Lord of Ultima

[Zeyla]

Thanks a lot Fir, with the FB time-waster games I currently play (Mafia Wars, Castle Age, Kingdom of Camelot) now I can add Lord of Ultima to that list too.

It feels very much like a browser based game that has been around for a while, Tribal Wars, with Ultima have tweaked a few things and it is much more graphically improved. But the core game feels very similar, three resource type, building upgrades, similar troop types, even the buildings are very similar.

Kingdom of Camelot on FB borrows heavily from this game type as well, but KoC follows the FB-game creed that to do well you must constantly annoy your friends with stupid game requests.

Lord of Ultima looks promising, will see how it pans out... I'm on world 5. Not in an alliance yet, but if it is anything like the other games of this sort, you don't want to stay solo for too long before people start harassing/farming you.

Z

[Zeyla]

Another browser game I played recently was Legends of Zork, kind of an RPG style game. It was way too grindy for my tastes, and the stat/upgrade system was too confusing. Plus after you made a few levels you would pretty much have to heal after every adventure/fight. It overly favors or requires that you spend money on the game.

[Zeyla]

Interesting, PvP is a choice in Lord of Ultima, I like that. And unlike the generic "Barbarian village" of other games there are dungeons. For those playing the game, any advice for the new player?

[Angelie]

OMG - stay away from it...NOW! LOL

[Andaas]

I had just barely scratched the surface yesterday and had sent a raiding party to a dungeon. When I logged on last night to see how that went, the servers were having issues. So I dunno!

[Zeyla]

Oh yeah, the game just launched a couple days ago, so its all still pretty new

[Berae]

I'm on world 3. Btw, is that Andaas i see you Fir? :)

[Valdis]

It's an EA game... Anyway I just made a character on World 5. Valdis was actually available.

[Kikiyo]

I'm on World 3. I think it's fun. Much better than Ikariam that I have been playing. That fact that you don't have to pvp and that it is a choice is AWESOME!

[Phaera]

World 5 as Phaera. >_>

[Berae]

I'm on World 3. I think it's fun. Much better than Ikariam that I have been playing. That fact that you don't have to pvp and that it is a choice is AWESOME!
I was under the assumption that you have to pvp, as people will randomly attack you.

[Valdis]

From what it sounds like if you don't build a castle you aren't PVP eligible.

[Domathoine]

Another game I'll have to get started on. Thanks, guys.

[Berae]

Decided to make a new town on world 5 :)
(lets make an alliance!)

[Lonskils]

I play tanoth, you just set it and let it go for a bit then see if you won. don't have to be at the computer at all times. I like that.

[Valdis]

Zeyla, I assume you are Zeyd that just invites me?

[derk]

A browser base game that I wouldn't mind playing is SRE or even BRE. :D

[Valdis]

How do you explore dungeons and for that matter where do you find them.

[Valdis]

Nevermind I see them now.

[Andaas]

I was on world 3, but I'm going to start a new one on world 5 now that I've learned the ropes.

[Zeyla]

Zeyla, I assume you are Zeyd that just invites me?

Yep, that's me. I'll stick with world 5 for now since that is where most of us are. Guess it is time to make a Hoss alliance, heh heh

[Zeyla]

Bah, has to be 6 characters long (alliance name). Hossss doesn't quite work

[Andaas]

Just started on World 5.. do we have a Hoss alliance?

[Zeyla]

not yet, can't think of a name

[Phaera]

Hossys

[Zeyla]

Done. Hossys it is, invites going out.

If I missed you, let me know what your player name is. I am Zeyd in the game (on world 5 with the rest of us)

[Kikiyo]

The good thing about 5 is that it is a new server. IE: completely fresh. 3 has tons of high ranking people that you will never catch up with. I'm under ZeroCleric

[Mystrae]

Kathris here! ;)

[Syana]

Hosslings would've been so much better. You guys fail at naming.

[Andaas]

After seeing that you can abbreviate the name afterwards, a fitting name would have been "Heroes of the Seven Suns", abbreviated as "Hoss". Maybe next time. ;)

[Syana]

btw, i hate you.. now i'm stuck playing this stupid game.

