f13.net

Ive been doing some research and there seems to be a couple spots to choose from. www.uodivinity.com is one , www.metropolisshard.com would be the other.

Divinity : Done by the guys running 2 other successful emulated servers. Server is only a couple months old (so housing is not a huge factor). No horses, statloss on reds (if there bounty reaches 5000 gold...im kinda iffy on that one), no special attacks like concussion or paralyzing blows. pre-casting... No factions, Order/Chaos is live. Supposed to be setup as a t2a server. I think skill gain is slower than metropolis

Metropolisshard: Been havng recent problems with some hacker crashign them , had to disable account creation or some crap. I played on this one like a year ago and it was fun. I believe housing could be a problem. I believe they added factions very recently. Has pre-casting.

This just scratches the surface of the shard rules. i advise those that are serious to PM me, I have a Vent server and we could get rolling quick.




Im all for opinions on rule sets and basically want to run voice comm group PVP / adventuring. im on AIM as edog420 and MSN as ethanharris@gmail.com if anyone wants to talk.

Very fast download from Filefront:

http://files.filefront.com/uogoldexe/;3823338;/fileinfo.html

Basically, download, let it patch. Download UO gateway and you are in.

http://www.metropolisshard.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=393

Lots of good stuff at this site.

I'm in

OMW.  I have MSN, feel free to contact me.

OK Razor is loaded, UO gateway is loaded, I am ready to rock out with my cock out!!!

(http://www.schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/gallery/variety/rooster.gif)

You people are silly.

FYI, there is a rune library in a house just south of Vesper.  It has every location! Handy!

Which Shard did ya'll end up picking? Am just about curious enough to boot it up....

Metropolis.  Warning- You will need to macro/spend some time working skills.  Pretty much we are exchanging info and cheering each other up currently; hopefully we will have money rolling in shortly! (BC UOE here we come!)

Can one of you IM me with the details on a vent server etc?

Schild said he would get TS up soon.  I am working taming pretty hard currently; hopefully I can get us some cashflow ASAP. 

FYI there is the in game chat room, alt + T to get into it.  I will make a Bat Country room so we can keep in touch easier.

In game chat sucks balls.  Hopefully our heartless overlords benevolent saviors will get TS set up soon for F13 people.  I am enjoying the game like never before; it is a lot like old school UO with less (read: no) lag and a bit of sanity thrown in.  I am surprised that it has been around for 3 years (Metro) and I just now found out about it.  If I find it fulfilling I will post some logs about how things are going; evidently 2 of you were reading my production shard essays, and I have no issues continuing the trend.

Schild, you owe us a story about what happend to the old servers, Bastard Sir!

edit. FYI there are 4 of us in game now.  More are welcome!

I have a Ventrilo server we can use.

Right now its just kinda mindnumbing macroing time. Hit up me or Cheddars IM , we plan on rockin the joint and once we start getting out more we'll be on Vent for sure.

I should be decent in a day or 2.

I am in too.
I know I won't have the time to play, but I was in a severe UO deficiency crisis.
Lefteye is the name of the char.

Interesting. I logged in and spawned in front of a tavern. Some noob people was about there. In 15 minutes 2 of them tried attacking me and one stole a tunic from me. I callled the guards 3 times and had them killed. In 15 minutes, while I was figuring the keyboard layout and stuff like that, I tripled my starting money, looted a vast amount of potions and a bag full of reagents.
Kids these days...

My status...

Been doing the free/very cheap macroing that I can. I created 2 accounts, one a healer and one my soon to be PVP mage. I basically take off a wizards cap, put it back on and meditate. Then I eval Int on the healer guy. The time we are doing this we are wrestling far outside of town. He heals occasionally.

Im basically like 63 Wrestle, 66 med, 62 Eval, 49 magery, 50 resist. I really need to decide what skills im going to make him. Was thinking Roach mage (Parry / Hiding) but IDK, maybe a standard tank.

Time to make some money!

I am trying to get info on the factions feature but with no luck so far.
Looks like it has to be impleneted yet, but sounds promising, with controlled trade routes and cities!

Anyone could point me or just give me some more inf on it?

I currently have 82.5 peacemaking with 100 music.  "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN CHEDDAR???" you ask.  Well this means we can do some adventuring now; perhaps we can get a group to hit up Covetous harpy room or check out the orc fort south of Cove. 

My taming is progressing nicely; is anyone going to be working on crafting?  I could use some tinkered boxes and free lockpicks!

edit.  I will probably make a post with gathered information today or tomorrow; my goal is to have us a home and guild within 2 weeks.

OK 4 of us are doing a crawl around 9 pm EST. Will not be making lots of money, but its a chance for you melee monkeys to get some skills.  Errr since Falcon is the only one who we have not had direct contact with yet I guess this post is for you!  We will be at Covetous, the dungeon west of Vesper.

