could someone provide a guide to the player wiki maybe?
I am currently helping two brand new players who have never ever played UO before and just started 2 weeks ago.
Needless to say everything is insanely confusing to them and they have a really hard time understanding what to do and how to do things.
The other day they told me they were tired of killing ettins and they wanted to move on to demons. Now I told them to search the wiki to find out where demons spawn...then I tried doing that myself...nothing.
Same result with other things I would have expected to be able to find there.
I then told them to use uoguide, despite the fact that it has somewhat dated info. Over there all you have to do is type demon in the search bar and you get to a page about demons, where they spawn etc.
Would be nice to have the wiki produce similar results with just as little effort. Maybe I'm doing something wrong though?
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Hook them up with the uo.wiki, uoguide.com and of course the Stratics Hunter's Guide
https://uo.stratics.com/database/view.php?db_content=hunters&id=375
Cheers MissE
even when I know a page exists I struggle to find it.
I also agree with MissE that googling a term has a better hit result for the wiki.
As an example I just tried “blood oath”
the page I wanted
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/skills/necromancy/
was the last result the wiki search presented me.
I've used this for years to find things to do.
https://uo.stratics.com/hunters/
I checked those sites Mariah linked. Apparently a new player's first wishes are to know 1000 spoken NPC commands and how to log out. The novice adventuring starts with the beginner quest that was just cut out with EJ. And then goes with walls and walls of text.
On uoguide you could at least correct outdated and wrong things, but here you got to beg an editor for it. Not worth it. They will figure sooner or later.
OTOH we see what "being in control" means. Having to point every mistake out to @Mariah and hope for the best. Sure nobody got better things to do with his time.
PS I like the idea of two sites the info is not always the same.
First: It is professional for UO to have its own official forum, and its own official wiki and information pages. UO is a small game filling a small niche in the MMO world, and has a small team of developers and helpers. The wiki is constantly being expanded, but it is not perfect. I have taken to using Google's search, which will also look for the correct spelling of what I am searching for. Google generally puts pages with more views at the top. Since other pages have been around longer, they have accumulated more views and tend to get more views first.
Second: Multiple sites is healthy and good for the community. EJ and people who no longer have active accounts but are still interested in UO can use those sites, for one thing. We can chatter all we want across several other forums, but if anything wants to reach the Devs ears it pretty much needs to be said here. Choosing ONE site to focus on allows them more time to work on Sosaria.
Perhaps it is because the other sites have been around longer, but the site does come up on searches in google.
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
Cheers MissE
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
Im sorry we have entered an age where you can find the answers on Google. If the UO wiki wants hits then they will make better guides that can be found. We are in the computer age and if UO cant get hits then they need to advance.
This is the correct place to tell them that the UO wiki is inadequate.
I use the resource that Google sends me to and I see an Ad. UO and Ads Rule the internet!
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