[smoke]

oh god i found that so annyoing i muted people who did that lol

[imported_Nalo]

Skorpion here. I have been with IN since early IN1. Played IN1 for most of its time. I helped test things for IN:R.

- One thing that really bothered me on IN:R though its very minute is that you couldn't wear armor over pants. You had to take the pants off to put the armor on.
- Also I can't remember if it worked on IN:R or not, but double clicking to equip something should unequip what is already equipped.
- I dunno if bandages can be washed on XUO but you shouldn't lose half when you fail like on IN:R. It really annoyed me when I was GM healing and failed two or three times washing 2000 bandages and was left with 250.

Agreed. And I do not agree with having to click-drag your armor onto your paper doll from your bank...it's stupid. If you are able to double click it straight from your bank, it's faster for pvp, it's the way IN1 was, and it's the same thing only shortened up a bit (Plus it's very annoying having to drag every individual piece of armor and your weapons into your pack or onto your body, this is something I hated immediately about some RUO shards).

Tributes:

-I liked the .flip command and little things like that that helped the game more diverse.

-I liked the first amount of ingots and craft-able items there were on IN1, about a year before they added Griffin ore and stuff like that. I thought the item amount was pretty balanced because you could pvp often with Elven bows, low armor, and Hells Halberds so that made it really fun.

-I loved how we had newbied Chaos/Oder (indestructible) shields from 10k fame/karma, it made you feel rewarded every time you used it (which was basically all the time).

-I hate macro limits...such as the amount of time you are able to macro, and the "no over-night macroing" policy. It's almost impossible to regulate how long every individual has been macroing and I don't think it's worth the trouble. And if there was a "no over-night macroing" policy I wouldn't even begin to play because that's how IN1 was and that made it feel more rewarding when you got on during the day time because the skills were fairly hard.

-I loved bank boxes, reagent machines, and karma bongs, I wish every shard had them.

-I loved how the world gates were, how there was no menu and you just teleported in a certain order to different locations and it looped that way. It still wasn't as easy to avoid death, but much better than having to click a menu or something.

-I loved the newbie dungeon on IN1 (which they later changed, and then returned on IN:R). It was lengthy but simple, and gradually got harder, but not too hard.

-I liked the amount of rare steeds it had at first. There were only about 6-8...I think, so they sold for a lot and it felt rewarding to have one.

-I loved the staff and the way the were at first. They were always pretty nice and were glad to help you out, even if you were an ass yourself. Although, later on, they began to digress and became more annoying and unsteady and all that (not going to name anyone).

-I loved the amount and variety of events we had, such as bridge wars, monster bashes, and pvp events. At first, we even had things that weren't even events but were community involved such as The Crows Nest Inn and the Moonglow Market which ran weekly (or something like that) for trading. I remember just a few days after I first joined I was in trinsic and there was some sort of sit down in one of the west buildings where there were a few GMs in thrones and about 20-50 people filling the building. There were fish steaks and Grog in chests. It just gave me the feeling that everyone there had a sub-conscious commune. It made me feel very welcome.

-I liked how a random normal newbied weapon would drop on, I think, a dragon or daemon. That was one of those very little things that made it more interesting. Mostly people used the weapon for poisoning, to kill Guardians with.

-Speaking of Guardians, they were awesome (aside from the bug where you could lure them with meat, which I personally liked but was illegal bug abuse ), along with the Stang spawns. They dropped what I thought was an even amount of loot, which, in case you forgot, consisted something of: A bag containing 50 of each spell reagent, a bag containing one invulnerable armor piece or weapon, an orb of air/earth/fire/water, and I think there was something else but I can't remember exactly.

-Hidden things that GMs would create for the shard or plant in a hidden place (with KMs consent of course) was always awesome. It's like the random plain newbied weapon drop - you never new what was out there.

