Ultima Online - Europa ....anyone still there?

Kainz said:
UO later lost its true identity with Age of Shadows that introduced the new lands of Malas, and made the game item based rather than skill. It was clear the influence was coming off EQ2 and WoW at the time and every weapon/item were given damage/defence numbers instead of items of Vanquishing etc. Don't get me started on that Samurai expansion lol.
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AoS was out over a year before WoW ;) But yes I do agree that the whole neon weapons with +X,Y,Z stats utterly ruined the game.

I think part of the beauty of UO was the whole... mundanity of the equipment. Almost all MMOs these days focus on quests and "epic loot" - UO had neither of these - sure you had the odd vanquising katana, etc. but even a bog standard weapon crafted by a GM smith was 90% as effective. With modern MMOs, what's the point of character interaction, other than forced instances/raids, or trading - in UO you'd seek out a "trusted" smith to give your kit to for repair, you'd buy player made weapons, because there was no real need for anything else, and you'd team up with other players, not because the game forced you to, but because it was actually fun to explore out in the middle of nowhere.

To me, UO was less a game, and almost a medieval/fantasy world sim.
 
hehe , yesss... good..... come to the dark side xD hehe ah nice!

love the music, it's simple but really does capture the mood/atmosphere while roaming about in game, the face that each town has a theme :D and that song that would always seem to play when it starts to rain :D ahhhhh SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!
 
Efour said:
The first and greatest MMO, really since then they have all gone downhill :)

I remember going from 56k 200 quid a month phone bills. To 512k ADSL and suddenly becoming a pvp Spear dexer god....

That game had genuine fear, panic and emotion.

Trying to get some money in the Lich Lord room and seeing a gate open full of Reds and blue healers.. utter panic... and at the bone wall too lol.... jeez :)

Corp por
Kal vas flam
Vas ort flam
Corp Por

OoOoo OOooo Oo oOoOoOoo !! !! as your stuff gets stolen lol

6i6 and DJs lol :) the mad grave yard fights when the server went down at 3am or whatever it was.....
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LOL!

More like IN NOX, DES MANI, AN MANI, AN MANI, Vas ORT FLAM, VAS ORT FLAM, KAL VAS FLAM AN MANI, Vas flam to finish lol


I hated dexers! Cant remember the guys name, always had faction short spear, *******! GM wrestle never seemed enough, and if we are talking about the Europa shard ahahah, great days indeed. the move from dial up to ADSL and everyone omfg the 133t speed haxxor!

Yeps spent many a night camping yew gate fel for noobs, the butthurt back then was just amazing value. Ganking in Factions.

Server down at Brit GY, yeye lets go red!!! then realize you miss timed it and you took 3 counts, LOL

God i used to love opening a gate to death at Brit bank, then looting their gear later with my WW, I really did feel like Brit bank was the centre of the world, and it was for me for several years! dropping poison boxes almost gave me heart attacks with laughter! and people getting whacked for healing a grey, Thou shall regret that swine!

Ohh i miss UO, I miss my keep, I miss not being friended at Tom and Jerrys keep on Yew gate fel, raging ghosts, begging, spending gold in shops, trading mounts.

I used to love going to urrrr cant think where and tame llamas, sell for 100g at bank! And aslo killing guards at moonglow and nobles, my god that was good income, then onto selling houses and trading bbs.

and i miss decorating my villa in yew.

I miss uo and what it had, but that was back then, im just glad i experienced it.
 
Sasso said:
yes! not just logging on to play, but meeting/hunting out companions to go adventuring with :D
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yeah, you went hunting... not pre determined like in WOW, you really didn't know what to expect, I remember crapping myself when i got lost, i panicked and switched my PC off hoping that i invized and they didn't catch me up, log back on again as ghost, corps looted, gold everything, just a grey robe again begging at the bank.

Did anyone EVER get an extremely durable, eminently accurate katana of Vanquishing?

the sacred sword lol

Going on test server was great for faction wars, loads of people making armor at moonglow, gate camps were just the best
 
Halfmad said:
Soooooo anyone else got the UO music on CD or their phones etc? There's even an android app for it.

/guiltyconfession.
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URL PLS!! The classic midi tracks on the UO Forever client had been replaced with completely random stuff. Almost made me barf when I first logged into the game.

Edit: Hunting through some old uo archives lurking on my old backup hard drives. I am sure I have some good remixes of those tracks.
Edit Update: Maybe not :( Can't find them, aside from old screens.
 
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Kainz said:
URL PLS!! The classic midi tracks on the UO Forever client had been replaced with completely random stuff. Almost made me barf when I first logged into the game.

Edit: Hunting through some old uo archives lurking on my old backup hard drives. I am sure I have some good remixes of those tracks.
Edit Update: Maybe not :( Can't find them, aside from old screens.
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If I remember over the weekend I'll dig out my T2A disc and put the tracks up somewhere :)

get some screens up though :D show us what ya got ;)
 
Randomly a few days ago I was searching for Ultima Online as I was having a case of pure nostalgia and found this thread. It's quite amusing as I do recognise a few of the people here from 10 years ago.

I found out that a brand new player run shard is about to launch on the 22nd February (2 weeks time) from many on the staff and player base that were involved with In Por Yelm (IPY) which I believe is the most played and successful player run shard to date using T2A as a base for it's mechanics.

