UOX3.org

I sort of tried to keep my posts to the technical stuff, but after a few days I realize, I wont just blend into the heavy traffic of users, it's more like you can hear a pin drop in here. Feels a bit like being late to church - and wearing squeaky shoes.

Properly saying hello in such a case seems like the polite thing to do:
So, hello, everybody. It's me, Puck. My native language is german. I sort of live the life of a tiny forest animal: in the summer I spend as much time bein outside, moving, skinning my knees as if I was little. In the winter I go hibernate in front of ye olde CRT screen. (LCD just doesn't give you any proper skin tone)

This hibernation led me to UOX3. Last weekend a friend of mine and I were about to play the UO trial, one thing lead to another and I was already trying to read up on UO server emulation. I looked at RunUO, SunUO, Penultima and not very seriously at sphere. Mind you, I knew nothing, zero, zilch, nada, but that UO server emulation has a pretty long history. That's it. (Not that I know _that_ much more now...)

I can't quite put my finger on it, but UOX has a certain feel to it, I wouldnt want to trade it for any other. Apart from being (at least it looks like this from over here) well structured and comparatively easy to understand, it just has a certain charme. I mean, sure I can take some complete RunUO distro, doubleclick the exe, and more or less be done with it... but it just feels dirty. The kind of dirty that doesn't go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

don't get me wrong, I admire what people have done, no matter with what emulator. It's easy to forget how much work the tiniest bit of code sometimes can be. Especially when you just look at it from the user perspective.
(Personally I'm rather glad I stopped coding as a 10year old. I was pretty good wth AmigaBASIC )

Alright, I'm starting to ramble (more than in the beginning) and it's getting late for work, so I'll wrap this up quickly:

Thanks for this great project. I love how UOX turned out. Later, when I get the time I have to post about it on my favourite indie-game forum, bay12. I figure this might even get some fresh blood in here, and who knows, some of them folks can code better than which is about my skill level. Oh wait, I can do proper IF - THEN thingies in BASIC, too

I just fear that you people from here stumble over the most famour b12 game, dwarf fortress. We can't divert your attention from uox, now can we

Laterz, folks, thanks for my new winter hobby.
(Altough I feel a little tempted to curse you for my lack of sleep the last few days)

PS: Gratz, jediman. May the force be with you

Welcome, always glad to see new faces.

Yes, you are very welcome, Puck

I actually tried out dwarf fortress some time ago. Hm. I never got very far though - but I remember my dwarves killing a monkey that strayed into my less-than-ideally constructed fortress

Thanks and welcome!

I just thought I announce my summer leave, just so you guys know I havent just simply walked away from uox.

It's getting warmer over here, and I'm about to come out of hibernation, meaning I try to get as much outside time as possible.

As soon as the leaves will turn yellow and it's too cold for my taste I'll be back. Which usually is around september/october.

Old skool UO is just perfect for those autumn and winter evenings. A videogame like a fireplace.

Welcome Puck!

I'm a bit late. Just had my first kid last year, and another on the way.

Family life (for me) and schooling (for my cousins) is taking a toll on my UO time, but we make time at least once a month for a good quest.

I'm just starting to get some ideas for scripts again, so it might be time for me to polish off my dull scripting skills.

I never did try Sphere, RunUO, etc. I ran into UOX3 because I searched for "UOoff" or "UOx OFF". Those seemed to be the keywords for the original UOx back when I was looking on www.metacrawler.com (remember that one?) in the late 90s. Back then, UO emulation was so sparse you couldn't do anything.

I arrived in the Uox scene when? '04, '06? By that time, UOx crowd was dwindling (I hate to say dying because the activity still is pretty good).

What I like about the small crowd is that no matter how strange my requests are: "Can we make NPCs act like Pets for mercenaries?" etc. they go noticed by Giwo, Grimson, Xuri and the rest of the crowd.

We use a custom, heavily roleplay oriented shard and that kind of skilled scripting help is invaluable.

Right now, I don't post scripts or requests on UOx3.org that often anymore. Why? Because the server is so darn good these days! I get to spend my time playing and loving it instead of troubleshooting it!

(Heck, I"m still running client 5.0.1i, and 98-3.7q server!!)

So greetings, welcome to the club!

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