who would be interested in playing a UO based MMO?

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:54 pm

I'm starting to seriously consider trying to run a UO shard of my own

my brother and a friend did it for a while, and it was pretty fun

UO is a bit cumbersome compared to some of the modern MMO's but it has some awesome features that still don't exist in newer games (way better magic system, player owned housing, player owned stores, awesome crafting, etc)

it's (ideally) going to be fairly heavily modified and I'd really like to incorporate some of the oldschool EQ lore, and maybe even some old nameless lore (kinda like how some of it shows up in WoW)

would anyone here actually play? would anyone maybe be willing to help out down the road? (script/quest writing assuming this doesn't fucking suck)

there's the distinct possibility that it'll blow, but it might be fun too

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:09 pm

I'm definitely down. I don't know how to write script or anything but I can help with quest writing and whatever creative type stuff that doesn't involved computer coding.

In the least, I'd definitely be down to play it.

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:15 pm

Why not do an NWN2 one, Tikk? Toss has great experience with NWN and the worlds out there blow away the UO shards I've seen.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:19 pm

But you still have to play them in the NWN engine which is complete garbage.

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:36 pm

The NWN2 engine is loads better than the UO one, and not that bad, in my opinion.

This is UO.

Compared to This? Which is NWN2

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:06 pm

Did anyone play Ultima 7? I remember I was like 12 or something and found it randomly at a Sam's and begged Mom to buy it. She finally did and I never could quit playing that game. I even found the disk for it a while back, but it was for DOS. I was so young I couldnt figure the game out very well, but I would give anything to figure out how to get it wo work on this machine and stuff, but Im a computer idiot ><

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:07 pm

The NWN2 engine most definitely does NOT suck.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:20 pm

yeah, but it's still a garbage game compared to UO

there's a lot of stuff built into UO already that I want to do, I'm familiar with UO, and it's just more fun than NWN, simple as that

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:08 pm

Umm Tikker, they're saying use the NWN engine to create your UO game. Which sounds like a perfect match.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:03 pm

except that I'm familiar with how the UO engine works, and it's free

I don't have NWN2, and it's still not really set up to be a MMO without a LOT of work

most of the stuff I want to do is already built into the UO engine (plus there is 10 years worth of shit for it I can borrow)

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:39 pm

I call dibs on the TBC barracks spot near Yew.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:11 am

Tikker wrote:except that I'm familiar with how the UO engine works, and it's free

I don't have NWN2, and it's still not really set up to be a MMO without a LOT of work

most of the stuff I want to do is already built into the UO engine (plus there is 10 years worth of shit for it I can borrow)

Alright have fun, don't expect more than a handful of people to play that old ass engine though.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:07 am

Unfortunately, fuckface is right.

Sithos · Post by **Sithos** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:54 am

I'd certainly play. I have fuck all for experience in coding but hell I and many others on this board could likely come up with a ton of quest ideas etc. But regardless I'll be happy to help with whatever.

Post by **Lyion** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:59 pm

Tikker wrote:yeah, but it's still a garbage game compared to UO

there's a lot of stuff built into UO already that I want to do, I'm familiar with UO, and it's just more fun than NWN, simple as that

Tikk, it sounds like you are familiar with UO, but not NWN2. For what you want, NWN2 would be pretty easy to get up to speed with, and enable you to do much, much more.

There's a ton of modules, instructions, and it is built for a small online grouping.

It also can hold 64 people pretty easily if you have the bandwidth and horsepower.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:01 pm

Tacks wrote:
Tikker wrote:except that I'm familiar with how the UO engine works, and it's free

I don't have NWN2, and it's still not really set up to be a MMO without a LOT of work

most of the stuff I want to do is already built into the UO engine (plus there is 10 years worth of shit for it I can borrow)

Alright have fun, don't expect more than a handful of people to play that old ass engine though.

I don't really want a huge number of folks, and I'm not really interested in catering to the purty graphix crowd anyway

and Lyion, what I'm looking for are people who are semi familiar with the old UO, and want to play that again. I've played NWN (and NWN2) and didn't really care for them

UO is quite a bit more expansive in what you can do with it

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:15 pm

Sithos wrote:I'd certainly play. I have fuck all for experience in coding but hell I and many others on this board could likely come up with a ton of quest ideas etc. But regardless I'll be happy to help with whatever.

there isn't going to be EQ/WOW style questing

it would be a lot more open, more along the lines of how EQ stuff was supposed to be

you'd hear a rumour of something, and from there go to investigate. it's not going to have a ton of repeatable content

ie, if you kill the boss of dungeon hythloth, he's not going to magically respawn 7 days later

in theory I want to flesh out the "bad guys" and give the lizards, orcs, ogres, etc reason to exist

ie, they will be invading the cities and whatnot