UO Second Age

Did you not read the Runesabre quote I posted (with link to archived source) in which he stated exactly how the chance-to-resist was determined for these spells during the target era?

Two posts above yours.

Was this ever addressed?

Mikel123 wrote:LOL. Why not post this 3 posts ago?

Because until now I was talking about the behavior of the bastardized implementation of RA currently on UOSA:

archaicsubrosa77 wrote:Did you do any testing with RA and Physical Armor...just curious

not the historically authentic version.

In any case, this still doesn't tell us if RA is supposed to work before or after the armor, and I haven't been able to determine that from anything I've read either, unfortunately. Its effect is applied before armor, a fact which can be gleaned from reading the demo scripts and verified by in-demo...

I'm sure Derrick could easily determine if it's happening before or after armor. As for what's correct, I have no idea. I said that it occurs afterwards. You can easily determine this by allowing yourself to be struck by a monster (or player using a weapon) that deals more damage than RA absorbs, d...

Did you do any testing with RA and Physical Armor...just curious I didn't. What would I be testing? Whether RA mitigation occurs before or after armor mitigation in the damage calculation sequence (incidentally, it occurs after). The implementation of RA on this server doesn't come close to approxi...

Currently it reads "You must wait for that spell to have an effect."

Historically it read "You have to wait for the spell to have an effect." as evidenced by the following screenshot:

Thinking of playing UO again, so I resumed my search into this and found what I missed last time: Post #761: Original url: http://cob.xrgaming.net/devboard/messages/2706.html From:Runesabre Date:September 28, 1999 at 8:15 pm In Reply to:Red name please fix this VERY ANNOYING..... Subject:I would sug...

Derrick wrote:The severe gimping of Mana Drain and Mana Vamp came with the resist changes in early 1999 I belive.

uniqueuser wrote:...in late 1999 stating that the chance-to-resist Mana Drain and Mana Vampire was simply a flat 80% at the time.

At GM resist?

At any resist.

I was searching for information on this topic in 2006 after Divinity went live and found a post made by Runesabre (Kirk Black, ex-Lead Programmer) in late 1999 stating that the chance-to-resist Mana Drain and Mana Vampire was simply a flat 80% at the time. Unfortunately, neither the original post or...