Why do YOU, personally play on T2A, rather than another

[randale]

Another shard, though I have no idea whether or not you play on this shard and others that are not T2A, anyway my reasons are

1. A single facet pvp shard. I didn't like the idea of Trammel, and I like that this only has the original one shard. Nowadays in UO (and other MMORPG's) you always hear about how servers and PVP and non PVP. Well, the days of T2A, it was ALL pvp, it didn't expect that you would assume that a server would have explicitly be called pvp and that pve was the regular/normal/expected shard. The idea of risk really factors into it, dodging reds and whatnot, and having some semi safe havens to go/run back to. I like it that's there's one facet. If there were two, I'd be somewhat tempted to go to it to be safer, I like not even having the option.

2. This shard has lots of players! Which means lots of pvpers, reds and everything else. I played on a shard that was say, 95% T2A (Metropolis) , but it's changed ownership several times, when I last played on it, I was literally the only player playing on the shard! Needlessly to say, I had to ditch it.

3. There are lots of things I never go to do in T2A era, that I am doing now, for free. Taming, woodworking, etc. Eventually I'll do it all, and I may go to another server (though not leave here, though) after I've exhausted my options are the thing about this server, is the fact that it's mostly static, doesn't change, and there won't really be anything, for the most part, new to do. But, the problem is I'd still like a shard with only a single pvp facet like Felluca.

[archaicsubrosa77]

I think its because either everyone wants to kill Chum or end up in one of his tales of adventure

[the bazookas]

1. Derrick pwns
2. the rest of the staff pwn
3. the T2A era pwns all other eras
   ... and last but not least:
4. so I can potion bomb you while you think you are safely under the protection of the town guards and not afk (this may be possible on other shards, but this shard pwns too much for me to try them; I do know, though, that IPY apparently frowns upon such forms of art as the non-afk (or afk) un-provoked townkill which happens to be utterly ridiculous)

Those are my top 4.

[nightshark]

staff

[Pirul]

Closest version of the original, except with competent staff.

[xevec]

For me it goes in this order.
1. You basically get what you earn here, there's no pay $20 to Derrick and get a 7x gm skill ball or any of that sorta crap.
2. The ruleset for this era allows for a wide diversity of playstyles, from brokers to merchants to murders to theives.
3. This shard is one of what I believe are a small number that actually has a decent population.
4. Derrick and the other mods have a pretty good reputation and are consistent.
5. There are no ugly ethereal mounts/cloths, and very limited neons here.

[Soma]

PvP, Staff no Trammel

[Nystal]

I play here because it reminds me of what I consider to be a "better time" regarding mmo games.
Non Consensual Free For All Open World PvP at its finest, free looting, proper Risk of death and losing all your stuff making you try to fight tooth and nail to stay alive....

Ahh those / these were the days

[Calador]

Closest version of the original, except with competent staff.

I agree with Pirul.

I still get the risk vs reward adreneline rush as I did in 97 when facing hard choices in a world that is unforgiving and feels real for that reason.

I haven't had that in any other online game.

[son]

Closest version of the original, except with competent staff.

[Zailm]

i dont understand why this shard doesnt have much more ppl..is it because of lack of adverstising ?

i mean lets be honest..there are only 3 shards which are well populated: uosecondage, uogamers: hybrid and ipy2.

hybrid is arcade..you can log in and have action but your things dont mean anything because everyone can have everything in no time.

ipy2 has so much broken systems, ridicilous slow skillgain and is losing players since they are between ipy 2.4999 and ipy 2.5 launch.

uosecondage is the best of these free shards..so why dont get all the players here on this one..at least kill ipy2, since its the same era but not as far as good as your shard derrick.. i really dont like this split up between shards..i would like just 1 shard and having 1,5k-2k clients on (not macro robots)

there are alot of european ppl on ipy2 who play there because of the no mount feature..i guess they dont know how good the ping on uosecondage is. i never had any lag..

just my 2 cents..

Zailm

[rouss]

UOSA is so much better than the others, hands down. Best community and devoted staff. Not to mention it's almost exact replica of my all-time favorite game and era. Wish I had the time to play more. I still don't get why so much more people played on IPY when it launched a year ago (I remember online count being in the figures of 1.5-2k). And IPY is not even worth mentioning in this thread, it has/had an awful staff (that lead to demise of IPY 1) and Az himself is a greedy *erk.

But again, I read somewhere that original IPY code for showing online status was programmed to show the number much higher than it was in reality (and they still don't show player names, just the overall count).

What we lack is a huge, player-driven ad campaign. IPY has a subreddit that advertises itself to redditors, perhaps we should do the same?

[Arsen]

my 3 opinions.

1. derrick is by far the best admin a uo server could have
2. Vets come and go but we are all like a big fam doesnt matter if we troll each other, its like irl.
3. we got by far the most epic ragers on this server.

[folo]

1. The ruleset (T2A)
2. Large player base
3. Great staff

[Blaise]

The staff, the players and feeling like I'm 19 again and playing UO for the first time.

See also: My write-up on Testimonials on the website.