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Journals / A test entry

« Last post by Admin Yukiko on July 24, 2010, 04:57:32 AM »

Hello world.

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Announcements / I have accidentally deleted some valid users!!!

« Last post by Admin Yukiko on July 24, 2010, 01:50:48 AM »

I am sorry but during a recent spammer clean-up I accidentally deleted some legitimate users.

Daisy Mae is one and there might have been others. Please register again and I should get a notification. If you had additional privileges I will re-instate them.

Also, I am going to allow users to verify via emails again as the new version of Simple Machines Forums has added some anti-spam features. Hopefully they will be effective.

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General Discussion / Re: Hope Lives shard may be going offline indefinitely.

« Last post by Daisy Mae on January 14, 2010, 02:03:45 PM »

Hope Lives, it can't die!

I too have lost the uo  feeling, you know when you just can't wait to get online:). What wonders await? What ill fated terror will find you this time? How will you recover?

Nothing like it in the world! I loved it.


Where is the love now? I haven't a clue, been looking for it, Can't find it.
trouble is no shard anywhere near what or how i like to play. Hope Lives is the only chance of any shard coming close.

So Even if I can't play like I once did, I like knowing Hope Lives is there to log into when I need it.

Don't Destroy Hope!

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General Discussion / Re: Hope Lives shard may be going offline indefinitely.

« Last post by Felix on November 26, 2009, 09:11:11 AM »

heh.. I can understand why. There really isn't a very active community. I won't say I want to see Hope Die, but I can't truly say I have actual reasons for it to live. Soo... To me, if it dies.. it dies.. ending a small section of my life. If it lives, then, that's fine.

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General Discussion / Hope Lives shard may be going offline indefinitely.

« Last post by Admin Yukiko on November 21, 2009, 01:22:34 AM »

Many of those who have been players and GMs etc. know that for some time I have not done much if anything with Hope Lives. For whatever reason my interest in UO and scripting has pretty much dried up. I have tried and hoped that it would resurface but it just hasn't. So I am considering taking the shard offline for this reason and since there are virtually no players, most certainly due in part if not in whole to my disinterest in the project. I still check in to the POL website from time to time but I just can't get back that "first love" feeling with scripting.

I'd appreciate any comments from those who still frequent the forums. I'm not trying to get an ego boost from posts pleading with me to keep the shard up or anything like that but rather if you feel you might benefit from Hope remaining up and running then let me know or maybe you want to see Hope go away and want to tell me why. All I ask is be nice. *grins*

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Announcements / Re: New mwmbers must be approved by an admin

« Last post by Admin Yukiko on November 21, 2009, 01:05:32 AM »

OK. This should be true now. Apparently I didn't save the settings and a few new spammers snuck in since I made this post.

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Announcements / New members must be approved by an admin

« Last post by Admin Yukiko on November 12, 2009, 12:57:10 PM »

Due to spammers I am now forced to approve all new forum member's applications. This may delay your ability to post to the forums by a day or so but I can see no other way to stop the continued spamming of my forums.

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Announcements / PenultimaOnLine (POL) emulator is goimg Open Source!!!

« Last post by Admin Yukiko on September 19, 2009, 07:02:03 PM »

I'm a bit late posting this here and it isn't news about Hope specifically but it is BIG news when it comes to POL.

POL has been around as an Ultima Online(R) emulator since about 1998. That's a very long time in "computer years". And for all that time it has been and was expected to be a closed source software. However, recently the developers have been hinting at it going open source. Well, the POL forums now contain a post verifying this.

Some of you might be wondering what I mean by "open source" and "closed source".

Most software today is written in a high level language, the source code, that has human readable commands that get converted (compiled) into  machine readable code that the computer's central processing unit (CPU) can understand. For the most part this source code is kept private by the software author(s). Some time ago a new idea was set in motion whereby the source code for programs would be made freely available for everyone to see and use to compile their own version of whatever the code was written to do. It is believed by many, and I am one of them, that Linus Torvold(sp?), the creator of Linux, was the first to push this idea into the mainstream. Anyway, this idea of opening up the source code for all to see and make their own contributions has revolutionized the development of many programs. There are thousands of Open Source projects on the Internet and many of them would not be where they are today if they had remained closed source.

So, it is the hope of the POL community that making POL Open Source will spur its development and growth.

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General Discussion / Re: Staff Application Template

« Last post by Admin Yukiko on August 31, 2009, 06:05:06 AM »

OK. That's odd because your app wasn't showing up as a "new" post. I just now saw it.

First thing to do is get a copy of the 0.98 Distro using the method described here.

I will be posting a tutorial for those who need it explaining how to get a shard up and running from the Distro. But not today... I need sleep.

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General Discussion / Re: POL 0.98 Distro test shard

« Last post by Felix on August 29, 2009, 05:44:45 AM »

I think I can spawn a few things here and there.  At least around a few places. lol