I gotta say that tonight was a fucking blast.  There were 4 of us, 2 warrior types, 1 mage wanna-be, and a tamer who could not heal his pets.  And we made it work!  Best part of the dungeon crawl was having a paragon pop up (Super boss).  At first we were debating what to do, and finally as a group we began backing up an empty tunnel so as to finish it off.  Group dynamics were great, and I had a GREAT amount of fun.

Which made me think.  Why DID UO, a sandbox game, never have a dungeon crawl?

Then I had flashbacks.  Of my times in UO, of riding the glorious ride to Grandmaster, to defeating the demon, to gathering a group together to help explore the inner depths of Hythloth.

Then people began selling runes there. 

Did the allowing of people to recall into these areas degrade the sandbox?

Yes.  Also, even under Fel rules with pushthrough, it's not hard to zoom to the bottom of a dungeon without taking much damage.  Monsters are slow and a horse plus a cable modem is fast.

No horses on the server yo ! :)

Good times Ched.. Found a random guy that gave me 5k and a full spellbook...Now ill be a real mage!!! :)

Darn I missed it!
Being european really kills the fun :|

How populated is the shard?  Meaning, how many people are at Brit bank for me to steal garlic and wood from?

3.

Heh, Server is about a medium load.  A LOT of PvP goes on though, so most the time people are in a small area.  Its just enough that you can interact with people, but not so much that you deal with tons of jackasses.

Tonight we took on the Orc Fort south of Cove.  Pretty much rocked it; our strategy worked well once we had some practice.  Basically Slayer would Blade Spirit ahead, thus keeping the majority of the mobs busy, and we would help mop up as needed.  Of primary concern were the orc mages.  Tough little bastards who would not only spell dump on us but also would dispell blade spirits every so often.

We won, though, with no deaths none the less!  Next we decided we were the shit and went in search of some undead fiends.  Hit up 2 graveyards, one between Cove and Vesper, and the other which is off one of Vespers main streets.  Took down maybe 4 liches total and got a taste for rad drops.  I am hoping we can tackle Shame soon (I believe its Shame, its the one with oodles of Elementals).  We will need at least 1 or 2 Master melees plus a mage or 3 for that to be successful.  My next goal is to get magery up to a decent level so I can provide more support (my taming will not be handy until around 90+).

Skills I have now are:  Animal Lore 94.3, Animal Taming 69.2, Lockpick 51.7, Magery 34.5, Meditation 77.3, Music 100, Peacemaking 83.7.  I may drop Peacemaking though.  Debating on picking up either Cartography + a random skill or switching over to Provoke.  Provoke seems kinda asanine though, seeing as how I will be using pets for my primary method of battle.  My primary flaw with this template is I have zero personal defense; I am sneaky though and pretty good at dodging around.  Maybe I should keep Peacemake?


edit.  Added BEEF to post!
edit 2.  I encourage Addryc and Slayer to post their thoughts!  Perhaps we can draw in more people.

I won't be able to play for a couple days, I'm in VA.

It almost feels new again. It was so long ago that i played that just skilling up with some guys has been a blast. We make a little cash, we get some drops...and its fun as well 2 boxing (well 2 clients anyways) my wife's dexer and my own mage.

So far its been great rollin with Add and Chedd, and duse will be joinin us in a few days.

Fizzling Corp Pors is getting on my nerves,  but all in good time ill be  a nasty mofo. I never realized how handy Peacemaking could be, dont think i ever really had a friend that had one before. Aggro reset FTW.

The vent is up running, and there is no better time than now to get started

Hey dipshit, I live in VA.  What part are you visiting?

I'm pretty sure that's a sekret.

Just FYI for my fellow peoples.  Eventually I'll get a decent write up on Metro- give me a few days.

The gimp mage is rockin some ogre lords now...

Yeah, Im that good.

FYI there is even a Texas hold 'em poker place in this shard.  I am more impressed everyday I am here!

I wouldn't mind at least checking it out, but a) the graphics turn me off a bit, and b) I'm already involved with Eve. She's hot.

I would wait a week or two anyhow; Slayer, Addy, and I are slowly building ourselves up, and it can be rough without a support network.

So as someone who never played UO the first time around, what would the learning curve be?

Simple if you understand how things work.  Combat skills make you harder to hit; getting anatomy helps you do more damage with combat, etc etc.  Hardest part for most is the graphics.  Personally I feel the isometric look adds to immersion.  3D has so many limitations on current tech its not even funny.

edit.  Key is not get worked into the numbers.  The game is not for the catass, by definition.  Its sandbox.  That means you get to know your neighbor, you enjoy selling your ways, you engage in blood vendettas, and you macro to your hearts content.  Or something.  I am having more fun then I have since my fun in EQ2.

Our deceit dungeon crawl....

What a fuckin riot. Hordes of skeletons and ghouls and other shit monsters taking us on, Cheddars polar bears droppin like flies but savin our asses...Slay getting clutch with it, healing Cheddar through certain death about 10 times then re-telling WoW priestliness. Poor Addy, server went down for server wars when
he was in deceit, without a recall scroll or rune to get home...best of luck buddy!

Got absolute zero loot, but earned our way to a nice deceit safe spot where we can continue our trek from next time. Fuck rune libraries...its fun as hell earning it! Must say tonight was about 10x more fun than any WoW raid i was a part of...

Earlier in the night, I had to train a white wyrm into town as a grey (guards can be called on you and you will be killed) just so ole chedd didnt lose it (his taming was probably 10 points lower than what you need to handle a White wyrm, the baddest bad ass around...it wouldnt listen to any of his commands).

Must say im damn glad i been working magery hard, cause i always have some clutch spell to lay down in the face of hordes of baddies (hi Para field, teleport, and invis).

Seriously guys, if you dont play you ae missing out :)


Oh yeah, and server wars fuckin own. about 20 minutes of pure chaos in britian starting at midnight eastern, no guards just mad scraps. Honestly, im really surprised how re-hooked to this game i am.

Killed a thief that tried to jack me earlier in the night...he ended up giving me a house deed and 15k after i got to talkin with him for a while...so yes, we have a home! WOOT

Im not sure if it i because i had played it before, but to me the graphics and 2d look still have its own flavor. Maybe taking out the 3rd D allowed them to concentrate on shit like fun :)

Hmm may have to get in on this, been awhile since I had a UO fix. 

From one who didn't do old-school UO, heres my (overdue) impressions:

Its fun - the feeling of risk is a nice addition, the graphics don't really phase me as the gameplay is good - I've been having a blast with Slay and Cheddar kicking butt - and even when I can't be on and playing I can be macroing skills which is a big help.  I think anyone who played back then and enjoyed it, or people (like me) who've heard you lot talk about the golden days of UO, should give it a try to see what the big deal was about.

So...are people still playing?

I never was a part of UO. I played on an emulated shard for about 2 weeks once, but the mechanics were really wonky. Anyone able to repost the links I would need to start playing with you guys (just wanna make sure I get the right ones).

Also, any particular "class" you guys need? I don't mind supporting roles.

www.metropolisshard.com
http://www.metropolisshard.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=393
There is also a download availible on MarkeeDragons site, the link eludes me at the moment.

Whatever skills you wanna get are fine, but I highly recommend starting with something that will make you a bit of cash.  Any type of crafter, bard, mage, etc will get you on the right path.  Your first few days will be mostly macroing (unfortunetely); hook up with Slayer, he is pretty good at it.  We do have a house now and are working on getting more funds!

Dare I even ask someone to explain macroing to someone who has never done it?



Yes, I dare to.


EDIT: Also, the primary download link found on the forum you posted is full. I'm using the Alt they posted. I hope it works. And what is with the robes?

http://www.markeedragon.com/downloadultimaonlinemondainslegacy.php  <- Use this link, its hella fast. 

Next download Razor.  Run UO, thereby installing it and getting all nice and patched up.  Install Razor.  Run razor, fill out the server info, and viola.  You are in!  All macroing means is you work on skills automatically; razor has easy to create macros (basically you record actions, hit "play", and you are macroing). 

I may not be on tonight due to having a meeting at 5 am.  Ugh.  But I should be on tomorrow evening.

Doing a bit of macroing right now, did you guys ever settle on communication though.  You using f13s TS server or your vent one. 

Heh...I loaded it all up.

It plopped me down somewhere in some town, and that was it. I picked Mage at character creation, and managed to put the two spells I had into my spellbook.

Casting is....it takes too much clicking and stuff. Also, I didn't start with any offensive spells.

Map is ass. Took me awhile to wander my way out of town, and then mroe time to find something to smack. I couldn't equip my dagger, so I just closed it out.

Oh well.

