Topic: CoinUO - The first Ultima Online with Bitcoins! Free BTC (Read 7084 times)

Hey I've just been away for a few days and now the Server seems to be offline. Any news on that?

Yes. If you want to, you can join us testing

Is this on beta ?

Hey guys,
I just wanted to step by and ask if there are any news on the last issues we brought up and whether there is anything you want us to test.
Cheers
Hpotsirc

Thanks that worked, I totally forgot about that after so many years. Lets see if we can work around the bugs and help some more with testing.

Same for me, try AssistUO (not UO Assist!) which seems to be an upgrade of Razor and works fine for me.
I guess its intended that you start with no skills at all.
I can confirm that. I have also tamed several animals with 32.8 Animal taming - no gain.
Same here. I suppose this could be due to the number of NPCs (which seems to be constantly increasing)
I have also ported to Trammel a few times and the Moongates work. There is a selection on the left side where you can choose Felucca, Trammel and Ilshenar. Maybe you could try some other Moongate? The ones that worked for me in Trammel are Yew, Mooonglow and New Haven.
Stay patient. As far as i know there are currently only two people that could help you. However they are very friendly and willing to help. I think if you ask them for help here they will be able to do something for you
Edit: I just figured out what might be the problem with the Moongates: You propably can't port to Fel because you are young. Just say: "I renounce my young player status" and confirm. This should fix your problem.

Here is my report:

razor does not work
skill selection on character creation does nothing
trade skill and animal taming gains on low levels around 30 do not work at all 10+ tries
strange server lags from 1.5 - 3 seconds not always but most of the time; its not the ping
help stuck dialog ports to trammel
moongates port to trammel and only list trammel and ilsh so there is no way back to fel
no help from support for 3 days, stayed logged in for several hours per day with opened ticket

I still hope this will be a success and I'll propably come back if so.

Hm i guess Mining ist just one of the skills that rises quite fast. Also I have been Mining A LOT these last days. Other skills that are supposed to gain slow actually do. For example i spent about 16k of ingots to gain from 32 to 43 Blacksmithy.
About the ores: I have only been mining in Minoc mine, maybe thats the issue?

That is weird for multiple reasons, first of all you shouldn't have been able to GM Mining so fast, second are the mining drops, third is the skill cap. I will look into these issues.

This is really cool, I am going to show my friends! Keep up the great work

Hey Greg,

so here is my first small bug report:
1. The standard skill cap seems to be still intact. I bought up some more skills today and once i reached 700 i couldn't buy up any further. Also using low skills wouldn't give me any gains.
2. Even though im at GM Mining the only metals i have found so far are iron and bronze. I am not sure if this is intended.

Two more questions:
Will the cap for a single skill be 100 or will there be power scrolls? I'm asking because I haven't found any NPC offering BODs yet.
Is the stat cap standard 225 or something different?

Cheers
Hpotsirc

The shard assumes that every Bitcoin is worth 1,000,000GP (this value could change), this sounds like very much but in reality equals to 3-5USD per 5,000BTC which you could potentially acquire within 15 minutes with a powered up character. If there is less BTC in the system than GP in the world then less GP is issued with every monster kill in proportion, if there is more then more BTC is issued.

The server still needs a lot of balancing which is why we beta test it (thank you beta testers!).

To withdraw with the Bitcoin stone you first turn your BTC into a check (walk up to a banker in britian and write "check amount") once you get the check you double click it when it's in your backpack and point it on the Bitcoin stone, the check should then disappear and a transaction sent to your address, the txid will be shown to you in-game.

For everyone who knows MMOs but not Ultima Online and wonders why, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK8fua6O64

Thank you, CoinUO for this shard. I have one question which belongs to the bitcoin forum. You say that the gold in the loot is automatically adjusted to the amount of bitcoins. How does this work exactly? Does it mean there is a fixed rate of exchange between IG gold and bitcoin which your program tries to sustain? Is, for example, every goldcoin backed up by a satoshi or like 10% of all coins?
And whatfor is the bitcoin stone in game? It currently does nothing for me.

This game actually sounds/looks pretty sick haha might try it out 
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Sounds great, thank you My ingame name is Kurbelklaus. I have also created a support ticket IG.

Sure thing, post/PM your nickname.

By the way lets get a welcome to the new developer Julian! Sorry for anyone who has been trolled by Julian or will be trolled by Julian in the future, since it's just a beta we let ourselves interfere a little bit more with the gameplay than what we would once we're out of beta.