[Sabertootth]

I am Neopollian.

[Berae]

I am Neopollian.
That's the originality we always expect from you.

[Gheltire]

gheltire on world 5

this is so not cool

[Lonskils]

BTW I have the guild Hosslings on Uther!!

[Sabertootth]

Neopollian has been my name since EQ on my warrior...... when i transferred my hunter to Draenor, someone had Neopollian.

[Zeyla]

After seeing that you can abbreviate the name afterwards, a fitting name would have been "Heroes of the Seven Suns", abbreviated as "Hoss". Maybe next time. ;)

I'm going to fix it now, I'm disbanding the Alliance and will re-invite everyone (including pending invites)

Incoming invites from Heroes of the Seven Suns

[Zeyla]

Blargh, couldn't use spaces in the name and our acronym/short name was "already used" even though I disbanded the alliance, oh well, we are HeroesOfTheSevenSuns now HOTSS for short, i'll quit screwing with it ;)

[derk]

Invite me! Derky. :)

[Gheltire]

hotss? its like Gollum falling into Mount Doom!

[Forty]

Forty

[Crimsonbanshee]

Cebee

[Widespreadd Panic]

I am Xax on world 5, think I shall give it a try

[Syana]

Syana

[Parak]

<--

[Andaas]

I've invited everyone from this thread to the alliance so far.

[Berae]

Bleh, servers offline? : /

[Forty]

US servers yeah

[Andaas]

I hope I'm still gaining resources...

[Andaas]

World 5 is back...

[Beelzebubs]

What is this?

Made a toon called Beelzebubs on server 5.

[Sabertootth]

Servers down :(

[Berae]

Yeah, our server is failing, odd since its the low pop US one lol

[Sabertootth]

lol maybe thats the reason why it is low population.

[Berae]

Was fine before you showed up! Was actually fine before last night's unscheduled failtime.

[Sabertootth]

lol!

[Widespreadd Panic]

so does this server just stay offline for hours at a time?

[Lonskils]

Sounds like Dreanor during vanilla WoW

[Kakeku]

Interesting game. I created an account on other servers since the world 5 is down. Going to make kakeku on the world 5 when it is up.

[Forty]

World 5 is dead, baby, World 5 is dead.

[Valdis]

World 5 is up and running for the last hour or so at least. From what I have gathered someone hacked the game and sent 550k zerkers at a bunch of people. Not sure about the number but the general idea is true.

http://www.lordofultima.com/en/forum/showthread.php?tid=42736

Also World 5 should get some stability as they just added a World 6.

[Valdis]

Oh also here are the results of killing a lvl 2 Hydra.

[Maegwin]

Morinar (world 5)

* oh this game is going to be bad for me.

[Berae]

Its good to hear they "fixed" the exploits that enabled a 550k berserker army from raping towns, lol

[Andaas]

Man.. my hydra was cheap (also level 2):

[Valdis]

Not so much Fir you did get a Bronze Toolkit out of it. That's not bad.

[Valdis]

I just noticed that I got a Bronze Pick I had been curious where that came from.

[Andaas]

Oh hah, I missed that I got the item too.

[Maegwin]

someone invite me to the alliance!

[Beelzebubs]

I would suck someones lollipop for a city here!

[Crimsonbanshee]

Wheres mah invite

[Octavus]

This is game is going to suck the life out of me.

So aside from paying via pay pal, is there another way of getting diamonds?

Also how does trading work? Is there an AH of sorts or do you just trade with characters? I'll give you 1k wood for 500 stone type thing.

[Valdis]

At the moment it looks like a player arranged trade.

And from the wiki:
http://www.lordofultima.com/en/wiki/view/diamonds+and+the+shop

[Octavus]

At the moment it looks like a player arranged trade.

And from the wiki:
http://www.lordofultima.com/en/wiki/view/diamonds+and+the+shop


Well it seems I'm swimming in stone, with forrest being my weakest resource. Any stoners in need to unload their trees?

