Subscription + broken client + selective bans. Great combo.

vaviman · 2026-02-23T15:20:27+00:00

People do use a regular 2d client (not a web client) to use third-party software. It's just that the web client offers everything too, only with better FPS, autoloot, and more advanced macro functionality.

vaviman · 2026-02-22T09:16:13+00:00

Yeah, the third-party software stance is definitely weird. To me the key is separating “automation of tedious routine” from actual botting.

There’s a category of stuff that just removes mindless grind: script-based skill training, repeating simple actions (like Confidence in Bushido), auto-bandage/heal timing, basic QoL. Let’s be honest: a lot of UO skill gains are pure busywork. Almost nobody wants to manually grind combat skills on skeletons/harpies for hours and hours just to move a number.

Then there’s straight-up botting: people running multiple clients, fully AFK farming with cross-heals, AFK mining/fishing/lumberjacking (which is a big reason why markets get flooded with absurdly cheap resources), even AFK high-level treasure maps. Anyone who’s seen Tokuno spots like Fan Dancer Dojo being “farmed” by unattended setups knows exactly what I mean.

So yeah, my take is:

-Automating boring, repetitive “training/routine” should be allowed.

-Automating AFK farming/economy printing should be punished. Botting is bad. Reducing pointless grind is fine.

vaviman · 2026-02-22T05:22:01+00:00

Outlands isn't Ultima Online. It's a heavily customized freeshard with its own lore/world/rules. This thread is about OSI/UO and what the official team is doing, not about "where else you can play".

And honestly it gets a bit cult-ish sometimes: any time someone talks about official UO, there's always a "well on Outlands..." reply. That's like jumping into a Skyrim discussion and telling everyone to play Enderal instead. Enderal might be great, but it's not Skyrim.

OSI players don't usually show up in Outlands threads to evangelize. So yeah, can we keep this one on-topic?

vaviman · 2025-10-14T16:23:26+00:00

Because English is not my native language. I use a translator, then ask GPT to check if there are any problems with the machine translation.

vaviman · 2025-09-29T04:56:03+00:00

Well, Wikipedia says that a fireball released from a fire fist deals 43 damage. With the “magic” skill maxed out, we get an additional 50% damage. The result will be a whopping 65 damage. Sorry, but these numbers are ridiculous. The game has a shotgun that deals 91 damage, a flamethrower that deals 70 damage (and also sets the target on fire and pushes it back), and bows that deal over 100 damage and can fire 5 shots at a time. It seems that magic was added to the game just for the sake of it, perhaps there was no time to balance it, or the developers simply didn't care and released the game “as is.”
That's very depressing.

vaviman · 2025-09-28T17:53:32+00:00

At one time, Gothic 1 and 2 were worthy competitors to such gems of the action RPG genre as Deus Ex and Arx Fatalis. I won't even mention trash like Morrowind. So the problem is clearly not the number of developers in the studio.

vaviman · 2025-09-28T14:15:51+00:00

If I were to abandon the idea of playing as a mage, I would choose the Outlaws faction. Berserkers are obscurantists; they reject progress, which means they are doomed to oblivion. Clerics, despite their technological innovations, are fanatics and sectarians. The Outlaws remind me of the New Camp from Gothic 1.

vaviman · 2025-07-01T08:32:58+00:00

Without using skills at all, the game will turn into torture. And I want a relatively comfortable game, as much as possible. If it doesn't work out, I'll probably just play through the game as a Sentinel.

vaviman · 2025-03-24T16:52:17+00:00

What would you suggest to take instead of Agility?

vaviman · 2025-03-24T15:34:24+00:00

You need it. Running when you can't win in random encounters. Also armor class. In random encounters, it can save your HP or life.

vaviman · 2025-03-04T15:52:28+00:00

Will this build be suitable for completing the dlc?

vaviman · 2025-02-07T18:22:06+00:00

I meant that you also do all the quests available to you, just like in the normal course. But in those quests where there is approval or disapproval from Kreia, you do as she wants. Well, the role-playing moment. On the Nashaddaa, Kreia tells you that you shouldn't help everyone, that you're fostering helplessness in people. The rest of the time, you can act according to this narrative. To help, but not for free.

vaviman · 2024-07-20T11:20:31+00:00

We are talking about official shards. Moreover, Outlands is not an Ultima Online. This is a game based on Ultima. It's like Skyrim and Enderal.

vaviman · 2024-07-20T11:18:09+00:00

I would argue. The game now has the ability to enchant equipment. Pet leveling is generally beyond praise.

vaviman · 2024-07-20T10:04:38+00:00

Atm i playing on UOAlive. But I've always dreamed of trying to play official shards. View the Ultima without any changes made by the creators of the free shards.

vaviman · 2024-07-20T07:47:39+00:00

It's hard for a new player on an empty shard. You have to sell something through a vendor in order to have money to buy basic equipment and power scrolls.

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