A shard about post-apocalyptic times.

[Kingllama]

A shard about post-apocalyptic times.

Think of a uo shard with a post-apocalyptic element.
Where people who play do missions to rebuild britain and all the major cities as a quest.
Buildings would be destroyed or on fire or collapsing.
Monsters and animals would run freely.
Npc bodies lay everywhere.
There would be camps in the forest that have bankers and new cities being built.
Resources are scarce it would take a long time to mine iron or find good trees.
Magic items are the most rarest things in the servers. Would be like a mad max thing but with medieval elements and wizardry.
Full spellbooks would be worth 1000's of gold.
NO ethereal mounts.
Just real horse or horses diseased with the plague that wiped out most of the uo world and caused the chaos which turned most cities in ruins.

Would anyone play it?

 

[Soteric]

That should be interesting but not that easy to be done. Usualy projects that starts with writing about them on forum (and not with writing the code) comes to nowhere. Just IMHO

It was something with Ultima Online and Fallout (link) --> Ultima Online Development
Russian project Wastelands that wasn't finished. Unfortunately their site was closed with the project and those 4 screenshots is all we can see now. But the idea was awesome

 

[Kingllama]

That should be interesting but not that easy to be done. Usualy projects that starts with writing about them on forum (and not with writing the code) comes to nowhere. Just IMHO

It was something with Ultima Online and Fallout (link) --> Ultima Online Development
Russian project Wastelands that wasn't finished. Unfortunately their site was closed with the project and those 4 screenshots is all we can see now. But the idea was awesome

Well it sounds easy with just editing the scripts.
I'm not adding customs.
I'm just adding some deco and some spawns and taking away aos.
There would be instah hit and explode bonus.
Maybe a npc redone and stuff.

 

[Quantos]

Buildings would be destroyed or on fire or collapsing.
Npc bodies lay everywhere.
There would be camps in the forest that have bankers and new cities being built.
Resources are scarce it would take a long time to mine iron or find good trees.
Magic items are the most rarest things in the servers. Would be like a mad max thing but with medieval elements and wizardry.
Full spellbooks would be worth 1000's of gold.
NO ethereal mounts.
Just real horse or horses diseased with the plague that wiped out most of the uo world and caused the chaos which turned most cities in ruins.

Would anyone play it?

With burning and collapsing buildings, assuming you want the danger associated, there would be major revisions. You would need the artwork and animations.

Why would you start off with a wicked idea, and then shrug it off as nothing but scripts.

I don't think that you know what is involved in running a simple shard. Let alone what you are describing.

 

[Kingllama]

With burning and collapsing buildings, assuming you want the danger associated, there would be major revisions. You would need the artwork and animations.

Why would you start off with a wicked idea, and then shrug it off as nothing but scripts.

I don't think that you know what is involved in running a simple shard. Let alone what you are describing.

I do know what is needed.
But first simple stuff.
Which i'm still learning.
I just started not to long ago.
I've got spawners working so far.
Making new monsters fixing npcs at the moment.

 

[Quantos]

Well it sounds easy with just editing the scripts.
I'm not adding customs.
I'm just adding some deco and some spawns and taking away aos.
There would be instah hit and explode bonus.
Maybe a npc redone and stuff.

Then don't make this statement.

 

[Kingllama]

Then don't make this statement.

Alright. Don't get all aggressive about it though.
I know i'll have to do animations and do custom scripts if i want it to be one of a kind.
But thats something i'll learn while i do this hobbie.

 

[Quantos]

Good, just realize that it will take a lot of work. I don't want to discourage you, but I don't want you thinking that it's just a switch here and there either. Custom shards that are worth while are a boat load of hard work.

 

[Kingllama]

Good, just realize that it will take a lot of work. I don't want to discourage you, but I don't want you thinking that it's just a switch here and there either. Custom shards that are worth while are a boat load of hard work.

I plan to spend many hours on this project.
I understand i use to be a gm and i remember the owner getting really really bored he use to just sit there and script for many hours on end.

 

[Galdar]

actually ... it's been done.

