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I wouldn't cry if Demise was shut down and we all had to move to Divinity or whatever.

I liked Demise when I thought it was going to be an ML(osi) clone. I like quests and doing library collections and being part of a guild traversing a dungeon... but the guilds here don't bother with that, or they're all 'badass' pvp guilds. I don't play UO for pvp, I play Unreal or Halo or CS for pvp.

I'm sick of OLD SKOOL OSI bs like Divinity/Hybrid. I want swoops and peerless and shiny items and shit 'cause frankly I've spent years wandering around with a halberd or a katana and some exceptional armor. I want more now and I'm not getting it here. In the year I've been playing here I've done my pvm time with everything, I've gotten bored crafting, hunting, collecting. All thats left is my guild (they've all moved to other shards) and pvp (what a joke that is here)
I've donated a shitload of cash here, $250 - 300+, and while I understand that its a donation and I get no 'reward' other than the skillballs w/e I 'bought', I'm still pissed that after all the money spent by ALL of us, there has been little to no progress on ANYTHING on Demise.

Oddly enough, the other shard I'm on... I donate and I actually get a personal 'thank you' from admin. As a player, that means a lot to me. As does the fact that I can hash things out with the staff when an issue arises.

Without staff support, without things working as they are supposed to, UO is just stale. There are hundreds of shards out there where staff ignore and berate players, where devs do shoddy scripting or none at all like here. I've found one thats not like that, lightsabers or not, and I plan on sticking with it. Why? Because I have fun there... and isn't that what playing a video game is about?

I posted this in a thread on Demise. I have a feeling it'll get modded by good ole' fascist Caine.

dprantl wrote:I think you banned yourself with the lightsaber comment.

Red Squirrel wrote:I find that amusing too.

I also found the comments amusing about "most shards are not scripted well enough to handle lot of players" they're assuming we could not handle a lot. Heck I did more optimization fixes to the core then they did, hence why we don't get any local software lag, and they do.

Red Squirrel wrote:Damn, I so wanna do that. no world saves FTW. People at RunUO say its impossible to go mysql without it being unreliable. I want to challenge that. Will need more ram (like 4 gigs at least) but other then that it would go well.

Though this would be a HUGE project, but something for the future. When saves start hitting +10 secs then I'll be thinking about it more

Red Squirrel wrote:yeah we got a nice way to go. We'd basically have to double the amount of items, in fact, more, as we did have like nearly 2 mil items at some point due to the cusidhe bandage bug which I fixed and then cleaned up the "lost" bandages and there was hardly any dent in saves.

Red Squirrel wrote:[tile static 1234 *runs 40 screens away*

38485 items generation complete.

followed by all this in same chunk:

the world will save in 5 seconds
the world is saving please wait...
world save completed in 38948 seconds
you have lost a lot of honor
you have lost a lot of valor
you have lost a lot of justice
server wars will begin shortly

jrhather wrote:it got lich lorded. LOL

geezushhchrist wrote:today idk why i experienced a 23.5 sec save i was wtf has demise hacked this shard

jrhather wrote:it got lich lorded. LOL

geezushhchrist wrote:today idk why i experienced a 23.5 sec save i was wtf has demise hacked this shard