03.03/CON,Trinsic & duels

15.02/Team Goat strikes back, InConcept-comments & Security

and we were out again with the goats, after boh lost in ocllo. The feeling to run with a perma red from bone over uproad terra (the road where around 40 obsidians like knights, and aves are on. dont to downroad terra gate, and back to gate out is hehe very cool. its like jumping from a bridge in a cold lake. if you were sleeping before you are awake now.

TG fighting KoV-anti'S at WW.

14.02/attack on trins, in concept & etc ;)

you see ppl from DF fighting one of the 2 true black dragons

all in all finally something happens. Lum The Mad Posted some interesting article about the ongoing Quests an the less of dynamic they have atm, also Runesabre made an interesting reply on it. You find Lum the Mad on right navframe somewhere down.

Some girl Scoundrel GM Mage appeared afterr the dragons were defeated and told that was only the beginning.. heh ;)

xx.02/cl .. cl .. & cl

6.02/mass fights, duels & site

Beyound some other figths CzW the Warstone of Czh warred us. After 3 fights ournumbered fights (with except of the fight in front of their tower) losing both times Balaar ;) while Czw was hardly beaten, they peaced us one dathey decided to peace us one day later.
early sundays we heard that a big group of soa/sg! was going through the dungeons. when we began to search they already disbanded grouping for the moment (guys at 16:00 its breakfast time sundays! :)
not late after having searched order and regrouping on trins boh visited us in high numbers in trinsic.

Tourists from Nujhlem

after that fight some logged for eating the rest continued searching. we heard of an order group in decite and went there.
order recalled, we found them in huge numbers in bd, although with daemons ready, so we retreated losing costa after some minutes fighting.
as it could be awaited, some minute later the order group came to trinsic, where we had a long battle. while killing 2 and losing natan and balaar we had to retreat as only and sticky, pen and imperator left. problem was also nostradamus fighter backstabbing x times in death robe (something Winterkalt), but oh well it was fun.
While we were waiting also for Dorijan to get ready imp who was still on roof told in chat that CzW were attacking the remaining Soa, and won while we came in fight again.
As after the battle Dorijan was also ready again and bfg came online too we gated to Occlo 10 minutes later.
Balaar crashed in fight fighting an SoA whcih also got CL.
When we grouped back on trins later, Jyl just came visiting us with a TON of ppl. i think we lost 2 and killed 2 in the first fight, although they were unable to get on roof, and 2 more died beeing comboed from roof. some time later some of them gated out, and we tryed again to kill the 7 remaining (not all was jyl, at least it was ton of order). In these fights Dorijan died again, but with the time 4 more orders were dead.
With 4 tc we gated to skara where we heard Boh was fighting the Jyl that gated back. FoB and BOH were there, and this time it was too much chaos for the orders there.
We grouped again on trinsic. 20 min later we heard thaet Jyl restocked again.

We gated nujhlem and decided with BoH to kill the huge amonth of order first, while in these discussions nearly another fight between boh and tc escalated all went good and we checked skara brae. nothing could be found so it was obviously the huge order group went decite.
at decite teleporter the group was found. although it wasnt only jyl, there were the other trash order townies too including some b|d guild and -j-. as Jyl was fighting also RIP and B0H was also attacked by Rip it was a complete chaos :)

from teleporter to stels all looked like that

The Counselor was investingating some house trading or something like that and told the gm that listened to him "the owner is xyz but in reality its yx house" gm:" i have to trust you .. etc."
dont know what thats all about, but she looks funny anyway.

you see some odd char of natan on cats with the red deer mask lady

3.02/Duels and Tests, Fights, DevInTesting & LB

With a special guest you see the test duels for Kitiara before we joined ebr duelling in jhelom.

