Thank you everyone for being such a loyal group of UOE Fans!  Your support and donations through this event has been inspiring and motivational to me.

I have to admit I was pretty depressed after this happened, but I saw how many players returned and were sending positive messages, it made me immediately reorganize to get EVO back online.

I know players are disappointed and angry that we lost the old accounts, but I'm hoping to find some positive aspects from the revert.

1.  The economy is now balanced again, everyone needs gold and basic items, so trade, vendors and gold will all be desirable and reasonable again.

2.  There is no gap for new players to join in and feel they are "3 years behind" the vet players.  I think more new players will stick around and not be scared off by rich players and power gear

3.  I have a chance to make balanced content and to not make some of the mistakes I made last year.  I intend to make a lot of young, and mid level content to keep players interested in playing daily.  I will be adding content at a reasonable pace and try to lead us in a positive direction.

4.  Many players are happy and said they are coming back because of the reset and like that it will be like a "new" shard again.  The balance has been restored and everyone has an equal chance to pvp, get gear and crafting is needed again

Please continue to be patient, we are literally working around the clock to get to all the players and get the accounts back up to par.

We are about halfway through atm, some of the larger accounts with lost donation items, deco,  custom housing etc are just taking a lot of time.  We have to look up details, make adjustments to gear, create pets, layout houses and return ED.

The process is just slower that I imagined and there is just a ton of details that I did not anticipate.  I also did not expect so many accounts returning on the same day.  We now have over 500 accounts over the last 4 days.  Although I'm overwhelmed, it's exciting to see the community is returning and still interested in playing here on EVO

We are committed to making EVO continue to be the #1 shard and will work on plans for the future after I get over the servicing of all the accounts this week.

Lots of bugs have been reported and I have my own list.  I already have fixes from last year for many of these.  I will get to those asap as soon as I can get everyone settled

Thank you to the players that have continued to donate during this time.  We really need the continued financial support to pay for the project.  Since I am flooding the market with a ton of old ED, I don't expect a bunch of donations this month.  We obviously had our worst week ever and I know this does not inspire donations and confidence, but this is when I need the help the most.  I will be giving double ED and for any donations along with attractive custom bonus items as incentives to get the shard back on track.

Thank you all again for the support and confidence from the community!

Dante

*I should be around to all the players by tomorrow, I have about 150 accounts to go!

Keep up the good work... You aren't the only one looking forward to the future of this shard

hmm.. you said "attractive custom bonus items"

i must be the only one who spit out rage on the forums and im sry for that it was such a shock when it happen i just lost my mind should of just stfu and wait see what will happen    for what i see  this is in fact turning out pretty good thx to the staff for all the hard work you put in getting the server we love back on track ogrimar and i always did our best to help new players and will double even triple our efforts to help poeple again


long live evo!


Ganja Farmer.

Don't forget to do backups heh

All the work is appreciated and if you need help with any of the work I can offer my services, not the best but I know my hardware and dabbled in RunUO a fair bit even had my own shard with friends for a bit.


If there is anything I can do to help let me know. Once I get some bits back and I am more up and running I will be donating again. I hope to be a known supplier of top end weapons and armour. As long as crafted items stay on par with drop loot crafting will always be a required asset to the economy.

Can we have a short list of what is not on the shard yet and therefore not replaceable.


From what I can see so far


Evolution Dragons
Ninja Belts all variations
Evolution Cloak

All content that was added from the last year is not in game, its best to go look at all 15 updates here on the forums to see the details

Evo dragons are in, Evo cloaks coming soon, I have the script ready

Evo Dragons are in already

Thank you Dante , Expo and Zoe and any other staff I might have missed for all your hard work. This is by far the best server I have been on and I will not leave. the players here are top notch. ty to all players who have helped me in the past. The list is too long to mention names. 

Evo Dragons are in already

in memorium to the shard crashing i thought i would send this pic from my garden

Thank you Dante for returning the items you could, I know you and your fellow staff members have been working long hours to set things right.

I do, however, have a question. Now that I have my ED back, can I page to buy items? I've been trying since first thing this morning, and while I knew there were no GMs online I wanted to save my place in line. I got disconnected a few times after world saves and the page was still there, but the last two times the page was lost. I don't know if those are still there on your end, or if they're being deleted because they aren't house or vet bag requests. There are only a few things ED can buy me without a GM right now, just wondering what I'm supposed to do

Yes you can request items, but try to keep to a minimum while I set up the other player accts. We are backed up for days...we are trying to get to all pages, but if you do get disconnected, the page drops

Quote from: Thorgal Pain on May 24, 2014, 05:11:31 PM

Evo Dragons are in already

Aaaah well I had 3 and put them in my book but not received. Will sort it out after the rush.

