Episode 232:
Ho ho ho

I received an email about this episode from a UO developer that made my day: "As a little cog in the machine that is MMO development, I just wanted to thank you for #232 :) In UO we just, for the first time, made it snow everywhere by replacing the forest textures with snow. Talk about timing!"

Removing textures is the method used in EQ2 for ghosts. They're just plain, ugly white mesh versions of normal character models. You even see them in the tutorial island, where people make their minds about buying the game or not. No wonder we never managed to convince anyone to play it.