Hm I've been playing for about 2 days now. Already had Mining over 60, Tinkering over 50, some other skills bought up, about 5 gains each in dex and int and more than 20 gains in str. Thats a bummer, but hey its beta after all I'll create a new char and make a support ticket. Maybe you can provide me with some coins, so i can buy up some skills and dont have to spend several hours on bashing birds again.
Anyway thank you for the support.

It might be that it's gone if you have played less than half an hour on it since it didn't hit the save before I had to shut down the server, other than that I have yet to witness a character disappearing. I can give you some stuff to make up for it.

Update: I just logged in and got straight to the character creation screen. It seems like my Char is gone. Maybe because I have been online when the server crashed? Or is it possible that more chars are lost?

Please be a little more specific. If you want to know how to get started the answers are in this thread, but i'll sum them up:
1. Go to http://www.coinuo.com/
2. Click on here on the top right of the screen
3. Fill in the fields
- If you dont have a Testnet Adress use n1KQddYBP6THyFHt62gKran17fgNysGRRV as withdrawal adress. The coins will be donated to a faucet
4. Hit "Register now!"
5. Log in on the main page
6. Download the Client
7. Extract the Folder
8. Start client.exe
9. Use the Account name and Password you have specified earlier to login
10. Create you Character
If you have questions about UO feel free to ask. A lot of information can also be found on http://www.uoguide.com/Main_Page and http://uo2.stratics.com/
If you have any other question, as i already said: Please be more specific.
Cheers
Edit: Oh Coin i just saw your answer. Nice the server is up again! And also good to hear about your plans regarding the HP

Yes there will be a professional, full-featured website along with a wiki, craft table, PVP highscore, online statuses along with total online as well as many other things. Thanks for all your support! It's people like you that make me feel that all the work put into this was worth it.

BTW the server is already up.


What specifically?

How does that work?

Ah ok, good luck then with fixing the crash! I already noticed that it's much harder than on most of todays shards and i have to say i really like it! Feels much more like the old days.
Thank you for your response and keep up the good work! Let us know when we can rush back on the server
Oh and one more suggestion: A status page would be nice. But of course its clear to me that you propably have more urgent things to sort and i don't know how hard or easy it is to implement such thing.

Yes sorry that the server is down. Thanks for the hacker he has showed me some worrying security vulnerabilities that have been addressed although the website itself hasn't even been reviewed security wise previously since it's just a beta.

There is no skillcap, skills are harder to gain like back at the day, you will also notice that your character is significantly weaker than in other shards and that your strength gains are less linear, you can expect to be easily killed by a dog as a new player.

Thank you for your suggestions! I will look into enabling some custom stats.

Hey guys,
first of all I have to say: Nice project you've got going on here!
I have been playing for 2 days now and everything seems fine. Currently the server seems to be down. Any news on that?
Some other questions/suggestions that have come up for me:
Is there currently a skillcap and what do you plan on that for the future?
How are skillgains handled? Even though the server has some of the newer features (such as crafting gumps) some things feel more like it was in the early days of UO. So are the skillgains just purely based on quantity or does the difficulty also play a role?
I guess its on purpose that you start with no skills at all. But would it be possible to at least enable using costum stats for the start? I would have preffered to start with a slightly different setup.
So much from me.
I really hope this project is going to work out well and am looking forward to seeing some of you guys Ingame.
Cheers
Hpotsirc

You register an account, confirm an email, login and download the client in the members area. I'm pretty surprised, there are quite a few active players already.

Haha great minds think alike!

Do I need an account to login? How does that work?

Was thinking of making something similar in Unity3D but then realized it would be way to much work. But using ultima is a great idea!

Ultima series was the BEST rpg in it's days, but it was in the 90s...
Shouldn't be surprised when teens have never heard of it
I was a great fan of Ultima 8 (which UO based on) and I never played UO

Ah, I think I have addressed that previously already:
They don't seem to have any RPG elements.

http://www.dragons.tl/

Its mmorpg bitcoin gambling , They called to be the first mmorpg casino

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Ultima Online is literally the first MMORPG to have ever been made, it has essentially invented the genre. World of Warcraft was inspired by UO, it is a game of such scale that nothing compares to it by a long shot. It is beyond me how some people don't know what it is and ask if it's similar to Dragontales (lol? What the hell is that?).

Anyway thanks for all the help guys, we will put a lot more time into this in the coming weeks.

