Scott Jennings

I caught a small amount of heat for the “bug-centric” nature of the past few posts. Um, it was Patch Day. Generally that’s the time when instability enters the game; it’s also the time when the exploiters go absolutely mad trying to do what they do. And

As Dr. Twister is already reporting, thanks to some bonehead coding you can unsecure items in neighboring houses. If you have a public house with secure chests and don’t trust your neighbors, better make the house private for the time being. (Buh bye, vendors.) I’m also getting rumors

The Web Page Formerly Known As Comments From The Dev Team was just updated with Sage’s words on his somewhat controversial proposal to remove recall from aggressors. Let me say straight out that I am not a recall hater. I think the spell is an excellent spell which may

I must say, the more I hear about Shadowbane, the more I like what I hear. They’re saying the right things. Picture UO minus trade skills and including much deeper support for guilds and factions. Now while the lack of trade skills is a problem (see EQ for an

Sometimes I enjoy the basic duality of maintaining this site. I mean, where else do you get in-depth analysis of the theory of community building in ORPGs, and links to Russian amputee women on the same page? Well, OK, so most sites are like that. But I digress. Here’

Got this email: Seems containers have already begun the decaying process. Players might want to risk patch day lest they risk losing all the items they have in their houses. I haven’t seen any confirmation on this on Dev Board and other usual haunts of distraught players. However you