Hi there, i'm Spammy, i'm from Italy, and i'm here to introduce myself and tell you about my experience with UO... but please don't judge me by my name, i won't spam you too much!
It all started several years ago (i think it was about mid 1998), when i was just a teen... back then i used to go to a public internet point because not everyone had the possibility to have internet at home, and when i went there i always saw a group of people playing this weird game, with all the opened windows around and lots of characters on screen. And i always stayed there looking at what they did in their monitors, like a silent shadow eheh
Well, it was just a matter of days till i *HAD* to introduce myself to those people and just ASK WHAT G*DDAMN GOOD GAME they were playing... and so i knew UO for the first time!
I started playing with them on their private shard, it was a Sphere server, and had a lot of fun, albeit still being really clueless about the game. But i loved it.
I was playing an archer named "Riverwind" (i had just finished reading the Dragonlance series back then) and i remember that there was always this PK mage called "Lady Silen" that killed me while i was hunting (and she was usually morphed as a Dragon).
It was my true intention to take revenge on her, so i decided to create a mage myself... moral of the story: i think i never succeeded in killing her, but now it became so much fun being killed by her after a long fight, and now i had 2 characters that i LOVED playing.
Then it was the time to make a tamer, then a warrior and a crafter... and i loved them all!
Back then, i was still going at school, so i had plenty of time to spend on UO, and i did!
Then, one sad day about a year later, i found out the shard was being closed, apparently because there were too few people playing... i was mad, i didn't care about how many people were there, i only cared about the few people i liked playing with... yes, even Lady Silen!
I decided to try playing on OSI, but it wasn't the same, i couldn't manage to be sucked in like it happened on my first shard, so i stopped playing uo after some weeks.
Then fast forward to about three months ago... i'm now over 30, i finished studies, i got a degree in computer science, a work, a wife... and then it happened, i found a folder in my backupped files on the PC with all the screenshots from my first UO shard... and i REMEMBERED EVERYTHING. It was like i was 17 and NOOB again and i told myself i would give UO another shot... and here i am!
I started playing again on a custom shard (dunno if i'm allowed to write the name) and i've already joined a great guild and met alot of nice people... many things are changed on UO now, but i don't care... i'm having fun all over again, and i'm just waiting for the new Lady Silen to come and PK me, after a long battle obviously!
Soooo this is my story!
I'm happy to be here and looking forward in taking advantage of about 15 years of technology progress in UO-scripting
