I started Ultima Online ages ago, 1990/1991 on Drachenfels. In the beginning I had very big troubles with my provider and the connection - con losts were my regular companion. Once heading out from Britiain to the woods, there was no Trammel - I had my very first run in with a pk -I only witnessed part of it for my regular conlosts. I was chopping wood in the area and had my first cl - when i logged back in i was not alone any more - some guy was there - i only was able to read part of the conversation he seemed to have with me - conlost does not make you disappear - i only could read - give me your wood or else - then conlost - the next time I logged on I saw everything grey - the pk gone and me going back to town - i applied to a guild and got hindered from joining at least three times - cause the lag hindered me to step through a portal. But I stuck with it - and found another internet-provider.
The reason I started Ultima Online was because almost everyone of my colleagues was playing it. I worked for a firm that was the sole distributor for Ultima Online and other products for resellers. Most of my colleagues were male. The only other female did not play, but since i started playing computer games - a variety of them in 1987 - I thought - why not - give it a chance. But hadn't I met the right people - I would have stopped playing it long ago.
My RL boss once wanted to take me to the newbie dungeon with his female character. It was a complete failure. He told me my crappy outfit was the only problem - and offered me to work for him ingame - collecting leather. Stupid as it is - I really did this for some time - but when I got fed up with butchering cows in Delucia i started to wander through the land and encountered my very first dire wolf - not knowing that they are not that easy to kill - i had really only crappy stuff and was myself crappy - I got killed and again wandered the grey country until I encountered one very special person Mr. M. He did not only revive my character but offered - he might as well buy leather -to more money but was not expecting certain delivery dates - and gave me his icq. Well not much longer after he had gone I had my second but most important encounter with the infamous group of PKs "Made in Sweden". Strange as it may sound - thanks to them I soon found the most wonderful guild to be in. With my new one ICQ - I contacted Mr. M., if he can help me out. It took a long time for him to show up - because he was not alone anymore - a gate opened and a whole group stepped out of it- still expecting enemy encounter - It was GDC -my char was Camilla. I was escorted to their hideout reequipped and joined their guild for many years.
Unfortunately four of them - the ones closest to me - Mr. M didnt play that often or stopped playing then - decided to start their own guild and so i went with them. I followed the guys also to other games and servers - but still had the ICQ-contacts active - most of them had stopped playing then.
After closing my account on Drachenfels - where my chars were (Camilla, Tuginda, Romilys, Janice, Trisha,Lucilla etc.) and the Guilds I was in were (KoX - Knights of X-Treme, CoW- Chamber of Warriors, GDC - Green Devil Clan, COY - Council of Yew, SKV - Seeker of Virtue and KoA Keeper of Angmar?) I started playing on Pandora - and still am.
I bet I am one of the oldest members now - but as I see it - growing older does not necessarily mean that you wont like activities you did before - The eldest member i ever met in game was over 80.
My reason for scripting is that I am not a good player and I cant manage without - to be sure in a champ that I survive it and can enjoy it - it is important that these are routines I neednt click on myself.
I made a longer pause playing and want to return back to pandora - where masses of mibs and treasurce maps await me. My hobby in Drachenfels and in Pandoara was idocing. I hope that there is a script which shows a good route to the mibs - as I said I have tons of them and then riding my seahorse to the destination. This would be my first project getting back in game.
How I came to this site: I tried to download easy uo - which does not seem to be working - uo automap - there the cursor is not following my movement. Since this failed i hoped to find a site where the locations of the mibs are pinpointed like the treasure maps and found this homepage - now making my introduction.
I work at court in Austria - being 50 years old and spending most of my freetime playing computer games - Ultima Online being the only Online Game i play now - but I also used to play DaoC, WOW, LotrO. On Zynga i have my farm where I tend to my crops and animals - or play any hidden object game from Zylom - where I am a member. And its only me and my cat. My brother is one year younger and has a wife and three children, five chickens, two rabbits, two guinea pigs and ducks - the quantity could be changed by now for the ferret that comes in the night.
Sorry for the boring introduction but in the sticky post it read - a few sentences are not enough.
