UO Second Age

Just an idea... why don't we band together and make a new MMO based on tried and true game mechanics. Ultima Online. Ill help if you will ... don't let this die.

This has already been done...It was terrible.

You more horribad right?

There's a game called Mount&Armor - its all melee - and from what i've seen the game mechanics are pretty damn good. Aside from the instancing of towns and cities the game mechanics have no flaw. Its a MOD!!!!!! You can change anything you want and make it your own game.

Why don't we all at least make an attempt at turning this into an MMO? Use the engine that's already there for you and make it a little more interesting?

lol i can see that next 5 comments being this. "NOT ERA ACCURATE!!".

There's actually quite a few flaws in M&B such as issues with inability to pick up dropped weapons, castle sieges being 800 people trying to climb one ladder due to the fact the game relies on pre-built siege maps and is only designed to handle 100 units at any given time, along with a myriad of other issues. Its definitely far from perfect, but that's why it's been under constant pro bono development. For a software company that started out and a Turkish husband and wife pair, it's done spectacularly; and I would say its without a doubt some of the best work in the past 5 years of game development. I'd encourage everyone to check it out as they are adding in multiplayer this summer.

Unfortunately however, 3D Sosaria, probably wouldn't be very successful for several reasons. Modding it would be intensive and with Darkfall already out and Mortal Online right around the corner there are a lot better options out there for UO stylized 3d mmos(even with all Darkfall's flaws.) There are alot of other issues with gameplay of UO vs gameplay of mount and blade, that would make it less than optimum, but that help make 2d MMOs so great. The most obvious being the fact that you can drop items on the ground in UO, whereas 3d MMOs are unable to handle massive amounts of items on the ground. For that reason alone Darkfall had to cut housing options and use tombstones as corpses. Another issue more important to me, is the fact that in 3d MMOs have issues with conveying conversations. The usual option is to have a box that picks up all text at a close range, however my experience in the Darkfall beta, was that no one read that anyways. Age of Conan had speech bubbles appear above heads, but that still does not fully reproduce the effect. In UO however, its easy to talk to people while you're fighting them or just hanging out at the bank; and it makes for a much more social experience.

I understand where you're coming from, but the technology just isn't there ; ) so for now it shall remain a pipe dream.

I will do it.

google --> Iris uo

Would Iris work on this shard? My girlfriend doesn't want to try UO because of the tiny graphics. Maybe she'd try it with the Iris client.

maybe your girlfriend will leave you if you keep asking her to play 10year old wizard games, who knows.

That was helpful, thanks!

id rather see the staff here recreate abyss for halloween, santas slay for christmas, and there was one more that was around thanks giving every year but cant remember the name.

those were all fun OSI servers that came seasonally during the t2a era. would be awesome if we had something like that here just to spice shit up.

ClowN,

Are you talking about a seperate server listed that replicates these older particular servers or mesh them together into the current server as an event like setup?

Markmosthandsome wrote:maybe your girlfriend will leave you if you keep asking her to play 10year old wizard games, who knows.

made me lol.

Faust wrote:ClowN,

Are you talking about a seperate server listed that replicates these older particular servers or mesh them together into the current server as an event like setup?

i hadnt really given it much thought but i suppose either would be cool. im sure most poeple would probably prefer a seperate seasonal server (maybe convert the test server over just during those seasonal times?)