Is this like Dragontales ?

Awesome, do you think you could add me on skype?

skype - j.miles338

We are going to develop this one together with the community so you can be a part of it 

is bitfantasy worth it? :/

Holy shit. I have been writing up plans to make a 2d rpg with bitcoin integration for ~3 weeks now. Downloading client now. So excited.

Email got sent to spam but got it. I'm downloading the client now.

i had this problem also but it ended up coming into my email after 10-15 min. probally just a small bug just be patient it will show up

Email could take some time to deliver sometimes since the server is new and not trusted/propogated. I have registered 3 accounts trying to debug the issue and got all of the 3 emails 10 minutes later 

I registered but I haven't recieved an email. My email I typed in was correct. Checked spam, might be a bug on your end.

For those of you that don't know how to get a testnet Bitcoin address just use this: n1KQddYBP6THyFHt62gKran17fgNysGRRV

It isn't of much use currently unless you are planning on withdrawing testnet BTC which you probably don't since you don't know how to get one. We will be donating all the reserves we accumulate to a faucet.

It has been nice playing with you guys, thanks for all the support.

I have already mentioned this in the original post, once we move out of beta all of your gold will be deleted 100%, most of your items will be deleted as well, all your houses and ships demolished, however we might let players keep some unique one of the kind items that they have acquired during the beta, we will also let you keep all your skills so once we go out of beta you will be able to jump right into action and make BTC instead of fighting magpies in Britannia.

People have actually paid to be given beta access in the original Ultima Online days, building worlds together is a lot of fun.

Does beta tester get speciality or extra something ? 

It's not gambling but it will have an in-game casino, I don't know what better category to put it so I have put it here for the admins to move if they please.

The game itself has already been released, you can download the client on the website it's just that we're only using Testnet BTC and in the Beta phase.

Seems interesting and I think it's in the wrong category (it's not gambling, is it)?

I will look into it once it got released.

Testnet is an alternative blockchain with worthless Bitcoins, we are using it temporarily to eliminate and potential bugs and balance up the economy before switching to actual Bitcoins as the virtual world is rather complex.

Sorry, never heard of testnet btc, I will look into it...

But I'm sorry you are incorrect, bitfantasy's economy is based on bitcoins, you can buy and sell in game items using them.

I will say your game's way of turning gold straight into bitcoin sounds super cool though.  

As I've said, currently we're using testnet so you need to get a testnet withdrawal address. You cannot change the withdrawal address after you create an account however we will change all the testnet addresses once the beta is over.

I have never heard of Bitfantasy but I'm sure that most would agree that it's not on the level with Ultima Online and their economy isn't Bitcoin based, you can pay for an account in Bitcoins.

When I try to make an account it's telling me I have an invalid bitcoin address...

It's adding a : on the end.

Oh and I would like a referral system if there isn't one. 

You aren't the first mmorpg with bitcoins though,

that would be https://www.bitfantasy.com/

Dear Bitcoin Community,

I would like to invite you all to design a whole universe together. We have been actively working on the first Bitcoin MMORPG, a groundbreaking Ultima Online shard, it is revolutionary because you can not only deposit Bitcoins and get gold in-game (GP) upon 6 confirmations but you can actually acquire gold and you can exchange gold back to Bitcoins within the game yourself!

We have achieved this by controlling the production of the ingame gold, when there is more BTC in the system than gold more gold is issued with every monster kill, when there is less BTC in the system than gold less gold is issued with every monster kill.

This adds new exciting capablities to an otherwise dull game as users can actually make a living within this microeconomy, be it hunting, investing into "real estate" or just fishing, you can make BTC without depositing a single dime.

What you should expect in the future:
-An in-game casino, we are already negotiating with multiple casinos in order to bring your favorite casino games into UO while still offering provable fairness.
-A well balanced economy that doesn't compromise on early adopters
-A wiki showing all the custom ores, logs and items that are already in the game and the ones yet to come.
-Custom mobiles, ships, houses and so on.

We have figured that the chances of us creating a perfect world without any user input is slim to none so we are currently in open beta! During the open beta you can only deposit and withdraw testnet BTC however your account stats will not be removed once we switch over to real BTC within 1-2 weeks so you will get a jump-start over late adopters.

As true anarchists we will continue to refine this world into a Bitcoin utopia. Please leave any suggestions and/or tips you may have.

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CoinUO.com

Best regards, CoinUO team.