IPY3 new UO shard - Jan 31
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Mountless T2A(ish) combat definitely is still a bit enticing though. | ||
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Zaqwe
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Az in all UO history has the most spectacular failure of any freeshard ever created, squandering a 2000 player base down to nothing in a very short amount of time. This is just another cash grab. Az is incredibly dishonest and pretends to always be hurting for money even when he is taking in tens of thousands of dollars in "donations". Then he pulls the plug when he stops making enough money to pay himself a salary because he doesn't care one iota about the people who gave him all those "donations". I strongly recommend avoiding this shard. Anyone interested in UO should check out http://www.uosecondage.com/ which is a truly professional shard with intelligent and respectable staff which has proven it can maintain stability long term. It is also a true recreation of T2A so you can experience real UO as it was designed. | ||
Zaqwe
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On January 02 2014 08:15 Mazer wrote: Thanks for the message Barrin. I've been poking my head in the forums every now and then and I'm glad to see it's going up again finally. Dunno if I really have the heart to play UO again though. My stint on UO:Forever a year or so ago lasted like a week and that was while getting propped up by an established group of players so I didn't have to work too hard. Mountless T2A(ish) combat definitely is still a bit enticing though. Mountless combat is abysmal and shows how little Az understands about UO and game design in general. IPY combat is marathon cross country running due to lack of mounts. People constantly complain about running but don't seem to understand why they don't enjoy the combat on IPY and why running away there is so effective. Mounted combat is limited by horse stamina. Real UO has a mechanic where you can't mount a horse in combat. You must dismount to refresh your horse stamina, but then your pursuing enemies attack your horse so you can't remount it. This leaves you completely helpless and you die. It creates a hard limit on running in combat, rewarding calm and skilled players while punishing cowardly or amateur behaviour. Unmounted combat means you can refresh stamina while running, so there is no limit at all to how much you can run. All battles turn into a cross country marathon because when people are in danger they run, run, run and run some more with no limitation. | ||
Regulate140
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Secondage is a good shard, I played for a year or so but it's really dead now. You're telling people to join a 5+ year old shard with no housing spaces and ~300 clients rather then getting in on a fresh start shard that will have a much larger playerbase. Either way seems like you're just here to flame/troll/plug the shard you're currently playing on in which case why not make your own thread? | ||
Zaqwe
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UOSA certainly isn't dead. Most people are already established so the player count isn't artificially inflated by afk macroers. A 300+ playerbase is really quite large for freeshards and maintaining hundreds of active players for so many years shows how stable and high quality the shard is. I'm just trying to warn people new to UO that:
The difference betwen Az and Derrick (UOSA shard owner) is like night and day. Derrick is a consummate professional with very skilled coders backing the shard and helping to make it a truly accurate UO experience. Az had to solicit random coders on his forum because there seems to have been a falling out with his previous coder after he didn't share the "donation" (i.e. cash shop) money. Derrick has created UOSA as a labour of love, not with profit motivation. Derrick has stuck with his shard long term. And Derrick has proven his ability to run a successful shard. UOSA is a proven success that built an active player base of hundreds over time. IPY2 launched with thousands and completely tanked, never gaining players at any time. IPY2 only lost players. Derrick also doesn't sell in game items. Donators are truly donating. And he is transparent about how much he is getting in donations relative to the server costs. He cares about the integrity of his shard, not making money. I'm not advertising for UOSA, I am just letting people know that IPY is truly abysmal and informing them an alternative exists if they actually want to try genuine UO how it is meant to be. I played T2A on OSI shards and had no fun at all on IPY2, quitting immediately after I placed a house in some of the best real estate possible (yew bank). IPY3 has become even more convoluted while fixing nothing about the previous failure. It's just another overhyped cash grab. Az is also heavy on censorship. He had a hidden forum during IPY2 where any even remotely negative posts got moved, if they weren't outright deleted and the poster banned. The censorship didn't help keep his crummy shard alive. Any mention of any other shard is censored on his forums. He also now is not doing an AMA on reddit because he doesn't like the idea people will ask him questions where he can't censor them. http://www.uosecondage.com/ is the website for UOSA for anyone interested. | ||
Regulate140
Canada108 Posts
I'm not advertising for UOSA, Lmao, no, no, you're definitely not here advertising for UOSA. I got nothing against Derick, seems like a cool guy, but you UOSA die-hards gotta realize by this point its an old and stale dinosaur that most of the UO freeshard pop has played and moved on from. | ||
Zaqwe
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Anyone new to UO will have fun experiencing genuine UO as it was during T2A on UOSA. Anyone who played T2A on OSI shards will love the accurate recreation how they remembered it. If you are a long time freeshard player who only gets a thrill from shard launches then by all means enjoy the opening months of IPY3 and then quit once you realize you aren't having fun because the combat is atrocious, the poorly thought out custom systems are disatrously bad, and the cash shop economy sucks all the fun and accomplishment out of end game rare collection. | ||
Zaqwe
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You don't see Derrick offering in game items to shill for him because his shard is actually good and he is not trying to make a career out of selling cash shop items. http://inporylem.com/forum/showthread.php?27998-Ankh-Necklace-Giveaway&p=268420&viewfull=1#post268420 | ||
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On January 06 2014 06:07 Zaqwe wrote: Oh, and Barrin is basically a paid advertiser here to shill in return for a valorite ankh necklace (blessed). You don't see Derrick offering in game items to shill for him because his shard is actually good and he is not trying to make a career out of selling cash shop items. http://inporylem.com/forum/showthread.php?27998-Ankh-Necklace-Giveaway&p=268420&viewfull=1#post268420 osnap | ||
Zaqwe
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He wants the in game item. He's a paid shill. The OP post is even blatantly dishonest and reeks of advertising Both IPY1 and IPY2 were smashing successes in their own rights If IPY2 was a "smashing success" why is IPY3 existing? What happened to IPY2? He's obviously writing for Az's eyes not for the benefit of the teamliquid community. I suppose he wants the additional dull copper ankh necklace given only to the person with the best advertisement as judged by Az. UOSA is a smashing success. That's why it is still around. IPY2 was a resounding failure. | ||
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