Malaperth said:
As far as I know, nothing before the 4.something client works at all reliably even on RunUO 1.0. There are many things that don't work. I just listed mul files since they are a biggie.
Yeah you could be right, it might just be the client itself.
But the format hasn't changed for the MUL files so its probably not that. If he can SEE the gold, and the client and the server are using the same MUL files, then the gold exists in the MUL files where RunUO thinks it does.
If he can log in and it's something as simple as clicking an item, I'm betting that he has AOS (and all of its extra item properties) enabled. That would cause the server to send a bunch of foreign packets that the older clients wouldn't understand.
Either that, or the entire 2.xx client is just fubar'd for use with RunUO.
I agree, he should just upgrade the client and then enable/disable/MUL edit the stuff he doesn't want. RunUO wasn't designed for old clients, so using them is shaky at best.