UOX3 VS exult

> As someone who got involved in an open-source version of the Ultima Online server, this is a fun read

Ultima Online emulators were what took small interest for me and blew it up into a career. But for me, it was pre-RunUO: SphereServer (aka GrayServer, I think) and UOX3. C++, with its own scripting engine built in. It wasn't exactly closed or open source. It also got me into Linux: while some emulation servers were run on home PCs, others were run on hosted machines. Debugging often meant the server administrators would give you root access to debug their running server. New Ultima Online releases meant being late for school to try and debug the client code changes to be able to quickly update the server, otherwise no one could log in.

It was incredibly buggy and never, to my knowledge, reached feature parity with the full game. The workarounds individual servers made through the rudimentary scripting language was impressive (many of these hacks were then copied into the core emulation scripts).

For trips down memory lane, these sites are still live -- and being updated? Wow.

https://www.sphereserver.com/

https://www.uox3.org/

If you're interested in trying out an Ultima Online emulator with soul, or if you're looking for a project where you can still make your mark as a contributor of code or scripts, check out the Ultima Offline eXperiment 3 at www.uox3.org, visit our GitHub pages or come hang out with us on Discord!

I suppose you could try downloading and building it locally. There's already an amd64 Linux version and ARM versions for multiple platforms (MacOS, iOS, and Android), so it seems like you should be able to configure it to build Arm executables for Linux (most Arm linux apps work on Raspberian, or you can install Ubuntu on an RP 400. The GitHub page is here: https://github.com/exult/exult

Here is schedule.h from Exult, Exult is a project to recreate Ultima VII for modern operating systems, using the game's original plot, data, and graphics files.

I decided to peek into the source code of Exult and figure out how combat works. Here's the result of quite a few hours of code reading, note writing, source code manipulation and running some simulations. I hope this brings you a bit of satisfaction, and I'm certain you'll read some parts and think "Oh, so that's why this happens!"

From line 1714 in the Exult Readme, Exult.cfg section 10.5:

Also, I wanted to say I didn't think there were levels beyond 9, funny. However, this question inspired me to look up some stuff. I also didn't find a table of XP values. I booted up Exult, and saw it has an editor feature (Exult Studio), which I wasn't able to get running in tandem with Exult, unfortunately. However, I did notice that, when creating an NPC, there's no value for XP given. I went to the source code of exult, not hoping to find anything clear, and there's this function here: