Interesting Article

[UOMaddog]

This was just an interesting article that I came across and thought I'd share with the community:

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/ultima-online/1169826p1.html

[Canuker]

I played IPY for a few months.  Sadly I found that the free shards, while cheaper, did little to hold me in game. 

[TrailMyx]

Heh, that's a cool article.

[UOMaddog]

I think it hit the nail on the head. UO is a game that requires patience, training, and skill just to be able to play. When I look back and remember the days when I used to run around and collect regs on the ground just so I could go fight, it's hard to believe that I can now do just about anything in the game proficiently, from PvP, to PvM, to all the other random things you can do in UO. I wouldn't even know where to start to teach someone to PvP!

[Canuker]

There was a post on stratics that I tried to find written by a former dev team member stating the issues that a new player would face, mind boggling.  Way back when I first started playing there were a small handful that played beta and had a small head start on the rest of us, now it would be hard to see someone fresh into the game ever being able to get to the average players level.

[manwinc]

Just the other day, I was fighting in some minax in Britain. They took me around the side of the TB base to the back, where there is a pathway only 3 tiles wide, and about 3 screens long. I'd never seen it before in my life, but I knew exactly what the mages where about to do.

Just goes to show you, know matter how long you play this game, you still have something to learn......

Just the Concept of Weapon Skill and DCI is something even most veterans fall short on. Sad Really.

[gimlet]

I dont know how many of you remember working skills without locks. Also i had just got magery to 90 when someone lit a campfire next to me and i went down in magery and up in camping. I was so pissed. I remember getting a bandage put on me and learning healing (at the cost of more magery!)
yea I sure dont miss those days!

[Canuker]

I remember the first time I was pk'd.  I was walking on a road and some guy with a drake came along.  I went to ask him how on earth he did this(tame it) when I died....ahhh the good days.  Or the first time I got poisoned in front of covetus....I'm next to sure it was just plain but I had no concept of curing and healing wouldn't do it back then...it took ages to die but it happened all the same.

[Masscre]

I dont know how many of you remember working skills without locks. Also i had just got magery to 90 when someone lit a campfire next to me and i went down in magery and up in camping. I was so pissed. I remember getting a bandage put on me and learning healing (at the cost of more magery!)
yea I sure dont miss those days!

Yes I was one of those bad men. Who would walk up behind you in a grey robe and start placing camp fires all around the trinsic bank and causing your camping to go up and other high skills to fall. I used to love to see teh bank sitters run from my littel ole camp fires and they would literlt run from them. Even had a few attack me over it and then I would get tehm guard wacked. I even loved stealing from an NPC and then yelling GUARDS !! afterward so teh guard would kill me and then be marked grey to me. So I would then get enough reagents from my buddy to cast poison on the guard and watch him die eventually to 2 or 3 bouts of poison. Once had a guy cure the poison on teh guard and becasue the guard was grey(he was only grey to me, but it still worked) I was able to call guards on him LOL !! BUGS and BAD designs I miss tehm so much GREEN ACRES I miss you !!

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

nice article

[Canuker]

Any one else catch this read: www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/video-games/controller-freak/chinese-prisons-force-inmates-to-farm-gold-in-mmo-games/article2035909/