Mainly using vent right now; I have been meaning to move over to the F13 TS.  Life has been extremely busy for me though; time keeps flying!  Type [msg in game to open up the unique chat client thingy; its very handy!

look me up on MSN messenger as well, Ethanharris@gmail.com

I can get ya started on some solid macroing a creating a good character. In a week im like 10 resist and 3 magery from 7x

I recommend for the newer guys to start with a dexer. Well, its just easier to talk to me about stuff so holla! :)

Just ask Addy, it helps SO much having a couple vets around. If you are willing to give it another shot i can give you the gameplay tutorial and macroing tips. UO automap is awesome by the way.

the best download i have found if anyone is interested is from www.filefront.com , just search Ultima online and get the one that says UO gold, difital purchase. pulls at like 600kb/s

Yes - it takes a little patience - I wouldn't suggest starting with a mage straight off - managing regs is a pain in the butt - though mages get uber-powerful later on in the game.  You have to unequip your spellbook to equip your dagger - just drag it into your backpack :)  Really its very easy to get into with a little help - its not a directed experience like wow - its very much a sandbox world but there IS lots of fun stuff to do.

I made a Swordsmen, but then quit. I didn't even give it a chance really (I've done the emu shard thing once before though. Can't really do it again).

Az is right. You people are silly (but have fun :-) ).

I'll have to try again sometime this week with a melee character. I'm really not into...economical stuff, like chopping trees or knitting.

I hope you assholes are still playing because I'm downloading the client now.  Oh, and I was visiting family in Williamsburg.  Don't rape them please!

We are still on, and having a ton of fun.


Your mother says hello and that she will be working on her tailor.

Do you have a voice client so I can hear your lisp outside of my imagination?

Well it took me awhile to figure all this shit out but I'm in.  I have a blacksmith named John Haverty who currently resides in Britannia.  I shall make you all chain hauberks!

Hey guys!  I'm registered now :).  *NOTE:* To any of you guys that start out new on Metropolis be sure to hit up the newbie dungeon which is the portal right next to the building you start up at (that building is an Inn).  The newbie dungeon is great for getting some cash and getting your skills going.

UO does take some time to learn.  Its not as much hand holding as the other games out there.  DAoC, EQ2, Shadowbane, and WoW all have their "newbie" areas and such.  In UO you start off in the middle of it all.  Sure you are safe in town (somewhat, there's still thieves), but if you stray out of town and don't know where you are your likely to end up at the end of someone's Corp Por (this is a commonly used and bad ass spell in UO).

BTW, for those of you who don't know much about me.  I play a hardcore crafter in UO.  I met Slayerik, Cheddar, and Andric in UO.  I have been seeing them macroing in town near the bank and finally decided to be nice and say Hi.  I am really glad I did because they introduced me to this website and last night we had our first "mini" adventure.  My crafter is a GM (Grandmaster) in blacksmithing, bowyer, carpentry, tailoring, and soon to be in tinkering as well.  My wife also plays and she is GM in inscription (well almost, she's at 99.1), tinkering, alchemy, mining, and I think something else.

Not sure what else to post, but I know that I am having a blast and I look forward to our next expedition into hell where we can kick some ass and take names!
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Edit:  For "other" macroing programs besides Razor you can also try www.easyuo.com.  Its a VERY POWERFUL tool.  If you can learn the scripting language there is NOTHING this program can not do (well, it can't PvP for you).  If you can do it, it can be scripted to do the same. 

The scripting language is a little confusing to me.  If you have ever done any programming it should be fairly easy to pick up (so I hear).  That website also has some already made scripts that work pretty well.  They sometimes have to be tweaked to work and sometimes they just won't work at all because of different reasons (freeshard, different version, etc.).

Hey Chin, glad you came by.

For everyone playing on Metropolis, I have a forum I admin where we can discuss things and not bug everyone here with our grand adventures ;)

m-n-m.net

Register and I'll take care of the rest.

I just might jump into this.  Does it have ships, houses, and player vendors?  How closely does it emulate the original OSI servers?

Yes, yes and yes.  Pretty damn close to the old experience.  Balance is pretty damn good and there are tons of little goodies (like a casino and a special Texas Hold Em game where the winner of large pots gets global recognition).  Its fun!

I rolled a warrior and I couldn't even kill the mobs in the newb dungeon. That was enough for me.

Yep, that's oldschool UO.  When it first came out in '97, you couldn't even kill hinds until after a few days of raising skills.

You have to start with rabbits, cats, and dogs.  Make sure you remember to skin them too. 

I remember surviving those first weeks on the sales of the meat and hides to npc vendors.  It was a cold harsh world.

This isn't one of your fancy modern MMO games where you log in for the first time and some NPC is like "Hello Driizzt69, you are powerful and cool!  Only you can save Newbington Village from the evil legions of a_sickly_bunny01!"  This is old-school UO.  Here's your dagger and your 100gp, you near-destitute and incompetent nobody of a newb, figure something out.

Thanks for the new sig!

Told you fuckers I am hardcore.  Raised in the hoods of Virginia Beach, I am living the thug knock (e-) life!

Virtual Hobo Online sounds fun.  :roll:

I also couldn't get past the interface...it's just not very intuitive to me. EQ didn't really hold your hand when you first rolled up (or atleast it did not when I started it).

