Why Hallow Thar II
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 3:48 pm
I wrote this long freaking post, then preview, then screwed up and lost the entire post. Damnit! GUARDS
Ok maybe I'll start over eh. This is a long post. I will ramble probably. You will have read at least to this far. For that you'll never get those seconds back.
Hello. Crazy Joe here.
I found my way here in an odd series of events.
Weeks ago, after what happened in Haiti, someone emailed me asking if I was going to run gamerscharity again. Well, it was a no. First, I wasn't playing Ultima Online anymore in forever, second Ebay doesn't allow virtual sales. Third, some russian aholes messed up every .html file on my host (this is why my old episodes aren't online anymore, but I have them all still!)
So I started feeling a bit nostaligic, and went roaming around Stratics forums. I asked if my old EM Tower and Maze house was still on Baja, to which I hear it was. I reactivate my account and go check it out. I was surprised to see a post on the b-board from 2007 I wrote admitting I was EM Vincent still visable. less than 50 post since then. Plus all my dialouge scripts were wiped out, which is a shame as the entire Tower had something that could talk to you. Hell, I had quest I left behind with active dialouge scripts all over the world to amuse those that missed the events or want to trace the steps again. I spent some time in my moongate maze, and got fed up and left to run around.
I remembered quickly why I quit UO. It was 'too big', and too fugly with things that weren't "ultima" to me. brb gotta pee.
ok so the nostalgia wore off. Fast. cancelled the account in the first day, and didn't give to poops. I went through my old episodes, and had some chuckles. Thievery and Piracy were my best moments from UO, and those weren't ever coming back I know it. So I googled up UO Classic Server after reading a dead horse thread on stratics, and found this place.
I been running around for 2 nights now, and loving it. I came in right at the tail end of T2A, and was promptly into stealing and looting, and remember the whole Trammel crap on the horizon. The best things to come with UOR/Trammel was 1.) Disarm Stealing 2.) Khaldun. That's it, and that's all I found missing here in this server.
I'm overly impressed with the dedication here to keeping it how it was. Honestly, I didn't own a house TILL Trammel hit, because Atlantic simply had no housing left and I was already rooted in there. I'm baffled at all the 'new' rules to housing I'm reading about, and just happy all I have right now is a boat. I'm even more thrilled after going around on my boat to learn being a Pirate is very feasible, but I'd probably feel guilty after the nice folks who gave me resses on Titan Isle last night when I wandered from Wyvern Island (on someone elses boat
)
Anyhow, I'm busy in RL. Thankfully we can macro away here, otherwise I wouldn't really stick around. If I find the time you may see me around more (but I have yet to make a "Crazy Joe", i'm incognito). I've even tried to track down Chaoticjelly to check this out, but we fell out of touch ages ago.
Ok I'm done rambling. lets hope this post sticks. and haha, 550 online. According to someone I know, 550 online with one EA server isn't going on these days. and they said hosting a classic server wasn't in their best interest. I think this server pretty much proves how wrong they were all this time.
Ok maybe I'll start over eh. This is a long post. I will ramble probably. You will have read at least to this far. For that you'll never get those seconds back.
Hello. Crazy Joe here.
I found my way here in an odd series of events.
Weeks ago, after what happened in Haiti, someone emailed me asking if I was going to run gamerscharity again. Well, it was a no. First, I wasn't playing Ultima Online anymore in forever, second Ebay doesn't allow virtual sales. Third, some russian aholes messed up every .html file on my host (this is why my old episodes aren't online anymore, but I have them all still!)
So I started feeling a bit nostaligic, and went roaming around Stratics forums. I asked if my old EM Tower and Maze house was still on Baja, to which I hear it was. I reactivate my account and go check it out. I was surprised to see a post on the b-board from 2007 I wrote admitting I was EM Vincent still visable. less than 50 post since then. Plus all my dialouge scripts were wiped out, which is a shame as the entire Tower had something that could talk to you. Hell, I had quest I left behind with active dialouge scripts all over the world to amuse those that missed the events or want to trace the steps again. I spent some time in my moongate maze, and got fed up and left to run around.
I remembered quickly why I quit UO. It was 'too big', and too fugly with things that weren't "ultima" to me. brb gotta pee.
ok so the nostalgia wore off. Fast. cancelled the account in the first day, and didn't give to poops. I went through my old episodes, and had some chuckles. Thievery and Piracy were my best moments from UO, and those weren't ever coming back I know it. So I googled up UO Classic Server after reading a dead horse thread on stratics, and found this place.
I been running around for 2 nights now, and loving it. I came in right at the tail end of T2A, and was promptly into stealing and looting, and remember the whole Trammel crap on the horizon. The best things to come with UOR/Trammel was 1.) Disarm Stealing 2.) Khaldun. That's it, and that's all I found missing here in this server.
I'm overly impressed with the dedication here to keeping it how it was. Honestly, I didn't own a house TILL Trammel hit, because Atlantic simply had no housing left and I was already rooted in there. I'm baffled at all the 'new' rules to housing I'm reading about, and just happy all I have right now is a boat. I'm even more thrilled after going around on my boat to learn being a Pirate is very feasible, but I'd probably feel guilty after the nice folks who gave me resses on Titan Isle last night when I wandered from Wyvern Island (on someone elses boat
) Anyhow, I'm busy in RL. Thankfully we can macro away here, otherwise I wouldn't really stick around. If I find the time you may see me around more (but I have yet to make a "Crazy Joe", i'm incognito). I've even tried to track down Chaoticjelly to check this out, but we fell out of touch ages ago.
Ok I'm done rambling. lets hope this post sticks. and haha, 550 online. According to someone I know, 550 online with one EA server isn't going on these days. and they said hosting a classic server wasn't in their best interest. I think this server pretty much proves how wrong they were all this time.