Kitiara - Balaar the Fool TC : 1
Kitiara - Balaar the Fool TC : 1
Kitiara - BFG : (dont remember, was very long)
Penelope TC + Kitiara - Rastaman TC + Paul Breitner TC : 1
Penelope TC + BFG TC - Derat EBR + Gor-e EBR : 1
Penelope TC + BFG TC - Derat EBR + Gor-e EBR : 1
Nepomuk EBR - Paul Breitner TC : 1
(than more 3vs3 and 4vs4 which ran very pleasant for us, though the set ups are missing, as i had to sleep)
BFG TC + Dorijan TC - Soul FoB + Gabrielle B0H : 1
Hustler TC - Soul FoB : 1
Dorijan TC - Natan TC : 1
Dorijan TC - Gabrielle B0H : 1
Hustler TC - Natan TC : 1
Penelope TC - Gabrielle B0H : 1
Dorijan TC - Soul FoB : 2
Dorijan TC - Soul FoB : 1
Dorijan TC - Gabrielle B0H : (gab ran out of regs)
Natan TC - Dorijan TC : 2

1.02/Testing,HP Hardware, TC/TG & 42

While at the beginning we thought about dealing with a broken HD, the whole Server Hardware had to be replaced. Many thanks to Fredo for his informations concerning that, as eh well we produce only traffic :)

The Site looks best with IExplorer. Although its looks ok on Netscape there is an issue with Style Sheets:

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Thats the variation for HREF links in news. Its also used in TOP and on the right frame. IE displays that ok, and makes the hoover effect. Netscape doesnt displays the defined HREF color, nor the hover color change. Does any html crack knows why and how to fix it for netscape?

2x.01/ (InTesting TC-M)Dev Team done it & Teamcow.de hd crash

If you find errors, besides a chaotic source code & dead links please report them to me.
There are some errors though on this serrver (mostly related to pics cause of Capital/not capital letters. They will be corrected later
The news structure will change soon if all goes well, so that even at the end of the month the page still loads very fast showing the latest news. Im not sure yet how exactly i will realize it so that the page still can be updated fast.
i need feedback how it works (looks) with netscape.
also the part above (the Top) will change, dont know yet how exactly though :)
ah yes.. and you need now javascript on and a browser that understands style sheets.i hope no one navigates with lynx here.

i am guildmistress of one of the leading PvP guild on Drachenfels. We are chaos since Drachenfels started up, and were before in guildwars since guildwar was possible, coming from Catskills. I played from shadowclan orks to the #1 on Cats Bounty board pk.

i still try to play a kind of "pvp-rpg" that means i look through the eyes of my character in uo, unerstanding uo with their specific understanding. although, about more than 2 years of uo i a still a "powergamer". i spend much time for uo while caring for even 7 vendors and still learning in rl working for the grades at the university of essen. i have 3 accounts, and no character that i would call "mule". no matter what character i "live" in the moment, he would never be a mule. he is what he is, and i take every character serious. now from all different character possibilities i still enjoy mostly the mage. i worked very hard as/with/on my mage(s) that reached all they could reach in their skills. i pvp the whole day while having half of the df shard orange.

the TC duels are famous, mostly involving all other kind of enemies/ppl etc breaking the war for a short time and having nice duels.

now.. you took out pre-cast. you plan to toggle healing. you may take instant hit.
ok, listen please to someone that spends most of this time dealing with these:
after you made following patches: giving importance to dex, the weapon tweaking, anatomy patch, healing patch the class of the warrior is very effective already. if you duel a "pure" warrior in a duel that has saying 50 magery he can heal all what you cast with: potion, heal spell, bandage. he can even use: reflect item, GH wand.
that is to be used though only if the mage reall comes to the opportunity casting on him. saying a 90 dex fencer drinking a gdex potion beeing at 110 dex swinging a gm made dagger on the mage.. what do you espect to see as a fight? taking the fight before you began to tweak again in game:

the mage would cast uus sanct (ar 11) Reactive armor (to make the other slip while healing) rel sanct (to gain mana faster back) and would hope to not beeing yet at 1/2 lifte until he casted al these things. the fighter: has not much to do. he just runs to the mage and begins hitting him, mostly disturbing him while he casts these introduction spells. now with pre-cast the mage would have casted an mani, pre casted saying ebolt, hitting the other, and releaing his spell, mostly making a fast ebolt after the first. that moment would have been the only critic moment for the fighter in the whole battle.
if he does not lag, and is a veteran player he will survive it thoug, he would drink by makro his GH potion while casting greater heal at the same time. the mage could have tryed to drain him first, but that works only on real cheap fighters.

