October update
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Are there new incidents? Or still talking about stuff that happened 8 months ago, with a GM that is no longer on staff? |
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No, nothing. For an almost one year old server everything is fine. Just checked the last posts of this news section from 2006/2007 and these posts sounds pretty like Genesis atm
 So be fair to a new server. If Uthgard comes back ofc Uthgard will take over because so many mechanics are still broken. Think UThgard have 3 years time to come back and will still be better than Genesis. Hope GMs are fine with what they have stated, that they are fine with just 80 people (300ppl was Trishin Statement long time ago) playing the game under their vision.
Its important to leave this server running doesn't matter how low the numbers will be. The other servers can fail but Uthgard still will be there, thats Uthgards only chance. Edit 19/09/21: Well Uthgards chance has come. |
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Genesis has improved a lot compared to its humble beginnings, but the staff has really lost it atm. Damage formulas change so often and so extremely that every other day one class becomes almost godlike while others are a sad joke. Currently it seems archers are in the first group. I played my reaver in Lion's Den the other day, and while I hit a stealther for ~17 styled dmg I got hit by an archer for 153 + 41. Non critshot obviously since I was in combat. Mages around you just drop like flies because with this kind of dmg they just get oneshot killed. Poison dots seem to be another major source of unbalanced gameplay. I fought a SB with my reaver - I had the initiative, so no PA or something - and I was dead while he was still at ~80% health. I'm talking about Lion's Den here though, don't know if this evens out in later levels.
All you can do is shrug and log to another toon, hoping he has not been severly gimped by the latest patch. Another big problem in my opinion are hackers. It happens so many times that enemies just kind of warp out of melee range. You chase them with sprint (perma sprint ftw!), and suddenly they teleport 1 or 2 yards ahead. Sure, the server is always kind of laggy, but this is definitly on purpose. I think the devs and gms at genesis are really trying hard and they are obviously spending a lot of time to improve the server, but there's still a long way to go, especially in terms of balancing. Behold Albion's second biggest pride (right after Squire Galune):
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You're right. Once Uthgard is back Genesis willl be dead in the water. Population has already dropped to <400 players although it's in fact the only decent daoc freeshard available. I already feel pretty sad for the devs and gms at genesis because they really don't deserve to see all their work go to waste, but it will happen. It's a bit absurd that people who spend their free time voluntarily to provide a free daoc experience to us players end up in such a very competetive situation.  Behold Albion's second biggest pride (right after Squire Galune):
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plus old RA suck a lot... I always said so, but even I forgot how bad designed they were.
 Even if they would be without the thousand bugs on genesis... but this is something Uthgard 2.0 will also have to cope with. |
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It's easier for low rr groups to fight rr groups with old ra's.. maybe thats what you are afraid of? ;-D - Honey Badgers
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A lot of the stuff that is bugged on Genesis like melee damage, etc. worked fine on Uthgard before and I'm sure they're testing old RAs to make sure they're working correctly before relaunching the server. I just don't see a bunch of bugs just cropping up for some reason when/if they relaunch. [3:10pm] <myrmidon^> You have to be a c*** to be awesome at daoc
[3:10pm] <myrmidon^> that's what I learnt [3:11pm] <Frosty_> then why does austerim suck
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y, every week there is a new patch that mess something up. They got a running test server that seems not to be a real mirror of the main server.
Hackers I never have experienced I think its a lions den thing cuz who cares If your level 9 char gets banned. Hope GMs are fine with what they have stated, that they are fine with just 80 people (300ppl was Trishin Statement long time ago) playing the game under their vision.
Its important to leave this server running doesn't matter how low the numbers will be. The other servers can fail but Uthgard still will be there, thats Uthgards only chance. Edit 19/09/21: Well Uthgards chance has come. |
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as if... we are the low rr on genesis, and guess what: old RA help a ****** against the 14 points I-win RA's from high rr groups from alb and hib... ok against mids it would help, as they have no I-win RA's
As much as I am looking forward to Uthgard 2.0... but I can't think of how they are going to test old RA  |
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As far as I know, it sounds like there will be an alpha test phase for Uth 2.0 where people will be able to test all aspects of the game, including high lvl RVR (much like on Live's Pen server where you can basically i50, equip in MP gear, and get RR5L5 all within about 15 minutes). This will assuredly not be as broad an alpha test as any triple A-game might get, but IF it is still going to happen, we, the people should be ready to put the server under duress, and test the ****** out of everything, including the new (i.e. old) ra's for damage/effects/bugs/etc. Would be good if people prepare themselves with tools to document before hand (video, photos, etc), if you don't already have them available. As always, I am not a GM, and I have no idea if/when this will happen...just saying I have heard this option is definitely in play. LLU2.0, Alpha |
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Regarding my former posting about damage changing wildly all the time at genesis:
Some guy at the genesis forums just posted this:
Stuff like this happens like every 2 or 3 days. They've put so much work into their server, and now they seem to carelessly ruin it by patching code with a "well I wonder what will happen if I change this now ..." mentality. Balance is completely messed up. You log in either as a god or as free rp delivery. I wonder what might cause this. Maybe some important dev has left the team or something? Makes uthgard's decision to do thorough coding and testing instead of early release look like a decent thing to do. Behold Albion's second biggest pride (right after Squire Galune):
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This is just rude. Its been so long. With no word, ever. I'm done Donating. I will literally pay people to put up a server, Classic. to my specifications(Classic + Barrels). Is there any one here who has the skills required to do this? i've posted on several other sites looking for scriptwriters as well. I am a rich man. This needs to happen BEFORE I grow old and die.
