The point of the med book was...

[Hyper886]

That it covered the entire screen ... so we have to look at a book that we just move out of the way? lolz. makes no sense no?

[Coridan]

I think the only thing they could do was make the entire screen black behind the book, meaning no chat boxes so this is the way they went with.

[Trexller]

That it covered the entire screen ... so we have to look at a book that we just move out of the way? lolz. makes no sense no?

or right click set the book so that it fades away

[douglas1999]

When are people going to understand this isn't the original classic client, it's a client from like 10 expansions in and the devs here have to tinker and hack it to make it as close to the original client as possible. So not everything is exactly like it was (the sky graphics, boat models, a million other things) but for a volunteer project they sure have done a pretty damn good job imo.

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/jcXPrDu.jpg

[douglas1999]

https://i.imgur.com/jcXPrDu.jpg

classic woody hearn & william mackie

edit: jk i don't know who they are and they could be dead

[Hyper886]

Yeah for sure I think its still a great experience overall. Maybe if they could somehow force the old original UI so that the med would make it so you couldn't see. I'm assuming there going to get rid of the book etc when the timeline has come? As well as pet window etc? Is there any site you can go to, to see when certain specific changes will occur?

[silo32]

I had to log in and lol at this cuz the entire generation of Ultima on-line is Dead or dying. We're old man. I do miss pet Windows and target rings ..m also pet fd was classical if any of the original blue 99 day 1s still around. It's all downhill from here

[silo32]

Blue 99 was all one big alpha test. I remember when u could equip any item in any slot. Also the multiple mage pet summon bug. Trust me this project is premium. It wasn't perfect. Dam close tho

[douglas1999]

Oh I log into uo second age once a week to refresh my houses with all of it's 60 remaining players. Also I can't tell if you meant "everquest" rather than ultima online.

lol uo second age has more active players than red

[Bones]

Blue 99 was all one big alpha test. I remember when u could equip any item in any slot. Also the multiple mage pet summon bug. Trust me this project is premium. It wasn't perfect. Dam close tho

as someone who has been around since blue99 beta.. what are you talkin about?
there was bugs but I dont remember any of that shit.

I do remember some pretty big bugs like weapon delay affecting pet attack speed for instance being able to give pets fine steel daggers and they still hit for their normal damage but twice as fast which was nerfed pretty quick but nothing to the extent you are talking about?

[Scalem]

Oh I log into uo second age once a week to refresh my houses with all of it's 60 remaining players. Also I can't tell if you meant "everquest" rather than ultima online.

lol uo second age has more active players than red

Having more active players than red isn’t saying much.

[douglas1999]

Having more active players than red isn’t saying much.

Yeah that was the joke charlie chaplan

[Dural_Levant]

When are people going to understand this isn't the original classic client, it's a client from like 10 expansions in and the devs here have to tinker and hack it to make it as close to the original client as possible. So not everything is exactly like it was (the sky graphics, boat models, a million other things) but for a volunteer project they sure have done a pretty damn good job imo.

So yeah, about the current boat model. What's the story with that? The boat I remember from launch was different and was textured much better. Is the current boat a custom P99 asset or is it model introduced later in the game?

[douglas1999]

it's the boat from butcherblock mountains that's just kinda sitting on the shore. somebody else would have to explain the technical reason why they have to use that one.

[Danth]

So yeah, about the current boat model. What's the story with that? The boat I remember from launch was different and was textured much better. Is the current boat a custom P99 asset or is it model introduced later in the game?

The current ship is an old relic left over from EQ beta that was still in the client. The reason it's used instead of the one you remember is because the proper ship doesn't work right, its collision detection is broken. Characters fall right through it.

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Features such as target rings, pet windows, and removal of open spellbook meditating for low level characters all post-date the era P1999 seeks to emulate and as such should not be anticipated ever making an appearance on P99-Green. The older P1999 P99 Blue server retains some (but not all) of those features as a favor to the community due to Blue having had many of them for 10+ years as relics of the out-of-era Titanium client used.

Danth

[twaggoner2]

or right click set the book so that it fades away

My head just exploded 🤯

[fastboy21]

The inconvenience of clicking the button to meditate is the real purpose. The book popping up is just a dressing to make it have a more classic feel.

Having to click the button is a major PITA.

[douglas1999]

The current ship is an old relic left over from EQ beta that was still in the client. The reason it's used instead of the one you remember is because the proper ship doesn't work right, its collision detection is broken. Characters fall right through it.


Yeah but characters fall through all boats, isn't that why you get insta lev when you step onto a boat here? Who the fuck coded classic eq such that it's this hard to replicate?

[Naxy]

The inconvenience of clicking the button to meditate is the real purpose. The book popping up is just a dressing to make it have a more classic feel.

Having to click the button is a major PITA.

And it makes lvl 35 a real gift to achieve.

[Jibartik]

Who the fuck coded classic eq such that it's this hard to replicate?

They wrote their own programming language to make the 2d UI... I forget what its called I have the documentation for it somewhere, but its basically a custom XML for no reason, they were insane.

[cd288]

classic woody hearn & william mackie

edit: jk i don't know who they are and they could be dead

If you’ve never read GU Comics, it’s worth going and reading the ones from back in the EQ days. Great nostalgia trip

[peterpal]

Is there an era matching loading screen image? I'm always seeing the velious one