[KripDiggler]

I had to make a character on World 3 cause 5 is always offline it seems.

KripDiggler

[Maegwin]

Well it seems I'm swimming in stone, with forrest being my weakest resource. Any stoners in need to unload their trees?

Fuck yeah trade me some stone (like 2k? 3k?) for my wood. I have like 6K wood.

[Aindayen]

I'm not touching this with a 10 foot pole. 1 gaming addiction is enough :p

Ain

[Andaas]

Beware of the level 3 dragon... (but look at what I spied!!).

[Kakeku]

Do you guys go hard on leveling up (higher lvl town hall) or build up higher resource buildings? There must be a balance but I have no idea where it is now.

What I am doing currently is to push to lvl 7 for stonecutter and mage. Then I will lay out my permanent plan for resources buildings which is likely to include destroy old buildings and some resources as well.

I am still confused about the military aspect of this game. It is still a puzzle to me how many and how fast troops can be recruited (barracks only modifier for # of troops?)

[Kakeku]

What are the best size of troops to raid varying levels of dugeon?

So far, I only did lvl 1 dugeon. Losing any troops doesn't make any economically sense at such lvls, so I played at the safe side.

For lvl 1 dugeon (10 monsters), the minimum # of troops I sent is 15 (Zek). No casuality .
For lvl 2 dugeon, I sent a troop with 40 (Zek) plus 10 rangers. I will share the results after getting the report.

[Maegwin]

I sort of alternate between recruiting a bunch of Rangers and building bigger town halls. Stone was my limiter for a while, but I rearranged some of my stone quarrys and built some cottages nearby and now it's no longer a problem. After building my town hall level 6 I now have like 100 wood lol, but over 1000 wood/h

[Valdis]

Not much point in sending more then 20 zerkers to a lvl 1 dungeon. A lvl 2 dungeon you want to use about 50 zerkers to get the maximum loots.

[Maegwin]

I sent 10 zerkers and 10 rangers and they killed 1 fucking spider (of 4) in a lvl 1 dungeon.

So now I'm sending 25 of each...fucking spiders.

[Kakeku]

My report showed there are 23 monsters in lvl 2. I lost one zerkers with a 45 zekers and 10 ranger army. It appears 50-60 are needed to minimize the casuality, maybe maximize benefits as well.

It is so annoying that the numbers at the bottom of reports were cut short because of the monitor size. I have no idea how much loots were received.

[Andaas]

It is so annoying that the numbers at the bottom of reports were cut short because of the monitor size. I have no idea how much loots were received.

My report has a scrollbar, so I can scroll it down to see more information if it's present.

I've heard that there are some rendering errors in IE, perhaps this is one of them.

[Forty]

It is so annoying that the numbers at the bottom of reports were cut short because of the monitor size. I have no idea how much loots were received.

That sounds like the issue I had using IE, when I switch to Firefox I could see all the numbers.

I'd get stuff like, Looted: Gold 1... Wood 2... Stone 1... etc
Using Firefox the same loot message would show, Looted: Gold 100 Wood 25 Stone 10.

[derk]

Man this game is addicting!

[Berae]

That sounds like the issue I had using IE, when I switch to Firefox I could see all the numbers.

I'd get stuff like, Looted: Gold 1... Wood 2... Stone 1... etc
Using Firefox the same loot message would show, Looted: Gold 100 Wood 25 Stone 10.
I saw some of the words being cutoff with "..." when i used this zoom feature beelz found, it seems to fuckup alot of text. Ctrl -/+

[Beelzebubs]

Unrelated note for Berae: http://www.massively.com/2010/04/22/confirmed-exploit-allows-eve-players-to-sneak-up-on-unsuspecting/

[Andaas]

So what happens at the end of our "protected" period?

[Valdis]

You can be raided but not conquered, I believe.

[Andaas]

Ahh ok, so the castle is what makes you conquerable.

[Kakeku]

The hideout is useless now, it will become important after the protection ends, especially if you focus on economic.

[Lonskils]

Lons on world 5

[Syana]

this game still sucks....

fucking game...

