I hated the ending. The unilateral decision to get rid of all technology for everybody was both absurd, short-sighted, and just plain stupid. Why not give people a choice at least? And why the hell would the humans decide to live like cavemen on a strange planet without at least medical technology? There are probably viruses, bacteria, and parasites that would wipe out the colonials. So are we to believe that simple non-life threatening infections now all of a sudden become deadly because of the basic lack of antibiotics?

And what about food? With farming and all what happens during a drought? Hell, what about simple things like books to read, pencils and pens to write with? The whole premise that the colonials all, all off a sudden decide to become essentially Amish after living with technology all their lives is just catastrophically asinine. Fuck, why not at least not destroy the ships in orbit, leave one Raptor on Earth so that the different settlements can be checked in on from time-to-time. Hell, what happened to the sense of wonder and awe of the colonials in that why wouldn't they at least search for other inhabitable planets just in case Earth like gets hit by a comet or asteroid or some other natural disaster befalls Earth and the Colonials need to get the hell outta there.

Ug, what an unbelievably crappy ass implausible ending to an otherwise awesome series... Am I the only one that feels like this???

"Bad Math" ???

When I first glanced at the headline I thought it said "Bad METH" and I was like, WTF!!??, CERN must be driving its scientist to 72 hour work binges, that's odd. Of course, upon closer inspection, I saw it was "math" not "meth" and I thought "damn, this would have been much more interesting from the meth angle".... oh well.

Your details are incorrect.

The black dye tubs were the result of a program called FUSE (Fallo's UO Server Emulator), which along with UOX (the Ultima Offline eXperiment) were server emulators.

The author of FUSE included a hidden setting in the loader program for the emulator that, when used on legitimate servers, would dye tubs black automatically. It took several weeks for it to be patched.

UO Extreme was called UOE, and its primary feature was the ability to see hidden players.

You have the gist of the story correct, but the details are all wrong.