Recommend a free shard pls

[El_Remo]

Any of you vets out there that would recommend a free shard? I do still have an active account running on OSI but would be interested in playing on a free shard thats not just PvP hell. I enjoy high seas so id like that to be implemented or at least in the planning and of course script friendly would be a plus. You can PM me if you dont want to post here. Thanks much

[Crome969]

Hi there,
out there are tons of Freeshards. A Few have HS and Stygian Abyss, but it seems most are more PVP orientated.
I personal playing on http://www.ninthvirtue.com/ .
What i like there?
- You are allowed to Script, just not all AFK.
- Custom content like advanced Fishing, Thiefing .. Basicly a lot to do for pvm
- Friendly and listening Staff


They had a hard downtime due some issues with Players ( Leaving Players ) for a while but atm constantly raising a new Community. They also work on the Stygian Abyss Project on their own.

Some hard facts :

Engine :
 Runuo 2.x + Custom

Character and Accounting :
 Accounts

    Accounts allowed: 3 per person.
    1 house per account.
    Account inactivity.


Your character

    You can be a Human, Elf or Gargoyle.
    Max Weight:

    Human: 100 + ( 3.5 * Strength )
    Elf: 40 + ( 3.5 * Strength )

    Factions: Felucca only.
    Reds (Murderers): Felucca only - No Town Guardzones.


Character skills and caps
Skills

    Skill Gain: Twice as fast as default: Even faster in Training grounds!
    Skill Cap: 730 (750 at max Vet.)

Stats

    Stat Gain: Twice as fast as default: Even faster in Training grounds!
    Stat Cap: 225 (250 with power scroll.)
    Individual Stats cap: [Str 150, Dex 150, Int 150].


Detailed

    Bonus Caps: Hits 20, Stam none, Mana 40 [Items].
    Regen Caps: Hits 18, Stam 24, Mana 18.

    Casting: possibility of 2/6 (FC/FCR) for Magery, 4/6 for Chivalry.
    LMC: Lower Mana Cost is capped at 40%.
    SSI: Swing Speed is capped at 1.25 sec per swing.
    DI: Damage Increase is capped at 100%.
    SDI: Spell Damage Increase is capped at 15 for PvP, no cap for PvM.
    HCI: Hit Chance Increase is capped at 45%.

    Hit Lower Attack is applied to HCI before the HCI is capped
    Divine Fury allows HCI to go over 45% cap by 10%
    Wolf / Bake Kitsune give a 20% bonus to HCI [works over cap]
    MAX HCI possible: 75%

    DCI: Defense Chance Increase is capped at 45%.

    Hit Lower Defense is applied to DCI before DCI is capped
    Divine Fury penalizes DCI by 20%
    Being under the effect of Discordance penalizes DCI by 0 to 28%

    LUCK: Capped at 1500 .

Hardware :    
    2x Intel Xeon E5645 2.40GHz, 12M Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI, 6 Processors [24 cores]
    12GB Memory (12x1GB), 1333MHz RDIMM
    Intel Gigabit ET NIC
    iDRAC Remote Interface Card
    RAID1 Controller
    2x300GB HDDs
    Located in USA
Overview of PVM Content :
http://ninthvirtue.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:PvM

[Ultimafreak77]

I have never played a free shard, I didn't realize they had SA on free shards?

[Crome969]

I have never played a free shard, I didn't realize they had SA on free shards?

Runuo stopped officially on partial of Mondains Legacy. Meanwhile a few Shard Owners worked it out furthermore.
When Stygian Abyss camed up, all People wanted it, but noone were able to full implement it.
We had Communitys like Orbsydia wich dropped, then their members went to other teams and redropped project. So there are a lot of Projects wich partially implemented it. I also would say a few have it almost full implemented + HS...

[Xanderyum]

I prefer UOFOrever.  www.uoforever.com
Not a ton I can say that isn't spoken in volumes when you play it.
They just challenge you to play for an hour.

[El_Remo]

I just started RebirthUO.  It is an OSI clone. I hope to get it going to be close to OSI as much as possible.  I have imbuing and abyss in. I haven't really played High Seas so it would help to have someone who knows High Seas to let me know what i am missing and need to implement.

login.rebirthuo.com
port: 2593

Ok thanks much. Ill PM you my name etc when im able to get on..

[mental]

Uo demise most populated i think

[Scorpio]

im a huge ML fan, demise is popular but takes them years to get any coding done. I waited for peerless for 2 years and they finally got it in sometime after i quit. If you want a true ML experience Wakened UO is where me and my friends recently started. Some famous old demise and osi names are starting to trickle in too. its slow but steady server growth and pvp scene is all but nonexistant atm. 2 reds pk people but they just have a huge gear advantage at the moment. 80% of the day you can coon unhindered. wich is good if you are trying to get off your feet. All the customs are only item remodels in same slot of existing library donations or champ artys. Should at least look into it before any other ML clones if that is what you are looking for.

Be wary of most freeshards, too many custom arty's can op certain classes. my honest advice is pick a server with 250 with croll stat cap and 720 vet account skill cap, and make sure they have osi str/int/dex hard caps or you will find yourself very irritated in fel.