[Lonskils]

More fun than wow!

[Lonskils]

Someone trade me some stone, I have iron and wood coming out my ass, but stone seems to be limiting me for now.

[Lonskils]

I see where I got a report that andy had sent me an invite I think. But I don't know how to accept it. I went under social, but it didn't show an invite.

[Andaas]

Look under the alliances tab.

[Lonskils]

I have nothing there under alliance tab, all I got is a report that you sent me something at like 18:37 and it shows me who all is in the guild and stuff, but no invite.

[Lonskils]

Maybe the invite expired, before I knew it was there?

[Lonskils]

apparently in /ooc or whatever it is they were talking about there is currently a bug where folks can't accept alliance invites. Wonderful!

[Valdis]

Patch Notes:

Features
Trade

It’s now possible to offer your resources on a market place in exchange for Gold.
You are able to specify the quantity you want to offer (by Carts and Ships), the maximum transport time and the price you want to achieve.
Other players are then able to find your offer and close the deal with you.
You are also able to find offers from other players by setting the maximum price in Gold you are willing to spend and the maximum transport time.


Orb of Peace

It’s now possible to gain and activate peace time for a certain period of time.
Once activated, no one will be able to attack you during the period of the protection.
During a certain lead time and the duration of the protection, you will not be able to launch any type of attack. The lead time depends on the duration of the peace time. It is 1 day for the peace time of 2 days and 3 days for the peace time of 2 weeks.
After the protection ends, you will not be able to activate another Peace Time item for the same duration as you have been protected.
You are able to gain an “Orb of Peace” of your choice in the Shop under the tab “Other Items”.
If you want to activate this item you can do so by clicking on “Items” and then choose the “Other Items” tab. No Mana needs to be used for this.


Balancing
Dungeons

New Dungeons are now 25% more likely to appear than before.
The progress % of dungeons has been lowered by 20% meaning the progress of the dungeon will be quicker at 100%.
The randomness of the amount of enemies found in dungeons has been reduced.


Bosses

Bosses now have a chance of dropping "Horn" type Artefacts (Quick Support).


Units

The defence of the Ballista versus Infantry has been increased to 200 (It was previously: 150).
The Defence values of the Sloop have been increased by 500 to 1000.


Towers

Ballista towers now grant their bonus to 25% more units.
The old tower types do no longer grant any defence bonus. You can still downgrade them to gain resources.
The definition of an "old tower" is any tower which has "old tower" in it's name. These towers were only available when the game was in Beta, so this does not affect the majority of players. It does not have anything to do with the length of time you have had a tower.


Various
Get & Use Buttons Confirmation Box

When you click on a Get & Use button for an Artifact a popup box appears to ask you to confirm the intended action.


Productions stop if a city is conquered

If a city gets conquered, the current productions stop for both buildings and units.


Quest extensions

The existing Quests have been extended and you are now also getting rewards for higher quests that you solved.


Titles

Earl now has 3 levels; the player will become Marquess one level earlier, as originally planned.
Marquess now has 5 levels; the player will become Prince one level earlier, as originally planned.
When you rise in Title you are notified by a popup box.


Trade: Send resources

You can cancel the order for sent resources within the first 10 minutes since the transport was started.


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[Zeyla]

I love this game

[renshin]

Zeyla can you invite me my name is 1Renshin1.

[Berae]

Hey, new people that get fucked over by the resources at the start....keep making guest accounts till you find a city you like *then* register the account...don't need to reroll 50 times under 50 names.

[Talas]

Extology (talas is taken, wtf).. invite please!

[Lonskils]

I wasn't kidding when I said I had a lot of IRON (http://www.lou-fcp.co.uk/map.php?map=L00COGBBC000CC000CHC00GCCC0C000EE0CCC0 ID000000000EJ000G0000000000CC00000B000CC0OFC00C0D0 0D0000AF00C000OGBID0FAAA00F100BGBG000AOF00AAA0000O 0000AFAF000CC00B000O00Z00F000D0GBG00BQPSKAAFDI000O 00BU000FA0000000A00CCO00BB0000FAF0000G00CCFAAOC0A0 000000000000F000000000GG00000O00IDC0A0OBBG00A00000 0000GB)!

