Any up for Uthgard?

Dvaerg

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As i dont want to reopen my Accounts on US again i though of playing this server for the fun:p Any intrested? Any intrested?!:ninja:
 

Mas

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Uthguard is acutally quite entertaining. Decent population of around 800 a night, plenty of rvr, pelnty of levelling groups, no lag, nice friendly folk and free.

Dont know why freeshard talk or links are banned, as i would happily pay £16 a month if Dyvet had the same population as Uthguard, but unfortunately it doesnt.

Give it a try its free, and soon rvr is going to OF, well before Mythic get round to do Origins....

Nothing to lose, dont cost a penny, roll a char, have some fun, keep daoc alive for those that want it to.
 

Twoeye

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Nothing to lose, dont cost a penny, roll a char, have some fun, keep daoc alive for those that want it to.

Thats what we do , on US servers , and its way more than 800 pop :p
 

Zita

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Uthguard is acutally quite entertaining. Decent population of around 800 a night, plenty of rvr, pelnty of levelling groups, no lag, nice friendly folk and free.

Dont know why freeshard talk or links are banned, as i would happily pay £16 a month if Dyvet had the same population as Uthguard, but unfortunately it doesnt.

Give it a try its free, and soon rvr is going to OF, well before Mythic get round to do Origins....

Nothing to lose, dont cost a penny, roll a char, have some fun, keep daoc alive for those that want it to.

800? Last a saw it was 550ish
 

Everz

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Uthguard is acutally quite entertaining. Decent population of around 800 a night, plenty of rvr, pelnty of levelling groups, no lag, nice friendly folk and free.

Dont know why freeshard talk or links are banned, as i would happily pay £16 a month if Dyvet had the same population as Uthguard, but unfortunately it doesnt.

Give it a try its free, and soon rvr is going to OF, well before Mythic get round to do Origins....

Nothing to lose, dont cost a penny, roll a char, have some fun, keep daoc alive for those that want it to.

Population cap for Uthgard is 550.

It takes 3-4 months to get to level 50, no buffbots allowed, all fast leveling chars are pretty much disabled or nerfed down. The RvR there atm is limited to the few high rr groups the rest usually just run the BG's

It's crap, boring and useless, so what if it uses OF, it takes so long to get to 50 that by the time you get there Mythic may well have put it back in.
 

Everz

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Wrong! A few months ago they had a population of higest ever - 697 or something.

Meh last time i played there was 2years ago when they said that was all they could handle. , sorry mr.nerd.
 

Tuthmes

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They got a new server and i've seen it hit the new cap of 800. Anyways, yeah the lvl'ing is really slow, although quite ok if you hit the bg's and rvr. If you make a group it should be a lot faster (duh). Highest i got is a lvl 29 chanter and my friend Phooka's got a lvl 41 champ. But atm the lvl'ing is so slow i can't get my head around playing there.

And tbh a thread about Uthgard really doesnt deserve a lock. Yeah it is a freeshard, but one that's beeing managed better then GoA or Mythic does.
 

Amiga

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I dont get it why they dont just add 400% xp or something. Whats the point of having old school leveling? Especially since they dont allow bots.

Insta 50 would also be an option ofc but i guess too many idiots would roll there and destroy the "feeling" of the server in that case. But it would be nice with /level 30 or 40 with some xp bonus and free starter gear though. Think pop would get even higher in that case.
 

Tuthmes

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I dont get it why they dont just add 400% xp or something. Whats the point of having old school leveling? Especially since they dont allow bots.

Insta 50 would also be an option ofc but i guess too many idiots would roll there and destroy the "feeling" of the server in that case. But it would be nice with /level 30 or 40 with some xp bonus and free starter gear though. Think pop would get even higher in that case.

The point is that you really have to stick with it to get to a higher lvl, thus keeping out the people who are looking for a quick DAoC fix.

They have a dedicated server running which has to be payed (with is beeing done with donations):

With 700 users I think we are at a limit to provide good service. We had 1MB/sec upload and 30000 Daoc-Packets/sec outgoing. CPU is around 70% in that situation and I see that as the maximum for lagfree gameplayThe more RvR is happening the more traffic we will get and possible lags could start.

So 700 seems a resonable limit until we have better server (we already have powerful hardware) or optimized the server software enough.

So not 800, but 700 is the cap atm (i think :p). Kinda funny to see how much traffic and cpu power DAoC server generates/uses.

Here are the specs of the new server:

• Athlon64™ DualCore 4600+
• 1.024 MB RAM
• Windows XP Professional 64-Bit
• .net 3.0
 

Amiga

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The point is that you really have to stick with it to get to a higher lvl, thus keeping out the people who are looking for a quick DAoC fix.

So not 800, but 700 is the cap atm (i think :p). Kinda funny to see how much traffic and cpu power DAoC server generates/uses.
I understand that, hence why i said keeping the idiots from the server. I still think old school leveling is kinda retarded to have on a FS server. I mean even with 300 or 400% xp bonus it will still take quite some time to get to 50 if the only way to xp is soloing without buffbot or grouping with other players.

Im guessing running a FS server can be very demanding for the HW since its only one process that controls all zones (unless they changed that recently). Im also guessing (and i think i read about this years ago somewhere) that an official daoc server uses several servers for the zones to even out the load.
 

Tuthmes

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I understand that, hence why i said keeping the idiots from the server. I still think old school leveling is kinda retarded to have on a FS server. I mean even with 300 or 400% xp bonus it will still take quite some time to get to 50 if the only way to xp is soloing without buffbot or grouping with other players.

