UO Second Age

1) How long has this server been around and on?

2) Can people do that trick of casting area of effect spells like meteor storm / earthquake and hit you inside your house?

I beleive it went online last December and YES< people can and will regularly kill you in your house with EQ and MS

The MS bug in small houses has been fixed

Derrick wrote:The MS bug in small houses has been fixed

Will earthquake still work? Debating whether I should save up for bigger house to avoid this or if a small would do fine.

Err...it's not a "trick" it's a technique, area effect spells are supposed to be able to hit people in houses if used correctly.

Morbent Fel wrote:Err...it's not a "trick" it's a technique, area effect spells are supposed to be able to hit people in houses if used correctly.

Technique / Trick / whatever, its all just semantics... area effect spells are supposed to really hit the visible area of effect. There's no documentation to back this up, but in almost every other game (even before UO) it has worked in the visible area of effect. Not everything around it even if its out of line of sight.

Derrick said meteor storm was fixed, but what about Chain Lightning or Earthquake? I just want to know so I can focus on a big house instead of the small one and be a sitting duck to someone who is bored and wants to CL/EQ me.

There was a roof tile offset that was fixed in Patch 60 which caused the roof on the house to be logically offset by 1 tile south and east meaning the back tile on the roof was not over the back wall, but actually one tile south of there. The area of effect for chain lightning and meteor storm is 3 tiles, if you measure it off with regards to this fix you'll see what we now have is correct. EQ has larger range.

Patch 61 - September 24, 2008 wrote:

• Corrects the map location of roof tiles on houses, this was causing an exploitable

Area of Effect spells in UO have never been limited by LOS unless that was added post T2A era.

even in a larger house they can find a way to kill you, they have alot of time on their hands and a fascination with finding new ways to murder you
best be vigilant and not keep a lot of stuff on your char, use restock agents
if you are macroing
and if hits < heal in there too

Derrick wrote:Area of Effect spells in UO have never been limited by LOS unless that was added post T2A era.

I 100% agree that UO wasn't based on LOS for their area of effects. I was just saying that they should have been as most other games before UO and after UO were. But, what shoulda is different than what was so I agree with keeping it in. I was just curious if it was possible. I'll save up for a larger house then. It is possible in any house, but much harder in bigger ones and on the 2nd level.

So MS still works to kill inside house unless standing on a certain spot?

platy wrote:So MS still works to kill inside house unless standing on a certain spot?

I do believe that is what he is saying. Remember though that EQ will work still even if you are out of that certain range.

housekilling is some peopels hobby and they can kill you easy, i been hosue killed in the middle of my keep

BlackFoot wrote:housekilling is some peopels hobby and they can kill you easy, i been hosue killed in the middle of my keep

How in the heck could they do that? Now that is something I would love to see how they did.

Only way you could be killed inside your keep is if you are too close to the doors/walls...other than that there's no reason you should be killed unless your door was left unlocked..

Can you stun punch and disarm in T2?