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The avatars don't have health points and the simulation lacks death mechanics like a traditional MMO.

Griefing is typically achieved by placing garbage objects (if permissions allow building) or making hideous, obnoxious, obscene, and/or performance tanking avatars and ruining the look of a space.

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Avatars do have health points, and it's possible to get killed, but only in combat areas. Those exist, as games within Second Life. But ordinary residential, retail, and display areas have that feature turned off.

One of the better weapons.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHXUHA7osc

I am entertained at how elaborate the detail of the weapon is, and yet the avatar is gripping the mag instead of the handguard.

Its second trigger is backwards.

There's a second trigger there for the grenade launcher, you can see this at ~1min.

This is a thing that people do irl

Regardless of the grenade launcher bit

Traditional MMO?

I was beta for UO, 1996 - but I find UO to be the founding MMO, for me... UO, was my golden era of gaming.

I only I knew what "UO" meant.

Ultima online, the first graphic MMO(precursor to that was MUD's: multi user domains).

Dark Sun Online [1] was released nearly a year before UO, and was a graphic MMO. UO was certainly better in most (all?) respects. Which is why it has an enduring legacy, but it was only one of the first, not the first.

Neverwinter Nights[2], is arguably a much earlier MMO, running from 1991 to 1997 on AOL.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun_Online:_Crimson_San...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_vid...

Wow I never knew that. Thankyou!!!

I'll go crawl through those links, and thankyou for picking up my error :-)

Ran a NWN server from my house for a LONG time... from servers and racks from defunct tech-startups in the ~2000 down-turn.

Had an awesome setup in ~2001...

On pennies... I couldnt imagine running anything close here in the greedy-era.

Ultima Online, offered more freedom already in the 90s than most modern MMOs (of course freedom in gameplay doesn't necessarily mean "fun" for most players, but still UO pretty much invented the modern MMO genre, then WoW "tamed" and simplified it which made MMOs hugely popular, and in turn it was WoW - not UO - that everybody else copied).

Still the best MMO in my opinion, there is no better mage combat in any other games

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HIDE

[enemy]

([attack])

Great lord Hide

(Dread lord unhide)

IN VAS FLAM [hide] - run

Sneak and Snoop chars waiting to loot...

VANQUISH.

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