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Ariana Lenoir · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject: A couple quick rp questions

Need info from the community in an effort to better perfect my knowledge as I have heard conflicting accounts.

Lunar and solar cycles.

Trammel and Felucca are the moons and the according facets are governed by them. Are the moons still viewable on both facets?

Malas and Tokuno appear to have light cycles, is there sunlight/moonlight on them as well? Makes sense that there should be if plants grow there, but heard it spoken otherwise considering the void on the outside of Malas.

City of Umbra and it's surrounding lands, are they cast in a shadowed darkness? If so does any light come through?

Vampires who are governed in their torpor/sleep by the rise of the sun...
What dictates it? Are all facets on the same sunrise? Sunrise is usually deemed by server up from my experience.
If there is no sunrise on a facet, is the need for sleep brought about? Is it determined by the facet of which they were embraced if there are different cycles?

Aging.. I've heard usually one rl month = 1 rp year. I can't imagine any 'aging' system being without some realistic flaw, but is this the standard in this community?

I'm sure I will have more, but as I was writing a story these questions were forced into my head. Any insight into the popular theories would be most appreciative so I can make sure my stories are at least somewhat in line with the generally accepted fiction.

Thank you very much
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Teh Glouris Lrod Kujabis · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 5740

I wish I could offer more solid answers, but I only have disconnected insight.

When it comes to player aging (and how vampires function on Atlantic too, now that I think about it), you won't find a universal, 100% accepted community-wide answer. In the past, we've tried to standardize some stuff like this, and generally someone doesn't like "being told how to play their character" and go full flow into the "I pay my 12.99 a month, not you" rant.

So, short answer, if I remember right from the last time player aging came up...:

Some characters age at UO speed. Some characters age at UO speed, but with a massive growth burst from birth to 16-18~ in a short month or two (AKA, soap opera aging). And of course, some characters do not age at all, ever. Ever.

There was an argument over vampires as well. The old vampires followed V:TM with an Atlantic specific twist, but I'm pretty sure the more recent ones have their own thing that I don't know of. I know I couldn't even give a vague opinion on that topic without someone screaming at me.

Hope you find the rest of your answers.

Cal Hurst · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

I aged Vaen under the 4:1 ratio, personally.
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Ariana Lenoir · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject:

Cal Hurst · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject:

No no...

4 UO Months = 1 RL month.
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Ariana Lenoir · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject:

Teh Glouris Lrod Kujabis · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 5740

Yeah, that was it, 4:1. I think the argument against 4:1 was, "I've been playing since launch, so my character is FORTY YEARS older now!?!??"

"Uh, yeah." Wink

Yasamin · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject:

Kujasteve is right. there seems to be a few ideas on age. there's the 1year = one month. there's the four months per one year, and the one the devs stated which is five years per one. (this is excessively close to cal's 4mths per month) Just choose the one you like and stick with it.

As far as tram/ fel, they are each other's moons. Like, if you are in fel, and look up at the sky, tram is supposedly the moon.

The others I'll leave for people who play their vampires more than I play mine. *grins*
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Mairsil · Lore Master Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 1241

Depends on the lore you want to follow.

Personally, I beleive that the facets are just named after the moons. You always see both moons in the sky. Thats the way it was in the original games, and if you use a spyglass in ultima online you see two moons.
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Cal Hurst · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject:

Jonathan Strathmore · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject:

The months proceed 4:1, years pass 5:1.

If you look through a spyglass on either facet, it gives you the phase of both moons, so I would say they are both viewable. Trammel was created as a mirror to Felucca to guard against Minax, so it should be a complete and perfect copy to Fel.

Ariana Lenoir · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject:

Great input everyone.. thank you!!!

I was thinking the facets were just named for them myself, but lore seems to be off kilter from that a bit which confused me.

Anyone know about Malas or Tokuno lore wise? Are they governed via the sun/moons?
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Ceinwyn ab'Arawn · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 5017

Floating within a dark sea of stars, Malas is a broken land, wracked by great tremors that constantly threaten the stability of its continents. Its origin is a mystery, and its future inscrutable, but what is known is that this facet is unlike any other. Three great sections of land — one of which is already in the process of crumbling into smaller islands — are connected by bridges, and in between them lays a vast abyss of nothingness.

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