Server is impossible

[Arcott Ramathorn]

No he is right...the game is far too hard to play. Even the seas arent safe..with murderers and pirates around.

They tossed me and my horse overboard and left us for dead...thank god the horse could swim!

[nightshark]

this server is balls for new players, PKs just recall from dungeon to dungeon killing and stealing everything, how the hell am i suppose to get ahead, ive tried making money like 35792752 times and everytime i go somewhere, some asshole shows up kills me then rezzes me an says " its to make you go get more powerful" WTF!

i know pking is part of this game, but its clearly out of control on this server.

I've been playing roughly 2 months, haven't had any trouble. I didn't have a single hand-out from anyone. It only took about 2 days to start making some serious gold on my dexer (which was my only char).

[Kordavox]

L2pickcotton... I started 6 days ago and I have 2 near-GM mages, about to place an L-shape, and no one helped me on start up except that I found my way to Roadkill's Rune Library with his directions and the GM of K^A gave me 2 mark scrolls when I was having poor luck searching vendors for some to buy.

Cotton & Sheep while you skill up your bard and macro up another character, or if you despise multiclienting and/or gathering, use the NPCs in Jhelom to skill up a dexxer and go bash easy mobs for gold (EE's and the like).


*** Also, be alert! When you see a red coming in fast, hit your emergency recall macro (/cast Recall, wft, abs. targ rune to a major city) and keep 1 trapped pouch on your person, retrapping it and readding it to your useonce agent if you have to use it to escape a para, and best of all::: always keep magic reflection up. I have only died to one PK and it was because I failed to notice I was out of root, and I dungeon crawl on my bard frequently. None of my chars are ready for pvp, so I run whenever I see an unfamiliar blue and I definitely spam my emergency recall macro when I see anything red, including NPC evil mages (Their custom names can be just a lil too realistic sometimes, imo.)

[Kabal]

When I first started on this shard, I GMed swords and tactics hunting ogres and ettins in the forest while making the money for my small house. second, I made a healer dexxer and gained healing while I casted on my self for magery and resist gains.
If your new, and dont want to get pked a lot, try not going to major spawn points to farm like lich lords and destard. Instead, try orc forts or outdoor lich spawns.

[Flash Hardstar]

Theres alot less pk's now than their used to be when the server was smaller. I used to just sit at destard and every 10 minutes or so a Red would recall in and i'd whack em.

Rares can be good money and you don't necessarily have to leave town.. If you do just for a recall second.

You could always join a guild, it helps fight single pk's, or escape if more than 1 show up.. better odds.

T2A was hard mode. You should hire Matron, nobody wants Matron up their ass.

[TheEttinKing]

Theres alot less pk's now than their used to be when the server was smaller. I used to just sit at destard and every 10 minutes or so a Red would recall in and i'd whack em.

Rares can be good money and you don't necessarily have to leave town.. If you do just for a recall second.

You could always join a guild, it helps fight single pk's, or escape if more than 1 show up.. better odds.

T2A was hard mode. You should hire Matron, nobody wants Matron up their ass.

i got gold i got lots of gold i piss away lots of gold just ask me for some gold sir and i will help you.

[Lazarus]

Hey man I was going to res you and not loot all your stuff but you started name calling....

You still trying to PK newbies in Covetous?

[Krats]

Steps to being rich.
1. Make a fisherman.
2. Raise skill in town till 70.
3. Sell all shoes and fish you fish up till 70.
4. Buy a small boat with the income you've earned.
5. Set out into deep sea and gm fishing. (days about 2 days)
6. Fish up MIB's and go get the loot.

I got a L shape full of loot within a couple days.

Also, work hiding while fishing and gm it.

Exactly what I did, was able to buy a patio within the month! haven't fished in forever now lol

[VenGeance]

Hey man I was going to res you and not loot all your stuff but you started name calling....

You still trying to PK newbies in Covetous?

Just one stop of many..And I think I got this guy in wrong?

[Lazarus]

Hey man I was going to res you and not loot all your stuff but you started name calling....

You still trying to PK newbies in Covetous?

Just one stop of many..And I think I got this guy in wrong?

No doubt. I always see you in Covetous when I'm TRYING to farm feathers. Think you can give my boy Xpert a free pass?

[Fwerp]

MSG me here and I will give you some gold. I know how hard it was for me to start on this shard. -- I almost didn't play here because of the lack of help.

There are two schools of thought I think with respect to this issue. Some think this is an era accurAte shard, so starting out should be era accurate, namely hard and unforgiving. This is fair enough, but I have a different perspective. My view is that this is q ten year old game, and as such, we as established players should do all we can to get new players in the swing of things. The game is more enjoyable for all when there are more established players roaming around, and being nice to newbies does wonders for the sustainability of an old game with an archaic (but great) ruleset

[Lazarus]

MSG me here and I will give you some gold. I know how hard it was for me to start on this shard. -- I almost didn't play here because of the lack of help.

There are two schools of thought I think with respect to this issue. Some think this is an era accurAte shard, so starting out should be era accurate, namely hard and unforgiving. This is fair enough, but I have a different perspective. My view is that this is q ten year old game, and as such, we as established players should do all we can to get new players in the swing of things. The game is more enjoyable for all when there are more established players roaming around, and being nice to newbies does wonders for the sustainability of an old game with an archaic (but great) ruleset

I agree. Unfortunately there are a handful of pks out there that can only kill newbies so thats all they go after.

[Oswald]

Hey man I was going to res you and not loot all your stuff but you started name calling....

if you were going to res him how would you know he was calling you names in the first place?

also, such pking (with rampant ghosting) is not era-accurate, like at all....

ofc, i remember pking, and there were quite a number of them, but you could farm with some feeling of safety because basically nobody used to ghost spawns back in the day...

In reality there were less PK's back on OSI and, as you said, nobody was ghosting spawns back then.

[Mikel123]

In reality there were less PK's back on OSI and, as you said, nobody was ghosting spawns back then.

I have this theory, and I call it 2 pages of separation. It states that no thread can get longer than 2 pages without referencing either ghosting, the "housing crisis", or issues with applying 2010 technology (i.e. Razor) to a 1998 game.

[rouss]

In reality there were less PK's back on OSI and, as you said, nobody was ghosting spawns back then.

well that's because much less people knew how to play uo well back then