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Ultima Online: Ever played it? Want to again?
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While Everquest was amazing and I played it for 6 years, Ultima Online will always be my favorite MMO. So many great memories and friendships built in that game that I still have to this day. Despite being American I switched from Cats to Europa server when it launched. Use to love the roleplaying town on that server.
I am super hyped for Shroud of the Avatar, I know its not pure MMO per say, but it'll be the closest we have to a UO sequel.
I am super hyped for Shroud of the Avatar, I know its not pure MMO per say, but it'll be the closest we have to a UO sequel.
Metalic Sand
who is Emo-Beas?
Same shard i was on in the early years. I stopped around 01/02.
DownLikeBCPowder
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If anyone does log in to play, make sure to PM me!
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These screens make me itchy.
DownLikeBCPowder
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Do you mean the UOR server?
http://www.uorenaissance.com/?page=m_serverstatus
Second graph is lifetime (since launch last year early). They do allow 3 clients per user, but not necessarily all of them are logged in. I multi client a lot, but right now for example only one is logged in. So lately near 500, but it has had some impressive slow growth. Though some "online" are definitely afk or macroing.
I have to say, since I linked it, the site has the most impressive UO database I've seen. You can look up any creature and find info (barding difficulty, stats, etc), how many items of a certain type exist on the server, and so on).
In Design We Trust
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I feel guilty about the fact that the closest I got to playing Ultima Online was Runescape Classic.
Unmoses
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I was there when british was killed as well in the beta.. That was ridiculous.. I remember the first time I ever got pk'ed leaving the dungeon by trinsic (name escapes me) and being so angry I lost everything lol.. I actually fired it up a few months ago I think it's called uosecond age or something to try it.. holy crap I forgot just about everything
BigWeather
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Played for a few weeks, loved it. Then I was offline for a couple of days, returned and pretty much every square foot of the desert northeast of Britain that had been desolate was covered with housing. Housing ruined that game for me, killed the feeling of this vast, dangerous wilderness.
DavionStriker
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I was playing UO Beta off an AOL account (56k modem). I thought it was the best thing I have ever played. I used to really dig U7 Serpent Isle.
Unfortunately, I went to college shortly after that so... there went my money.
Unfortunately, I went to college shortly after that so... there went my money.
DownLikeBCPowder
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One of the best features of UO is housing where you want it (within certain parameters). But I absolutely understand this complaint.
BebopMcJigglypuff
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Really macroing hitting a training dummy was "bad"? Me and my friends would set up elaborate macros to bandage ourselves while getting nuked by trapped npcs all night long for magic resist, or meleeing each other with tons of crappy weapons while someone else bandaged us for tactics and such, or casting hundreds of spells on crystal balls to raise magery. Practically all my characters were 7x gm murderers almost... my char who made exploding chests had just a ridiculous murder count and never left my house. If you tried to look for my reagents with the thievery stuff there was a good chance you were exploding, if you managed to kill me and took my stuff, again good chance you were exploding unless you had good self control.
I played on great lakes... was in a RP guild for about 2 months at the very start when I was 13, but quickly went dread lord, before the murderer stuff was put in.
Used to enjoy going around on ships to find all the mining macroers, you had to carry 2 of every kind of ore so that you could drop a little stack on their boat and long range combine their stack into yours. Good times. Also occasionally people were foolish enough to lower the planks on their boats and you could long range board them, then you had 2 boats! (I usually did this with a friend because it was a hassle moving all that ore back to a house or something afterwards need a little protection while lift dropping 92592295 stones of encumbrance.) Though once one of our boats got stuck and the GM made us give back a boat to the ghost that was whining
He let us keep the dude's ore though.
Incidentally I never had much problem placing my houses, but I got in early. Had a tower, 2 large forges, and several single room houses.
I played on great lakes... was in a RP guild for about 2 months at the very start when I was 13, but quickly went dread lord, before the murderer stuff was put in.
Used to enjoy going around on ships to find all the mining macroers, you had to carry 2 of every kind of ore so that you could drop a little stack on their boat and long range combine their stack into yours. Good times. Also occasionally people were foolish enough to lower the planks on their boats and you could long range board them, then you had 2 boats! (I usually did this with a friend because it was a hassle moving all that ore back to a house or something afterwards need a little protection while lift dropping 92592295 stones of encumbrance.) Though once one of our boats got stuck and the GM made us give back a boat to the ghost that was whining
He let us keep the dude's ore though.
Incidentally I never had much problem placing my houses, but I got in early. Had a tower, 2 large forges, and several single room houses.