The player run server is An Corp:
http://www.uoancorp.com

Here is the forum for the shard:
http://forum.uoancorp.com/index.php


It is an American based server but would love to see many of the Europa crowd here, hopefully with modern technology lag isn't a problem.
 
I never played on one good player-run shard.
The interest in the game is pretty low these days and that is the whole idea of UO, you needed a high population.
For me, UO was amazing and had so many features that modern MMO's could seriously look at.
I'm now heavily pledged into Shroud of the Avatar - Richard Garriott at the helm and hopefully will bring that feeling of UO again.
 
I think Richard Garriott is past his prime, am not holding much hope for it but do hope I am wrong.

Regarding this server though it's predecessor had 1500-2000 players on during it's peak and looking at the mechanics it genuinely seems like the most organised and well balanced server so far. I had a lot of fun on Defiance when it was first out.

For myself I have learned that no game is going to give me what UO did, Darkfall, Mortal ect. but I genuinely believe this could be my best and last chance, and as I am not invested in anything at the moment I will give it a shot.

Interest maybe low but with the right mechanics this could work. I have already organised to take my alliance on another MMO I used to play over to this game, none of them have played UO before but are willing to give this a shot.

You just never know...
 
Velucias said:
I think Richard Garriott is past his prime, am not holding much hope for it but do hope I am wrong.

Regarding this server though it's predecessor had 1500-2000 players on during it's peak and looking at the mechanics it genuinely seems like the most organised and well balanced server so far. I had a lot of fun on Defiance when it was first out.

For myself I have learned that no game is going to give me what UO did, Darkfall, Mortal ect. but I genuinely believe this could be my best and last chance, and as I am not invested in anything at the moment I will give it a shot.

Interest maybe low but with the right mechanics this could work. I have already organised to take my alliance on another MMO I used to play over to this game, none of them have played UO before but are willing to give this a shot.

You just never know...
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Tabula Rasa, Garriot lost me when he released that garbage. Arguably if he was to do the same thing now he'd probably have Chris Roberts (Star Citizen) style backing from many people but he didn't, messed up the lore, hashed the game together and puked it out early.
 
TR was a fantastic game, it's just that it was a completely different type of game from UO, so everyone rages at it.

For what it was; sci-fi story driven mmo, it's the best I've ever played. I genuinely miss it.
 
This Shroud of the Avatar doesn't seem like a MMO type game unless I am mistaken? The 5 episode thing just sounds like he is making 5 different games that have a big multiplayer feature? Would love it to be true though as it does graphically look like what I imagine UO2 to be like.
 
Velucias said:
This Shroud of the Avatar doesn't seem like a MMO type game unless I am mistaken? The 5 episode thing just sounds like he is making 5 different games that have a big multiplayer feature? Would love it to be true though as it does graphically look like what I imagine UO2 to be like.
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Shouldn't you be studying you slacker? rofl

If you're looking for a good UO shard btw, UO Forever is where everyone went IIRC.
 
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Knew you would show your ugly mug.

Get a month off easter, 4 off summer... easy life, off the booze so lacking activity.

IPY was big, this is the last chance for a fresh start and to do it properly because there will never be a UO esque experience again.


** Also UOF isn't overly active (UO Second Age is better imo) and the rules are a bit dodgy. UO An Corp which opens soon has the most balanced system I have seen on a free shard and the staff have experience from the other successful ones they have ran.
 
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Velucias said:
Knew you would show your ugly mug.

Get a month off easter, 4 off summer... easy life, off the booze so lacking activity.

IPY was big, this is the last chance for a fresh start and to do it properly because there will never be a UO esque experience again.


** Also UOF isn't overly active (UO Second Age is better imo) and the rules are a bit dodgy. UO An Corp which opens soon has the most balanced system I have seen on a free shard and the staff have experience from the other successful ones they have ran.
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UO Forever has 900 on at all times from what someone told me, dunno if they're lying or not.

UO An Corp is an unknown project that will never take off, trust me on this, I'm a rocket surgeon.

When you coming to see the dog?
 
It doesn't have 900, nowhere near!

An Corp is not unknown, it's the birth child of IPY which was arguably (with Defiance) the most successful shard going and this has a lot of backing. It is genuinely the last chance to relive anything that UO had and I think this shard is the one.

No idea, had exams a few weeks ago and spent 6 weeks in hibernation revising and have been chilling since, will have to get back into it soon before I fall behind. Easter maybe.
 
Velucias said:
It doesn't have 900, nowhere near!

An Corp is not unknown, it's the birth child of IPY which was arguably (with Defiance) the most successful shard going and this has a lot of backing. It is genuinely the last chance to relive anything that UO had and I think this shard is the one.

No idea, had exams a few weeks ago and spent 6 weeks in hibernation revising and have been chilling since, will have to get back into it soon before I fall behind. Easter maybe.
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Apparently it's had a huge growth spurt recently, I haven't played UO since Defiance back in 2010/11 I think.

IPY has been remade three times and closed down each time within a year, after all the donations slowed down, it's a scam server set up by the same guy, if it's being remade by the same crew I'd avoid it like the plague.

Everyone I knew/know from DFI tells me UO Forever is the shard to play.
 
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