Some general questions on game mechanics and society here
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:50 am
I have returned to this game after 8 years or so, and have some questions. I played UO on Siege Perilous only for the 2 1/2 years I played this game (99-01) and I'm finding that alot of my memories of the game are not at all how they work here. Ive also forgotten a bit after all that time. I know that Siege was a unique shard so I have some probably dumb questions about how things function-
1) No magic in towns at all? If so, under what circumstances?
2) Recall didn't work on Siege, does it work from anyplace here? (Dungeons for example?)
3) As a corollary to the above, do gates work in dungeons?
4) If you die under stat loss, just how much do you lose?
5) PK's here- do they generally leave each other alone or hunt and kill each other actively? Solo acts or gank squads?
6) Grey flagging- just to verify, no counts for greys, correct?
7) I have seen the term "insta res" used- what is it and how is it used?
8) Ive seen people in towns loot something from a body by moving it to the ground then picking it up- does this prevent going grey or something? (I was never much of a town person, and the guards resented me deeply for the last year or so)
9) Order/Chaos- Im guessing a mechanism to get people fighting without murder counts?
10) Do any Siege alumni from the early years of the shard play here?
Likely I'll have a few more, but thats what I can think of right now off the top of my head. Any help is appreciated, thanks. Yes, i could spend 3648269 hours surfing the various forums and probably answer some of these but If some locals can cut the research time it would be helpful.
1) No magic in towns at all? If so, under what circumstances?
2) Recall didn't work on Siege, does it work from anyplace here? (Dungeons for example?)
3) As a corollary to the above, do gates work in dungeons?
4) If you die under stat loss, just how much do you lose?
5) PK's here- do they generally leave each other alone or hunt and kill each other actively? Solo acts or gank squads?
6) Grey flagging- just to verify, no counts for greys, correct?
7) I have seen the term "insta res" used- what is it and how is it used?
8) Ive seen people in towns loot something from a body by moving it to the ground then picking it up- does this prevent going grey or something? (I was never much of a town person, and the guards resented me deeply for the last year or so)
9) Order/Chaos- Im guessing a mechanism to get people fighting without murder counts?
10) Do any Siege alumni from the early years of the shard play here?
Likely I'll have a few more, but thats what I can think of right now off the top of my head. Any help is appreciated, thanks. Yes, i could spend 3648269 hours surfing the various forums and probably answer some of these but If some locals can cut the research time it would be helpful.