I was there when british was killed as well in the beta.. That was ridiculous.. I remember the first time I ever got pk'ed leaving the dungeon by trinsic (name escapes me) and being so angry I lost everything lol.. I actually fired it up a few months ago I think it's called uosecond age or something to try it.. holy crap I forgot just about everything
Mining ore just outside Britain was ridiculously perilous. =)
BigWeather
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Yeah, it kills me to say it because truly flexible housing in a MMO is the holy grail. It came at a significant cost for me, though, in killing the feeling of the world. I don't know how I'd solve it, but maybe make housing that is remote (further from a town) or in dangerous areas much harder to maintain -- decays faster, costs a ton more, is under assault by monsters constantly, something.
I still hate that we never saw UOX. =(
ElectricKaibutsu
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The only time I was ever addicted to a video game was when I played UO. Reading this thread hits me right in the nostalgia. I can't even remember what shard I played on. I was in the guild KMP if anyone coincidentally knows them. Sometimes I try to find people I used to play with but no luck so far. If only I could remember my ICQ password!
It really was the best MMO.
It really was the best MMO.
BebopMcJigglypuff
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I was 13... and how did you not get bored just standing where mobs couldn't reach and casting bladestorm or ev at them, occasionally moving to loot them? Those people were clearly just begging for some excitement in their lives!
Holy shit I was hoping for a UO thread. I played ALOT of UO, and still think its the best MMO in history. I had friends that created a shard, and we were implementing systems like seeds and plantations, different types of ores, etc. No MMO comes close to the amount of customization possible, and socialization as well.
We played in a shard called neverlands, and we dominated that shard for like 6 months. I created a brasillian guild, and we created an academy to train new players, we had blacksmiths, tailors, mass fabrication of weapons and magic itens, the best pvp players, it was such an awesome sense of accomplishment that I havent got with any other game since.
We played in a shard called neverlands, and we dominated that shard for like 6 months. I created a brasillian guild, and we created an academy to train new players, we had blacksmiths, tailors, mass fabrication of weapons and magic itens, the best pvp players, it was such an awesome sense of accomplishment that I havent got with any other game since.
username12
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Played it constantly for a couple of years, but then one day I all of a sudden just stopped. I loved it when I was playing it, though. With Steam and my ridiculous backlog, I can barely play what I have, let alone paying $15/month for something.
Memorabilia
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Awesome thread, thanks to the OP for making me aware of this!
Never played it, always wanted to, would love to get started. Hopefully it's a "never too late" kind of situation.
It feels a little...odd...that I'm more excited about playing a defunct game that originally came out in 1999 than I am about anything on the XB1 or PS4 at the moment.
Never played it, always wanted to, would love to get started. Hopefully it's a "never too late" kind of situation.
It feels a little...odd...that I'm more excited about playing a defunct game that originally came out in 1999 than I am about anything on the XB1 or PS4 at the moment.
Memorabilia
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lol Every silver lining...
DownLikeBCPowder
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But it was going to be 3D
. The best feature, or one of them, about UO IMO is the 2D viewpoint.By the by, the other server I mentioned in the forum post, An Corp, launched two days ago. It's more "hardcore" and aims for T2A era (but no T2A, only mainland Britannia). No mounts, insta hit, no special hits (Nox mage, etct), but with some great improvements. So far it's been running 500-700 connected clients, not bad at all. Supposedly hit 1k the o ther night, but I was not on.
Anyone playing?
I couldn't stand it - I personally prefer my MMOs with much less griefing. People could seriously be huge shits in that game if they were bored otherwise. (Same reason I didn't/don't play EVE.)
I preferred Everquest - it looked better (in my opinion, at least), had more compelling gameplay, and you could make more progress with less grief.
I preferred Everquest - it looked better (in my opinion, at least), had more compelling gameplay, and you could make more progress with less grief.
TekGryphon
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Got it in the first week as a wee little lad. My first character was what I pictured as a ranger. I would tame all the animals in Yew while I chopped wood to make bows. I'd then sell the bows to vendors until I had a backpack full of gold.
I had no idea Yew had a bank so I would make the incredibly perilous run down to Britain. I'd have my speakers up and if I heard footsteps I'd duck behind a large tree and hide until the potential threat passed.
I remember running and getting my mom to show her the first time I killed an ettin, and the first time I tamed a giant spider.
Eventually my mom did get into it. She played a smith/alchemist and never set foot out of town. She GM'd those and several other crafting skills. I remember one year for her birthday I spent a week mining the colored ores and giving her a epic pile of ignots. She still says that was the best gift I ever gave her.
I had no idea Yew had a bank so I would make the incredibly perilous run down to Britain. I'd have my speakers up and if I heard footsteps I'd duck behind a large tree and hide until the potential threat passed.
I remember running and getting my mom to show her the first time I killed an ettin, and the first time I tamed a giant spider.
Eventually my mom did get into it. She played a smith/alchemist and never set foot out of town. She GM'd those and several other crafting skills. I remember one year for her birthday I spent a week mining the colored ores and giving her a epic pile of ignots. She still says that was the best gift I ever gave her.