Yeah, you did kinda answer your own question there :p The moment you up the xp like that and add in /level the more idiots you attrack. Which would require more GM's to look after cheaters, bugs, etc. Also with the server load beeing like that i doubt they really want a lot more players atm (although more is always better in this case).

Im guessing running a FS server can be very demanding for the HW since its only one process that controls all zones (unless they changed that recently). Im also guessing (and i think i read about this years ago somewhere) that an official daoc server uses several servers for the zones to even out the load.

Yup. Not sure about the cost for one server, but it isnt cheap. I think they payed for the hardware and have to pay for the traffic and the server space.

Then again, if you take a look at the hardware they use :( Imho it should be possible to run a server with 2000 clients on 1 "new" dual core xeon/opteron system tbh. But then you'd need like €1000 to €2000,- or something. Not to mention the increased traffic you generate.
 

Amiga

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I mean either increase the xp a bit (not loads but around 200-300%) OR make it /level 30 or 40. Not both =)

Im sure my rig could handle a nice amount of people if i would run DOL. Only problem would be the internet connection. Not sure 100/100 is enough for 800-1000 clients. (Not to mention you'd have to stop the porn downloading which is a no no)
 

Sneakers<>Matriarch

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lvl 44 infil on uthgard

6 /played days

No lag, around 600-700 ppl on at prime ( seen 750 at one point )

Alot of oldies playing.

Soon OF zones..

Really don't even see the reason to even begin to try and slander this server, what could you possibly gain from that :) ?
 

cog

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lvl 44 infil on uthgard

6 /played days

No lag, around 600-700 ppl on at prime ( seen 750 at one point )

Alot of oldies playing.

Soon OF zones..

Really don't even see the reason to even begin to try and slander this server, what could you possibly gain from that :) ?

Annoying you.

:D
 

fungster

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Sup


just wanted to let you guys know about the current state on the uthgard server.

Current state about uthgard is about the following


- patch 1.65 (so classes will be designed after that patch. no pala with cele / warden with shield spec etc)
- OLD FRONTIERS
- old RAs and old BGs (caledonia etc.) will be implemented soon.
- you don't need that long to level up. (my fastest lv 50 was done in 4 days)
- 800 - 1100 players online almost each night.
- ppl do a lot of keepraids to get access to DF. so finally some good ol' keep fights again
- every day action in rvr
- crowdy BGs
- always level groups. even in lower level range.
- about 3 active top rvr/pve guilds per realm
- easy to get some plat (i.e. mids farmin bears in rauma)
- fully spawned world. (finspots in breifine work (respawn might be not right from time to time))
- stealth zerg at emain AMG :flame:

- you got a custom pve zone called tajendi, which is like a mini-ToA. you can get items there with SI-item utility (like our famous necklaces)
- plenty of staff made events (Behemoth Raid, Zerg Event, TG/Sidi/Galla Raids...)(behemoth raid and zerg events for example have had over 400 participants)
- lots of old daoc players are playing on uthgard. almost no wow-newfags but

- its FREE!

Imo everyone, that wants the old daoc feeling back, should test it. Even if you played on it 4 years ago and you didn't like it. There were a lot of changes since then.

Uthgard downloadpage

In the herald there is a link to a video tutorial which tells you how to connect to uthgard.

if you want some advice / starting gold in midgard or just want some buffs for the first levels. send me on 'Fungina'


greets
fungster
 

Downanael

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Where's the fun in killing thousand upon thousands of mobs just to get 1 level? I never understood that part
 

fungster

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so how did you level back then in daoc? by quests?

i guess you killed thousands of mobs aswell. ;)

the thing on uthgard is, that it supports group play by not allowing buffbots/disabling PLing. so ppl have to form groups to xp successful (didnt say that you cant exp solo. but in group its more efficient).

and btw. they buffed the xp rate long time ago. there are some xp bonuses aswell (25%+ in DF, behind enemy mile walls etc)

and if you get into a DF Hulk group you can do 49-50 in like 2-3 hours. so it's not that big of a deal.


regards
fungster
 

Fast

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Any cure nearsite yet? Crafting barrels, any time reduction? any change of BG levels?
 

fungster

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nope no NS cure yet, since it's completely without ToA

ye you got shitloads of crafting barrels. and / or items with charges on it (nice for soloing)


BGs still at 20-35 / 36-44 / 45-49 but soon they implement the old ones with 15 - 19 / 20 - 24 / 25 - 29 / 30 - 35
 

Fast

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No CNS is a real issue.

That will help the numbers when they lower the BG levels and everyone decides to go to emain instead of staying in the 44-49BG.

As a stealther/solo the time taken to make barrels to be able to maintain the buff cycle to compete, is a joke.

The lack of no CNS and mana regen/bank are beyond comprehension.

That said I i like Uthgard for a daoc nostalgia fix but decent rvr no ta, oh and its free :)
 

Septina

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Oooooh, OF and Old RAs, yes please! Had a set group running on Yggdrasil when that server was up and running, old frontiers, old ra's, no toa crap. Running old school alb setup again was so much fun. :)
 

Dvaerg

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2nd July 2009, 08:56 PM

lol why bump this >_<
 

BloodOmen

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dont see why this is illegal anymore tbh given the current state of DAOC live, mods may aswell just make talking about shards legal :<
 

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