Ah so many great memories of UO; some which stick out:
Orc Mages - the gits. Bane to new players everywhere "
looks like a normal orc, how bad can it be..." oOoOoo oOoo Ooo.
Getting my first horse: I felt like a king that day, until it died shortly after to an orc/troll/ogre party - oh 56k modem how I loved your random 10 second long lag spikes of doom!
Taming a PB Nightmare in Hell Trammel - that was interesting to say the least, especially with a guy trying to drag the whole spawn onto you - GM magery and Vet ftw.
The road to Britannia: the first few journeys from Minoc to Britannia, ah those were the days. Trying to survive with my crap magic skills and 0 resist.
Plate armour: Getting a GM smith to make a full shadow coloured plate armour set - I felt pretty cool in that for the 5 minutes to notice it reduces your dex to nothing.
The Trammel 'Bone wall' - great for GM'ing combat skills but some of the conversations that went on there were mind numbing. Although, when a guy offered to open a gate to town for someone and instead it was to the poisoned mushroom field in the same dungeon, that was quite amusing - not so much for them though lol.
Order Vs Chaos pvp: good fun - as was us all creating characters with the same name, 'Chucky', complete with matching jester outfits on and totally confusing people in pvp.
Placing my log cabin and later a tower with a mate and building in a bar/pvp area on the roof.
Although the game was quite simple in many respects the freedom and flavour it had was great and so much of the content was player driven, so some of the simple mechanics could be forgiven. Housing added a lot of depth, even though it did mess the map up a lot.
I think half the danger back in the day with UO (for me at least) was battling with a dial up connection rather than the mobs being that bad, the lag was the killer and trying to run back to your bones before they were ransacked or decayed.
Getting cable was magic: "I can run full speed on a horse with no stutter - I've finally made it!". (actually being able to pvp properly for once).
Good point on the music, it was excellent, with Vesper being one of my favourites. I think I still have the original game box somewhere - time to get those original music files onto the PC!
