Post: #1

i was just thinking...
im the oldest free server in the world!
i started DoT feb 21st 2000

i know the abyss has been around, but i doubt its the original owners...

we've all been on and off over the years... but i think i can honestly say im the oldest... crazy...

my worldfile is from 2000

51a and client 1.26.4b 4LIFE!!!

=)

Post: #2

Congratulations

By the way, did you notice any difference in the behaviour of the players in all these years?

Post: #3

what players!? the remaining uo players in the world only play on the big servers with 100s online
ive come to realize that people want that NEW uo garbage and not OLD classic vintage uo... =/ sad, it breaks my fuckin heart

Post: #4

It have been online for 17 years? if so, howmany times you changed host? and how much many did u spent in 17 years paying the host lol

Post: #5

i refuse to pay for a host, maybe thats why ive never had more than 40 people online =P

i did it for the love of the game and the memories, any server nowadays is just out to make money off "donations"

they make the game hard on purpose so people are basically forced to donate

thats everything im against

Post: #6

Agreed, most shard owners dont even love the game at all, just want to make money as u said

Post: #7

mine got online for full 14 years (2003 ~ 2017) without a single week offline. On UO gold age (2004 ~ 2008) it reached 450 players online, but year after year UO was getting older and with less players, so it got 60~70 players average on his last year. Unfortunately it got shutted down on early 2017 duo my lack of time to keep monitoring the server against constant 24h/day DDoS attacks for entire 3 months, if I had some free time it would be online today

unfortunately that's how UO died on my country: all servers are dead duo DDoS attacks. It's always the same history, lame players always keep hacking, using changespeed, searching exploits, etc, and when they get banned they start DDoS attacks against the server. Curiously these players killed all servers of the country, and now these same lame players are complaining that there's no server to play, LOL

Post: #8

Was Sphere56b running fine with 400+ players?

Post: #9

many years ago not every server was able to handle too much players because this was limited by the poor hardware performance, a few 50~100 players was enough to cause lag on these slow machines with slow network speed. That's why years ago many admins had to paid a lot of money (U$300+/month) on huge high tier dedicated servers with huge network speeds just to run an simple UO emulator. Many servers never had this chance so they had no other choice than survive with 50~100 players, this doesn't mean that sphere can't handle it, the problem was the hardware performance and not sphere

but today with cloud computing, an simple U$50 low entry cloud is more powerful than an U$300 dedicated server from an decade ago. So sphere can handle much more players than we think, and now with sphere 56d much faster/lightweight running on much more powerful machines, it can handle even more

Post: #10

It would have been interesting to see where sphere would be today if it became open source earlier.

I feel as though we would have seen a hell of a lot more interesting high end servers if people could have coded in c++. This probably would have brought in more people with deeper pockets to support some of these servers.

For the servers that I played on, Sant, Mythic, Atlantis, Coldfire, Gardiascia etc. It's apparent that there wasn't really any level of professionalism and each shard died from lack of commitment or too much corruption.

Unfortunate.