Hello everyone, my name is Murilo but everyone I know call me by my nickname Mugs.
I am from Brazil and I am 30 years old and first I would like to apologize if my English is not 100%.
I started to play UO back in 97, at that time I used a dial up connection and my ping was around 600-700, I remember that I did not felt the lag, because I didn't know how it was to play lag-free.
I was just a child when I the game arrived in my country and I remember that I used all my money to buy the game and when it arrived in my country, there was a tax and I did not had the money to pay it, so I had to wait a few months to get the money from my relatives and pay the tax. After I got the game I was all ready to play, installed and created my account, that was the time I discovered I had to pay a monthly fee to pay and I didn't had a job or an international credit card, so all my hopes were down. At my birthday my father allowed me to use his credit card to pay for the monthly fee so I finally got to play the game. I was such a noob, my english skills at the time were close to zero, I had no idea what I was doing, but that made me take the decision to learn english.
I started as a miner at minoc, I don't remember which shard I stared playing, but I remember that most of my days were on Chesapeake.
The life of a miner wasn't easy at minoc, there were a lot of pks, thiefs and noto-pks at the mines, everytime you got some ingots it was best to go to the bank and save them.
After sometime I started selling my ingots, at the bank a lot of people bought ingots from the miners to work on blacksmith, blacksmith was an expensive profession at that time...
After a few weeks playing as safe as I could on minoc mines I decided to take some adventure, I decided I was going to go from Minoc to Vesper. I opened my real life UO map, placed my valuable stuff at the bank and I was ready to go. I remember I had around 15k gold, I was feeling rich. I started heading out NE of minoc, I went through a bridge and was on the road on my way to Vesper. I was on foot and not long after I left I meet two guys on horses and long story short the killed me with a few spells. As soon as I died a gump popped on the screen, asking me to put some value and click ok, as my English was really bad I just inserted the maximum value it was possible and clicked ok. I was really sad I got pked but at the same time my heartbeat was really high, that was the most exciting thing that happened since I started playing!
I went back to Minoc to get ressed and stopped at the bank, when I got there all my money was gone! I couldn't understand what happened, I tried to call a GM but I didn't know how to explain in English what happned so I wrote in Portuguese and I never got a response. When I went to bed that day, I couldn't sleep, how my money dissapeared? It was only then I realized what a bounty was... I had put all my money in bounty for that player head... That game taking my sleep, that what changed my life, and after that day, UO would never leave my life.
After some time playing and studying English I was a real player, I had a lot of friends in game, my ICQ was crawded, I was killing hard stuff, I was pvping, and with pvp I meet my first UO assistant, UOExtreme if I remember right.
That changed the way I saw the game, the way I did my macros... I realized that was just the beggining of the third-party applications....
I then meet a lot macro programs, UOAssist, UO Loop and many others, I started looking at the internet for other programs, hacks and stuff...
On September 2003 I meet EasyUO, I registered at the forums at started learning some programming... and that changed my life!
I decided I wanted to be a programmer. I went to the University and got my Game Developer degree, got a job as a C# Junior Programmer and thats how UO and EasyUO influenced my life.
After playing a lot of games I came back to UO a couple months ago and I cannot play it without using EasyUO to do something for me, I think its in my blood as a programmer to do even the simple things using programming.
As of today, I am 30 years old, I am the Lead C# Programmer at a very big foundation in my country and I want to be part of the developing community around Ultima Online.
I hope to be very active here, to learn a lot from you and to develop a lot of projects together!
Regards,
Mugs
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