That's all I can think of right now...I'm sure there were more interface-related things that I could talk about. I'll know more when the server comes up. Sorry the post is so long

-Nalo

[imported_Nalo]

well in my eyes it must be 100% xuo pvp for it to be xuo pvp because xuo pvp is the best pvp there is just try it out btw its not that greedy considering we dont say anything about role playing to change it in any way

It is greedy...both ways. I think there is going to be a problem with the server already. I don't think that they will be able to balance and regulate the IN community's demands versus the XUO community's demands. Good luck to the admins with that btw.

I really loved IN's pvp too, but the real decision on how it should be is the GM's. BUT if the GM's are deciding based on what we say, then I say go with IN style

Then again I don't know how XUO's was (which hopefully wasn't too different), and I probably won't. So we'll know what to say when it's up I suppose.

[maka]

Nalo, let me explain something. The merge started out by me trying to contact the IN staff team. After a while that worked out, and we decided to set up a forum. When we had that forum up we started discussing things, the first thing on the list to discuss was if we actually could merge our two communities and to see if the shards are to far away from eachother to merge. This was done by explaing the other server and writing a "Must or no merge" list. XUO PvP was on the XUO list, but on the bright side for INers (and XUOers!) is that we didn't have much more and left most of the skills and world over to the IN play style.

The shard will be something like this:
80-90% IN1 world and feel (skills, crafts, gains, spawns, loots etc).
10-20% XUO influence, so that XUO players can still feel at home.
100% XUO PvP.

So yet again, it's not greed, it's a mutually beneficial agreement.

[imported_Nalo]

Ah I see...thanks for giving a good explanation of that.

Maybe I should have said "you are being greedy both ways" meaning, the players that said it?

Thanks for not being an ass about it though. Most people are when they reply.

[maka]

It's a lot easier to get a message through if you don't include "f4k j00 n00b!!11ONE" in your posts

[imported_Nalo]

Haha so true

[Vermilion755]

I don't know if this is Sphere inherent... but on an OLD sphere shard I played on... Rare ores were only mine-able in certain areas. You had to seek these areas out and mine there in order to get a small chance at mining that ore, rather than a crappy one.

For example, blackrock was found inside the despise dungeon. So you had to mine with monsters around you, and even then, you had to mine for 20-30 minutes just to get 1 peice of blackrock ore amongst all the dull copper, old copper, iron, etc.

This was quite different than IN, where you could just mine in a guard zoned mine (minoc) while you watch TV... and have the same chance at mining sapphire as you do anywhere else.

[imported_Nalo]

This was quite different than IN, where you could just mine in a guard zoned mine (minoc) while you watch TV... and have the same chance at mining sapphire as you do anywhere else.

That's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it.

[imported_Elcid]

I don't know if this is Sphere inherent... but on an OLD sphere shard I played on... Rare ores were only mine-able in certain areas. You had to seek these areas out and mine there in order to get a small chance at mining that ore, rather than a crappy one.

For example, blackrock was found inside the despise dungeon. So you had to mine with monsters around you, and even then, you had to mine for 20-30 minutes just to get 1 peice of blackrock ore amongst all the dull copper, old copper, iron, etc.

This was quite different than IN, where you could just mine in a guard zoned mine (minoc) while you watch TV... and have the same chance at mining sapphire as you do anywhere else.

This is changing... especially with the top 5 or so rare ores..... :badgrin:

[imported_juggobuggo]

i for sure would just LOVE, i mean really LOVE to see the return lunar dragon and lunar armor. i think many oldschool players are with me on this one, there was some really nice fights in wrong lvl 3

[imported_Tabion]

I wanna see real grog tourneys and cock fights!!! thats more stuff I miss
sitting at a table with another person drinking like crazy, randomly taking damage, seeing who can hold their alchy the best. Cock fights were fun too, being able to make a chicken wit gm wrestling and tactics and like 45 dex, though they never gain hp, so you could have a super leet chicken and still lose because it only had 6 hp. I also want to see rare rides, really rare, and they need to randomly spawn, and not just randomly in t2a but also like unpopular islands and such and having to do dungeons to get some once in awhile. Oh and useful bows too, archery is the best.