User talk:Memnock of the Sillyhood

Old Client Patches

Where are you getting these? I ask because the places that I found them at were rather sparse when it came to patch numbers. I spent several days researching and was only able to verify correct patch numbers for some of them, and sometimes only circumstantially at best. Patch numbers such as 1.25.10 were more or less made up; extrapolated backwards from verifiable patch numbers. I'm just curious if you found them someplace with corresponding patch numbers or you're just assuming that what I had put up there is correct.
--Cogniac 06:03, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Kind of a mix of both, really.  :) I made the assumption that the patch numbers were up from a source I was unaware of and just took the patch notes I had archived and matched them up by dates. The more I've gone through my own records and those still archived in the Wayback Machine, though, I'm remembering that actual patch version numbers were VERY few and far between. I have archived all the patch notes from release in 1997 to the end of 2002, and in all those notes, there are MAYBE a double handful of actual Client Versions or Publish numbers listed for the patches. If that. Since the 2D Patch Listing pages is arranged primarily by Client Version number, I didn't want to mess that up (assuming it was correct), so I've just been going by date and matching actual Client Version numbers for those early patches up to the correct date as I run across them. The Devs were obviously very lax about communicating those numbers to the players for those first few years. The information I've got archived was copied directly from the Ultima Online Update Center at the time of their publish (I'm a 136 month Charter Edition player). I've been able to corroborate my information up to 1998 with some slight date corrections through a newly found oldpatch.html page I found hidden in the current UO website. Some of the information is missing, though, so it looks as though someone at EA has re-constructed their own patch notes from an external source. That site is located here: http://update.uo.com/oldpatch.shtml with just over a year gap to the current UO patch update page at http://update.uo.com/latest.html I didn't mean to step on any toes... I just noticed that information was missing and that I had access to it, so I wanted to get it up for posterity. I'll continue to add in what I've got archived through the end of 1998 and see if I can research up any more cross-checking on these early version numbers. Unless you'd like me to hold off on any more updates for now.