EDIT: I mean, I really want to like it, and have fun playing it. I've seen it done before....I just feel so hamstrung trying to do anything besides basic movement. Hell, I even accidentally gave money away to a merchant, because I couldn't figure out how to pay him for a skill training.

Also, wtf is with the newb weapons doing Zero damage? Why even have a newb dungeon if you can't do any damage to anything in the newb dungeon?

Yeah, it wasn't unheard for those dumb newbs who thought they could just go out and be a warrior to end up picking through litter at the bank like bums.  Me, I did a little research ahead of time and started as a lumberjack/bowyer.  I didn't give a shit about crafting or archery or anything, it was just a simple way to turn wood into money by making bows and selling them to the NPC shop.  So I was a poor newb, but never utterly destitute.

I remember after about a week or so I had saved up and bought some shitty chainmail from an NPC shop (topped off with the obligatory "I'm a newb!" orc helm) and had started poking my nose out of town a little bit.  This other newb is wearing platemail, and he thinks he's tough.  He tries to PK me, not realizing that even though there are no buildings in sight, we're still in the guardzone.

"Guards!"
KA-THWACK!
Blaarrgh!

And now I have plate armor.  And an exceptional GM-crafted katana, no less.  I couldn't carry all of his stuff AND all of my stuff, so I threw my old shit on the ground.  He came back to beg for his armor, and when it was clear I wasn't going to give it to him, he had to pick up mine and put it on or else go naked.  Fucking newb.

This should be in Lums book.

Guard killing people in East Brit was all the craze.  Usually it was thieves using them to grief players, though.

So I've had my shiny new plate armor for a day or two.  Me and two other newbs are in Brit cemetery, feeling heroic because we just ganked a wraith to death.  (It was the first thing we had defeated that could use magic.)  Up walks some other newb in a robe and orc helm, asking if he can join us.  We say yes.  I believe his name was Stormbringer.

He says we should go to the Britain crossroads and hunt for orcs.  Any remotely experienced player would know that those crossroads are PK central, but again, we're raw newbies.  So we get out there, and not much of anything happens, actually.  We hike up the road and, after an initial moment of panic, manage to kill an ogre.  Holy shit, we're kicking ass and taking names now.

Well we get halfway to Yew, and still we haven't been attacked by a PK.  Slow day or something.  One of the dumber newbs, who doesn't even have any armor at all (despite the fact that I knew he had been playing at least as long as me), attacks a bear for some reason and is getting torn up.  Just as I'm jumping in to help him, the bear just sort of... FWAP... dies.

Stormbringer the newb just blew it out with a flamestrike.  What the fuck?  He takes his robe and orc helm off, to reveal his spiffy black and purple outfit.  Then he tells us that he's actually a 7xGM PK hunter, who hooked up with our group to use us as bait.  I suppose we should have been put off by this, but whatever.  We thought it was cool.  Since we were good sports about it, he says he'll take us to Delucia, then back to Britain if we so choose.  Mind you, none of us have really even left the outskirts of Britain before.

Having never played an MMO before, and not having gone very far in UO at this point, the trip to Delucia was just this god damned epic journey.  We went through caves, and a lighthouse, and fought all sorts of weird fucking monsters that I'd never seen before.  Finally we got there, and it was so different from Britain, with it's much smaller size and jungle aesthetic.  After a trip around town to see the place and do a little shopping, Storm asks us if we want to return to Brit.

Mind you, this is a serious decision.  I don't have any runes or reagents to recall with, nor any real idea of how to get them.  And Delucia to Britain would be a bloody long walk for me on my own, assuming I even remembered the way correctly.  But what the hell, right?  All the other newbs wanted to go home, so I bid them all farewell, and spent the next week or two killing orcs in the foothills outside Delucia.

My first few weeks of UO were the greatest time I've ever had in any game ever.  After a while it became less cool adventures and more of the "Oh for shit's sake, there were two of you and I was at half health fighting a monster!" asshattery the game was famous for.  But those first couple weeks?  Golden.

Golden, WUA.
I have the same kind of memories and I so much agree with you.
UO's freedom was so out of scale that there wasn't any need for content. Players did all the content.
Was it the FFA PvP? Was it the lack of levels? Was it the "humanity" of the Characters and their skill and stat caps that never made 'em demigods-like? Was it the simple mechanic of not being able to assess your opponent's strength at all, leading to a PvP often based on bluffs and deception?
Am I wrong when I say that such kind of things were great and STILL, will never happen again in MMO history?

Really, really wonder why.

The gaming industry is full of copycats. Maybe a smaller company will go ...Hey, UO still has a nice chunk of subs after 10 years. What did they do right? Its not that hard to see the differences between this game and all the other EQ clones.