That's why you needed to join a guild, so you could always roll 4-5 deep and keep the Reds off yo' back.
edit: J'accuse!
http://forum.uoancorp.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=195&sid=7cd85a913cae9122ff16a21034665002
Promote the shard and earn unique rewards!
I checked, there's no GAF post, everything is cool.
DownLikeBCPowder
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Nope, this is really more of a discussion, but in case anyone wants to play, those are the two servers I'd recommend.
Plus, I don't think they'd give me "credit" if I did since the OP primarily talks about and is focused on UORenassaince and not An Corp. They are now "competing" for the same private shard player base after all
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Nope, this is really more of a discussion, but in case anyone wants to play, those are the two servers I'd recommend.
Plus, I don't think they'd give me "credit" if I did since the OP primarily talks about and is focused on UORenassaince and not An Corp. They are now "competing" for the same private shard player base after all
Okay cool.
I used to play the fuck out of Atlantic back in the day. I don't want to get back into it because it really sucked my life that game. Good memories, but best left in the past.
DownLikeBCPowder
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I tried UOF and just couldn't dig it. Skill gain is so fast it feels cheap (I was basically GM in several skills by day 2 or 3) and money was way too easy to acquire. Can't stand the beetles, wild colors, and other crazy they let go on. Glad you're liking it though.
Walter Matthau
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I've thought about replaying UO for years now, but couldn't justify it. I decided to give this a shot, but honestly have no idea what to do with my character. I GM'd Musicianship and I'm about to GM Peacemaking, yet have no idea what I'm doing from there. I originally envisioned an animal tamer with:
Animal Taming
Animal Lore
Vet
Musicianship
Provocation
Peacemaking
Magery?
Now I'm thinking this character might be too tough to build. Animal Taming takes forever as does Magery if you're broke. I don't even know if this build will be particularly useful/powerful if mastered. Anyone have any ideas for a decent build for a character that already has Musicianship/Peacemaking?
Animal Taming
Animal Lore
Vet
Musicianship
Provocation
Peacemaking
Magery?
Now I'm thinking this character might be too tough to build. Animal Taming takes forever as does Magery if you're broke. I don't even know if this build will be particularly useful/powerful if mastered. Anyone have any ideas for a decent build for a character that already has Musicianship/Peacemaking?
ChosenPredator
Banned
it's the best MMORPG in my opinion, I loved that you could kill anyone, loot anyone, (I didn't do it myself) I found all that exciting it was like DAYZ before it was around, it was unforgiving, it forced players to police, create bounties, watch out for each other
but it fell to the carebears and now they dominate every MMORPG in existence today.
but it fell to the carebears and now they dominate every MMORPG in existence today.
I was counting on this game too, but i read the messages on the RPG thread and got really disappointed. Guess that won't be the game we all wish, which is a shame.
I was one of those who played Ultima Online but never played the ultima games themselves until when i saw the SoTA kickstater, then i started Ultima VII and then IV and i was amazed by it. Truly Fantastic RPGs.
Anyway, about UO, IMO best MMO ever. I'd sure want to play it again but time is short and i already have a few games to play.
He's way ahead of you.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0
And it looks like crap
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/
ChosenPredator
Banned
you know I should also mention Phil Spencer was recently asked what his favorite RPG are and he listed, "Ultima Online" and being pked when he first got on, lol.
adds to the list of why i think that guys cool
adds to the list of why i think that guys cool
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
He's way ahead of you.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0
And it looks like crap
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/
The fan in me will buy the fuck out of this. I just want Ascension to run right one day
ChosenPredator
Banned
it is kind of upsetting you see one individual devs making a game look glorious or small teams and here you have a bunch of experience guys and the game looks terrible lol
DownLikeBCPowder
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I have exactly this build but instead of peacemaking I have meditation for Magery. Peacemaking works great, but I find that the dragons tank for me and with vet, no real need for it. You could switch Med out for Peace, as long as you don't plan to heavily use magery sans for gating recalling, etc.
ChosenPredator
Banned
Just update but richard garriot himself favorited this thread on a tweet ;-)
Dragoon En Regalia
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The Guardian was never the best of ideas, arguably. Ultima's at its best when avoiding the clear self-reflexivity of characters like Lord British and Iolo (not to forget the Avatar), and preying on players' expectations so directly isn't as effective as in previous games (forever losing your companions for one's perseverance in Ultima V!). Still, a new game like VI or VII succeeding Serpent Isles would be cool, especially since it will never happen.
Walter Matthau
Member
I'm working on provocation for the time being. I'm hoping that having GM Peace and Prov will be enough to keep me safe and earn me some gold to start working on Magery and Taming. When I selected my character, I should have started those skills at 50, but instead I chose Warrior because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. An hour after I reacquainted myself with the game there were about a dozen harps on the ground by the bank in Occlo so I just went from there.