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Yes my friends, today you are blessed with 2 rants from yours truly.

As you all know I'm working on new scripts for Dragon.
Looking for new ideas and just to make sure I've got things correct, etc, etc. I spend a lot of time walking the OSI maps over and over again, each time looking at things from a different angle.
My final impressions are that you really can tell the difference in quality between people who are doing their job because they love it and they care about the product they produce, and people who are just getting a paycheck.
It is obvious to me that the original Britannia map was the product of the first and everything that came after the latter. I know I've said it before, but having taken an even deeper look, I really have to say Ilshenar is a TOTAL FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. Malas- TOTAL FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. T2A was always a TOTAL FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! Even the crap they added in the dif files (solen hives, orc caves) WHAT FUCKING GARBAGE!
Besides the lack of taste and good decor, especially a lot of the neon colors. Did they hire refuge interior decorators from Greenwhich Village? (yes, I mean G-A-Y, GAY), there is a complete lack of style and skill. It looks like someone with a beta version of Dragon and no idea how to use it built them. The mountains are just horrid technique especially.

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hmm.. I agree with you about most of that, but truthfully, I like the Lost Lands. the sand banks through out that area, forests, combined with some desert.. I think they did a prety good job on it. Ilesh, well, its got its good points, and then the rest is just thrown together. What started out as a 3d land, that turned into a 2d-3d mix.
Malas, well what else is there to say about malas, its just all around rediculas. There is absolutly no thought involved with that land, besides open land for housing. a couple neat spots, but they dont even take up an entire screen size area. Its about the worst map I have seen...
All in all, yeah. Just about everything they have patched in was completly screwed. Take the swamp they covered Yew areas with. bleh.

the Solen caves.. wow, now theres some time well spent.. I have made better cave type dungeons than that in a matter of a couple hours.

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I actually liked some of the t2a lands. But yeah, the rest is crap. But some of the t2a lands is really nice though!

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T2A has over 180+ holes in the map but its still "sort" of well done considering how they "Trick" you into thinking its such a huge area when its actually really small.

Ilsh could of been better but still is not really that bad, way better than Malas in my book. This could be a killer map with some loving and minor changes.

Malas.....ewww...the caves were about the only some what cool idea. The Pyramid could of been a lot better (should of been a real dungeon) other than that its a total waste of space. The mountains were horrible...agree 100% there. Dunno what they were thinking when they did this one...

The original map is still the best of them all, it might look like a plain jane but there is a lot more there than meets the eye at first glance. You can tell it was knitted together (from numerous designers) with love and respect for the game unlike all those that followed and still has "huge" potential for future growth.

UO3D is the worse thing that happened to UO I think. The graphics are the worse I've ever seen in a game (reminds me of Furcadia only worse).


Dev

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yea its a sad day when the 3d in the sims (which my sister plays i wouldnt touch it) has better 3d character anims and graphics that a massive rpg.

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I'm going to dig up an old rant instead of making a new one. I'm tired and going to bed so will keep it short. I've just wandered the latest 2 expansions and I see EA has kept up mapmaking in their finest tradition. More garbage, each worse than the last.

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Yeah well they're just giving us more to work with later.

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"There is no good or evil, only fun and boring."

Well, yeah, always good to have more artwork.
I just can't believe the crap they are doing. It's gone so total monty haul like every other mmorpg. I miss the good old days when you wore bone armor or HQ plate (GM plate before they came up with that crappy idea; destroyed my blacksmithing business..I was a 90s skill smithy who only sold the HQ stuff to clients, normal and crap went to npcs...suddenly my equipment was no longer market quality..but I digress), and were a 7x GM in your chosen skills and you were on a more or less even playing field. You went out and pwned or got pwned but you didn't spend overly long worrying about your equipment. Insurance! Pussys! Don't get me started!

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