Why is it that I can pick this game up again and be totally enthralled once more? Maybe because it is such a roller coaster ride. 2 nights ago i was out with Cheddar and his 2 dragons. Myself as a near 7x tank mage (93 resist) make a pretty good healer and Cheddar saver most the time, but in the lich lord room I made a grand mistake. A tamer named Donkey Punch gated in, Cheddar made the right move and gated his dragons out (they arent cheap). I was foolish, and decided to try to finish the Ancient Lich we were killing. The tamer decided it was smackdown time, and I was very low on mana and choked and died. I made more mistakes in that encounter than in the last 9 days combined (no GHs, greed, didnt gate out with Chedd (gave a tamer the benefit of the doubt not to be a killer). The real kick to the dick was I had an unIDed halbard off a lich lord, could have been a real gem and about 7k on me.

I was down for the next hour or 2, pissed off at myself for my incompentance. But, as all things life goes on. I decide to check up on a few of my 'Greatly Worn' houses that I spotted recently. What do we have here? A small IDOC had started (on this server IDOCs are exactly 36 hours). The problem being I had competition. A two account using red had opened shop with a small house behind the IDOC, and out of chance a friend of mine (the guy that gave us our first small house deed) had also placed a house next door. He co-ownered me to the house and we began the long process of waiting this thing out. I brought my Dexer there to keep an eye out, hidden just out of tracking range of the enemy. Some hours pass, and I receive a message from my ghosted friend Chinchilla "IT DROOOOOPPPPPPEEDDDD!!!". Chedd and myself were doing our usual lich spanking and i immediately open the gate (Like he said earlier, like the miltary Shock and Awe are our best friends : Dragons). Within a minute, we have all the boxes unloaded to our house and locked down, no fight or anything (kinda anti-climactic I know).

The former owner was definetely a PK (or HEAVY order type guy). He had bags upon bags of obviously looted gear (GM weapons and armor all by different crafters), probably 100 GM Halbys, thousands of each reg, thousands of bandaids, around 20k in loose gold, 8k in gems, a box full of magic weapons (good stuff , power+), a box full of magic armor (good stuff, Fort+), potion kegs and loose bags full of pots, tons of GM leather....and tons more. A very cool prize was a Journal written by some random guy in January of this year...telling his story of some encounters with Reds but very well done and in character. In the end, we didnt trust our prize to the guy who let me borrow his house, and we placed our own in the IDOC spot. We are now officially on our feet.

So within 2 days I went from the gutter to butter baby. Name another game with swings like that. Its kinda like No limit Texas Holdem poker, a lot of people dont like it...they cant handle the swings. Speaking of Hold'em, they have it at the Britian Bank on top of it :)

Gotta love IDOCs!!! Wooooo

Woot Slay! Exciting news!  Wish I'd been there last night but oh well! Can't wait to take a look at all the new-found booty! :)

So, what's an IDOC?

In danger of collapsing, I'd guess.

Yeah, I remember tons of fights of IDOC's.  They'd last for a full day with several people taking shifts.  It would always come down to that last 2 minutes as things got swooped up and people got ganked. Fun!

Back then though, housing space was very valuable, meaning people would pay RL money for houses.  The ultimate contest was placing a house down before anyone else could.  Man, that would get heated as the prize was anywhere from $50-$100 in that person's pocket.

Crazy.

*Edit* Same thing for rare spawns.  People went nuts for that stuff and paid RL money for em.  I knew a guy in our guild that made like 8k in one year doing that crap.  It paid for his trip to NO for one of our guild get-togethers and several nice toys.

On Atlantic, IDOCs were insane. That place had every house spot taken earlier on in its life...from then on a house deed that cost you 20k would net you 500-1mil gold. Everyone would cock block and have a ghost or hidden guy there or something, i forget the old tricks. If I was lucky I'd usually score a chunk of loot and escape.

Server birth rares were insanely priced, and even daily rares could fetch some decent coinage...

Definetely another UO experience unmatched in any other game.

Okay, you bastards got me. I'm downloading the client and getting all set up to play on Metropolis shard. It just sounds like you're having too much fun and it's summer. It looks like a very well done free shard, too. I tried free shards once before, but never found one that I could settle on. Hope to see you in-game soon.

They also have all sorts of events on the shard...there is a crazy CTF game, a Double Domination game, and they did some event for 6/6/6 last night that we missed...oh yeah, midnight eastern the server stops saving for Server Wars....Britian is fuckin chaos for about 25 min! No guards!

The other thing that I haven't seen since UO in my experience is real life guild get-togethers.  We had 2 during our stint in the game.  One in KC the other in NO.  They were both drunken blasts.  For the most part, the people turned out to be really great.

