Couple of mining observations
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:38 am
I finally wised up and loaded the UO Client and Razor on my laptop which is like 6 years old and low and behold I can play OK. I'ts a pain but I can play....but I digress.
I promptly made a miner to start working up my blacksmith and I've noticed a few things I think aren't necessarily age-specific.
First is line-of-site necessity for mining. I played OSI for 5 years spanning pre-2nd age through Ren, playing craftsmen and bards so this is familiar territory to me. As I recall line-of-sit was not necessary to mine. I can remember mining North of Brit, not in the mine, but in the two cul-de-sacs and mapping veins fo color. There were High veins up and low veins close to the ground, and all could be worked. You did not neessarily have to see a vein to strike it. This was well befoe macroing was opular and I literally spent hours mining these areas for ore, and mining the country side mapping for blue and green veins. Does anyone else rmemeber eing able to mine high up the muntain side even though you were still on the ground?
Also, I'm retty sure when you were overweight items fll to the ground. I don't ever remember getting a message that resources were simply "lost" because you were over weight. I remember they got ejected and in response OSI patched it so that decay time increased because people would macro until they had a huge pile then hopscotch it to a smlter.
Keep up the good work guys, hope someone remembers these things as I do...
I promptly made a miner to start working up my blacksmith and I've noticed a few things I think aren't necessarily age-specific.
First is line-of-site necessity for mining. I played OSI for 5 years spanning pre-2nd age through Ren, playing craftsmen and bards so this is familiar territory to me. As I recall line-of-sit was not necessary to mine. I can remember mining North of Brit, not in the mine, but in the two cul-de-sacs and mapping veins fo color. There were High veins up and low veins close to the ground, and all could be worked. You did not neessarily have to see a vein to strike it. This was well befoe macroing was opular and I literally spent hours mining these areas for ore, and mining the country side mapping for blue and green veins. Does anyone else rmemeber eing able to mine high up the muntain side even though you were still on the ground?
Also, I'm retty sure when you were overweight items fll to the ground. I don't ever remember getting a message that resources were simply "lost" because you were over weight. I remember they got ejected and in response OSI patched it so that decay time increased because people would macro until they had a huge pile then hopscotch it to a smlter.
Keep up the good work guys, hope someone remembers these things as I do...