01-07-2011, 04:52 AM
About hosting, if we are really going to do something, my new computer is more than capable of hosting a few thousand players I'd say (i7 2.93g quad core, 80g SSD boot drive, 8gigs of ram, etc). My connection isn't amazing but based on the tests Taran ran when switching to his home connection, it is more than enough to handle it. I don't exactly want to host it from my house but I wouldn't say no if there was no other available options.
About using WoW or some other gaming engine... While it is possible to take a WoW clone and totally redo it into a UO style, it would take some serious time and massive development. Besides, UO wouldn't be UO if it was running on another game. It isn't too hard to add new graphics into the UO client though. I wanted to do something like that during INX but didn't bother getting into because it was likely to go unappreciated.
I personally would like to boot up the INX files, with a few tweaks beforehand, and add to it from there. That way there wouldn't be a huge wait time if/when we decide to get the ball rolling. Though I still don't see much response on the forum warranting it... maybe spread the word that there might be a chance and we can go from there.. or something.
About using WoW or some other gaming engine... While it is possible to take a WoW clone and totally redo it into a UO style, it would take some serious time and massive development. Besides, UO wouldn't be UO if it was running on another game. It isn't too hard to add new graphics into the UO client though. I wanted to do something like that during INX but didn't bother getting into because it was likely to go unappreciated.
I personally would like to boot up the INX files, with a few tweaks beforehand, and add to it from there. That way there wouldn't be a huge wait time if/when we decide to get the ball rolling. Though I still don't see much response on the forum warranting it... maybe spread the word that there might be a chance and we can go from there.. or something.