Hi All! As the title implies, it's been a fair amount of time since I last stepped into the world of Britannia. I started playing when I was in 5th grade with my best bud and stopped after a few years when WoW came out (mid high school so you can sort of guess my age). You can say that UO and I have a relationship similar to one with an ex-girlfriend that you cheated on but keep thinking about. Anyway, I was recently on a little site called Reddit (while procrastinating at work of course) and thought "gee, why don't I check out the UltimaOnline subreddit - lo and belold! there was a relatively live community discussing the game. This got me intrigued and I recently rolled on what seems like one of the more popular free shards.
Took a quick look around the world since coming back and almost everything I once knew and loved has changed quite a bit. Not to say that this is bad at all, but it is rather... odd and new - not unlike seeing the ex and realized she's matured quite a bit since we last saw each other 10 years ago. I've lost that sense of exploratory wonder, but there are deep seeded feelings that never goes away as well as a sense of fascination to see what new things I can discover. The first time I saw a player named "a dog" and NPCs like Nadia the bald female wandering healer brought back droves of fun memories! Of course, the first time I tried leveling my fencing on a cat outside of town and almost died brought back quite a few bad ones as well... And that's what brought me here to the ScriptUO community!
I was never a big Scripter back in the good old days, mainly due to the fact that I was in middle school and basically computer illiterate (I never even touched UO Assist or other programs that could help). I knew there were such programs out there but just never tried. In fact, I remember using a little known program called EZ Macro to record mouse and keyboard strokes for some rudimentary scripting. Now, after getting a college degree and a few years working in the oh-so-exciting world of finance, I hope I have gained a bit more IQ to truly understand scripts and the full experience it can bring to an Ultima Online player.
Really hoping the guys here can help bring me from that 5th grade newbie running around mining by hand and getting ganked by a ridiculous amount of PKs who seem to be able to find me no matter which obscure location I run to (never getting past 90% skill because I would get too bored) or click-casting spells to train magery on his tillerman for 5 hours a day after school to one of the elite UO players that I always dreamed of being!