[Beelzebubs]

Seems really useful for statistics! http://lordofultima.kilu.de/map/

User guide here: http://www.lordofultima.com/en/forum/showthread.php?tid=39891&page=1

[Wresh]

I actually have a decent mix of materials in my city (http://www.lou-fcp.co.uk/map.php?map=L00AAAAAAAA0O0A0KAFKF00KFAFKFAF0OFAFO0 00O0A000AAOBGAA00000000PURAFABL00A00QPPOK00C000Z00 K0W000EJCCFO01AF00000EJE0KAA00AAOC00I0EJEJAFAS000H C00NDOOL0000CC000D0GG00I0CH0000OC00BBB0ND0OCOMC0HC 0DBGO0I00HHC00C0I0BL000CCCC0000000000000000OBGOFAD 00OBGO00CC0GBBLAA0I0GBGL0CC0LGO00000LGBG0C00000VP0 0OGB0O).

[Scrith]

Scrith needs an invite!

[Zeyla]

Scrith needs an invite!

Invited

[Lonskils]

Looks like they are adding yet another server. Server 5 is the Dreanor of this game apparently.

[Forty]

World 6 is Europe though

[Berae]

5has been up for the past halfhour or so, finally, back to working on it! Apparently during its troubles tonight my queue wasn't being processed >.>

[Beelzebubs]

This was going to be my military town but look at the resources! I can't not use them!

[Dale]

Damn Wresh you have some seriously good resource setups.

If anyone has the LoU City Planner, mind taking a look at this setup I made as a resource city? Any feedback/suggestions would rock. About to start setting it up.

Import string:

[ShareString.1.2];########################--CC---#-------#####--WWWW--#--------###--CCCLC--#---------##-WWWWWW--#---------##-CLCCC#######------##-WWW-##IC---##-----##--C-##DICF-F-##----##----#ICIC-M---#----##----#ICICF-F-S#----#######ICIDT---S#######----#ICICF-F--#----##----#ICIC-M---#----##--C-##DICF-F-##----##-QQQ-##IC---##-----##-CACCC#######--__--##-QQQQQQ--#--PU_##_-##--CCCAC--#--PUR###_###--QQQQ--#---U-_#######--CC---#------_########################

Of course, the iron, stone and wood sections are all interchangable.

[Lonskils]

So like, if I read this post right...http://www.lordofultima.com/en/forum/showthread.php?tid=41576&page=9 The game resets for EVERYONE on the world you are playing on (except diamonds) when someone reaches Lord Of Ultima Status on the world. Whatever that is. That's incredibly lame. Hope I'm reading that wrong.

[Berae]

So like, if I read this post right...http://www.lordofultima.com/en/forum/showthread.php?tid=41576&page=9 The game resets for EVERYONE on the world you are playing on (except diamonds) when someone reaches Lord Of Ultima Status on the world. Whatever that is. That's incredibly lame. Hope I'm reading that wrong.
Heard something about that, but can't click the link due to their site redirecting all traffic to their fucking twitter page...

[Berae]

Anyone else being redirected to their twitter page? I'm not even sure how the fuck I can login now : /

[Lonskils]

Well it goes something like this...The winner gets 8 shrines and has to hold them for a day or something. Anyway. It will be 6 months before the first shrine goes in apparently and a couple weeks between em. But once someone gets all 8. The entire game resets for that world. The only thing that will remain are the diamonds you had in your inventory that you bought. Everything goes back to day 1 and starts over again, it even randomizes where your new city will be when you log in again after the reset. I can see where they are coming from where it would suck to just let the game keep going and 1 guy or alliance just beating the shit out of everyone, but geez come on, why not make a new world for all the winners to go to beat the fuck out of each other on or something. Or something besides a fucking game reset. BTW The shrines going in in 6 months means they are adding them then. Once this gets rolling you are looking at shrines being out there for the taking likea WSG game. You could see resets once a month or more after the first one.

