Thursday, July 2, 2015

On the Armageddon spell from UO

Possibly written by Aheufislhadjk (or whatever his name is)


For further clarification on the Armageddon Spell as it first re~appeared in Ultima Online;

The spell was only a roomer or myth that it could still be possible within UO to cast o_O 
Back in the early computing days, "Back Doors" and hidden things within programs that could be accessed were all the rage in both fiction book as well as in movies and tech talk. During this time in UO a group of game hackers calling themselves "The Knights of Access" appeared and hack attacked any UO player that they felt like doing so to and there were a few other groups of the same styled hacker groups. So the stage was set for such a roomer to spread and be believed by many.
Thus this roomer spread quickly through the shards and gained a following on both sides, those who wished to find everything to be able to cast it, as well as those who wished to stop those that wished to cast it.

The roomer effect of such a casting varied depending on the source of the information/speculation. Some said it was to completely wipe a shard or all shards clean of all characters as well as everything else..... while other roomer was that casting it would cause all housing to disappear or housing as well as all monies and things, yet leaving everyone's characters to begin anew.

As this spell is advocated here as a possible solution for any inflation or deflation remedy, I would suggest that it would work much the same as a revolution does in many country's history; where the money vanishes because it was a paper supported by an overthrown government. How this solution would work in our game, I see it as being very difficult regents to find and then to find the proper place to begin the Armageddon Spell's casting (Hexahedron Generator appearing somewhere when all the proper regents have been found for it's casting/whatever). Then it just becomes a matter of PvP capture the flag game sort of speak to those who wish to keep what money is or destroy what money is beginning a new.

*Disclaimer*
I only advocate the use of such as a fix all should the need arise that our economy sucks for whatever lopsided thing that ever happens to it. Otherwise and until then, we can forever continue to search for economic catastrophic preventions to stave such a thing off for as long as possible.
"But Revolutions Do Happen" 
and thus I see no reason to think that our game couldn't have some sort of possibility of it as well for solution.

*and now back to your regularly scheduled economic argument* 

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