Hi everyone.
First of all, let me say a couple of things:
- This is not a whining post nor a trolling one
- This post comes from a person who played UO since 1999, scripted a couple of shards (Using POL, RunUO, UO3X, SunUO), hosted some other. Not a complete ignorant in UO mechanics, then.
I thinks this is a great shard. I'm glad to have found it googling some time ago, and I'm glad I decided to remove the dust and the rust from my UO playing. I honestly think Devs here have done an incredible job creating new contents and a huge player base, something that I remember only from the old years, when you could have thousands of players on a free shard, and usually have it crash because hardware usually sucked
I'd like to share a thought about how people often misunderstand the difference between PVPing, which is sane, normal, regular and incredibly funny, and being a plain old murderer (and often a chain murderer and an harasser, the line is really thin).
In the old days, way before trammel/felucca, you usually had two server guilds, "Order" and "Chaos", which btw was what Garriot intended to have in this game. They fought on sight, everywhere. But both of guilds where "honest" in the meaning that they were both "blue", the did not commit criminal acts, and just share the world fighting to control it. In the middle, all "peasants" and "peons", meaning with it all the player not interested in fighting, could live their on live.
In this world, there were obviously also criminals, thieves, and murderers. But, both common criminals like thieves and bloody murderers knew that their live had to be harsh and hard. They chose to live on the edge or even beyond. Bucca was their only safe port in the storm. It was thrilling, it was completely RPG. I didn't know any single real murderer in this game that wanted to be part of a guild of murderers. They wanted and longed to be alone, creating some interesting rpg plot for them.
Unfortunately, the mechanics here gives the possibility to people to create murderers guilds, with dozens of red people roaming freely. Yes, they could lose their equip and waste money if the die (i usually see this reason in this forum), but the point is, a guild of murderers is something so completely unrealistic that spoils the fun.
What you red guilds should look for is PvP, not murdering everyone. Use the faction system. You don't need to be Dread Lord, and for sure the world don't need a guild of Dread Lords!
Beside, I don't mind being killed, this is not, I repeat, a whining post, because being killed in a dungeon or in the open is a chance. I personally hate being killed by blue players that just jump on your fight with a monster and steal the loot, or worse block you from recovering your belongings by chain killing you. But if I encounter a PK, i just try to recall away, If I can. No hate.
I'm only try to express a point of view, in what I think is the original sin of almost every shard I played in the last years. Mixing PvP with PKing, which are two completely different things, at least, they should be different, because they should be approached by different people, with different idea of the game.
What's the point in roaming in 5-6 reds, and kill a single bard which is exploring a dungeon solo? I honestly don't get it. While I perfectly understand being killed by a single PK, hidden somewhere, that just attack me and kill me - because he's a murderer! - i don't get the meaning of a bunch of red jumping on a single player who obviously can't be a menace, specially if he doesn't belong to a guild and so can't be considered an "enemy".
I heard for years justifications like "I've been born by a devil and I have to kill everything that lives" ... bullshits, i always answered then, and I do it now too
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to share my thoughts, I know that there will be some red who will understand my point because usually play solo and is frustrated by the existence of those "roaming reds", and I know also that some people with difficulty in reading will call me forum troll or worse.
Just to close, I'm 37, so please spare me comments like "go crying to parents and blabla", because I think my time for these things is long gone ;-)
P.S. probably i did some grammar mistake. I'm not an english native, so I guess it's normal.
Have a nice day everyone
First of all, let me say a couple of things:
- This is not a whining post nor a trolling one
- This post comes from a person who played UO since 1999, scripted a couple of shards (Using POL, RunUO, UO3X, SunUO), hosted some other. Not a complete ignorant in UO mechanics, then.
I thinks this is a great shard. I'm glad to have found it googling some time ago, and I'm glad I decided to remove the dust and the rust from my UO playing. I honestly think Devs here have done an incredible job creating new contents and a huge player base, something that I remember only from the old years, when you could have thousands of players on a free shard, and usually have it crash because hardware usually sucked
I'd like to share a thought about how people often misunderstand the difference between PVPing, which is sane, normal, regular and incredibly funny, and being a plain old murderer (and often a chain murderer and an harasser, the line is really thin).
In the old days, way before trammel/felucca, you usually had two server guilds, "Order" and "Chaos", which btw was what Garriot intended to have in this game. They fought on sight, everywhere. But both of guilds where "honest" in the meaning that they were both "blue", the did not commit criminal acts, and just share the world fighting to control it. In the middle, all "peasants" and "peons", meaning with it all the player not interested in fighting, could live their on live.
In this world, there were obviously also criminals, thieves, and murderers. But, both common criminals like thieves and bloody murderers knew that their live had to be harsh and hard. They chose to live on the edge or even beyond. Bucca was their only safe port in the storm. It was thrilling, it was completely RPG. I didn't know any single real murderer in this game that wanted to be part of a guild of murderers. They wanted and longed to be alone, creating some interesting rpg plot for them.
Unfortunately, the mechanics here gives the possibility to people to create murderers guilds, with dozens of red people roaming freely. Yes, they could lose their equip and waste money if the die (i usually see this reason in this forum), but the point is, a guild of murderers is something so completely unrealistic that spoils the fun.
What you red guilds should look for is PvP, not murdering everyone. Use the faction system. You don't need to be Dread Lord, and for sure the world don't need a guild of Dread Lords!
Beside, I don't mind being killed, this is not, I repeat, a whining post, because being killed in a dungeon or in the open is a chance. I personally hate being killed by blue players that just jump on your fight with a monster and steal the loot, or worse block you from recovering your belongings by chain killing you. But if I encounter a PK, i just try to recall away, If I can. No hate.
I'm only try to express a point of view, in what I think is the original sin of almost every shard I played in the last years. Mixing PvP with PKing, which are two completely different things, at least, they should be different, because they should be approached by different people, with different idea of the game.
What's the point in roaming in 5-6 reds, and kill a single bard which is exploring a dungeon solo? I honestly don't get it. While I perfectly understand being killed by a single PK, hidden somewhere, that just attack me and kill me - because he's a murderer! - i don't get the meaning of a bunch of red jumping on a single player who obviously can't be a menace, specially if he doesn't belong to a guild and so can't be considered an "enemy".
I heard for years justifications like "I've been born by a devil and I have to kill everything that lives" ... bullshits, i always answered then, and I do it now too
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to share my thoughts, I know that there will be some red who will understand my point because usually play solo and is frustrated by the existence of those "roaming reds", and I know also that some people with difficulty in reading will call me forum troll or worse.
Just to close, I'm 37, so please spare me comments like "go crying to parents and blabla", because I think my time for these things is long gone ;-)
P.S. probably i did some grammar mistake. I'm not an english native, so I guess it's normal.
Have a nice day everyone
