UO Second Age

No, because if you mix and match you're creating an era that never existed in the first place. For example, let's say you throw something in there from February '99 that didn't exist in January '00 while at the same time using something that existed in February '00 that is after that date. This would be conflicting states that creates an era in itself that never existed. This is why a specific cutoff date is selected and simply ends there with no questions asked in most cases. This leaves out personal bias and choosing of what game mechanics should and should not be in effect on the shard(what ultimately kills other shards).

The reason the current date range was chosen was based on the staff believing it's the best time period of the era at it's prime that tends to be more so in the middle ground. Before February '99 there was no insta hit and after January '00 there is no pre-casting. Both of these features are two of the most famous and loved game mechanics of the era that made it so recognizable and well known.

Vortex wrote:You are using November 99 stuff and using November 98 house rules.

Derrick wrote:

Vortex wrote:You are using November 99 stuff and using November 98 house rules.

The housing system you're referring to was introduced in Nov. 99; On Nov 1 1999 (and the majority of era prior to that) OSI had the same housing system that we do currently.

I agree that we have a Lot of items on the shard, but we're still managing

About a third of the items on the shard are newbie clothing and items in backpacks of characters that have less than an hour of play time, or of characters who have not logged in in over a year. There are 72,521 player characters on UOSA, 39,128 accounts, and 4,349,687 items. This works out to an average of 52 items per character, 111 items per account.