[2.0] Old Style Moongates

[David]

Summary:
A modified RunUO 2.0 distro script that provides Moongates that send the Player to another Moongate depending upon the "phase of the moon" as per old OSI fashion.

Description:
Process based on information from Stratics archive http://web.archive.org/web/199901250....stratics.com/ Look on the left under Strategy and Lore and click on Moongates, there is a nice graphic toward the bottom that explains the rotation very well.

The altered behavior only applies to Trammel and Felucca, other map regions will get the regular gump. Even those two are not 100% correct--I believe Haven/Buc's Den did not have Moongates back in the day. To correct edit out the commented lines 338 and 353 to remove those gates from the list, and then regen the gates. As is, the script includes the gates and simply has an extra stop in the cycle.

Notes:
Although the idea is that the Moongates cycle with the phases of the moons, they in-fact simply step based on the current local UO time. (See the graphic mentioned above.) Also please realize that UO has timezones of a sense, the current time changes as you move around the world.

2.0 Update Notes:
Although the 1.0 version of this script runs and appears to work under RunUO 2.0 it does not include changes to the distro file included with the newer version. Please use this version with RunUO 2.0.

Installation:
Locate the distro Moongate.cs in Scripts\Items\Misc and rename it to Moongate.org. Then copy this script into your Custom Scripts folder and restart the server. Fully compatible with existing Moongates.

[Knight Wolf 748]

Great Work, David

[Hanse the Insane]

I have a question, they used to do the following:

Clicking on one of the eight fixed moongates in Britannia will give a description of the destination where the moongate leads to.

Through the moongate you ...

* ... see a road to the east and mountains in the distance to the west. Britain.
* ... see a vast body of water to the east while to the west a city can be seen nearby. Jhelom.
* ... see what appears to be a small peninsula covered in lush foliage. Magicinia.
* ... can just make out a road to the southwest and a river to the north. Minoc.
* ... see a small escarpment to the south and a large city to the North. Moonglow.
* ... see a small city to the south, while a vast ocean lies in all other directions. Skara Brae.
* ... see a large sandstone city standing on a far bank of the river to the north. Trinsic.
* ... see deep forest on all sides. Yew.

Would it be possible to add this as well?

[Total Failure]

ahh the headache comes back! thanks for the update David