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In a peaceful time, the warlike I'm really tempted to get into this, but already having issues with the admins makes me worry that we'll wear out our welcome. I say that as someone who would likely be part of the problem. The last goon-guild I joined on a UO legacy server nearly got mass-banned for RP Asian Supremacy. Is there a monthly fee beyond the price of the game?
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I'll join tonight when I get back from getting drunk at a bar. I used to enjoy playing a hidey gank-mage, so I'd like to do that again. Any tips on good ways to make money for training reagents?
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Jul 21, 2018 23:26
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So does anyone know where the crash logs are kept? *grumble* Edit: Game is crashing on launch just after the opening logos. My computer is a bit older but it more than meets the minimum specs. Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Jul 22, 2018 |
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life is killing me posted:UGHHHHH this game will not let me quit...I don't even have internet in my home and I'm on a hotspot, also have a new baby and then this poo poo pops up and now I feel I must play. I HATE AND LOVE UO it was my first true love as a middle-schooler in the 90s anyway thanks for listening love y'all Same. Finally got the game running (on my home theater PC which isn't ideal) and I guess I expected that the map would be a recreation of the UO map so now I'm running around "Moonglow" and I don't know what the gently caress. Are there training dummies I can hit with my baby-dexer Cuck Finn? Alternatively are there low intensity crafting skills or fishing or something that I can macro/monitor while I do chores around the house? If I can't really play yet, I'd like to start chipping away at money-making skills that I can use later once my laptop crash issue is sorted.
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Jul 23, 2018 21:43
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PROTIP: If you max the size of your U/I to accommodate, say playing on a HTPC, it also increases the size of the login window and may just park the the "Play" button below the event horizon at the bottom of your television. and yes those settings persist across reinstalls somehow so welp.
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Jul 25, 2018 19:50
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Angelwolf posted:Couldn't you just alt + enter to switch it to window mode so it'll shrink for you? Winner!
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Jul 26, 2018 01:14
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Deliciouscesium posted:
This isn't optimal. I went from 52 to 80.1 for about 28k by hopping up to the next circle immediately when I hit the minimums and I paid it off by using Gate Travel to run escorts.
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Jul 31, 2018 06:59
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What's weird is how much I missed the fun that was the grind. loving around with guild members while sparring, dying in horribly incompetent ways, etc. It reminds me of CK2 in that you set your own win conditions. The fundraiser is happening at the worst time for me, but I'll drop a few K in the bucket this evening if I miss the titan run. Also, in what may be a problem for long term stability, I checked out the official game during the downtime yesterday and the place is significantly underpopulated compared to LoU.
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Jul 31, 2018 19:38
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As a result of the IDOC and other recent Goon successes, you shouldn't be paying for weapons and armor. Check the HQ chest for enchanted everything!
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Aug 1, 2018 13:05
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Our forever war against the Vile Spaniard has brought back great memories of using Google translate for poo poo talking purposes.
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Aug 1, 2018 23:15
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So it seems getting flagged for an inappropriate name "your mother" while shittalking in Spanish gets your name changed to Madre. Dios mio!
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Aug 2, 2018 07:15
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Noise Complaint posted:Our fearless leader protected me from being banned after I PK'ed a young player. Are you still stuck with the "Warning - I touch young players" tag? Because lol. From last night's murder party: quote:Cuck Finn: Goonsquad is proud to report we have brought justice to a shoplifter!
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Aug 4, 2018 00:46
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All goons please check discord for a vote on the squad's future.
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Aug 4, 2018 22:55
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Doom Rooster posted:Finally broke down, bought the game, installed, created a new character, killed a bear, server went down. A+ That's a known bug. You're supposed to grind for two weeks before you can kill the bear.
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Aug 5, 2018 18:25
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Bettyspagh3tt1 posted:As I read this thread this gets more and more tempting If all the goons idling in discord are active then we make up roughly 5% of the server population (based on the number of people idling in the official discord). The status quo is a bunch of old money jerking themselves off and a gold rush of new/old players is coming soon. The joy of playing as goons is inversely proportional to the strictness of anti-griefing protection and this game allows you the ability to behead your foes and mount their heads on your wall. In as Walter Buttons/Cuck Finn/A MOM and a player to be named later.
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Aug 6, 2018 04:49
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You might be hitting the wrong thing. You can GM weapons for the low 80s in an evening of hitting shadow elementals.
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Aug 6, 2018 13:51
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We're young and we suck, but that doesn't stop us from strutting in World Chat like we run the loving place. But it doesn't really matter because UO is such an open world that you have endless ways to gently caress with people. The largest and most established players in the world are the ones who have been rolling since pre-alpha and are sitting pretty with immaculately dressed vendors filled with overpriced goods because they don't have any competition. I honestly think our rapidly improving crafters will be the primary engines of grief when we start undercutting those motherfuckers.
