Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online
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Ultima Online handed charcoal to players with bad reputations. It could dye armor a rare pure black, turning a nominal punishment into something desirable through a property the designers had overlooked.
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we gave out charcoalturn their armor into pure black, which made it rare