Shards?

[toxication]

Has anyone managed to find a new server with the same style of pvp as loth? Not too fussed about the casting speeds or anything

[Gwar]

uodiamond.com


UO Diamond ! New Server Opened August 3 !

UODiamond was created from the ashes of all of our previous shards, Vae Victis, Golden Claw, UOQuartz (to name only those).

This project has started 2 years ago, but we had to leave it for one full year before getting back into it seriously. UO has been a part of our lives for a long time, and it seems like it will always it's place in our hearts.

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There are a lot of things in UODiamond. Maybe even too many to list them all here, so here is what we think is important to know before joining the server.



- You start with all stats at 50. You can raise them up to 150 by hitting training dummies.

- You start with all skills set at 10.0. You have to pick 4 skills before playing, 50.0 55.0 60.0 and 70.0.

- There is no skill cap.

- There are tons of quests all around the world map.

- Many skills were fixed and rescripted, see the Player Skills section for more info.

- There is no precast, it is old-style magery and spell timers.

- You can have 2 houses per character.

- The Ilshenar map is enabled, you have to do a quest prior to get into it.

- There are randomly spawned reagents and treasure chests all around the world.

- We enabled all 4 seasons which change every 2 weeks.

- There is a light system, so no need to Nightsight on ingame days.

- There is a shout system which costs nothing.

- There are public arenas for 1v1 pvp with no loot, all automated by scripts.

- There will be automatic events.

- There are etheral rides available. If you find them in loot or in events as reward, they have 10 charges. If provided by a Prefered Stone, they do not have charges. You can also find items to recharge them.

- There is up to 23 mineable ores available. Other ressources are also minable. See craftables for more info.

- There are PvP points. When dueling in special places (britain 1v1 pvp arena, .duel, held tourneys) you gain 1 pvp point when killing your opponent. If you die, you lose a point or stay to 0. There will be a public board showing top 10.

- There are PvM points that you gain from killing monsters. The creature's points are evenly shared between all of it's attackers.


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Here are the server specs, for those who wants to know about it.

We are using SphereServer 56b, as the owners of this server are part of the sphere dev team.

Even if the owners are from Canada, the server is hosted on a dedicated server located in Manessas, Washington DC (East Cost)

Intel® Pentium® Processor G6950 (3M Cache, 2.80 GHz), 4G Memory, 100Mbit Link.

OS Linux Ubuntu Server.

[toxication]

Awesome, going to set it up tonight. Are you playing there?

[Gwar]

yeah i am playing when i find time...which sadly isnt very often. but the shard seems to have a good player base (50 clients online) and good staff / developers.

[Kebnov]

I have hopped on over to diamond and I will say it is alright, but leaves something to be desired. I cant say I am a fan of some of the crafting and I have heard much grumbling from the playerbase as to the lack of difficulty in hunting, but pvp seems to be alright (coming from a non-pvper). There are still a lot of bugs (had to remind one of the dev's that the moongates were missing), but they are working through them at a decent clip.

In all honesty, it makes me miss Loth more than it makes me want to enjoy and explore diamond.

Heph / Beren