You can still get some of the custom weapons, armor and a few misc buildings tiles out there.

 

[Kingllama]

actually ... it's been done.

You can still get some of the custom weapons, armor and a few misc buildings tiles out there.

what is the name of it?

 

[Vorspire]

UO: Ground Zero would make a nice name for a project like this It sounds like it would be quite fun to play hehe.

 

[Galdar]

been done ... as in past tense... it died the death of "no sustained playerbase"

Was several years ago (died 2007 ish), forget the advertised name. It was based off of the Fallout series and imported graphics from fallout 2. It had land based vehicles using a modified boat scipt. It even had a crashed shuttle craft from the Enterprise of star trek with a quest fighting the landing party.

here is a screenie of some of the items .....
http://uo-graphics.uo-francophone.net/visualiser/Alambik/8994bfb733a0eaf1afb40c9ad1207cdb.jpg

various other items .....
http://uo-graphics.uo-francophone.net/visualiser/Alambik/06759bf32844b4b581d559c773428d70.gif

I think there is a few other things over at www.uo-pixel.de along the same lines.


ALSO... I think you'd get a little backlash on the "UO:Ground Zero" name. I'd stear clear of anything remotely NYC/911 sounding.

 

[Jeff]

been done ... as in past tense... it died the death of "no sustained playerbase"

Was several years ago (died 2007 ish), forget the advertised name. It was based off of the Fallout series and imported graphics from fallout 2. It had land based vehicles using a modified boat scipt. It even had a crashed shuttle craft from the Enterprise of star trek with a quest fighting the landing party.

here is a screenie of some of the items .....
http://uo-graphics.uo-francophone.net/visualiser/Alambik/8994bfb733a0eaf1afb40c9ad1207cdb.jpg

various other items .....
http://uo-graphics.uo-francophone.net/visualiser/Alambik/06759bf32844b4b581d559c773428d70.gif

I think there is a few other things over at www.uo-pixel.de along the same lines.


ALSO... I think you'd get a little backlash on the "UO:Ground Zero" name. I'd stear clear of anything remotely NYC/911 sounding.

LOL its Fallout... sad that they had to rip another games graphics and use them illegally... sad...

 

[Galdar]

yes it is sad... but look how much Diablo ripp off stuff is out there in this community too. Theres whole sites dedicated to ripping graphics out an morphing to other formats. "Endor" is famous for doing that stuff.

Jeff the shard name wasn't "UO:Fallout" also was it? Somehow i was thinking it was something like "Apocoliptico" or something down that road.

 

[Jeff]

yes it is sad... but look how much Diablo ripp off stuff is out there in this community too. Theres whole sites dedicated to ripping graphics out an morphing to other formats. "Endor" is famous for doing that stuff.

Jeff the shard name wasn't "UO:Fallout" also was it? Somehow i was thinking it was something like "Apocoliptico" or something down that road.

I have no clue what the name was, i just loved that the graphics were directly from Fallout.

 

[Vorspire]

ALSO... I think you'd get a little backlash on the "UO:Ground Zero" name. I'd stear clear of anything remotely NYC/911 sounding.

Well imo, just because the 9/11 catastrophy happened and some documentary was named "Ground Zero" about it doesn't mean that someone can't use it as a name for something else.

I didn't even think about relating to 9/11 until you mentioned it tbh. If using this as a name for something offends people, then they must be closed-minded people indeed.

But you may also be right and I may be missing the point here.

 

[Lord_Greywolf]

well in the UK 9/11 does not mean as much as it does here in the States, and most of the player base on english speaking shards is from US and a good amount also from CA

so yes it could hurt them being named that way

 

[Kingllama]

well in the UK 9/11 does not mean as much as it does here in the States, and most of the player base on english speaking shards is from US and a good amount also from CA

so yes it could hurt them being named that way

Apocalypse uo is the name so far.
But it's might renamed.
I've been working on spawners and editing the crafting and mining stuff.

 

[Galdar]

FOUND IT, "Future UO" was the name ...

It's still shown in the old listing on CUO Desktop too, dead link of course.