It figures you guys are doing this during my transition to another job, which includes a move.  I'll try to get online, but I'm not sure how much time I can dedicate until late summer after the move.

The beauty of UO (as well as Eve's offline training) is that you can gain skills without being there. Each IP is allowed 3 accounts, and you can run the clients at the same time. We'd be glad to have ya around, even on a limited basis....since the IDOC we can get some nice gear on ya anyways. Message me if you need any help setting up macros or getting UO Gateway working and stuff...or i can just help get ya a character rolling if you wanna give me account info...


We actually had a WoW get together...us guys from Flint MI drove to Wisconsin and partied hard for a weekend with about 5 guildies...was good times...

Even I was in on the money from UO and early EQ. I had a villa of houses, most of an entire peninsula north of vesper that I made about $50-75 per small house and a couple hundred for my big patio house with a forge (for the nearby-ish boat mining). It hurt me to sell it off, while I can understand OSI's desire to free up housing space...there was the vast southron wasteland of the Lost Lands from the expansion that went from planned towns to no-build zone. So I just sold off my Atl property. Also made a bundle on rares from server births, good times. Helped get me by for a year while I was DJing and being a general lazabout (along with my domination of fishbone earrings and whatnot).

A lot of rares became craftable, iirc. I used to use a cool bass harp from Britian for my bard, it made a different sound than anything else used to back then.

That's freakin awesome, WUA. That's like a story straight out of UO Year 1.

I'm on Divinity as Slyfeind, usually running around Trinsic. I tried Metropolis, but it's just too densely packed for my tastes.

That was a fun little IDOC we had last night :).  I remember getting over there and talking with my wife about when we think it might drop and then about 1 hr later... *plop*.  No one was at the location for awhile while I was typing out [msg (*scroll through to Slayer's name) IT DROPPPED!, then [msg (*scroll again for his wife's char name) IT DROPPPED...

 THEN [msg (*scroll through for Cheddar) and IN comes Cheddar and 3 dragons tailing him.  And then comes Slayer's wife and then Slayer.  The whole time I'm there shitting myself thinking... "God damn it I should have gotten a character there to start grabbing, instead I'm some fucking USELESS GHOST!"  All I can do is watch so I can report to them! ARGGHHH!!  My wife was like... "SHIT, Where is it?" and She was on her way over there.

OH MY GOD THE RUSH OF THIS FREAKING GAME!  Ultimately if that Pker friend of their's was even going to consider anythnig he had 3 dragons to play with.  My wife almost got the beat down when Cheddar said "All KILL" and clicked my wife haahhahah :) he didn't know it was her.  He was fast as shit with selecting her too.  She was like.... "Oh ShIT!!"  I almost pissed myself laughing.

My #1 issue with Divinity.  No macroing of resources and other macroing restrictions.  Count me out.  I like macroing for my T-maps :).  Otherwise it would be boring as sin.  Plus getting my ore for my blacksmithy.  I don't want to even begin to imagine how long that would have taken doing by hand (I burned up like 60K in ore to GM it).

I believe they also have a 1 account rule. Screw that.

Also, statloss on PKs if their bounty passes 5000 gold.... Sounds kinda Carebear to me :) Ok well, gotta go. I have 50 miners to kill today to meet my quota. And metropolis is not that populated...its not like UO:Hybrid , maybe a fifth of the players they have on. If ya change your mind, you know where to find us :)

So you guys are playing on metropolis or another shard ?

Just in case Shadowbane gets boring.

:-D

I created a Metropolis char today.  How do I find you guys?

You can type "[msg" hit Enter.  A list of players will show up and then scroll through and look for either Cheddar, Slayerik, Chinchilla, Andric, or anyone else you may know.  We will hook you up and help ya.

I logged onto UO-Hybrid and I still can't figure out why its so populated.  Most of the people I saw were standing around on their pretty little neon colored mounts and crap.  Reminded me of the crappy post-Origin now EA games UO that exists.  I knew there was a problem when I ran around for 1 hour and didn't even see a PK or even was attempted to be PKed.  It gave me flash backs of an old MMOG my wife used to play called "The Realm".  The people would stand around town and such in their "pretty" armor and that's it.  Not go fight, not go PK, just stand around.  It was like some big fashion show.  Imagine MIRC, but with medieval cartoony characters in pretty colors.

That's kewl if you are into that, but there's a reason why I don't play Sims Online.  I want some ACTION!

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Edit:  /RANT ON

Well I just went onto their forums to see why so populated and its because its another freaking Trammel-esq shard (carebear).  Murderers can walk in town freely (reds in town), they have those "special attacks" that cheesy UO now has, and this other silly crap that IS NOT the UO I remember from the early years. 

