Like most of you, I have been having withdrawls from not being able to use Easy UO (other than to load in multiple clients).  As I was reflecting on this, I also remembered another UO Program which was actually legal, that I miss and had a case of withdrawls when it was no longer being updated:  UO Auto Map, otherwise known as 'UOAM'. 

This was a fantastic program!   You could keep track of where other characters were in the game, chat with them on another screen, mark your own personal points of interest, hit the Panic button so those characters could come and aid you.  It did all kinds of other things too!

http://uoam.net/  The home for UOAM is still there with a letter telling everyone that he is no longer going to update it and has abandoned the project.  WHY?  Also, why did he not pass it off to someone else?  Give out the source code?  And why did EA not include it in future releases and patches of the game???

If any of you have thieves, then the Abyss is full of new stealables!  A lot of them look really cool and are geared more towards "House Deco".  What person playing UO would not like to have a pile of Treasure in their house? Or some alcohol, bottles of Liquor, dity dishes, and Spiderwebs?  Below is a URL which shows a screenshot of each of the new stealables.  From the surroundings, hopefully you can figure out where a particular stealable is located.  As each of us finds these new stealables, perhaps we can post where we found them?  (A friend of mine sent this to me since he knows I have two active thieves).

Stygian Abyss Stealables:
http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn186/bgblnts247/Stygian%20Abyss%20Stealables/?start=20

The other day I was thinking that it would be so cool if UO implemented a way to sell some of your Uber Tamed Pets on a Vender.  Players looking for that colored CU or the Ultimate PvP Dragon could go to selected areas and find the Pet of their "Dreams" or the one they could afford within their 'price range'.  They could perhaps somehow tie it into the amount of Stable Slots you have, as many players may try to abuse this by just having their Pets on Venders.  Perhaps give an extra 2 slots and the character would become a Tamer Vender? 

Some of you have been having problems lately training skills with a Golem.  I am posting the training method I use with a Golem (Number 5 is the most important)!!!:

40-120 skill - Attack a pet Golem
This method is a little bit of a trick, but is 100% legal! You will NOT get in trouble for using this trick. You can see players using this virtually every day outside of Luna. This method of training requires a few setup procedures.

1.Acquire a 100% poison weapon in your melee skill, or a Use Best Weapon Skill one. Make sure that the weapon you get does not have any hit spell on it. If it does, it will make this method impossible.
2.Acquire a GM Tinker made Golem. Hopefully you have a friend who has GM tinkering, and they can make you one. If not, they shouldn't cost too much.
3.Once you have your Golem, have someone with 110 Animal Lore find out what its wrestling skill is. The value of this number is revealed in the next step.
4.Acquire a set of +20 (or greater) jewelry in your melee skill. Your goal with this is that when you put on the jewelry, your skill should be between 10 and 20 points lower than the Wrestling on the Golem at all times. This is to maximize gains. At 40-70 skill you will likely have to use jewelry to boost your fighting skill into the proper range.
5.Join a guild if you are not in one already. You can also start your own which is not very costly.
Now that you have completed those four tasks, here's what you do:

1.Grab your Golem and stand someplace. The popular place for this training is outside the Luna bank.
2.Equip your weapon and jewelry. Remember your skill should be no farther than 20 below the Golem's wrestling.
3.Say "all guard me". This will make your golem highlight green to you.
4.Say "all stop". This will make the golem stop guarding you, with new pet commands you say "all follow me" and golem never attacks you and will always follow you.
5.Use the Context Menu on the golem and select the "kill/attack" option and target yourself, then QUICKLY press your enter button.
If you do this right, the Golem should stop attacking you right away and you should start to gain. Please be aware, you may have to go through steps 3-5 several times before it works right. If you keep getting hit, just keep using the 'all stop' command.

As your skill increases you should remove the skill enhancement jewelry as needed. Eventually you will surpass the Golem's skill. This is okay because as long as you are 20 points below or above your opponents fighting skill, you can gain your own.

In exactly four days from now I will have been registered on the ScriptUO Forums for One Year!  I think that is a nice thing to celebrate as many of my fellow UO players and friends are leaving UO and going someplace else.  Sticking with something more than 4 months these days is a definite rarity.  I have learned so much from ScriptUO.  I have been playing Ultima Online off and on since 1999 and I still do not know everything there is to know about the game.  One thing I have learned is that the people here stick together and help one another.  No one here wants to be spoon fed, but it is 'Sweet' to get an edge on other players.  When I first started playing UO, I had more time to devote to it, but now I have limited playing to a couple hours each day.  So that time is precious and I want to be able to take advantage of that -- the information here on ScriptUO definetly is well worth reading and participating in the forum threads!

Does anyone know or know where to find the minimum and/or oprimum skills for controlling a Pet for use at PvP.  I hear all kinds of different numbers thrown at me, but I want to know the definitive answer.  Is 108 Taming and 110 Lore good enough to control a Dread mare?  How about a Greater Dragon?  Does the Lore skill number need to be higher than the taming or can you control with 108 Taming and 100 Lore?

If you know the answer, please share it.  Has someone put together a chart for determining these numbers.  OSI has been so helpful giving us the answers in the past (ya right!)

Also, to keep this thread going, I want to know what is the best Pet to use for PvP and in what situations?  Is a Dread mare better than a Cu?  What about a Hiryu?  Greater Dragons are great, but probably only in group situations as they are so slow and cumbersome. So what Pet should I use for what? 


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Does anyone else play on the 'Pacific' Shard other than me?  I am asking because I really would like to get together with like-minded people who play on the same shard that I do.  To be honest, most of the time I play or adventure alone and quite frankly it gets very boring.  Most of my friends who played UO with me when I started, have have left UO and have gone to play other games they thought would be much more interesting and entertaining...

TM, what do you think of having a couple of Forums just for players of certain shards....listing them individually would be too many, but what about West Coast, Mid-West or Central, East Coast, European, Asia-Pacific? 


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