Hello all!
History:
I played UO a LONG, LONG time ago. LONG. I remember the times when you had to be VERY careful with your skills as there weren't any up/down/lock buttons. I remember when they added things like anatomy, eval int, and the like. I remember when they started punishing PKers (like me) by giving them absurd skill and stat penalties by dying. I remember having a certain ghost or two standing around doing nothing beyond logging in game time so as to avoid penalties and get my skill count down. I remember hating the changes.
When the major changes and then that first (I think it was the first anyways) expansion came out, I chose to stop playing.
That was... ummmm... probably fifteen years ago? Longer? Yikes!
To anyone that might remember me (doubtful), I was a pretty big deal on my shard and during my time. I was Raistlin (so original, I know) on Baja shard. I was red, I killed players for massive profit, and was the only player that owned a castle that wasn't part of a guild.
I had other good toons, but Raistlin was easily my favorite. Massive profit nearly every night, massive fun nearly every night, and a reputation that would cause fully geared adventuring parties to instantly run and recall at the sight of my name. Mmmmmm. Nostalgia.
I enjoyed a thief as well... back then it was fairly easy to steal house deeds and/or keys. Horrible? Yes. Fun? Yes. Much of the time, after things calmed down... I would return the deed as I didn't need the gold, I just wanted the excitement.
I never did much guild combat as I found others to be vapid and unreliable. Spending an hour waiting at a guildhouse while various members were getting ready wasn't my idea of fun, so other than a fairly small number of close friends, I mostly played solo.
Shortly after quitting UO, I was in a major motorcycle accident and lost the use of my right (dominate) arm. It took me years to start gaming again and even now I find that I fare better at strategy games rather than action games. I have adapted my play-styles to accommodate my limitations as best I can and I have found various ways of staying competitive. I have a multi-button mouse. I use a G510 keyboard and have hotkeys set to many of the keys to try to compensate. I do what I can.
I recently started playing UO again on a free server. I have virtually all of my skills at GM now and a few are higher as I was able to get my hands on a power scroll or two.
I am still trying to learn the basics of this game that has taken the name and look of the game I played so many years ago, but it is a fairly steep learning curve. I thought that I would be okay to try a couple things harder than the new player things and QUICKLY got my rear handed to me. That is why I started looking at scripts and macros. Obviously, not only do I need to do a lot of learning, but I'm going to need a large amount of money and resources to get my character geared for more solo play.
I'm still unsure if I will be able to keep up or if I will find myself as a reseller and crafter. I would prefer to find a way to get myself equipped and competent enough to adventure and pvp and such, but if that fails, I'll still be happy.
Sorry for the rambling and I hope I get accepted. I would love to grab a script or three... auto looting and the like.
Thanks again...
An ABCUO new player