in our guild we already have many of these "pvp-monsters" called warrior mages by us:
thats unlike the example up there which means a pure crap fighter, its a guy with saying adept to gm magery, adept to gm resist, 50 meditation, 50 wrestling, which influcts though the damage to the other by meele. he uses magery in a defensive way. he has not very much int, but not too low, to still serve in team combat. this char-type has no problem if the mage would have drained him.

ok now seeing the relations:
i can work out a cheap fighter character that kills anyone in 4 days. go figure. you just need gm mace, master anatomy, gm tac, and saying above 80 dex. resist ? why. you nerfed it .. i laught about resist. magery ? yes saying i give him above 80 magery.
now i come with that really crap character with a gm made qstaff and fight one of the best pvp's on drachenfels that is out as 7gm mage having spend much CARE much money, and much time for it. he carries superior equip reagents, and isnt comparable at all to my crap fighter. i kill him. no problem. i mean i killed him even before you removed pre cast. that was his last chance to prepare enough damage to be able to kill with spells before the other can heal.

your pvp system becomes completly pathetic.
its just cause uo is not comparable to anything other that most are still here. if you want to get rid of pre-cast and instant hit, think about why the hell people is using that. they have no chance against a skilled player with a 3day tash fighter. if you give me a gh-wand i can fight also 2 of your mages with that crap-fighter.

now if you would think about it, you would notice that giving the mage his -should-be- natural ability to really make enough damage with his spells would have a revamp of eint/resist working or spell damage so that actually against low resist spells would really be deadly. why do you favor trash characters ? if you work out the mage again, his eint in comparation to resist and spell damage, than you can of course take out pre-cast or instant hit or whatever. its funny that a bug like pre-casting was more balancing that the actual system is, that you try to unbalance even more favoring crap-characters. the only thing that is left for the mage is teamwork. he is still great in team. ppl also calls that gangbang. we crowl dungeons with up to 13 ppl. i use 1/3 wmages in team 2/3 mages. nothing can stand that. but guess.. no pre-cast is needed there, and these are wars. that are not duels. duels were for us still the possibility for all to show what they really can in skills etc.

you take that consequently away.

i dont know what you want with alle these odd ideas, or why you weaken the mage in 1vs1 like that. (oh i know the theory about the mage having so many spells actually working better than "skills" *caughts*. my god ..

with all these changes i dont think you will get any new account.you will lose accounts though. the arrogance of osi not hearing all protest emails before, not looking on votes etc that were taken.. i have written in nearly all important pvp forums of all shards to mobilize the pvp community against your "pre-cast is a bug (said the smith)" plans.

once more you confront the pvp players with that arrogance. once more you dont understand that these veteran pvp actuallly brings tons of ppl in the game. for me i brought more than 14 in my 2 years, and these ppl brought new ppl etc. now you try the best to get rid of us the older ppl. we already have so low advantage i ncomparistation to veterans in EQ. (ever tried to beat a level 50 shaman with your level 12 newbie?) all skills we have are reached in saying 3 weeks of macroing. in duels we cant win by experience cause you try the best to make it a luck thing a duel between only fighters hitting themself and running after each *YAWNS* fighter duels are the lamest thing in uo. extremly boring.

have fun. if you readed it until here im already a little happy in my sadness.
yes i am sad cause uo is part of my life, saying my VR part of life, that you are tweaking in unpleasant forms.

greetings
Woodstock, little regburner
Team Cow, Drachenfels