Hi, I'm Pip and have just returned to UO after several years away.
I started playing at around the release of T2A. I'd been aware of UO for a while before having played the stand alone Ultima games from IV onwards but was unwilling to risk the expected high telephone bill from the PAYG internet service that was available at the time. As soon as a fixed price unlimited download service was available we (my wife and I) started an account. After a month I started a second account for myself and then my son started an account too, (3 networked PCs in the house, that poor modem earned it's keep).
WE played mainly on Europa although I also spent a bit of time on Siege as the game play became increasingly restricted for my thief character. Although I did try a little PvP I sucked at it Royally so am a confirmed Trammelite these days.
Of course, like everyone else we were looking for ways to avoid repetitive strain injuries. I smiled in recognition at the mention, in other posts, of rolls of coins holding keys down to repeat macros. In my case it was an old nail varnish bottle (the wifes not mine, no really, it was, "Blush Pink" so not my shade at all). As time went on we found our days being scheduled around powerhour to get that 0.5 gain in Smithing as you burnt your way through 10K of ingots. It must have been about then that I finally let go the last vestiges of any anti-scripting feeling I had and sought out EasyUO.
What a relief that was! I was interested in trying to figure out how the scripts worked and applying slight modifications etc but I was never confident enough to try writing my own from scratch. (My programming experience consists of CECIL, Basic & Fortran now all long forgotten). Often just to get a script working felt like a pretty big achievement.
After four years of playing RL got in the way I took a break then went and tried a few other games although I did keep popping back to look at UO from time to time (account age is showing 78 months)
YES I did the WoW thing for a couple of months, as well as a whole raft of other MMO's including DAoC, Conan, LOTRO and PotBS as well as doing a few Beta tests but was looking for something new when my (now EX) missus mentioned she was giving UO another go, that the High Sea expansion was great and so on and so forth. So I thought, what the hey and signed up to take a look and it hit me just how good this game is. You just don't realise until you've been playing all those other, fantastic looking but comparatively shallow games the genius of UO, how involving, how flexible the skills system is and what a pain mining and fishing are. After about two hours it was "Hmmm now where's that EasyUO site" *taps into Google*
And that is what's brought me here.
Looking forward to getting involved and taking the time to write a few basic scripts this time. Especially for those flippin' lobster pots!
All the best
Pip
Cerveza - broke up the wall a bit...
