New lore writer staff position

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:30 pm

I am honored to announce that Richard Garriott will be involved with the shard starting in the next couple weeks. I've been talking a lot with him through Facebook and he has been very interested in our shard and the way we do development and our dedication to UO. He is still looking into the possible legal issues if he gets involved but things are looking good given he's not involved with EA or UO anymore. For those who do not know, he is the inventor of Ultima, and has also been in space recently and done some other pretty cool things.

He will mostly be helping with lore related topics, and rebuilding the shard's lore to fit together better. We have great systems and great ideas, but we often lack when it comes to very deep lore. We will not be sticking that much to the classic UO as you would expect given he is the creator, but we will be moving towards a totally more unique storyline. A lot of the things we may implement will require custom client files so I am not yet sure what we'll do, if we'll build our own client or just make our own patches. We are looking at a lore related to space and time travel. Not really star wars stuff, so don't worry, this is not as tacky as it sounds. From what he was talking, it is actually really cool, and still fits in with the "UO Britannia times" so to speak. It's hard to explain but I don't want to spoil it. All I can say is, nobody would have ever thought of it the way he did.

The SQL engine and the updates we have been talking about will happen soon, but from there things may be put on hold so we can figure out the exact direction the shard is taken and decide on a few unsure things. He has written quite a few different very interesting storylines which Death and me are still trying to decide on which to go with.

I am hoping he can actually show up in game in the next few days (will post a date/time) but he's been having some computer issues in past couple days. He's busy on and off with other projects so he won't be fully dedicated as far as in-game or forums go, but he will try to make an appearance once in a while at the lord British Castle. I'll be populating that spot with various shops and add it to the public moongate. I am actually hoping to make that the new "Luna". Next monday's shard update should have the new addition added under Trammel when going to a public moongate.

(intro video to be posted soon)

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:37 pm

Silly Squirrel, he is the inventor of ULTIMA! Like 15 years before UO even existed. And it's not even midnight yet... did he also agree to take your shard up into orbit with him?

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d. · Post by d. » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:30 pm

Early April fool's joke.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:39 pm

I also forgot to mention, we are looking into cloud computing to reduce lag.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:42 pm

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been to the moon. I found squirrel's brain nut there.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:33 am

I was reading this and was actually getting really exited until i remembered it was April fools.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:50 pm

lol, this was fun.

I actually purposely made this over the top, just to see if anyone actually would fall for it. I was also debating on posting another April Fools joke that is more believable, as this would have acted as a deflector.

You have a hint for next year.

There is a bit of truth in the posting though. I HAVE been toying with the idea of a custom client, but I am FAR from that point. That would be a pilot project that would be a side thing and probably take a few years on it's own. I have other interests outside of the shard that I will probably end up pursuing instead. I can't be working as an IT monkey all my life, I need to so something more fun.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:15 am

Become a day trader and work on the shard all day every day. that more interesting right?

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