Coloured Armour

[Orsi]

In T2A, armorers used to sell random pieces of coloured armor. I believe in brit, the armorer just north of the west bank sold a darker blue coloured plate arms. The pieces were spread between different vendors around the world so you had to find them and piece together a whole set.

A lot of player run vendors made cash by collecting these sets.

[Maleficia]

The armor from the vendors back then was of different hues also. You would have to buy 5 or 6 sets to piece together a set that matched perfectly.

[Khronus]

and u could smelt them and make rare ingots after osi removed those strange hued armor pieces...

[Derrick]

The only strange colored armor I ever saw on town vendors during T2A are those which player blacksmiths had sold into the shop.

[Khronus]

then it was UOR? Im not sure a obout it but i do remember those armors... anyways its not needed...

[Orsi]

Definitely was colored armor. Not the neon colored armor you'll see in UO today, but realistic, dull, colored armor that still looked like the original pieces. There were a couple different varying shades; a black tint, a dark blue tint, red i think, and some others which I never really liked.

These were in before colored ore even existed, so it couldn't have been sold from a player to an npc vendor. The drawback to these sets was a less than GM made AR rating, but the color was usually cool enough for people to sacrifice that aspect.

I'll attempt to find some pics, I'll edit this post if/when I find them.

*edit*
Some links to pics with different colored armor's

Website - Ultima at Scorched.com (http://web.archive.org/web/199802131726 ... rched.com/)
Pictures are from Beta phase 2

http://web.archive.org/web/199802131739 ... nding.html
- Player wearing a few different shades of platemail. An obvious black helmet, and some taupey chest piece.

http://web.archive.org/web/199802131855 ... erman.html
- Player paperdoll has some black platemail gloves.

Website - Joy of Villainy (http://web.archive.org/web/199905080350 ... n.com/jov/)
Pictures from pre-t2a/t2a

http://web.archive.org/web/200111292101 ... sc/red.htm
- Player wearing some red platemail

Website - Musashi's Cheesy Home Page (http://mu.ranter.net/)
Some pre-t2a shots. Some T2A.

http://mu.ranter.net/uo/mubattle.html
- Various shots from pre-T2A era showing black plate


These are also some good sites to check out some pre-T2A/T2A era stories and screen shots. These were all sites I visited regularly during that time . I hope to have many more suggestions to this shard for it's T2A accurateness and it's staff's willingness to actually be as accurate as possible.

[Derrick]

Interesting, thanks for the links, I'd never seen this.

Do you think may have been taken out when colored ore was introduced? I never remember seeing these colors.

[Orsi]

Interesting, thanks for the links, I'd never seen this.

Do you think may have been taken out when colored ore was introduced? I never remember seeing these colors.

I don't think so, although the colored armor sets were a lot more common since you could make them now. The vendor stuff was a lot cheaper than buying a full suit of GM black plate.

Oh and this wasn't just limited to Platemail. Any metal armor had this feature.

[alatar]

I think they were just random hues in the hue set (like the ones randomly chosen for NPC clothing).. If i'm not mistaken this is how coal armor came about..

[Dupre[THG]]

absolutely correct.

[Nevermore]

Almost all the sites linked are from beta/pre-t2a. And there's really no logic into making specially hued ores that randomly spawn on vendors for people to buy. It'll also lessen the value of the colored armor from blacksmiths.

Coal armor was an exploit using the coal from a christmas gift, I do believe.

[Khronus]

people that had those armor kept them or smelted them and the ingots or armor pieces are very rare now in osi , at least it was when i quit osi about 2 years ago... i used to collect this kind of old schools items, i had a nice skirt in chesapeake "Double Blessed Swin by PRADA COLLECTION" and it was pure mare cloth ,when i quit it was worth around 18 million gold... now 18 million gold is nothing in osi!

[Khronus]

yeah i dont think this kind of armor hues are rly needed but if derrick decides to add them i have no problem with it...

[Orsi]

Almost all the sites linked are from beta/pre-t2a. And there's really no logic into making specially hued ores that randomly spawn on vendors for people to buy. It'll also lessen the value of the colored armor from blacksmiths.

Coal armor was an exploit using the coal from a christmas gift, I do believe.

They didn't just take out all that armor because T2A came in with colored ore. Coal armor was not an exploit, you can see it right in the pictures, and it wouldn't lessen the value of GM armor because npc bought armor isn't exceptional.

I'm merely suggesting this, I went to go buy some the other day and it wasn't there. Thought I'd post it up.

[Nevermore]

Almost all the sites linked are from beta/pre-t2a. And there's really no logic into making specially hued ores that randomly spawn on vendors for people to buy. It'll also lessen the value of the colored armor from blacksmiths.

Coal armor was an exploit using the coal from a christmas gift, I do believe.

They didn't just take out all that armor because T2A came in with colored ore. Coal armor was not an exploit, you can see it right in the pictures, and it wouldn't lessen the value of GM armor because npc bought armor isn't exceptional.

I'm merely suggesting this, I went to go buy some the other day and it wasn't there. Thought I'd post it up.

What I meant was, all these colored armor pieces were in before t2a. We didn't have a 3 year period before we launched where there were betas and all sorts of bug and flaws and odd things being sold on vendors. So where's the logic in grandfathering in certain elements that were there on OSI because of the long period of time before the era we're trying to emulate?

I'm not denying that it was there, but I certainly don't remember being able to buy hued armor from NPCs during t2a. I'm sure they exsisted during t2a, but they were there before the period.

Edit: "Coal armor" was made when OSI sent out dark colored ore in christmas gifts as coal. There was a way to smelt the coal and turn it into armor (possible to have GM made coal armor). Some of the items you're referring to may have been a coal-like color, but "coal armor" was made via an exploit.