Regardless of being an old or new player most of us have prior experience and our opinion also matters, the way cast works here will only benefit low ping players, how active would be the PvP without foreigners?
For many, many years foreigners could cast just as fast as those in the USA. But since you seem to be new here (and welcome!), here is
Blacula's guide to foreign PVP cheating:
R.W (Chinese guild): Once a 20+ man zerg. Banned for using proxies and Razor 1.0.0; keeps coming back. Casted MA/FB and heal loops like no tomorrow, but died instantly when DP'd or stam-locked because most of them never carried pots (I assume due to using old clients for Razor 1.0.0 having problems with backpacks and items).
Cured mortal, LOL. Have not seen a single member pvping since the targeting flood glitch was fixed, although I have seen a guard-zone hugging blue named "Minute Made" riding a dog named 'CHINA' so I could be wrong about this. Really nice people, and fun to fight. I miss you. Also, lolscreenshot:
FM (Chinese guild): 1337 Razor h4xx0rs and script kiddies. Had their own version of Razor at one point that exploited the targeting flood glitch. Most of them got banned for using said Razor. Have not seen a single member pvping since the targeting flood glitch was fixed. Were infiltrated by non-Chinese to get said Razor (see D.C.).
Realllllllllly fast.
GUNZ (South American/Latino guild): Zerg.
Realllllllllllllly slowwwww. Leaders (Tortu, El Magico) got banned for finding a corrupt staff member's IDOC (with a 2/6 100 necro 100 LRC bracelet inside), and burning the 4000+ charge val hammers and BRSK's they found inside on extra accounts so they wouldn't get caught. Their innocent houseguest, an archer visiting from Brazil and my friend, was also banned for being on Tortu's IP.
D.C. (South American guild including banned ex-GUNZ members Tortu and El Magico playing as Black Hole, and Xeneize respectively): Used FM's modified Razor, and/or EasyUO to exploit targeting flood glitch.
Realllllllllly fast. Died instantly when DP'd or stam-locked because most of them never carried pots (I assume due to using old clients for Razor 1.0.0 having problems with backpacks and items).
Cured mortal, LOL. Those that didn't had mortal archers. Also, so sad and pathetic that they thought everyone cheated
but them: http://www.uogamers.com/community/index.php?threads/447691/#post-3562342
Have not seen anyone online but Tank/Gans on his dexer since the targeting flood glitch was fixed (
I wonder why), offering to send a guy a loop in Portuguese at Shit Gate:
Nya- (Korean guild): Unfairly banned (the last time) by Xavier, and previously banned according to him for using Cheatengine. Casted and ran at a decent speed for people in Korea, but nothing crazy like R.W and FM. Casted more than MA/FB + Harm loops. Had the most cojones of any of the Asian guilds for
not zerging and actually fighting outnumbered, and kept coming back for more. I miss you.
Rauan/Almost Dead/SAID: EUO h4xx0r. Could fly into Shit Gate solo and drop you before you knew what happened. Banned repeatedly for old Razor and/or Cheatengine. Reportedly the source of the various HUEHUE EUO targeting flood scripts I received from Brunus and Vision, although another BR guy named ShamaN has claimed that
he is le best EUO h4xx0r instead so who cares/gives a shit. Was banned again by Xavier even after he started playing legit. Really nice guy with movie-star good looks. Wins life. Was
WTFast. I miss you.
Brunus: Played legit for a long time (and most likely does now), but for a short period of time, used the EUO targeting flood glitch and started calling himself "The BR z0rak" because he spammed ridiculously fast, and pwned other cheaters. Dresses his chars up like z0rak and Kaz (legendary pvpers that were banned for blatantly hacking/selling an account, respectively). Pwns without h4x. Should've played a necro archer because
OH MY FUCKING GOD he destroyed people on BR servers with one. Loves to troll people. Would probably still drop your ass with a UORice'd client + conventional EUO targeting hotkeys if it reduced his lag.
Prefers to play legit. Awesome guy that is helpful to the Demise community. Plays with a shitty zerg at the moment because "
it's fun!".
Mae'Var: Jk, dude was a
fucking beast that owned people legit on horrible ping in Bulgaria. I miss you.
RIOT: Mostly European guild Esk and I were in briefly, that included Xavier on his player char (Drak) who randomly rolled up to Esk's house one day and gave us a bag full of BRSK gear, an AOF, and a fucking
siiiiiiiiiick fucking 1/3 ring that was uninsured in his pack. Was told it was because Xavier wanted to shut Esk up for calling him staff (which a lot of people did, and was later proven true by Cucumber Jim). Used "
legal" Razor loops to exploit the targeting flood glitch, which were later sent to me by Lukin from Hz because "everyone else is using this shit so you should see what you're up against". Paged Xavier asking why he banned EUO cheaters like Rauan and not these guys, and was told that "I can't do anything. I
t's legal because it's Razor!!!!".
I didn't include myself in this list because I live in the USA, and
(like Brunus) prefer to play legit and do so (link in my sig). Thankfully, with UO Steam the ability to cast decently on 150+ ping (i.e., not fizzling every fucking spell below 4th circle) without cheating is possible thanks to two brilliant coders from Brazil: a strict advocate of fair play named Chun, and another guy named Diego
. UO Steam gets a bad reputation from some mindless users playing loops that aren't exactly slow. However, baddies will always spam MA+FB, Harm, and heal-loops on Demise regardless of legality or the program that plays said loops because they are ignorant and unoriginal.
Also, if any of you are mad for being mentioned in this list. Fuck you. I'm keeping it real.
OSI cast is slower and there is a reason for that... less spam more skills.
Like "mysticism". jk, I agree.
If Demise follows OSI on things such as castles not being able to be placed at Malas, BOD weight and count, etc, why not fixing cast delay?
Demise had all of this at the same time:
* spellweaving books for sale in Heartwood for 50k gold, with some spellweaving spells like Nature's Fury "working" without the quests because no ML quest system.
* 100% chance-to-hit fukiya darts and shruikens at 50.0 Ninjitsu skill, and pre-patched mass-charge fukiya guns.
* People spawning in Lich Form because Wraith Form's mana-leech effect with spells was broken.
* Weapon mages that didn't need 90.0 Tactics to use specials.
* LOTS of nox/scribe/warfork mages. (R.I.P.)
* Word of Death doing fuck-tons of damage to mobs without the low-mob-health requirement.
* Lots of househiders.
* The ability to cast Nature's Furies into houses by (targeting a door) to kill househiders.
* Lots of houses without doors.
* Blood Oath reflecting 100% of damage (as it did during SE).
* Lots of baddies spamming Blood Oath, and Pain Spike.
* Hiryus that hit players in pvp combat for 50-60 hp per hit.
* Lots of pvp tamers.
* Lots of foreign pvpers that didn't want to cheat.
* Lots of foreign pvpers that made dexers and archers.
* People with 0 DCI.
* Biggie (lol).
* The ability to run through headstones in Felucca by
editing one line in UO.CFG.
* The targeting flood exploit working, and a
fuck-ton of spells flying around regardless of one's ping.
* Lots of people using Cheatengine to flood movement requests and "hop around" while casting. Amplified to the
nth fucking degree if used on PlayUO Beta 13. Right, Bile?
* corrupt staff that pvped.
* a lot more people.
* better pvp.
R.I.P.: Demise.