On this server, people don't seem to care. Perhaps it's a combination of no longer caring about stat loss, being smarter/better macro'ers making it not as much of a chore to re-GM skills. It is what it is. It's defiently an adjustment for sure.

Also as someone else pointed out, most red's are someone's alt. There's no "sides" on this server. I'd bet most established players here have a PK character and a blue character. On the live servers, people tended to choose sides, good or evil. Which is fine, just saying.

Their are far more PK's on this server then their was back in the original T2A age.

Rendar wrote: On this server I have an entire account just dedicated to ghosts to check out a spawn before I recall in.

NOOB

Pat wrote:

Rendar wrote: On this server I have an entire account just dedicated to ghosts to check out a spawn before I recall in.

NOOB

Yep. What's your point?
Been 10 years since I last platyed UO.

I love pk'ing

Dont' forget back then, if you were afk - even for burning a murder count off as a ghost in your own house, off to jail - banned accounts, etc. etc.

I don't believe it was ever against the rules to stand around afk, even as a ghost. They would never have expected people to sit there and watch their ghost for days on end doing nothing.

if you didnt move for 5 mins or whatever on osi you disconencted

BlackFoot wrote:if you didnt move for 5 mins or whatever on osi you disconencted

it was longer then 5 minutes it had to be takes longer then 5 mins for me to poop and i went afk to poop a lot

I think it was a punishable offense. Reason I say that is when you were idle too long it logged you out. If your toon didn't auto-log then that was a indicator of someone macroing.

confirming that it was punishable. unattended repetitive actions to prevent being disconnected was considered macroing.

I knew a couple reds that got banned for just sitting around afk to burn counts. True, you disconnected after several minutes with no actions, so you had to make actions. UOAssist even spamming "all names" every few minutes would keep you ingame, and although they can't prove you were looping it with the third party UOALoop, if you didn't reply, you got banned/jailed.

Some learned if your bank box was open, you would remain ingame without any macros running. Too bad some folks at OSI didn't know that, and just assumed some macro was running and got ban happy.

Damn. That's crazy. I have no idea how I never got in trouble.... I dunno why I don't remember the auto disconnect either. It had to have been longer than 5 mins.

CrazyJoe wrote:I knew a couple reds that got banned for just sitting around afk to burn counts. True, you disconnected after several minutes with no actions, so you had to make actions. UOAssist even spamming "all names" every few minutes would keep you ingame, and although they can't prove you were looping it with the third party UOALoop, if you didn't reply, you got banned/jailed.

Some learned if your bank box was open, you would remain ingame without any macros running. Too bad some folks at OSI didn't know that, and just assumed some macro was running and got ban happy.

How would you open your bank as a ghost?

Fairly certain he was making 2 separate points.
-Knew red who got banned for afking
-(Live) players could keep bank open

Say "Bank"

You couldn't touch or move a thing but it opened, thus no need to macro. I can't be the only person remembering seeing ghost all around the banks back then - or if you died in town and ran by saw them all idle around the banks.