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Node
May 20, 2001

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sorry, not even I can defend this guy

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May 20, 2001

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Eonwe posted:

this campaign is on indiegogo, they set it up so that they get the funds even if it doesnt fully fund

lol

haha, oh smedley you card

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May 20, 2001

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SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Well, statistically one of these Ultima Online clones has to succeed eventually... maybe THIS one will be the one that isn't a massive steaming pile of poo poo that nobody ever plays.

John Smedley

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May 20, 2001

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Byolante posted:

Like I get chaos theory and parallel universes and all that but a UO clone suceeding is a provably impossible event

UO was a pioneer of a game, and people didn't know what they were getting into. That is why there were wolves and sheep, the sheep being the kind of person you could PK, steal from, and kill their pack mule carrying ore outside of town just because you felt like being a dick. All MMORPGs today have safe-measures against non-consensual aggression because of UO. So yeah I think its impossible. Consider yourself a lucky person to have been able to play in those days.

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May 20, 2001

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jabro posted:

The UO producers have said that they were amazed on how much people were complete dicks in the game. It completely caught them off guard after release the game brought the worst out of people and it became a bloodbath.

And it was glorious.

Stripping myself down to enough reagents to quickly cast explosion and flamestrike on someones pack mule in town, killing it more than half the time before I got guard whacked was so god drat entertaining and hilarious.

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May 20, 2001

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Archonex posted:

I recall people saying that they had a bunch of systems in the early days that they had to quickly disable since it quickly became apparent that human beings are bloodthirsty monsters when divorced from consequences.

There was this story that the monsters and animals in the world used to repopulate and could become extinct. The players hit the servers like some sort of hosed up ravenous horde of electronic locusts and left a trail of death and destruction in their wake that left an increasingly empty world. They tried boosting the rate of spawns but all it did was feed the horde and make more people appear out of the ether to take part in the slaughter.

No clue if that's true but goddamn. That's both horrifying and loving metal. Humanity is the greatest video game antagonist, apparently.

I think I remember 1000 years ago reading in magazine previews of something similar to that. That the world had an ecosystem the players could affect and upset the balance of. It was probably No Man's Sky level of hype.

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May 20, 2001

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Alexander DeLarge posted:

Peter Molyneux's B.C.? Basically a prehistoric survival game with dinosaurs that was supposed to come out back in 2002 on the original Xbox.

I'm talking about Ultima Online.

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Percelus posted:

the only game that sort of managed to have an ecosystem is wakfu but players can plant monsters to repopulate and are rewarded for keeping the populations within certain ranges

aww, I would have loved to plant baby Mongbats and baby Headlesses

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May 20, 2001

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Poor Smed.

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forge posted:

You'll be able to buy virtual bullets to load in your musket for amazon points.

As long as I can point it at my virtual head to blow my virtual brains out.

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