Its for off line...I thought it was legal if only playing with self. I don't have online and won't have for quit a while....just thought to ask

Naw, EA consider the use and creation of "free shards" illegal

We and other fan sites don't mind if you post pictures created from your own personal shards for comic/funny related things.

But we don't provide instructions/guides on how to setup non EA shards, i'm afraid.

Well, I didn't know that....but thank you for your patience and info. Don't wanna make that mistake. Thanx...8)

Actually (correct me if I'm wrong) EA's policy is that you may emulate a shard locally, on your own system and not accessible by anyone else. This is why they distributed UOX, the very first UO shard emulator, themselves on the Beta distribution CD.

However, it's still best not to discuss it on supported forums for production shards, and that is understandable.

I don't know, but i'm just going by their current rules

As for the UOX thing, I think that was stratics who used to host the UOX emulator.

Yea, it was

http://web.archive.org/web/199901250....stratics.com/

It's on the left hand side, UOX Emulator.

I thought that that would be bad for the simple reason that you would have the server side code running on your own computer.

When I first started playing I asked on Stratics why there wasnt a small single player tutorial. This would let you figure out controls etc without any risk and more importantly, would let you see how a session that doesnt depend on connectivity would play. So that you would have a non-net comparison and be able to recognize lag very easily.

Everyones big argument aainst it was that the server code would be distributed and that was a no-no...

Aye, but it was on the Beta distribution CD as well. At least I think it was..is..I'll have to look later.

HARR! That's funny, since there was an offline, single-player tutorial on the T2A CD. You were in Ocllo and had a "guide wisp" which was actually very neat. The wisp guided you around and told you about things. Eventually, you had to go get a "glass sword" from a local NPC and go kill a dragon outside of town. It was a great idea and I'm really not sure why it was dropped...

guide wisp: "Ooh! Doesn't that dragon look mean!"

Nope I still have my beta CD and it is not on it.

Yea I remember there being an "offline demo"
hehe

Found out some more Info on UOX
It was first created at the time of the beta before the shards went live by a guy named Jaegermeister. It stands for Ultima Offline eXperiment.

as the story goes he got his beta CD and didn't want to wait for Origin to get the shards up full time so he wiped up his own surver.

It was latter re-written by a guy named Cironian and his version was hosted by stratics in the early days of the game till EA released the lawyers.

And as every body knows once you let the lawyers out of there cages you can never get them back in so discussion of emulators is frowned upon here. shhhh they may be listening!

And that concludes your useless trivia for the day see you next time :grin: