July 23, 2000-2:15 A.M. PST-Jackal
This page will not be updated for a week. All news and changes that take place over the next week will be recapped sometime after July 30. On a good note the UO invite only tourney was yesterday and I managed to claim my 20k prize for first place. Who says speed isn't important in PvP? It would be cool if the PvP community could get some tourneys going again.

July 13, 2000-3:45 P.M. PST-Jackal
Official AO Website Updated.
Anarchy Online

July 11, 2000-2:35 A.M. PST-Jackal
Final Word on HH:

"oh yeah you guys better watch out jackal might do this guild banning thingy where he put his accounts with dupped item in your guild and email or call OSI to banned the guild. That is what he did. REmember all the blessed weapons and free give away DR$ does? DR$ is just part of OPP, only different is that they put all the accounts that dupped before in that guild. anyways let me know if you guys want some help from me, not all my accounts is blocked =P and for those who got banned for unreasonable reason let me know we putting something together to suit osi"

I'm going to just clear everything up here for everyone one last time. OPP obviously has/had no one on the HH stone (we would have been banned). We did however have friends on and off the stone/on ICQ list/etc for general warring reasons. The only direct action OPP took against HH was a huge list of accounts and users put together against the known duping of blessed items by HH members. OSI did an investigation (which I commented on several times below) and banned people that they thought should be banned. For the record OPP does have members on the DRS stone which (as shocking as it may seem) have OPP in their name (which I require). These people are on that stone for warring purposes and many of them are friends with DRS leadership. ALL OPP accounts were searched for duped items at the request of several guilds. No one was banned, yet HH was searched and all were banned (you see the trend here?). They duped and we didn't! Hell, why would anyone in OPP have any reason to dupe? About half of OPP membership is still living off investments made in the Dread Lord days and the rest are independently wealthy from OPP warring (the majority of us maybe have 200k in the bank because we never have and probably never will use it). Anyhow I'm done ranting about HH in UO although I might cover Avatars lawsuit as a joke if he actually goes through with it (what is he going to sue for again?).

July 10, 2000-6:25 P.M. PST-Jackal
Links Section Updated
I'm trying to put together some of the best Links Sections for OPP supported games. If i'm missing any good links let me know.

July 9, 2000-1:25 P.M. PST-Jackal
Order Guilds Galore!
Order guilds are popping out of the woodwork lately. There is a definite lack of chaos as OPP ends up going into battle almost always outnumbered 2 or 3 to 1. VVV, ROB, OOB, and the remains of TDP (in the guild MG) all went order and have been attacking non-stop. We've had some fun battles with us being outnumbered most of the time.

ESF/OOB:
Recently the cowards known as the Order of Balance attempted to go Order on their warring stone (ESF). The results were rather amusing:

1, 2, 3 blue healers and 1, 2, 3, 4 oranges vs Veracho and I? Hmm...As one of the OoB said "That didn't go well".

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 blue healers...?

Guess that is still not enough...

DoH?
After handing every order group their asses in MG tonight we ran into none other then DoH trying to blue heal the remaining Orders. They had some interesting things to say about OPP (Keep in mind no OPP was banned and DoH undeclared on OPP):

Who are these loud mouthes?

Ohh...just DoH...


Recent Victories:
Devilish Phantoms
Newbie Pkers
Role Players
Major Victories

July 7, 2000-5:05 P.M. PST-Jackal
Update Tommarow:
More Info

July 6, 2000-11:45 P.M. PST-Jackal
OSI Responds to Recent Bannings:

"Greetings, We have reviewed the account in question per your request. It is clear that the actions on this account violated the rules and regulations of Ultima Online, justifying immediate termination. We are never happy when we have to close an account due to exploitation with the game as we value the members of our community. Records indicate that the account/s were in possession of exploited items, thus providing an unfair advantage within our service. and items gained from these exploits have altered the game balance of the Ultima Online service and necessitated your accounts closure. As Ultima Online contains numerous players, our decisions are based on the benefits of the community as a whole. After our investigation of this matter we believe that the closing of this account is in the best interest of our community. As of this time this account is permanently closed."
UO Account Administrator
Origin Systems Inc.
"Please do not call our Account Support Department, as they will not be able to help you or discuss this matter. Our decision is final and further email or other contact concerning this account will not be answered."