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Aug 7, 2018 02:42
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I wish we had that kind of coordination. Other player: what's up? Me: going to sleep, see you 5 minutes before you leave for work, maybe 10 hours later code:
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Aug 7, 2018 19:38
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Dante posted:20 people online in discord at the moment and another 20 offline. No, being a dedicated healer is not a thing - though sometimes some mages help out someone who tries to tank. To expand on that there are two skill paths to healing 1. Healing using bandages using the healing and anatomy skills, and 2. Healing by magic using the magery and evaluating intelligence skills Maxing your ability to heal leaves you with 500/700 skill points left to spend. You can add additional survival skills (hide/stealth/and magic resistance) but you'll still have at least 200 points to devote to brawling (tactics and a weapon skill) or offensive magery (meditation and wrestling). PVP is generally so chaotic that you're going to want to be hitting something. I could imagine a very narrow scenario where you could use magery for healing a small group at range while plinking away with arrows, but you'd need advance prep and some really complex macros to reliably heal a group that's going to be running around like idiots.
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Weltlich posted:A couple small questions: Mark is a 6th circle spell, so yes, quite a bit. To recall consistently without fizzling, you need about 25 points in magery.
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Aug 8, 2018 06:19
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If anyone wants to train provoke, do it now before they patch the ability to do it without targets.
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The compound is NOT secure at this time, so keep that in mind while afk macroing. Also we made a blood enemy of Biski last night for not being properly awed that he can kill crafters. Dude is so elite he can only jerk off to completion by wearing a Powerglove.
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Today's antics included 1. Creating a young alt copy of a shard superstar 2. A high-level murderer was so amused at the mere existence of a naked and useless version of a shard superstar that he didn't immediately go through with his plan of griefing our settlement 3. Which meant he was just chilling with me when a group of other idiots came to grief our settlement 4. Murderer murks them and we high-five about how terrible they are at the game 5. We loudly crow about New Goontown being a dangerous place for people who suck at the game Complete chaos. and the only time we drew blades was to take heads for propaganda displays. If you're reading this thread and are on the fence: 
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pahuyuth posted:I've been on the fence about this game. How does LoU differ from the base game Legends of Aria? I've futzed around on the official server during downtimes. It seems...fine but comparatively empty. I haven't seen a lot of people running around or doing things. I'm sure the mythology is fine and there's probably less jank because its not hacked up and reskinned to look like UO but I probably wouldn't play it. Mondian posted:Uh, my observations after one day are that yes, it looks better than UO did 20 years ago, but performance is roughly on par. I've got a great ping but I'm constantly rubberbanding and getting stuck on seemingly every random object I foolishly get within 10 feet of as I run past. Concur. It's still in beta so I'm way more forgiving, but running this comparatively lo-fi game makes my computer sweat like its running an AAA blockbuster. They're actively working on it (like today they released a client that fixed a massive memory leak) but there's still a hilarious amount of jank and getting stuck in the map is a real danger at any given moment (though they do have an accessible way to deal with it. I feel weird saying this, but embracing the jank is part of what triggers my nostalgia so hard.
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Angelwolf posted:Macro up, buddy This. There aren't monthly fees like regular UO so if you're thinking about taking the plunge anyway, it's not a bad idea to start setting macros toward some of the more annoying skills (provoke/hiding/stealth) so you have that done when you have more time to play. Also, I think we've successfully locked down Goontown. I haven't seen an unauthorized visitor for days.
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Pigbottom posted:Two questions guys: No. Yes and no. You can take heads but it doesn't quarter the bodies. It seems like Stimwalt, the dev responsible for bootstrapping all the UO spells into the game is saving something special for the end. [spoilers]He was talking in chat today about making Polymorph selectable (as in you can choose what monster you want to become) and attaching traits and special abilities to the morph (so become a dragon and breath fire). [/spoiler] Obviously its not official yet, and it will take some crazy balancing, but hello new playstyle if it comes through.
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The list is crazy restrictive. My homage to my dead cat is jacked be because the word buttons contains.the word butt.
