Good day
Like many I found my way here while looking for something else. I've been playing UO since 2004, signed up my original account in 1995 I believe but due to where I lived at the time, Alaska, I was unable to get a good enough internet connection with my 14.4bps modem (I was saving up for the 56k but was paying for college at the time and strapped for cash). In '04 I gave it another shot at a friends prodding and became quite addicted. Started off on LS with a paly, had no idea what I was doing but friends kept telling me I was doing fine (though oddly they would never take me on any of their adventures
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My first day one of my friends was kind enough to give me 10k gold to get started with. Wow! 10k! I thought I was rich!! I went to every player vendor I saw and bought as many recall scrolls as I could! I didnt know what I was doing but I knew that recall scrolls meant no running! And then I learned about encumberance. 2 steps at a time I tried to make my way back to the Vesper bank, little did I know I was no where near where I thought I was! A giant serpent saw an easy target and made quick work of me. My first grey screen. I had no idea what to do next, my guild mates were laughing a bit too hard to offer any real advice but someone did manage to tell me to find a healer. So off I ran, getting stuck on trees and rocks and swearing and cursing the whole time about how can a ghost get stuck on a tree. Eventually I stumbled onto a wandering healer only to discover that all my gear, gold and precious recall scrolls were still on my corpse..my corpse that I had no clue where it was since I didnt think I would have to go back and find it...So day one, lost my fortune, my gear and my wonderful recall scrolls, learned..um...well, I learned to stay away from giant serpents when you cant move more then 2 steps at a time!
But that was all for the better. I refused to ask for anything more from anyone, from that point on I decided to earn it all myself. All I would accept was advice.
I decided to make a crafter after a couple days of dying in the harpy caves, no one had informed me about insurance so each time I died I would lose some of or most of my gear. And what I didnt lose became so damaged that it would be destroyed. I had heard of repair deeds from a guildy and through my research discovered it was a crafters handywork when none were available to repair live. And oh the gold to be made selling them! 30-50 gold a shot! Fortune and fame here I come! Character #2, blacksmith/miner/tinker/tailor. I rearranged my 7x7 box to hold a forge and a box for each unsmelted ore type and one for the final product. Bought a pair if packys and went to work! click click click click click drag drag drag drag. One click at a time, I didnt know about macros or scripts at that time, just double click the pick axe and click the ground until full, drag to packy until full, walk back to house and..damn! ice serpents!! off to buy more pack horses I go! Long story shorter, eventually I figured out you could bond pets, double clicked my way to a gm crafter and made no fortune selling repair deeds. But I had so much fun getting to that point.
It was becoming evident to me that my play-style was more relaxed and passive rather then running around pvping or dying in dungeons, so I decided to make a fisherman! Many clicks later and I had gm'd my fishing, had more shoes and fish steaks then you could shake a stick at and I was starting to enjoy myself even more as this fisherman! I made a decent amount of gold fishing up mib's but I was unable to do anything with the nets due to my template. I could take on 1 serpent ok with my wimpy necromancy but it really wasnt helping when I'd pull that kraken.
And here is where I as introduced to EUO. About 3 years ago fellow guild mate heard me complaining about my troubles and suggested I change to a mage. "But" i said "If I have to click up any more skills I'm likely to have need of someone to come bail me out of jail for I'm surely going to snap and start attacking passing cars with my mouse while rambling 'click click click click'!" He pointed me to the website, walked me through it and I was on my way to becoming a script user and my game enjoyment increased 10 fold! Unfortunately, no one informed me that afk scripting was a no-no right away. But I was lucky, the nights I left it running on purpose there were no incidents. However..one night after having about 5 too many cocktails, I started my miner, grabbed a clean shirt, laid down on the bed with the full intent to get back up and play, but listening to the dig dig dig lulled me right to sleep. I woke the next morning to find my account on 3 day lock down with a warning that the next time there would be deletion with no exceptions. My heart dropped, I had no idea that what I was doing was wrong and I had worked so hard to get where I was that I would never risk losing it! And then..About a year later...and to this day I still feel I got screwed...Sunday morning I wake up after a night out, eyes a little bloodshot, get my coffee, some toast and sit down for a nice relaxing morning of mining. I turn on UO and fire up my script. While sitting at my keyboard with the game up I watched the TV to the right of my monitor, listening to the game dig and pausing when something would attack me so I could kill or flee. All was going well then suddenly all was silent. I glanced back at the screen to see that I was in the punishment area and had been disconnected. Even though I was sitting casually watching, I missed the GM talking to me as it was lost in the scrolling of digging. Account deleted, everything lost. Heart broken. But lesson learned. Another account started, this time speeding my skills up via scripting. And here I am today.
My script writing abilities were, and still are, lacking. I was able to read through most and make subtle changes to suit my needs, but I was never able to get past banging my head on the keyboard when trying to write one myself. I was able to make a simple hiding script but that was nothing more then a loop with a pause in the middle. My interest in writing and using them is there, unfortunately my comprehension of all the code is a little lacking. I spent hours trying to make a script to move balls of yarn from my pack to a secure. I was able to grab the balls but it wouldnt drop them. Crash after crash after crash until I finally gave up and just did it manually, would have been done with that hours before had I just did it! And that's part of how I found my way here today. While going through some old scripts I found the infamous CraftMatic in my library, I didnt bother to try it since I know it's out of date. I looked through it and found where the problem would be but couldnt find any documentation on how to adjust the button locations. Google here I came! Found a link of someone who had the same problem, someone had posted a 2 line script which would find those menu button locations. I havent had a chance to try that yet due to the current patch and EUO not being updated yet, but I do plan on playing with it a little once they have the time to update that.
In the meantime, I poked around here a bit, read through some of the forums and discovered that many of the posters here do not have the 'elitist' attitude of many who post on EUO's site. The "If you cant write them yourself you shouldnt use them dummy" attitude. To which my response has always been "If you cant build a car yourself, dont drive one. If you cant build a house yourself, dont live in one. Etc." Some people have the talent of understanding some things while others have the talent to understand other things. It's how the world works.
So anyway, there's a little bit of an introduction as to who I am and how I wandered in here. To all those script writers allow me to join the masses of script users and pucker up and kiss thine buttocks and say "You rock! Keep up the awesomeness!" Seriously, you do! If not for you and your scripts, I for one would have quit UO long long ago.
Thanks and keep up the great writing!
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