Fractured Shard Rules
I have played Ultima Online since it was first
released by Origin. I played on several of the Pay Shards of OSI for almost 4
years, mainly
I'm 42 years old, I have 2 full time careers, one for
a paycheck and the other spending time with my family, my shard is one of my
hobbies. I run it for my family and friends and you are welcome to join us, I
am fair in dealing with matters and don’t show/give any one person special
privileges. If you do wish to join, Please don’t test my patience on bending
the rules or other actions you know are wrong, as the GMs and players that have
found out in the past, that no longer play/help on my shard. I no longer have
any GMs nor do I want anymore, I log on often and check the logs to make sure
players abide by the rules. So if you are a “true” player that is tired of GM
hassles and just want to play without being questioned every time you log on or
be in jail, this shard maybe for you. Please don't Email me asking to be a GM
or other shard helper. I know I may sound brash, but I created the shards for
equality of fun for everyone.
Please read the rules completely before requesting an
account. I expect that if these rules are posted, then you have read them and
if you're caught breaking them then you understand that you will be fined
and/or jailed, continuous actions will have your account banned from the shard.
Felucia facet is not as strict on these rules, PKing and PvP is
allowed. You will not receive GM help on the Felucia
side as it is pretty much open game as far as player vs. player. Except in the
cases of Rez-Killing and any continual harassment,
House Looting, abusive language in a sexual, racist or
discriminative manner will have your account banned.
Your Stats will be at 50 when you create your
characters, Stat and Skill gains are challenging and take a while to build, so
if you are looking to be a GrandMaster within a few
days, or expect to be given great amounts of gold or a house when you first log
on, our shard may not be for you. The shard is for hard working responsible
people of any age who enjoy playing the game as it was meant to be in the
beginning with OSI.
RULES: As with almost all shards these rules are
common sense rules. I pay to keep this up, I use my
time without compensation, other than the enjoyment playing. You will not be
allowed to make this a miserable place for other players and myself. I have the
absolute right to kick you off where you stand if caught breaking these rules.
1. Role Playing
is encouraged but not necessary, this just makes the game fun and interactive
for everyone.
2. No Spamming.
You may macro if you use a macro program such as EZmacro,
no not "key" macro by holding down a "hot" key.
3. NO PKing, PvP,
Stealing, Snooping or Looting on the Trammel, Ilshenar
and Malas facets.
4. Only 1
Account =Total of 5 characters - Caught with more than one account for one
person you will be banned.
5. Page me only
for "true" emergencies.
6. If you have a complaint send an Email. I do this for free and for the
enjoyment of the game, make it otherwise for us and be
banned.
7. I will not
adjust stats, skills or give freebies.
8. Find a bug, let me know. Don't exploit it. Get caught, get punished
or banned.
9. Keep
possessions minimal, if it’s something you will use later, keep it. If other,
then sell, give away, let decay or put in trash barrel. This will keep the
shards running at optimum speed for everyone.
10. NO swearing/cursing as children also play on the shard and there is not any need in it to begin
with. Be wise in your return comments to others.
Specifics of the Rules
1)PLAYER KILLING-PKing, PvP, and Criminal
Skills and Actions
PKing,
Looting, Snooping, or Stealing are NOT allowed in the Trammel, Ilshenar and Malas facets. Killing
Players and Blue NPC Humans will cause you to be flagged a murderer on first
offence for 24 hours playing time, even if it is an accident, this will be
investigated as to one or both parties being punished. PvP
will not be allowed under any circumstances as you will be flagged a murderer
and/or a criminal.
PKing on Felucia only, no
entrapment, if someone goes there to look around or are in a dungeon or such,
they are open game, but no false pretences to leading or saying "let's go
to a dungeon, town, etc..." and then kill them.
Guild Wars as well as any PvP
challenges can either be fought in Trammel Pits or any where in Felucia, but no entrapment there either, Guild Wars are to
be fought in equal standings, no 3 on 1, etc... in an
Honorable fashion.
You will not purposely hunt down and kill a person
just because you don't like them or have a grudge against them on Any facet. A player will
No harassing of Players and/or Blue NPC Vendors, you
will be punished or banned.
Criminal Skills such as Stealing, Snooping, Lock
picking, etc…. are set as criminal actions and also very hard to develop, along
with being frowned upon as these skills are mainly to gain from another player
in an unfair advantage and will be looked at as harassment, as well as dropping
notoriety very quickly.
Anyone caught being in another Player’s “home” that
was not invited, for intentions of stealing, harassing or taking advantage of a
Player will be banned. This may not be true to life in this situation, but this
is a game, so you must think in the other person's shoes, if it was your hours
of work that are stolen or destroyed. A Person's/Player's home is their castle
on my shard.
2) GM - PLAYER INTERACTION
Players will NOT ask for Items/Favors from me. The
only time Items will be given are through quests, adventures or in the purchase
of “some” decorative items.
Constant harassment about items/stats, or Lying to
gain an unfair advantage, the Player will be permanently banned.
I will not interfere in player squabbles, unless there
is definite harassment such as racial slurs, sexist remarks, swearing or
cursing, etc…. use your heads and work it out peacefully.
I will not sell, buy, dye, place, etc….. anything for players if it obtainable and/or able to be done
by a Player.
I will not teleport anyone else unless stuck due to
bug or error.
If you would like to talk to me, please email me and we can make a time to meet in game or tell me in the
email. This is the preferred method. Pages will not be answered asking I
WANT/NEED TO TALK TO YOU.
If I am talking to a player, Another
player WILL NOT attempt to Steal, PK, Snoop or Annoy the player or myself.
3) BUGS, PROBLEMS, EXPLOITATION
The shard makes no claim to be bug free and is
constantly beta testing. Bug exploitation: doing or causing an event that gives
you an unfair advantage over other players, as in Stat/Skills Boost that are
permanent, Insta Kills, Gold duping, and anything else
I deem fit to call a bug.
Good rule is if it sounds too good to be true it
probably is. REPORT IT!
If you die because you crashed, locked up, etc....
This is something that is impossible to prove. There is 30 second client
linger, this is to keep Players from taking advantage of an area that they know
they may not survive by “losing connection” so an advantage may be taken.
I am not responsible for server, client lag and or
crashes, and will not reimburse for these occurrences, this includes time
warps. Time warps are very rare as the shard runs 24/7 and World Saves are
every hour with one shutdown every morning between
Please Email me if you if have an account and are not
going to be playing for a while and wish to keep your account active. After 30
days I will delete inactive accounts and possessions to keep the shard running
at optimum speed for the other players.
If you would like an account, email me a username and
password you would like and you will receive an Email with the latest Login IP.
I do not have a static IP to help keep hacking down, I run a cable
connection at 3.0 Mbps so lag is none or at a minimal depending on the connection between us. I run the shard usually using the latest 2D version de-crypted UO client, if you need this client I can also Email it to you with the login IP. If you have any questions feel free to Email me.
Admin Chrystan
EMAIL: uo_forever_quest@yahoo.com