ScriptUO
General => New member introductions => Topic started by: fauna87 on May 19, 2011, 07:04:06 PM
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Hi There,
It's been a while since I've played Ultima Online. I guess, like others, I found myself dabbling and venturing into other areas of video gaming. It was pretty much my daily routine in high school to plop down and waste away a good chunk of my youth grinding away at character skills and hunting gold to pay for that awesome housing design I had just finished. That's probably my favorite part of Ultima Online :) Designing houses, decorating, and growing plants. I never really enjoyed PvP, I was more of a PvM and had the barding skills to match. Sure, it's a wuss way out--but I don't like creepy crawlies rubbing up on me. I prefer they stay rooted in place while a trusty pet, familiar, or summon does the hard work.
I've played on lots of different types of shards. My siblings started playing on OSI in the 90's -- it was a big thrill for them as they were fans of the Ultima series. It was even more enchanting to watch them play. I still have their Serpent's Isle disc tucked safely away. And then there were the free shards -- god knows I witnessed my share of conflicted player-run shards with questionable GM practices. Nothing quite like a Christmas present to have an entire shard wipe with no replaceables, amirite? Yea, I returned anyway. It was the community.
I used to chat pretty regularly with fellow players, but as life happens those connections were more or less lost as we grew into adults and went our different ways. Eventually, I got smart and headed over to RunUO.
I was never really amazing at scripting. I think the only time I showed a valid interest was when I wanted to learn how to edit gumps and .mul to incorporate customizable clothes and graphics I'd drawn up. But I definitely understood the value of third-party development and the joy it could bring to a server.
Well, that's just a little bit of me.
Thanks for your time :)
Faun
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Thank you for the great introduction! Welcome to our dark little corner of UO. :)
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WELCOME!
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welcome aboard
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Welcome aboard. What was the driving reason you played mostly on freeshards. I could never bring myself to do it because of the instablity factor of the shard could be here today and gone tomorrow. With a paying shard there is motivation to keep the shard online.
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welcome and thank you for the intro.
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welcome to the site. you will find a lot of information here from scripts, tutorials and general discussion information. jump in where you can!
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Welcome aboard. What was the driving reason you played mostly on freeshards. I could never bring myself to do it because of the instablity factor of the shard could be here today and gone tomorrow. With a paying shard there is motivation to keep the shard online.
Sorry for the delayed response: finals and setting up summer work.
Well to start with, they were free. And that was just a better option for a 15/16 y.o. at the time than trying to weasel a monthly charge out of my parents. I'd sneak in playtime on my sibling's OSI accounts for about a year, but in the end smaller end player-shards had more to offer:
1. Customizable content. Players could suggest ideas, or prepare scripts, and present them to the admin for implementation. This catered to a sense of community in allowing players to create and participate in development and allowed for:
2. Originality. Some people prefer strict adherence to OSI standards, but I like exploring outside of the box.
3. Smaller communities = closer knit. You're more likely to strike up a conversation in a group of 50 fifty players, as opposed to just being a name that flickers by in front of the bank.
4. Variety in GM-run events: there is a lot more freedom in event creation, they were story/strategy based and it wasn't just some scheduled Sunday pvp event.
5. Smaller population = lesser competition for housing plots & less hassle/more help with Felucca based champion spawns.
Downfalls to the free run shards outnumber what I've listed here. At the top of my head, those include: unstable shard-up time, preferential treatment, cheating, jail-happy staff, etc. I guess if you enjoy the people you play with on any particular free shard, you put up with some of the silly things for a while, until you get smart and try elsewhere. As for paying to play, outside of OSI, I guess I could see motivation for keeping a shard up through donations or some sort of web-based store for in-game items, but that doesn't necessarily guarantee the admin won't move on to something else 2-3 years later.
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Welcome in...
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Welcome!!!
JaF