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No specialty characters either. RIP 18/f/Cali
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I think if you can handle (or enjoy) the jank, ambition and lo-fi feel of indie games, this is for you. I can't speak to the experience without nostalgia, but I really enjoy the freedom and community aspects of the game. We're grinding for better stats and skills but it isn't neccessary for 90% of the game. A mid level mage with an understanding of game mechanics can hunt most mobs and there are a massive amount of spells and skills that are useful in creative ways: -Creatively abuse the house decoration system to turn wells into floating defensive turrets -Punk a sad sack streamer in front of God and everyone. - Wealthy landed merchants are just friends you can grief from a distance by undercutting their prices and disrupting their comfortable cartels. - Watch the most badass warrior in the world melt down when your midrange thief steals his +5 Scimitar of Penis Replacement out of hands and vanishes. (Coming soon) And the community is largely old dudes who were abused in old UO looking to perpetuate the old system, but with them on top. They are (largely) extremely sensitive about their skills and abilities and cannot take a joke. Goon-guild Anachro-communism works well because more established players can help newbies quickly blow past some of the initial skill cliffs and even the newest player will have PvP value as a decoy or meat shield. Now is the perfect time to jump in because we're hitting the part of the goon-guild cycle where the established powers are starting to recognize us as a threat to their order, and are due for the inevitable "There are no Goons" over-reaction. It only took us a few weeks to cut through their e-honor facade and drag them down into the mud with us. Meanwhile we're already one of the larger guilds in the game numbers wise and are starting to get characters close to skill parity with the old guard. We will soon be able to beat them on thier own terms while they're failing to adapt to ours. More numbers means more gangs and loving around when 2/3rds of our current Night Crew are macroing Provoke and are forbidden from fun. It means taming a poo poo -ton of chickens, naming them after a rival guild leader and turning them loose in thier "secure" area to gently caress with them. It means setting elaborate traps for steaming tryhards to record themselves falling into. It means that half this poo poo will fail hilariously and it doesn't matter because the point of the game isn't gold or fancy houses (though we're getting those to) it's making your own fun in a world that is rewards creativity and loving around. Also we're bros with a bunch of Gemans who roleplay Vikings and are shockingly competent at PvP. Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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DrHammond posted:
This is true, but I find the "gain skill by using skill" approach far more accessible than "harvesting this 500th bear rear end makes me a better warrior somehow." Skill growth can be annoying but so much of the game is social so you can chill with bros in chat and/or make a glorious lord cry into his keyboard while you hammer out swords in the background. Most skills are macroable, and the ones that aren't could be with some creative scripting. There's nothing stopping you from just playing the game and getting your stealth gains while you sleep.
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FormerFatty posted:Are you even finding people to kill? When i played LoU there was legitimate nothing going on... We've embarked upon a highly successful strategy of pissing off so many people that sometimes people who ride into Goontown to kill our crafters get whacked by other people who are riding into Goontown to kill our crafters. No shortage of fights for people who want fights.
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Quote not edit, etc: That house was unlocked partially because it was "safely" ensconced in their "secure" walled off compound which we wouldn't have given the least of a poo poo about until they decided to start hitting our town. But when we do things back to them they scream that were using exploits to which a monitoring dev basically said "lol, rub some dirt on it Nancy." Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Concur, this game eats time. It will still be there when you're in a better spot.
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For anyone lurking and thinking of jumping in, do it. You, a clueless low-skill newbie, can be a combat asset on day one (and a valued crafter in 6-8 months). Superior numbers give us, and you, the freedom to play the game how you want it. If six us can whack the Glorious 7GM Lord Timothy Tryhard when he comes to grief, he'll steer clear in the future because "good fights" are the ones they can easily win. Sunday was one of the first times that Night Crew had the numbers to take the grief to the people, but it won't be the last. Rents are reasonable, startup costs are cheap, and there is a vast crop of pubbie tears ripening on the vine. Won't you please join us?
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Taming doesn't pair well with melee skills generally because you need to be out of direct action to direct your pets (if you accidentally click yourself rather than your target your beloved pets will gleefully murder you). Also to effectively melee you'll need tactics, a weapon skill, anatomy and probably healing. Taming requires taming, animal lore and either veterinary or magic to heal your pets. But who cares if you want to do it, go for it you can swap out skills if they don't work. Frog Act posted:
Stab other goons. Ask in discord for more info.
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Angelwolf posted:
I think that build will be really frustrating. You can fail your provo/discord checks two different ways, your magery is low enough that you won't be casting big spells reliably and the reduced damage and slower recall isn't going to help. If it's a pve build you'll probably be hunting big game and eval doesn't affect summons. You'll also have pets to take damage for you. I'd say drop eval and resist for the cap space for the other skills.
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To be fair, we do solicit people to bring their weird bullshit to our door. I've thought about building a macro shack in BFE somewhere ringing it with multiple stone walls and leaving nothing but a premarked rune landing zone, but that's a pipe dream with no stone.
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Everyone who hasn't moved yet totally should. The new spot is better, less laggy and there's more and better monsters nearby.
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So about the move: DO NOT USE THE GATES TO ENTER GOONTOWN When you open the gates, our many enemies can stealth in behind you, mark runes, and come back to kill you. The Good Goon walks back and enters through the door to Snowflake's house. From there you can access all of Goontown's amenities such as (COMING SOON) If I see you using the gates I will either yell at you, shame you, or murder you and mount your head on the walls.
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conspiracy posted:By mount your head, he means he will create a new character using your player name and take it's head ;] Username/libel & slander combo
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