Ultima Online Newest

Green Jelly · Post by **Green Jelly** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:22 pm

So whats the newest Ultima Online out and is there any freeshards for it or is this the newest?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:42 pm

ML is the newest. There are a few full ML free shards out there but not sure how good they are.

I don't yet consider this shard "full ml" but we are up there compared to lot of other shards that state to have ML.

prespawned peerless that drop doom artifacts, half done spellweaving, or hiryus with body value of cusidhe do not count as ML.

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Draco · Post by **Draco** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:49 am

Kindom Reborn is the newest?

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Green Jelly · Post by **Green Jelly** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:21 am

thats what I was thinking is that a different part from OSI or is that how OSI is now running on KR

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:01 am

kr is getting scraped for Abyss lol

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Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:07 am

KR is just a new client, there wasn't any new content aside from that.

As far as I know, there aren't any free shards that support it, but I could be wrong. It would likely be buggy because EA is still trying to fix a lot of the problems that came with it when it was released.

I think they might just be scrapping that client during the first half of next year because Stygian Abyss will have a new client come with it. So my guess is they are going to change the KR client a whole lot, or just learn from what went wrong with it and try to make the SA client run smoothly and forget that KR ever existed. Which is a good idea, since there will be a whole lot of new stuff for players to be doing with SA, they won't want to be having to deal with a buggy client.

Why is it that OSI is never prepared every time they release an expansion? Anyone else remember the insane lag for a month following the release of AoS?

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:17 am

Redrum lot- wrote:kr is getting scraped for Abyss lol

Wrong. KR is a client and Abyss is an add-on to UO. In fact, they were talking about ONLY supporting Abyss on KR.

And yes, there are free shards out there that support KR.

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Green Jelly · Post by **Green Jelly** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:58 am

cool main thing is I just want to find a freeshard and check it out ;p

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Green Jelly · Post by **Green Jelly** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:58 am

Will this server be upgrading with the new expansions a couple months after there release?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:44 pm

There are no plans to support the KR client. Also we wont touch SA stuff until ML is 100%. At most we may spawn the SA dungeons/maps but not sure yet if we will. (I'm sure they'll eventually come to 2D).

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:56 pm

Green Jelly wrote:Will this server be upgrading with the new expansions a couple months after there release?

It is not legal/ethical to support the UOKR client. Although some shards have figured out the packets to support the UOKR client, if EA were to find out, they could take action against them. Therefore, in the interest of the shard, we would only support the 2D client to ensure that we don't get into any trouble (Unless EA specifies that it's alright, which I don't see why they would). With free shards and implementations you have to be very careful as only certain things are allowed. Bend the rules and you'll soon hear about it.

It is not yet known if Stygian Abyss (The newest expansion after Mondain's Legacy) will be available to the 2D client. Originally, OSI planned to make it KR client only in order to push people into using their new client. However, veterans of Ultima Online are not entirely pleased with the KR client as far as certain aspects go (PVP, house decoration stacking, etc). That being said, there are speculations that Stygian Abyss content will also be created for the 2D client. If this is the case, we will see if it's worthwhile to bring that expansion over to the shard.

Of course, UOSE and UOML content come first (I don't think there's anything missing from UOSE content anymore mind you), but UOML still has a lot of systems to put in (primarily quest and craft which require a lot of coding hours as runuo is not currently compatible with AOV's plans). When those systems are complete or near completion, then we will look into further implementations for the shard (Whether it be custom systems like events or new UO expansions).

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Green Jelly · Post by **Green Jelly** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:03 pm

cool glad to hear it yeah I like my 2D oldschool way how ive been playing since 99 lol I would not want them to make it purely only 3d as some of us can not afford new pcs

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:12 pm

To be fair, I have to give EA credit for redesigning the old UO client. IMO it looks nice. I'm a fan of some of their gump changes, particularly backpacks and the spellbar on the bottom of the screen (Maps to hotkeys). I believe they even added in a talkmode/castmode where you can change to castmode and not have your hotkeys echo into the game (No more running around with a 'hhghghghhh335587357867' above your head).

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:23 pm

dprantl wrote:
Redrum lot- wrote:kr is getting scraped for Abyss lol
Wrong. KR is a client and Abyss is an add-on to UO. In fact, they were talking about ONLY supporting Abyss on KR.

And yes, there are free shards out there that support KR.

wrong kr is getting scraped abyss is gona have a new 3d client

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Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:06 am

Nexus Graveheart wrote:KR is just a new client, there wasn't any new content aside from that.

As far as I know, there aren't any free shards that support it, but I could be wrong. It would likely be buggy because EA is still trying to fix a lot of the problems that came with it when it was released.

I think they might just be scrapping that client during the first half of next year because Stygian Abyss will have a new client come with it. So my guess is they are going to change the KR client a whole lot, or just learn from what went wrong with it and try to make the SA client run smoothly and forget that KR ever existed. Which is a good idea, since there will be a whole lot of new stuff for players to be doing with SA, they won't want to be having to deal with a buggy client.

Why is it that OSI is never prepared every time they release an expansion? Anyone else remember the insane lag for a month following the release of AoS?

So wrong mate, theres like 40 shards with KR. UO:Legends and UO: Abyss to be the biggest ones with 400+ players on both.

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Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:08 am

Draco wrote:
Nexus Graveheart wrote:KR is just a new client, there wasn't any new content aside from that.

As far as I know, there aren't any free shards that support it, but I could be wrong. It would likely be buggy because EA is still trying to fix a lot of the problems that came with it when it was released.

I think they might just be scrapping that client during the first half of next year because Stygian Abyss will have a new client come with it. So my guess is they are going to change the KR client a whole lot, or just learn from what went wrong with it and try to make the SA client run smoothly and forget that KR ever existed. Which is a good idea, since there will be a whole lot of new stuff for players to be doing with SA, they won't want to be having to deal with a buggy client.

Why is it that OSI is never prepared every time they release an expansion? Anyone else remember the insane lag for a month following the release of AoS?
So wrong mate, theres like 40 shards with KR. UO:Legends and UO: Abyss to be the biggest ones with 400+ players on both.

My mistake then. I was unaware.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:10 am

And this is one of the reasons I never bothered to even try to reverse engineer KR. It was not yet officially released, it's always been beta tbh. So anything could change, such as, completely discontinuing it.

They should just stick to 2D.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:47 am

2d for life.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:06 am

Redrum lot- wrote:
dprantl wrote:
Redrum lot- wrote:kr is getting scraped for Abyss lol
Wrong. KR is a client and Abyss is an add-on to UO. In fact, they were talking about ONLY supporting Abyss on KR.

And yes, there are free shards out there that support KR.
wrong kr is getting scraped abyss is gona have a new 3d client

If you think they will just scrap all the work they put into KR and develop a brand new client, there's a bridge I want to sell you. This "new" SA client will most probably be an extension/improved version of UO:KR.

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