I'm always horrible at introductions, so please bear with me
I started playing UO when I was about 11. It was just by chance that I picked it up at Staples, as I had never heard of it before, and pretty much only grabbed it because it was discounted down to $9 (and my aunt was very frugal, but always took me out to purchase a small something when she visited). It was the Third Dawn installment, and had already been out for quite a bit I think.
I was amazed once I read the booklet, that I would be able to play with others, ONLINE! Lol, I had never heard of this before, as I was pretty much entirely a console gamer (besides the occasional 1v1 battles of Warcraft with my uncle).
Once I was able to get my connections all sorted, and after a couple phone calls to tech support with my dad, I was finally in. I remember having so much fun, literally just walking around the towns. Seeing all these people talking. I probably only killed about 30 mobs my 1st month, I was so addicted to just chatting with other people in a game.
The 30 days came and went (or maybe it was 45?) and I was able to coax my parents into keeping an active subscription for me.
After a couple months a new something or other came out... probably for playstation, and I kind of lost interest in UO. Honestly, I really wasnt mature enough to take advantage of all of UO's features anyhow.
5 years passed, and one night when I got home, my dad sat me down and laughingly said, "Well, do you think we can cancel this subscription?" with a copy of his statement.
Lol, he had been paying the sub the whole time, and I had long forgotten about the game.
He canceled it, but then it was fresh in my mind, and every once in a while I would think about joining again.
I did wind up making a new account a couple times over the next couple years, but by then I had recently started college, and working, and would only get a month here and there to play. Which actually was more like 30 minutes every 3rd or 4th day.
Finally done with my 'hard classes,' and only working part-time, so I've been able to re-dive into the game. And thanks to the RTB, was able to find and check on my old 5 year account with all my vet rewards XD.
The last 2 months have been the most fun I've had playing a game. I know the graphics are incredibly old, but I honestly love UO. The amazingly long history of it, and crazy amount of customization. Its awesome.
Anyhow, after that long-winded bio/my history with UO, The reason I'm here and would like to join this community, is now that I've spent the last 2 months playing and leveling characters on a new account, I'd really like to ease the training up of some new chars on my 'vet' account I just re-found.
And while I found both this site, and EUO... I noticed most of EUO's stuff is from <2008.. lol.
That, and while I'm certainly not asking to be included in the Elite's, I find the fact that there is the
possibility for active and highly supportive members to attain that and gain access to even awesome-r scripts.. well, awesome.
(This is also not meant to be a "hint" re: the Elite membership.. I truly do simply feel its public existence to be awesome *nods* )
As for my in-game info. The bulk of my account is on Pacific, but I have dabbled on Atlantic and Siege. I supremely enjoy the crafting classes, and am still playing around with mage builds on my secondary chars. I spent a good portion of my summer break scouring through uoguide and stratics, trying to absorb as much background and base knowledge as I can. So I'm pretty good on 'theory' and now just need to work on 'practice'.
Thank you for taking the time to read this! I look forward to getting to know you all, and getting to start scouring for even more info here C:
