Gretings.

foobio here.  About me ... well, I have been playing UO since Beta.  Which means about what ... 15 years?  Longer than some of you have been alive?

Yes ... that is way too long.  Walls have fallen and governments have collapsed ... origin is now a dopey game downloading service ... Richard Garriott is still light in the loafers (and still rich) ... and EA still gets paid by me for the terrible customer service and less than spectacular product that is UO ... and the virtue system is still not implemented.  Imagine that.

So what keeps a bitter UO player like me around?  Tough question - that.  Probably the fellow players I guess. Or could it be I get to ride dopey Ethie mounts around banks to validate my status as one who has played this game way too long.  Take your pick on the answer.

As far as UO goes, I  mostly jump between the Chesapeak and Baja Shards.  When I was younger and full of a bit more energy I also spent a great deal of time on Catskills and Atlantic too.  

In terms of my history with UO ... I have done about everything in UO from being one of the original counselors (if anyone can remember that far back) to serving time in jail for macroing on trapped wandering healers in my house (also doubt anyone remembers that far back) to being a PvP god.  The PvP god phase is long since gone since I just don't have the ambition to change any of my templates and develop new skills.  There was a time when foo ruled the shards ... but those days are long ago.

Presently, I am just a simple UO player who is playing ancient templates waiting for the good old days to return.

So, Leaving my stratics attitude at the door ... which ... since I forgot my password to stratics long ago ... has already been done well before I got here ... I am now introducing me to you.

As for the attitude I bring?

Well, I guess it is one of a long-term UO player who still occassionally enjoys the game and quite painfully knows of all the shortcomings in the User Interface and game system and has always made it his mission to adapt and overcome these limitations.  Indifferent? perhaps ... but certainly not holier than thou.  If it weren't for macroing ... I would be begging for fishsteaks at a bank somewhere versus having great wealth in castles and houses and virtual pixel crack.

In terms of skills and things to bring to the community ... In real life I am a software engineer and have even wrote some of my own UO stuff in the past ... Footility was a nice little 8x8 autotraining app I wrote that drove boats around many servers back in the day.  And, Of course ... it is also now quite useless given the long ago nerfing away of 8x8.

What brings me to this site?

 ... dunno ... the clever introductions forum?  

Regardless of the motivation here I am.  

What I contribute remains to be seen ... After all, I am getting on in age and my wits are fading by the day.  I may be nothing more than a lurker or the next greatest thing since imbuing ...