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The Devs share their memories here: GDC Vault Online: Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

 

 

Originally posted by MumboJumbo

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The Devs share their memories here: GDC Vault Online: Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

Nice, thanks for sharing!

Originally posted by f0dell54

No trammel to hide in but still the new craptastic gear and stupid colors. I miss a good set of bone armor and mage running around in robes/nothing at all.

I enjoyed UO before they introduced the item stats and new dyes. I enjoy it now, actually more so because of the randomized item stats but not so much for the bright dyes. 

 

The rubber-banding when you tried to place a house after trammel went live.

Pulled hair out, but I got my spot!!!

Hey - you guys remember that Chrismas event where they decorated Britain and had Red Team vs Green Team and everyone ran around with warhammers?  That was some epic fun for me back then.  I remember killing red and stealing their robe and wearing it to pretend I was on the red team or dying robes to make our own team.

Just remebered an epic event.

I remember when Trinsic Was attacked, I got on a roof and watched the whole thing while lobbing arrows. Then a huge black dragon came into the town that raped everyone, well almost everyone...LOL.

 Also when Moonglow was attacked by these giant Roman looking soldiers and orcs, killing everyone including me.

I met the woman who became my wife in UO. I walked into a shop and she was sitting in the corner and......

Originally posted by Shadanwolf
I met the woman who became my wife in UO. I walked into a shop and she was sitting in the corner and......

Ahhh, I attended a wedding in UO once.  Pretty cool.  No armor or weapons were allowed.  We had to wear just cloth or dyed leather

 

Dammit, now you got me thinking of UO and I want to play it.  I just re-subbed to Eve too. I should have never got involved in these posts.

 

I remember all my friends leaving the game and I was all alone.  

Walking to Yew to get more wood to make and sell noob bows, I came across 2 guys out having fun.   They didnt attack me so I said hello and asked what they were doing.  They said they were just out gathering stuff.  I asked if i could tag along knowing i would be safer with them than all by myself.  We went to the mines by Vivic and as they mined i killed skells and stuff.  

 

The next day i ran into these same 2 people,  they ask if i want to go on their boat .  First time on a boat in the game.  Although i read about them.

I said sure, do you mind if i get my good weapon from the bank first.  They said bring your best, this is going to be one hell of a fight.    I returned well equiped to the boat and we were off.    About 30 steps from shore  the driver dropped anchor,  set up a table between us on the deck of the boat and pulled out a sword of all things.  I was close enough to him to be hit so i backed up one space, took out my bow and shot them both dead.   They were franticly trying to get the boat to get to shore.  I got control of the boat and sailed around for about 3 hours listening to them oOOOoooOOO  for ever.  Drop anchor every time they moved the boat.

 

cheer I got a boat.  

Early on in my UO days I came across a half dozen players congregating at a moongate casting firefields and standing in them without taking damage. When I asked them what they were doing, the intial response was 'we are the fire people!' I eventually got it out of them that by casting the field in the moongate circle they could stand in it, not take damage, and yet train their magic resist skill.

I joined in for a bit and then, being the helpful type, I decided to cast one myself. Obviously there was some trick to it because when I laid the field down a town guard popped up and cut me down. The funny part is that while standing there as a ghost watching it all in grey, they all rushed into the field. The guard killed me for good reason, my field was hot and all of them, including their horses proceeded to perish in the flames. Good times... 

Running from one town to the other. Hitting big lag spikes at banks. Training pickpocket with a friend and a few barrels for 6 hours straight. Provoking wisps on player killers and looting their bodies. Standing at Vesper bank just listening to the music.