Little bit of advice for a newcomer?

[Tethir]

I know this thread will branch out over a couple of forum sections, but it will be relevant and I figure this is the place my plea for help will be seen.

Basically, I played Divinity for a while, which may not have been as true to the era as Second Age but it was a little easier on noobs. It had a NEW guild and had slightly easier skill gains. Now, I prefer the slower skill gain but I am a little lost as to how to get a solid bit of footing with no help for noobs apparent. Are there any guilds out there for new players like me?

[Huzke]

I don't really know if there are any dedicated guilds specifically for new players at the moment but I did drop a stone the other day at a small house I set up for new players to use to macro in if they wanted to. I know there are quite a few individuals that provide short term housing for new players. I don't know if they have anything available right now but I've seen posts from, I believe, Wise and Brules.

If you want a rune to the house I have set up shoot me a PM. Just don't keep anything of value in the house because a couple other players also have access to it, it's mainly just a place with a locked door to macro in relative safety over night. Anything beyond that I don't really have the resources to provide as I'm somewhat new to the server also but I try to do my best to pay forward the help and advice I received when I started new as well.

[Tethir]

Well, thanks for that Huzke. That may be useful. I didn't mean anything like housing, I don't mind the tedious trips to the bank. i mean more the basic starter equipment it's hard to afford like bandages and shitty armour. That's all I meant. It's just a shame cause my brothers showed me the ropes and on this server I get the impression new players will be a little frightened off cause there seems to be a tough time in store for the new entrants.

[Huzke]

It's not that bad tbh. I don't have a lot of experience about what it's like on other free shards but compared to starting out on an OSI shard in '97 this is far easier.

As for bandages you could always sheer sheep and spin the wool, you'll see even established players doing this here. You can go to the brit sewers and make money for better weapons pretty quickly and then go to a graveyard and kill skeletons for bone armor. And, as always, you could hang out at Brit, Skara, Vesper, or pretty much any other city bank and scavenge stuff people throw onto the ground to either use or sell. Trust me, some people throw some fairly decent stuff onto the ground like ruin weapons, defense armor, etc.

After you get melee skills around 70ish head over to Vesper and kill the red brigands off the North West Vesper bridge. If you dry loot them and sell the clothes and weapons they carry it's about 180g per kill.

Sure you could probably find someone to gives you 10k gold and/or a ton of GM made gear to get going with, trust me, don't rob yourself of the experience of starting from scratch and building up a fortune here. UO is largely about the journey, not the destination.

One of the first things you'll want to do when you get some money is buy some recall scrolls and a recall rune, ask someone to mark it for you in a city, and make a macro use the scroll and set it to a hotkey. Wrestling + Recall macro = your best friend against getting PK'd.

Welcome to UOSA!

[Tethir]

No, I agree, I think starting from scratch will be a lot of fun. Those tips you gave will be really helpful. I guess you actually answered the question I wanted to pose it just didn't come out right. I basically wanted some ideas about where you can get essentials early in the game without anyone just skipping that vital first part of the game for you. Thank you very much Huzke!

[Huzke]

No problem broskie.

[Will Sinker]

Also, be sure to join the IRC channel (the information is on the main page at www.uosecondage.com). People in the #secondage channel are usually willing to answer any questions or give advice.

[OhSnap]

first of all welcome to UOSA! it's an awesome server, hope you like it. if you do find yourself outside of town and get ganked by 4 reds and dry looted (it will happen), do your best not to get discouraged. Don't be afraid to be a lowly resource gatherer/craftsman in the cozy confines of guarded areas if necessary. Mining, lumberjacking, and bowcraft/fletching are 3 very safe and moderately profitable ways to start out and get a bank roll going to fund more profitable characters such a bard.

[Chaos]

I heard there is a great demand for a good fletcher .. If that is your thing...

[Caspolemo]

Demand for fletching? I'm guessing that's more for arrows than exceptional bows? I'm doing fletching to start out with on my mule for starter money. I was going to drop it, but ill keep it if there's a demand.

Also, since this is a noob thread, how's the housing here? Are there many open spots for larges or L's?

[xevec]

From what I've seen there are not to many open spots for Large Bricks or Ls. Often if there is enough space someone will place a small there to hold the spot.
That being said Larges, Patios and Ls aren't to expensive, often they can be had for Deed + Small Deed.
Hope that helps.

[Caspolemo]

Thanks, good to know housing is a little competitive... makes idoc watching something to do again (one of the funnest things in T2A). I doubt ill require a large as I didn't get one of my own til trammel opened, so I'm used to not hoarding useless stuff.

I'm trying to do this old school with no help... see how this goes lol. Picked the wrong weekend tough. I've been home a total of maybe 7 hours so far and all that was sleep...

[OhSnap]

my apologies, I always just say both words of the skill - bowcraft/fletching. never made a GP off of fletching, never tried to chopping logs, making bows and selling them to the appropriate vendors can be a relatively quick way to make some start up cash, all I meant to say

[archaicsubrosa77]

Okay I made a thread about this on how to make gold quick starting out because I had to start out with nothing again with three fresh accounts.

Seriously...
Music
Provoke
Stealing

Three skills that are cheap to raise...and aren't redundant.

I run around on one character with only these three skills Gmed from time to time now when I am bored...training monsters in melee like pets with provo . You can make pretty fast loot without having to cast/attack or wait for the buggers to die. It's a good way to explore the world around you, watch some monster fights, and nab some loot.

You can get thousands fast, you can die and ress and be ready to go get more too as long as you stay overland. I started with 50 magery just for small heals.

Some people didn't realize I was starting from scratch so talked it down to no end...but really it's a good easy and cheap starter that doesn't get boring doing the same thing over and over without having to go back to town to sell, get more armor or weapons,make bandages, or pick up regs all the time.

[spamalot]

I've been here about 3 weeks? (lost track) and I've got a small house and about 200k. This is how I did it.

1.) Make new character w/ 45 magery, 50 resist, and five musicianship.
2.) Start them in Moonglow.
3.) Go to Moonglow Zoo and macro musicianship and provoke until GM. Should take a day or two.
4.) Go through the moongate between the zoo and town. Go to Yew and gather all the wool you can carry. Take it to the tailor's shop and use the loom and wheel to make fabric for bandaids. Get a wizard's hat and learn to macro healing. This won't get you to GM. Search the forums for how to get to GM healing. GM healing.
4.) Pick a melee skill and start fighting the undead in the graveyard right next to Moonglow Zoo. With provo and GM healing this will be a piece of cake. It's right next to the guard zone, rarely hunted in, and between spawns you can bring the money you make straight to the bank which is only about a minute walk away. From this you'll get about 1000-1500 per spawn cycle and more bone armor then you'll know what to do with.
5.) Get to around 70 or so tactics/melee in graveyard. Then go to a dungeon of your choice. GM your melee skills here.

My first character ended up looking like this...

100 maces
100 tactics
100 musicianship
100 provo
31 mage (100% chance to recall from scrolls)
69 resist
100 anatomy
100 healing

With no mount, (free) bone armor, (free) band aids, and any mace this character can make 20k in less than an hour provoking/fighting mid level monsters. I usually fight late at night or during the week (I'm a returning college student right now so I don't have to work) and I don't get PK'd very often at all.

With this character I've funded my first PVP character. So far it's cost over 60k in regs. I'm macroing him in my house as we speak. He's GM'd mage and is pretty close to GM'ing resist and meditation.