To the best of my knowledge the above message was sent to everyone whose accounts had been blocked do to the duping bans of July third. The problem here of course is we all know that OSI "reviewed" nothing. They just sent these out, basically saying screw you this is how we solve our problems. Was there a massive duping problem in UO? Hell yes, but problem solving skills and common sense seems to be something pretty much everyone at OSI is massively lacking. It's ridiculously clear that ALL the people initially blocked were not duping items. Situations like these should be dealt with quickly and carefully to stop the spread of any cheats and to preserve the atmosphere of the game (OSI is trying to "build worlds" right?). In this case it took OSI damn near 4 months to solve this. By the time the problem was actually looked at it had encompassed the whole shard. At this point I think the best solution would have been to just delete all duped items. I bet every account on Pacific has duped items on it because of OSI, so how can they turn around and say: Because we can't control this problem we'll ban you for playing our game? Seems to me that EA Online/OSI have proven time and time again that they can not nor do they want to have a successful online game. Clearly their employees aren't qualified enough and management isn't motivating them. The funny thing is this same company is building a new online game. One that was once supposed to carry on the legacy of UO but now the entire staff is trying to distance Origin Worlds (UO2) from UO as much as possible. They know they have problems and rather then fixing them they turn around and cover them up. It's bad enough our whole governing body acts like complete cowards with thumbs up their asses but that's now spreading to free enterprise? I got several ICQs today from banned folks asking me if I was planning on playing UO2? WAKE UP PEOPLE! Look around at UO, do you really thing UO2 will be any different? Newer game, same people, and same problems! On top of that the same people who complain on a daily basis are the ones looking forward to UO2? Maybe it's stupidity or just laziness. Either way I hope this short rant makes just a few people think about it. Don't go out and buy UO2, there is going to be at least 2 (AO SB) online game out before next summer that will blow UO or UO2's socks off. The whole EA Online staff is incompetent and clueless. The only way to wake them up is to stop being lazy ignorant dumbfucks and look into other games. They're out there and they're twice as good as UO!

July 5, 2000-6:45 P.M. PST-Jackal
Official AO Website Updated.
Anarchy Online

July 4, 2000-6:45 P.M. PST-Jackal
Bannings:
It seems OSI finally got off their asses and got to work on this issue. Although many innocents were banned this week we all know that OSI isn't trying to take down just the founders of these bugs but everyone and anyone associated with them. They wanted to get rid of all cheating/duping without actually having to put time into a massive investigation. So basically they did a few things that pointed out those that were blatantly duping items. So in the end I would say OSI achieved their goal of eradicating people that were massively exploiting bugs.

Current Casualties:
-The guild known as Hounds from Hell (HH)
-The guild known as Hong Kong Union (HKU)
-Various members of TBH, DF, OPP, DRS, and just about every other guild on the shard

Although we won't know the true extent of these banning for a few months when the banned accounts are finally deleted I think I can safely say that OSI did nail almost every duper on the shard. Although I think the long term affect of these bannings will be negative for Pacific (because of the massive amount of innocent people banned) it should clean up warring for the time being (which is basically what everyone wants since I doubt many of us are planning on staying in UO past this Fall).


Disgruntled HH in Denial:
"There is no reason why we get banned. just watch this is will be a sue against OSI, they not very good with their law. Just watch"
-Avatar of HH

"now i am banned for fucking affiliating my self with your guild. can someone give me a damn clue that this would happen? can someone tell me HH mass dupe like a mofo? I am the one totally screwed by this. Never gotten shit, but are being thrown on the band wagon."
-Achilles of HH

"i did nothing wrong getting an item from another player through trade of money is perfictly legit in my book"
-Miner Slayer of HH

"keep checking your account.
Just chill for a bit, I have been speaking with a couple GM's on another shard in mIRC that i have known a good year and 1/2, some things happened that should not have.
It did not go through the right channels, your chars are still there. Account is only in suspend, there are a few pending issues."
-Azmodian of HH

"OPP have bunch of blessed weapons as well, it just too big to get banned all at once (40+ people). On other hand according to Bob HHs are grief players (they dupers but not greif in any way, they don't PK they PvPed) and I considered them way better then OPP. On pacific OPP most hated guild - they do most gangbang, they do most ress kill and ress kill healer camping."
-Mr Sinja of HH

So basically Avatar is going to sue OSI for doing what they said they would do in the terms of service. Achilles is mad because he bandwagoned onto a guild he knew nothing about then got caught up in it and is paying for his lack of preparation. Miner Slayer thinks it's ok to buy legit hammers with duped gold. Az thinks he's going to get his account back because he is a good friend with several Game Masters. Lastly Sinja is just pointlessly lying in a pathetic attempt to slander OPP. I just find this all funny. How many of these guys were all over our message board calling me a lamer/liar when I told them they would be banned after May 19 OPP News. Now look at them complaining, threatening to sue, and slandering. If you were in HH you had PLENTY of warning to get out and those who just joined SHOULD have done at least a little research before joining. All I have left to say is good riddance to HH.

Fitting that this all goes through on Independence Day!