[Lonskils]

Anyone else being redirected to their twitter page? I'm not even sure how the fuck I can login now : /


Servers down, looks like they took down the forums as well. They are either patching or something bad happened.

[Zeyla]

Server's are down this morning also, maintenance must have started last night I bet.

[Valdis]

Looks like they finally got it back up.

[Zeyla]

And it looks like they added "Lawless Cities" to the map with this maintenance too. You can't attack them without a castle however.

[Berae]

Hrm, the lawless cities are appearing where I've seen cities before, account expiration? :)

[Zeyla]

Damn Wresh you have some seriously good resource setups.

If anyone has the LoU City Planner, mind taking a look at this setup I made as a resource city? Any feedback/suggestions would rock. About to start setting it up.

Import string:

[ShareString.1.2];########################--CC---#-------#####--WWWW--#--------###--CCCLC--#---------##-WWWWWW--#---------##-CLCCC#######------##-WWW-##IC---##-----##--C-##DICF-F-##----##----#ICIC-M---#----##----#ICICF-F-S#----#######ICIDT---S#######----#ICICF-F--#----##----#ICIC-M---#----##--C-##DICF-F-##----##-QQQ-##IC---##-----##-CACCC#######--__--##-QQQQQQ--#--PU_##_-##--CCCAC--#--PUR###_###--QQQQ--#---U-_#######--CC---#------_########################

Of course, the iron, stone and wood sections are all interchangable.

Looks pretty good, rows of cottages and a few specialty production boosting buildings thrown in seems to be the way to go.

For those that want to play with the city planner tool you can download it from here:

http://www.ice-tray.net/blog/category/files/

It is virus free ;)

[Andaas]

There's also a flash based version (http://www.lou-fcp.co.uk/).

[renshin]

Had my first city attack and he was thwarted by my big epeen.

[Berae]

Hrm, either the game is suddenly popular, or their servers are getting DOSed.

[Berae]

Nm, its back, possibly. Website was acting really strange though.

[Kikiyo]

So I've given up on this game. It was really fun at first, but now it's so much micro-management that it's not even funny. Hell, to be good in the top, you have to manage 30+ cities. I can't increase my number of towns due to constant pillaging and my army was maxxed out and didn't stand a chance to his 10k knights and 5k mages by a guy in the top 60. If you want to have a really nicely built town, capture Faraday which is my resource town. It's located at the SouthWest area of Continent 35. I am just building a castle right now so it'll be 40 minutes from right now.

[Rennys]

Jerk! you didn't remind me that you were going to be out today!

[Kikiyo]

oh, sorry about that. I didn't bump it. If it makes you feel better, I'm stuck at work bored out of my mind right now.

[renshin]

Ok, so last night I was about to get hit with 100k army on both of my castles from ShadowRealm. They are basically going to take over continent 54 and asked that if I join their alliance they would maintain our NAP. I joined their alliance in hopes that it will buy us time to gain enough force to withstand an attack in the near future, but that may not be the case. Our only option is maybe find another continent to populate. Let me know your thoughts on this.

[Kakeku]

Darn. I guess we sould have checked before moving to 54. ShadowRelam is the 5th ranked alliance and homed at 54. I guess with so few active players, we will be crushed regardless which continent we migrate to.

I can join the the number 1 alliance alphadog since my rank is high enough and likely will be top 50 within 3 weeks. But I have no interest doing it. I think at the end, only largest alliances will be left standing.

I will casually log on from now on. Probably not gonna bother with any new cities. Just to see how the game plays out at the end.

Maybe when the game starts restart next time, we will have a better plan and more people to play so at least we can have a stronghold in one contintent.

[renshin]

Or we could move to another server!

[renshin]

BTW kakeku. ShadowRealm is attacking AlphaDogs. I think alpha will win that battle, but we will see. You can still build on 54 and even castle without worrying about getting attacked.

[Syana]

too bad server 9 has been up for almost a month already

#1 ranked is 42k scored.