Well where do I start. I am a happily married man of almost 50. Far too old to be playing video games. I am a very keen chess player. I originally started playing UO in 1999. At the time I worked for IBM at the Daresbury lab looking at safety systems primarily for the nuclear industry and completed my first PHD thesis using Q, Lisp and Assembly language. In the early days of UO I played a character called Ping and used the 'super fast' JANET to pown nubs with a gm kryss and posioning. I played in the early hero v evil system and started to discover literally 100s of exploits that could be achieved due to the architecture of the game system and its flat file regional saves. I found UO almost unplayable at home on a 48k Modem connect to AOL and Freeserve so i payed BT 15k to install a dual ISDN line. The character Shade was born (well actually two of them one who would suffer stat loss if killed and one 'just' red chase me version) I used to really enjoy picking people off on the edge of champ spawns and wrote my first automation for uo which was for a thief that would stand by the alter
I really got addicted to UO and team play on Europa when they introduced the faction system. Hatchet Harry's castle being literally full of Minax's finest. In 2004 I started my own company and simply didn't have the time to play anything. Fast forward to 2019 and my initial return. I tried some free shards including the excellent Outlands using Classic UO and then went back onto the official OSI servers on EC after they found 4 of my old accounts. At first there was loads (15 years worth) of new content but that quickly got boring. I dabbled in a few scripts on UOS, LUA and EasyUO to train chars and do simple tasks. I tried to pvp but alas my reflexes have gone! So again I stopped playing. Then I got a message about fixing some Java Script in the Orion client. That was a couple of weeks ago and I am so impressed with the client I am compiling a full function library and writing a guide to help people.
