Not sure if everyone has been to this site.  It lets you listen to whatever artist you want and artists like it for free.  It's totally free from what I've seen, after about a month there will be a commercial thrown in every hour or so, but still nice.  (Been listening since sometime last year I believe)  The cool thing is it has a thumbs up/thumbs down thing and if you give a song a thumbs down it won't play that song anymore.  After listening for a while you don't run into crap songs you don't like anymore.   

www.pandora.com

I've been listening to Muse since you posted this.  Pretty good, I knew a lot of the songs but had no clue the songs went with this band.  Have you heard of Ugly Casanova? I've been listening to thier album "Sharpen your Teeth"  I like pretty much every song on that album. 

Has anyone tried this out?  I'm curious if there are any big issues with it working right?

You can also include a gosub in the repeat to change target positions.

A real slick menu with check boxes to cast in the same area, or randomly around you... with a settable distance, would be nice

I'm looking into a more stable way to target, I'm a slow learner.  How it is now I've run this for over 24 hours without any problems, but I would like to make it have a better target system other than just using the last target.  I don't know about having it casting randomly around you, I don't see it as very useful for how I normally use it, but let me fix any bugs with it before I go adding more stuff.

Thanks for your input, I'll work on that.

just so you know...

That is my standard you are fingering.  I have never even heard of the iris client, interesting. 

Hey,  I would just go with a normal skill cap [720].  You'll find plenty of shards with that.  Also, I'd go off your ping.  Find a shard that you have good connection to.

Not all the choices, but probably enough to make a good choice. 
http://www.uogateway.com/index.php

Id ask on the forums until you find one that is hosted close to you.  Connection isn't everything, but god it makes playing a lot more fun. 

Good Luck.

I'm having problems making this work all the time.  It somehow works sometimes, but gets hung up because I didn't pay attention back in the one program related class I had in high school and decided instead to sleep or not show up.

I am just now working with this whole "return #True" and "#return #False" business.  I think I'm using it wrong so please break it down barney style if at all possible.


^{set %JINDEX #JINDEX
  event macro 15  10
gosub JournalTimer 3}

_{sub JournalTimer
  set %OldLPC #LPC
  set #LPC 100
  set %InternalTimer #scnt + %1
  While #TARGCURS <> 1
    {
      set %JINDEX #JINDEX + 1
      ScanJournal %JINDEX
      if ruining_thy_spell in #Journal || %InternalTimer < #scnt
        {
        set #LPC %OldLPC
        Return #True
        }
      while %JINDEX > #JINDEX && #TARGCURS <> 1
      wait 1
    }
return #False}

PvP wise your main concern is specific specials you want to use and being able to use them often. 

For bows...
-Swing Speed Increase

-Hit Mana Leech
-Hit Lower Defense
-Damage Increase

-Hit Stamina Leech
-Hit Life Leech
-HCI/DCI
-Hit Lower Attack
-Resists

Most important I think is the Swing speed Increase.  Most of the archer weapons are already pretty slow so without some swing speed increase I normally don't even bother looking at it anymore.  Damage increase can be found in other slots other than the weapon slot but it's pretty nice having Damage Increase on weapon.  Hit Lower Defense is really nice, when it's high % because with most 2 handed weapons finding the HCI for your suit can be a bit difficult without a shield.  It will enable you to hit a lot more often against the high end PvPers with maxed out DCI. 

DCI/HCI and resists are nice mods, but not really something that I look for just because I try to get those things out of my suit and Stam can be fixed with a potion.  So that's all I can think about.  I don't play much with ML so I don't know what the ML bows specials/mods are all about.  Other weapons are pretty much the same.  I look at the weapon specials that weapon has then go off of that on what I want to look for.  Unless it's an extremely fast weapon I want it to have Swing Speed Increase.  If it has no weapon specials I like I don't bother with it. 

I do have a character who depends on his weapon to leech stam/HP's.  It's really depends on what that character is trying to do with the weapon.  He is a PvMer. 

You need 2 things out of a weapon...

-ability to hit your opponent fast and often.
-do enough damage/specials to force your opponent to make a moan noise and fall on the ground.

If it does a ton of damage, but you can't hit anyone it's probably not too great.  If it hits every time, but does crappy damage and the specials are crap it's just as crappy.

I was discouraged at first when I first considered playing again, but on a freeshard.  I ended up giving my accounts away and when I came back the person who I gave them to just sold them off.  I'm glad I did though because I've had more fun on free shards then I ever did on EA.  So I think if people still have any interest in actually playing UO then they just might come to a freeshard.  Where do you think freeshards get thier player base?  EA shards. (and random turkish guys who wander in, don't ask me why they are from Turkey)

Anyway, that's just my look on things.  I only had about 3 years of crap and time invested, so 10 years might be a different story.   

I'd love to see a smaller, more personal company take over UO.

There are a few well supported and stable free shards out there.  I think when EA closes UO for good free shards will still be around for a while.  Who knows what will happen.  I'm still sold on the PvP game mechanics of UO.  I don't have a lot of interest in other games I play from time to time.  I haven't payed EA in many many years but am still a hardcore UO game nerd loser.  Sad to see official shards hurting, but I know if they do close it could raise the freeshard population.  For someone like me the death of UO is just a bit more life for free shards.