Makes me want to vomit!  What the HELL is the point of being red then?  Just so it shows that you killed someone?  Oh wow, so fancy.  I would never play this hacked up version of UO.  What a waste of time.

/RANT OFF

I can't promise, but my plan is to check into this when I get back to town on Sunday.  I have Monday off too, so that's extra special  :-P.  I'm actually going to be in SW Michigan since that is where my new job will be.  Chicago, South Bend, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, etc. all close by, but somewhat rural.  Nice area.

Yeah we are on Metro....a current F13 list is as follows

Slayerik
Cheddar
Zetlett (just starting)
Addyrc
dusematic (havent seen em much though)
Train Wreck (just starting)
Soukyan (havent seen em in game yet but is on our forums)

And growing...get in and join the fun...I need a couple more IDOC watchers :)

I work in Ann Arbor Dren...not horribly far from where you are talkin about :)

I see how it is.  I get left out like chopped liver.  Oh the agony and sadness.

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Well that smelted ore heavy house was loaded with ore to the hilt.  So who wants some FREE ARMOR!!! Roughly 10K in Iron, 30K in copper, had some Agapite and other stuff.  My wife read the list off fast so I didn't get it all written down.  It fell around roughly 10:30am.  My wife got it for you guys. 

How is the PvP structured on that shard?  I mean, is it mostly gate waring or is it C/O fighting in towns or guild wars setup for certain times/places?  I've been through all of that over the years and I'm fine with it all.  I'm just wondering.  Although, house fighting at the moongates was the worst.

That is sweet!  We are like fucking PIRATE.  Yar matey.

TBH, I havent done a ton of PVP yet. From what Ive seen there are some Chaos orders running around. I hear a lot of the PVP happens at Bucs den. Factions are supposed to be released in the future sometime.

From what Ive seen, its mostly random world encountr...a red at a rune library, or popular dungeon spots. Destard entrance always seems to have trouble nearby.

Chincilla, my bad on not puttin ya on the list, you are still fresh f13 meat :) At the same time, you are my hero for scoring those ingots...i figured it was like another 12 hrs from now!

One last IDOC, that log cabin i have a good timer on...

From here out lets take it to our dead MMO forum at the top :)

Also, what happened to that vendor that was there? He had like 20k in Iron alone.....

Does metropolis have a skillcap with the typical 7xGM templates?  Is it just one character per account?  If so, is there a limit to how many accounts somebody can have?

I rolled up a mage without thinking and it stuck me with 25 str/hp, so I'm probably going to axe him for a new char.

3 accounts per IP, 5 characters per account.

Reroll him, 60 str... Use advanced char. option, I advise 50 resist , 49 mage. standard 700 skill cap, 100 per skill is max.

Remember, Eval + Anat doesn NOT equal wrestling. Standard builds are old school tank - Mage, Resist, Med, Eval, Wrestle, Swords, Tact , and numerous variations. I gotta go to a meeting or  else id get ya on your feet real quick :) Head on up to the "new" forum , we have more info there.

heheheh its ok bro :).  Just screwing around with ya.  Yeah I am REALLY new, but I plan on being here for a long time so you guys gotta DEAL WITH IT!

You are correct btw, there was another bunch of Iron Ingots.  Roughly 30K iron I believe.  I dropped by the house to see how the new central A/C installation is going at my house and I was chatting with my wife.  Once I get home I will run my guy over there to watch it.  We had to shut everything down because its like 93+ degrees in the house and it could harm the PC's.

If you want I can hold onto them and use them for making you guys armor when you need it.  Or you can hold onto it and just give it to me when you want armor.

Edit: Oh and the Tower I showed you last night Slayerik.  It didn't have crap it in.  200 regs, few seeds, like 3 plants, 7,000 in gold (that was the best part), and few treasure maps.  The rest was funiture and such.  Really REALLY crappy IDOC considering the massive size of the Towers.  That fell around 9:10am.  Again, my wife rocked it!

About a year and half ago, I found Angel Island, which is ran by Adam Ant.  Ant had some great ideas for options for reds back when I was playing in 98 and 99, and now he has built up a shard and got it going.  It is pretty fun, I haven't played in a while, too busy doing other stuff to add another game to my plate.

http://www.game-master.net/

He has a great beginners guide and how to get the game going.

Does Eval have any effect on Magery on this shard?  I would prefer not to have it unless its a necessity.

 My UO heyday was its first year, when all you needed were magery, resist, hiding, tactics, and whatever weapon skill(s).  It was fun being able to screw around with the RP skills, and forensics was surprisingly useful for determining if and which PKs were around.

I checked out his shard before coming to Metro.  Ultimately it was my 2nd choice after Metro.  I like the raw madness of Metro.