If I missed this I apologize, my head is spinning atm:)  After the dust settles, I will be happy to make sure everyone is back on track with the proper items, ty

In spirit of the list of items put in books , I have compiled a list of what I would like threw ED services in one , a copy at my house locked down, but I noticed most of what I want is Luck deeds , Mage armor , and Self repair 5 , if they get added to the stone I think a lot of ED will fall from the market , as I want 40 luck deeds (4K) and 120 sockets in 25 items (5,900) alone.  The deeds we did have may reduce pages and time for the services.   Just waiting for it to happen =)

Having low luck really affects drops for augments and what not. GMs are doing great job and I am glad that most are able to play at the moment. Thanks Dante, Zues, Expo and Zoe.. You guys are awesome...


BTW
Does anyone know if the Mark of the Travesty or Grizzled Clasp is implemented at this time?

Having low luck really affects drops for augments and what not. GMs are doing great job and I am glad that most are able to play at the moment. Thanks Dante, Zues, Expo and Zoe.. You guys are awesome...


BTW
Does anyone know if the Mark of the Travesty or Grizzled Clasp is implemented at this time?

I figured as much. Thanks

 Hello all Sturger here, Group hug.

 Anyways, I was wondering if there was going to be an issue with my new name, since I didnt find this post until after I created the character.  Stuff all Gone is, laughs, not the best of names, but if i have to I will run with it.

  All I can say is think long and hard before adding much more then the basics. Perhaps asking your current community what they would like to see implemented might be appropriate.
 

Just logged on after a bereavement to find all my chars gone! Thought hmmm spent quite afair bit on donation pets and donating in general. I was annoyed at first as I've spent many many hours on UO, built up a very good Char. Gold can be replaced. but not sre on items. I am alittle bit more mellow now to it but its still very gutting to me

It seems very good at what you guys are trying to achieve and I hope that UO will be more active in the future. It seems much more livier then it did before. I don't mind starting again, it becomes a fun challenge


edit: Thank you to all of the staff that have been working extra hard in persuing the items for each inidividual player. You have been very patient with us all. What amazing staff we have

How's your timeline coming?  Any idea when accounts will be done and content will trickle back in?  No rush just curious

Genevieve, if you read some of the other threads you will see that there is no way for Dante to get the old accounts and content back. things like the vollems and phoenix are gone, the belts etc. But werewolves and such are still in AND if you put a book in your bag with the top 10 items you wish to have back along with donation info (I.e how much you spent over the last 6 mos) they will get around to you. Expo has been doing a great job on getting returning players vet bags, Dante is busting his butt to get houses places and items given AND sweet Zoe is doing the ED reimbursements. The GM's are doing a great job with it.

Also, the revert removed the overly OP items from the game. Think of this as a second chance.

They still have the old scripts , but Dante is going threw them again to rebalance , and add a few details.  Things that were on an XML spawner like the deeds for one handed , mage armor , luck...  they are gone forever and will have to be redone from scratch.

Yes I did read them but it wasn't until after I read this one.

I now understand the situation, I was just confused on my part. I got my vet bag and some items back - It was easier to chat with players in chat about what was happening. I am fully aware now as of yesterday.

We were able to resolve the long save issue today and are now back to 6-7 second saves and no disconnects!

Eternal Cheers to Dante and the team!!!!  Hip HIP SAVES the day!

i am so happy that it reverted! back to the old days when it was fun and not full of overpowered crap!

You should take this revert and use it as a chance to remove all the skill cloth so we dont have to deal with the overpowered skills and lower the speed on the smite so people cannot spam it. pvp wise it would be back to normal

...and lower the speed on the smite so people cannot spam it. pvp wise it would be back to normal

We are about 75% done with the first round of books.  We will be working on all the donation ED next.  It's just taking an incredible amount of time to look up a years worth of donations and match the player name with your real name.

We have Updates coming with the next restart that will fix some of the obvious issues.  I will post a list as soon as we add them

Thank you all for being so patient, I had no idea this process would take so long.  We are working on the books daily, so try to stay logged in and we will be around

smite and druid trees should be disabled immediately, then added back once they are balanced. first things first. they are becoming a major issue.

All of the cleric spells will have casting delays (they were missing) and trees no longer do damage if the caster has negative karma. 

Once the 4 updates go in I will post a complete list of the things fixed, added or changed.

Edit:  I do not expect the casting delays I put in to be perfect but I figure they will be a starting point, if certain spells need to be shorter or longer just let me know and we can start balancing it out.

you the man Kane!

Looking forward to it! Thank you!