UO Second Age

I've been going over the Google Groups discussions and here is some of the old information I've found about guards being in the guard towers out in the wilderness.

This first one is from October 21, 1998.

Oct 21 1998 wrote: One thing became apparent - as "murderer". Life ISN'T that easy - I had
every man and his dog attacking me. I couldn't go into town to access my
bank reg supply. I couldn't even walk near a guard tower out in the
wilderness (Do you know there are actually quite a few guard towers out
there!!!).

These next ones are from a discussion in May 2000.

May 7 2000 wrote: most those guards in those towers you can call for help if you are in the tower
ive seen alot of pks die this way run to the guard call em poof dead pk.the
ones ive seen do this are at the tower heading toward covetous and the road n
of xroads.

May 8 2000 wrote: I own a house near Compassion desert crossroads thus decided this would be
the best place to perform my foul acts. I popped into the guard section,
slipped into war mode & attacked. *Thwack* Instant death. Not being the sort
to give up so easily I then surrounded the same Guard with small tables so
he physically couldn't reach me. War mode, attacked *Thwack* Instant death.
A close friend claims to have killed one, but he claims so many things that
its safe to assume he's lying.

May 9 2000 wrote: another place is on the road from east brit going toward cove the guard tower
ive had alot of new pks chase me in there just to get guard killed heh.

This last one is from December 22, 1998

Dec 22 1998 wrote: >I was killed in a guard tower (??) near the
>brigade fort while I
>kept typing "guards". Logged out there late one
>night and
>when I logged back on the PK was waiting (?).
>Thought (my
>main problem) it was safe there.

Those things are strange. Sometimes they have guards sometimes they don't.
Also sometimes the guards are there and do nothing. Other times they
teleport to kill up to 3 screens away. I am really confused about those
places, especially the one right above Orc Valley.

What it looks like to me from the discussions I've read, is that while the guard towers may not have been official guard zones, they actually had town guards that spawned in them that would kill when they saw criminal acts or murderers and could be called if they hear someone calling guards just like normal.

Edit: Here are the links.

Link to the first discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... 0b61e0ec0e

Second discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.game ... f25d7b6ad7

Third discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... e0516a18dd

Links or it's made up.

Link to the first discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... 0b61e0ec0e

Second discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.game ... f25d7b6ad7

Third discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... e0516a18dd

I remember wildness guard towers being guardzone. I got smacked at one on my statloss chasing someone.

I am surprised anyone is even questioning that these guard towers were not guarded...

Does nobody remember utilizing these zones on Santa's Sleigh or Abyss?

Is the search function on the Google group working for you Silver?

Faust wrote:I am surprised anyone is even questioning that these guard towers were not guarded...

Does nobody remember utilizing these zones on Santa's Sleigh or Abyss?

Lots of people say they were unguarded in every thread on this subject. Its about 50/50, hence why I did the research and made this thread.

Hemperor: I can't search within individual groups, but I can do a search that covers all of Google Groups.

I played before T2A and during T2A, never UOR.

the guard towers were DEFINITELY zoned, which i brought up in the original guard zone post a few days ago.

I def. got guard whacked MANY times while chasing people down a dirt path on atlantic, only to run past a guard tower.

How is this even up for debate? Did anyone here actually play OSI?

People are only going to argue against this becaue it will be harder to lure the order guards away to train on.

guess what, boo-hooooo, it's t2a accurate.

Definitely guarded. Used to lure Shadowclan orcs there on Cats tog et them to get whacked. (At the one South of Yew).

Mark me up as another vote for guarded.

Faust you're saying you don't think they're guarded areas?

Old post, but I realized today that they are still not guarded on this server.

I believe that this is one of the most important accuracy's to to be corrected. Just curious why it has yet to be corrected?

I hope Derrick still has my xml region code for these that was submitted almost a year ago along with the t2a entrances... lol

Yeah I used to run like a chicken to the guard tower between the Brit X roads and Orc Fort all the time. I'd also steal stuff out of chests at guard towers... and often get whacked!

I personally don't remember them being guarded, I remember attacking the guards and they would not "insta whack" like in town and instead chase me. But yes they would insta-kill if you got close to them.


Maybe it was different on certain shards? I played LS.