Comments on: Old School UO Nostalgia

By: David Shipley

David Shipley — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:34:38 +0000

Bloody ‘ell this takes me back - used to run a mage called Yarash in the early days of the SBR on Lake Superior; happy memories of training sessions in the guildhall, boxing PKs up by the crossroads, I remember as well a night they attacked the guildhall. Haven’t played since about 2000, but just so happens I’m downloading the client now - what’s it *like* these days?

Best,

Yarash (SBR), LS

By: Dr-Evil

Dr-Evil — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:19:26 +0000

Nice read.

check out http://www.uodivinity.com

New pre-cast shard with a badass ruleset. Just needs some more players, and WTFMAN.com is about to sponsor the shard. Sounds like another IPY to me.

THey’re putting in alot of nice changes too in the upcoming weeks

By: Ryan Shwayder’s Nerfbat » Happy Anniversary Ultima Online!

Ryan Shwayder’s Nerfbat » Happy Anniversary Ultima Online! — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:05:22 +0000

[...] go into detail here. Instead, I will simply provide you with links to my nostalgic ramblings: Old School UO Nostalgia, True Sosarian Stories Part I, True Sosarian Stories Part II, True Sosarian Stories Part III. Happy [...]

By: Panemon

Panemon — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:57:59 +0000

I remember when uo was first released when you could eat people… lol leg jerky.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:55:13 +0000

It’s been about 3(?!) years since I last played, and I still miss UO. Started about 6 months after it came out. The community couldn’t be beat. At times it was harsh (especially on those just learning) but for every bad experience, there were 10 good ones to offset that.

I stuck to Lake Superior for the most part, spending most of my time serving in the ‘Lootless Army’ (SBR - Skara Brae Rangers). That’s where the majority of my fun came from; acting as fodder (Jimmy was an archer/bard) and loving every minute of it. Training sessions, mass battles, and social gatherings all occurred at the hall just north of the Skara Brae dock on the mainland-side. Countless expeditions to various dungeons, the X-roads, and to stake out PK homes all started from there. There was always guaranteed to be someone in that hall to hang out with.

In later years, after many changes (addition of trammel, and every part thereafter), I still enjoyed the vast world of Sosaria and all it had to offer. New people to meet. New quests & lands to explore. The absolute frustration of trying to place a house *just*one*square*larger* in a spot… Well, there’s just so much to do. Add in a friend or two playing with you, and it was just that much more entertaining.

Anyways, thanks for posting everyone…I love reading the stories and seeing the tricks people had up their sleeves

Jimmy of SBR, LS

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:01:59 +0000

Nice to read old UO players. I used to be a GM tinker too, loved to trap new adventurers or even older warriors. So my technic was the following , first I placed my trapped box with deadly poison - my favourite - into my backpack and many other stuff, sometime rares, and so. Actually a real mess into the bag was to help the confusion of my future remains looter and make him open the trap. I dressed myself as a newbie can do, many different clothes, no special armor. In fact many stuff we can loot around when you are a newbie. Then I stand near the moonglow gates, turned out grey by attacking a NPC and then walked slowly to the Bank. I used to walk arounds warriors waiting for my future victim to chase me - mages could kill me too fast by spells. When the attack started, I ran as fast as I could out of the moonglow gates, healing myself and running straight forward into the wood until my attacker just terminate my poor life. At this stage the warrior thought he had a real fun killing just a poor newb, me appearing as a ghost near my remains, and he started to enjoy looting… you know how good and fun it is to loot, and discover your victim bag until… until…. pshhhh… the deadly message appears like a death gong, “xxx is suffocating and need emergency help”. GOT HIM ! DEATH IS COMING TO YOU ! The proud warrior was shocked, surprised… What is going ON ? His healthbar is just dropping fast, too fast… the panic is real as my fun is starting. My favourite time, you could notice him trying to go into different direction, like a real surprised person. And of course, most of time they just tried to return to Moonglow as fast as they could. The funny thing is that death came usually a fews steps before the gate, enough for citizen to watch this ridiculous death, and looters to come out and start having fun with the dead victim goods. Was a real NICE time. Some of this runs were very good. Of course I had a workmate on that trick. Sometime we used to sell back the victim backpack for a couple of Kgp.

Interaction between players was a real fun. When I explain this kind of stories to a new MMO player, he just doesnt understand. Candy Land won the battle. Another story, more classic, was to find an iceland, a small and desert on then bring a dragon there. Afterwards you could gate newbies to the iceland and close the gate. Wait for some time for the dragon to eat the fresh food and ask him to drop the loot, that was so fun. I loved to think about the dragon looting his victim, eh eh, and my friend tamer asking gently his pet to realease it. Good times.

