I’ve managed to start my own company, which will hopefully allow me to pay for a new dedicated server sometime fairly soon.
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What is the secret of the Giant’s Loom found in the Hill Clan Caves? Manypoor adventurers decided to find out on their own and they has never found their way back.
Rumors say the loom can be used to craft masterwork hide armour +2
A treasure chest in a ruined city random encounter between Triboar and Longsaddle, a skeleton farmer is visible coming out of the wall of the ruins.
Hello aD&D lovers, fans, and future testers.
This is our summer build update. I’ve been working aboard since May, this must be why I didn’t post updates. Those of you who are clever and charming already followed us on Twitter @BaldursGateUO where we post small updates are aware of our progress. We have most scripts ready for testing, however I do think we may not the Harvesting system ready for testing, I would like to ask you to submit your ideas and concepts on the new Harvesting systems, you can do it in the comment section below.
Here are some status building updates for WaterdeepUO:
- Red Larch village: Build and Populated
- Triboar: Build and Populated
- Longsaddle: Build
- Yatar: Build
- Golden Fields: Build
- Random Encounters 1,2: Build and Populated
- A few dungeons build and populated.
Treasure system scripted with random magical D&D items, but on that later.
As soon as all those regions listed above are populated and more quests are made, we will start letting people in.
PS: If you think you have any experience with XMLSPAWNERS, Pandoras Box and UOArchitect and can learn our custom Quest systems (and have lots of free time away from real time) then send me an email to waterdeepuo@gmail.com to apply to help me build in Forgotten Realms.
Yep, we have those too.
A BugBear
This is a public vote to decide the fate of all!
APPLICATIONS OR AUTO-ACCOUNT?
In my experience staffing and otherwise playing on multiple shards I’ve noticed the same problems with administrators or GM’s giving special treatment to players they favor, and treating everybody else as dirt. I’ve seen strong communities crumble from this on a weekly basis and it is not just that.
Screenshot I took just now. A hill giant is attacking Red Larch, two NPC guards are fighting back. Both died and I had to run away 😦
To a player that knows that there is this one person (a GM) they can easily reach out to and chat to and he (like my employer) has the power to give me more power, money and or otherwise benefits by simply begging him to do so. Most GM’s give in after months of torments and even if they don’t. There will never be a level of respected trust between players and GMs while GMs have the power to give the player anything. Someone somewhere will always complain
“He got that awesome sword from his GM friend!”
Players like being GMs – it demands a certain level or respect, power and GAME MASTERY powers. But they forget one important thing, the core of why there even are GMs – the players who should enjoy the game.
GMs should always be secondary least important workforce standing behind the players. You can not demand GMs to maintain a high level or responsibility as those who get payed to do it.
This is why I decided to put DMs (not GMs traditionaly) in a difficult situation. As an experiment. This is my balance to the community.
Imagine yourself reading the statements below with a loud proud inner voice fill it with honour and patriotism:
LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL PLAYERS THAT DM’s HAVE NO PROPERTY POWERS OVER PLAYERS NOR OVER ITEMS.
DMs CAN NOT CHANGE PROPERTIES OF A PLAYER, THEY CAN NOT GIVE YOU STRENGTH OR TAKE IT. THEY CAN NOT GIVE YOU NEW ADVANCED CLASSES OR TAKE THEM. THEY CAN NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHARACTERS STATS IN ANY WAY.
DMS LIMITED ONLY TO CREATING INTERACTIONS IN FORM OF QUESTS, GAME CONTROLLERS THAT OPERATE QUESTS, SPAWNERS AND DIALOGS, THEY HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE NEW DUNGEONS AND PRESCRIPTED ITEMS AND NPCS. BUILD BUILDINGS AND THAT IS IT.
THEY CAN NOT ALTER THE COURSE OF YOUR CHARACTER’S DEVELOPMENT AND THUS SHOULD NOT BE ASKED OF IT. (and even if they wanted to, they won’t have the powers to do it)
caps lock = desperate.
Now you know that whatever you achieved in game was achieved by you and there are no shortcuts.
And now GMs know that if you staff here, you aren’t doing it for the power, because you have none.
We’re in the process of adding the following locations to Alpha, so players will be able to travel between these locations by the following routes. Interested in helping us build, if have experience with PandorasBox, uoArchitect drop us an email at waterdeepuo@gmail.com
Update: Map Expanded
Today I sat down and went through all character creation gumps and now those ugly UO gumps that contributed to my growing brain tumour have finally been transformed into amazing masterpieces. The initial introductionary gump that you will find a screenshot of below is build from the official Baldurs Gate book and contains the same style throughout all other gumps. Take a look at some of them below in the scrolling gallery, just click on the thumbnails. Brought to you by (as always) only on BaldursGateUO.
-KKL Game Designer
Getting a server isn’t that easy, almost all the sponsors I’ve found so far want to take the server away and turn it into something else, the words “My ideas” just keep coming and I fear that if this goes on, Baldurs Gate UO will turn into nothing more then another free shard of someone else’s vision and not pure aD&D as It was intended too.
Ideas are like nipples, everybody has some, some people even have 3, some have small hairy nipples and others have big curved balloons, but that doesn’t mean I want to see them, that doesn’t mean other people want to see them. You are free to show your ideas but the issue isn’t that your ideas are bad or wont work, its thats you forget that you aren’t creating a new game, you are recreating a game that was already created, tested and has its fan base. This isn’t the place for innovation and “you you you” its about giving the players what they are expecting to get and nothing else or more.
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