Hi, I'm from Cape Town, South Africa. My first encounter with UO was back in 2000. Access to the official OSI servers was difficult laggy dial-up connections. Some enthusiasts decided to host a local UOX3 server. UO emulation, as many of you will remember, was still in its infancy back then. We had to live through waves of character wipes. Bug exploitation was the order of the day. And in a 100% PvP environment the forums also became a battle-field. My MMO affilliations, however, was firmly rooted in UO during that time. Different groups of people hosted each new emulator as the emu developers published them, Wolfpack, Sphere, POL was adopted. Each replaced the other more or less in that order. All was fun though untill WoW landed. The UO scene in South Africa vanished. A small POL server carried on with a player base of around 90-100 ppl. WoW with its "superior" latency management/net-code ( Not sure if i'm saying this correctly) basicly blew away a gaming community hungry for a well-developed official MMO service. I was one of the crowd. Played WoW with my family and friends, for around 4 to 5 years.
A few weeks ago I heard EA was offering a 2 week free trial. Dowloaded the client and rolled on Atlantic. Its been a refreshing 2 weeks to be absolutely honest. Bear in mind this is my first time I'm playing on the official servers. I have since changed to a subscription player and enjoying every minute of this "new" game. But while I play in a more restrictive environment, I also slowly recalled all the "illegal" third party utilities we abused those years
. I discovered scriptuo while googling easyuo + lumberjacking + scripts. I'm an avid crafter. I'm most impressed with what you folks are doing here. Cant really see myself manually hacking at trees or mining for hours to GM. Did that many times over back in the day.
Thanks for all your hard work in developing these scripts