By the way, if you are looking for free intercations into a MMO, you could try EVE ONLINE. There is one world for everyone and unguarded zone are around the main roads. It means you can become a real PK and a real pirate too, like the old great UO. It happen a lot of time, sometime a pirate just appears, stop your ship and ask for a transfer on his bank account or death. You can imagine all kind of traps with that game, because the world is like the old free UO. But for me, i didnt like the combat style, so you should try anyway…

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By: Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:50:01 +0000

Hehe. This brings back old memories. I remember running around on a new mage char picking up the regs from them reg fields before Tram, then ultimately getting chased off the reg field by a dire wolf, a ogre, a ettin or a troll. I remember people bidding at the forge for the armor/weps i made because i was one of the most famous Smiths in Napa at that time. I remember when every so often a bunch of lizardmen, ratmen and a gazer would spawn in Brit. Every now and then a clever PK Mage/Warrior would polymorph into a lizman and walk into town during that, waiting for some person to attack them, lmao. I used to pick up the backpacks off the corpses of them and sell them for 3 gold per to the tanners, being a packrat back then was the only way to get by. I remember when no Mage in their right mind would attack a GM LJ Warrior (Most warriors hated fighting them too), and no Warrior in their right mind would attack a Macer. LJ Warriors and Macers were the dreaded juggernauts of their day. A single hit from a GM LJ Warrior’s axe could cause a Concussion Blow, halving your INT for about 45 secs. Thus making a Mage with 100 INT (Max INT back then) go down to 50, and at 50 it was nearly impossible to kill someone with decent Resist skill, was no such thing as LRC/LMC/MR. Plus GM LJ Warriors did 50% more damage with axes, making them quite devastating to a warrior as well. Macer’s were the kings of melee battles. Macers were slow with most weps, but back then, that didn’t matter. The raw damage they dealt was devastating enough, let alone that they could deliver a Crushing Blow with a Warhammer, dealing an extra 50% damage. Plus, Macer’s had a knack for destroying their opponent’s armor/shield, a feature i think they should bring back to the now very nerfed Macers of today. Also, when a Macer used a Q-Staff, he would knock the crap out of his opponent’s stamina. Most swordsman used either a Halberd or a Katana. Most Macers used either a Warhammer, a War Axe, or a Quarter Staff. Most Fencers used either a Long Spear or a Kryss. Most Archers used a Bow back then, was only about 3 types of bows back then, plus Archers were rare . Archers were practically never seen in PvP because they were nearly worthless in it, only good for disrupting the spells of mages. Archers were slow, and didn’t have near the power of a Macer to compensate for it, they had to keep stocked on arrows, and they had no special ability that could go off on their opponent. Two Handed Swords Weps (Mainly Axes, Halberds and Bardiches fit under Axes as well) were capable of doing Concussion Blow. Warhammers were capable of Crushing Blow. Long Spears were capable of Paralyzing Blow. Wrestlers with 80 Arms Lore were capable of Disarm, and if they had 80 Anatomy they were capable of Stun Punch. The chance for a special move to go off each hit was based off of the wielder’s Anatomy, basically 1/5 of their Anatomy skill equalled the chance for a special move to go off each strike with that weapon type. At GM Anatomy, there was a 20% chance of it. Disarm and Stun Punch were the only special moves that you could activate willingly with just a hit of a button. When i made 12 Mill off of placing tons and tons and tons of houses and selling them, i was considered one of the richest people in Napa, 12 Mill sure isn’t worth alot at all nowadays. Tamers running around with 7 Dragons in tow were avoided by everyone. Mind Blast used to be one of the most devastating spells there was if you knew what to do with it. Originally Mind Blast compared the INT of the caster to the target, whoever had less INT took damage based off of the difference. Then they changed Mind Blast to do damage to the target based on the difference between their Highest Stat and there Lowest Stat, which is what prompted most warrior to raise their INT if they PvPed. Against a Warrior, the mage would cast Strengthen on the warrior, then Feeblemind, making the gap between their stats even larger, thus dealing more damage. Against another mage, the caster would cast Cunning, then Clumsy. It was possible to kill a person with 2 Mind Blasts this way, basically one of the only ways to kill someone if you got hit by a GM LJ Warriors Concussion Blow.

By: UO Stratics - VOICES Editorials & Commentaries

UO Stratics - VOICES Editorials & Commentaries — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:39:04 +0000

[...] of UO posts was started by Dan Rubenfield, when he briefly described a few of his adventures. Then Ryan Shwayder of Nerfbat took it a few steps further, and wrote a multi-part series of UO memoirs that brought [...]