I had started working up this shortish list of shards that might intrest people yesterday and then talked myself out of posting it. Depending on what a person is looking for, one or more of them might be of interest.
Not really sure I'm still all that interested in continuing to play the game if it dosn't include a WoD as an option, but since I've spent a fair bit of time bouncing around checking out other shards over the last while I thought I'd post a few thoughts on the ones that looked most intresting, maybe save a bit of time for others.
Wragg Marsh
Fair number of WoD players playing there now, RUNUO server, extreemly fast skill/stat gain, easy access to what are normally very high end items. It was intresting to see how the higher end items affect the game, I still pop in from time to time, but it's not really what I was looking for. YMMV.
Ackadia
An offshoot of the WoD scriptbase long, long ago, but from what I read on the web page it sounds similar to what we are used to, though it is obviously heavily modified after all this time. One char per account. Permadeath system. Player policed.
I may try it out at some point but havn't as yet, the one char thing is kind of a problem, I get bored doing the same thing all the time, though I suppose having one or more other shards to also play on would get around that issue.
Oblivion
This is probably the closest to WoD in theme, the rule base is fairly similar. Was Sphere recently converted to RUNUO. Scriptbase is still being worked on, several things appear to be only patrially as desired, most notibly the race system.
I never really played it after the runuo conversion, the shard just seemed to be heading more and more in the direction of very high player powerlevel in terms of skill/stat limits and items, just wasn't what I was looking for in a shard, but it may appeal to some people. May be worth noting that they are extreemly strict on the no swearing thing ingame, even if you are alone.
Montis Draconis
RUNUO based shard, not heavily modified in terms of added reasources, 700 skillcap, 225 statcap, fairly fast skill gain, very slow stat gain (I've resorted to macroing stats up to reasonable levels). Has the default RUNUO AI's which I used to think was fairly good, but it kind of falls apart when you get into group hunting. No rules page that I've been able to find so you just kind of have to use your own judgement.
Either this or Ackadia (or both) will probably wind up being my main shard, if I continue on with UO, the lack of rules thus far hasn't been a problem, then again I've mostly been staying on the Trammel facet.
Sorcerors Quest
Based off the WoD scripts, from what I've been told there are a fair number of WoD players there. Role playing seems to be strongly encouraged. Race system. Havn't actually tried it out, so I can't comment all that much on gameplay.
Comraich
I think it is still somewhat based on the WoD scripts, not really sure, they had a major restructuring of the shard a while back. It is a role play server, but provided you arn't in heavily trafficed areas I don't think they force being in character all the time. PS if anyone from there sees this, thanks for the kind words about WoD on your board.
Most of the other shards seem to fall into either wide open pvp for sociopaths or go OOC and get banned catagories.
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 1:50 am
Ill put a star next to the ones that some popular ones and the ones that I have tried and liked.
