[Alneyan]

Hmm, that would be an idea Gandalf. A UO server for Dominions players? Or even a UO server based on Dominions? "Thou shalst be smited by my hammer of righteousness!" would probably be a nice way of introducing an Energy Vortex/Energy Bolt. Or perhaps not.

I heard such reports from the official shards Aku (for example, there is the hour where you can gain skills more quickly; what purpose does it serve? If you want high skills, you should be ready to spend a lot of time on it; if you don't like leveling, it won't change much for you), but private shards are quite different from OSI. How different mostly depends on the shard in question: some are closer to a free-for-all setting (sometimes with much higher skills when creating a character), others are only interesting if you intend to roleplay, a few are plainly elitist, and so on.

At least, that was how it used to be back in the days when I played UO, but since the updates of the official servers had no impact on the private shards, they should have remained unaffected by the official changes. On the other hand, it is more than likely than the player base has dwindled in the past years; it happened for the French shards at any rate.