This is what I want. - In 3 months time. to have a server up and running. With minimal bugs. I will pay for as many Live account subscriptions that are need'd to gather what ever data is required. I will give $2,000 USD to every person who help's with this goal. I do not know a whole lot about "computers", But a friend of mine is a partial owner of CRAY. He said this should work. "this is what I currently own" Architecture Air cooled, up to 80 nodes per rack cabinet Processor, Coprocessor and Accelerators Support for up to 12-core, 64-bit, Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 Optional support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors and NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU computing accelerators Memory Up to 512 GB DDR4 RAM in GreenBlade systems and up to 1,536 GB in rackmount servers Interconnect and Networks Available FDR InfiniBand with Connect-IB® or QDR True Scale Host Channel Adapters Options for single- or dual-rail fat tree or 3D torus 1 GbE and 10 GbE Ethernet for management Redundant networks (InfiniBand, GbE and 10GbE) with failover System Administration Advanced Cluster Engine (ACE™) ● Complete remote management capability ● GUI and command line system administration ● System software version rollback capability ● Redundant management servers with automatic failover ● Automatic discovery and status reporting of interconnect, server and storage hardware ● Cluster partitioning into multiple logical clusters, each capable of hosting a unique software stack ● Remote server control (power on/off, cycle) and remote server initialization (reset, reboot, shutdown) ● Scalable fast diskless booting for large node systems and root file systems for diskless nodes ● Multiple global storage configurations Reliable, Available, Serviceable (RAS) Redundant power, cooling and management servers with failover capabilities All critical components easily accessible Options for SLURM, Altair PBS Professional, IBM Platform™ LSF, Adaptive Computing Torque, Maui and Moab, and Grid Engine File System Cray® Cluster Connect™, Cray® Sonexion®, NFS, Local FS (Ext3, Ext4 XFS), Lustre®, GPFS and Panasas® PanFS® available as global file systems Disk Storage Full line of FC-attached disk arrays with support for FC, SATA disk drives and SSDs Operating System Red Hat, SUSE or CentOS available on compute nodes ACE Management Servers delivered with Red Hat Linux® Performance Monitoring Tools Open source packages such as HPCC, Perfctr, IOR, PAPI/IPM, netperf Compilers, Libraries and Tools Options for Open MPI, MVAPICH2, Intel MPI and IBM Platform MPI libraries Cray Programming Environment on Cluster Systems (Cray PE on CS), PGI, Intel Cluster Toolkit, NVIDIA® CUDA®, CUDA C/C++ OpenCL, DirectCompute Toolkits, GNU, DDT, TotalView, OFED programming tools and many others Power Power supplies deliver up to 38 kW per cabinet, with actual consumption based upon configuration Optional 480V power distribution with a choice of 208V or 277V three-phase power supplies Cooling Features Air cooled Airflow: up to 3,000 cfm in densest configuration; Intake: front; Exhaust: back Optional passive or active chilled cooling rear door heat exchangers Cabinet Dimensions (HxWxD) 42U/19”: 78.39” (1,991 mm) x 23.62” (600 mm) x 47.24” (1,200 mm) standard rack cabinet Cabinet Weight 42U/19”: up to 1,856.3 lbs.; 232 lbs./sq. ft. per cabinet New server name = "Uthagrd took to long" New server name = "Uthagrd took to long" New server name = "Uthagrd took to long"  |
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That ´s the point, I think it ´s not a problem of money, but without the scripted code you have to do the same like on Genesis, start from the scratch and try to improve your gamecode step by step and that needs much time. Even if you would get Mark Jacobs and friends on your side they won ´t make it in 3 Months, mission impossible. Someone from mythic development once said the scripting for daoc is terrible, they had no clue and experience with a project like this and started with bad knowledge what to do. They made formulas they didn ´t understand on their own and how they work out. So I understand and appreciate the work of the staff here very much, must be hard work and I hope they come along. We have to be patient and wait, it ´s hard I ´m really missing to play here, I tried to play on Genesis but it made me upset so I stopped long time ago. @ Alpha It would be nice if that Uthgard Alpha 2.0 thang would be confirmed by staff. I think it woulde be a good way to test the server and we would have time to make commercials for the relaunch Baman for example applied to make a decent video  .@ Genesis and Uthgard I think Genesis would stand a chance to survive if they make it a pvp server when Uthgard is back or they aim at TOA and new frontiers/new RA´s but then their current work so far would be mostly in vain. There is not enough room for 2 classic servers with the same setup and the majority will play on Uthgard. regards Megrim |
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lol 2000 $, not worth it ^_^ - Honey Badgers
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