Event items, is there anyone who earned them who actually keeps them ?

[azmodanb]

Don't get me wrong I used to be a huge collector. That all stopped with my lack of payment and the falling of my keep and all i horded since 97

Only thing I managed to have banked was my gold and collection of robes. But sure made it exciting starting over with nothing more then outdated suits and what was on my bank box.

 

[drcossack]

I also agree with Flutter I have been collecting things for over 15 years now and some are dear to my heart. My crafters double blessed sewed by jester's cap she has worn for 15 years , My brother's who has passed away god rest his soul sewn by wizards hat I keep in the bank, never want to lose it . event items to me if I like I keep if I don't I am more then happy to sell it to the hawkers that are interested in buying it... why? its simple I don't want it for my collection and if they are willing to pay that much for it for their collection we both win. I am currently looking to probably sell my rubble collection I have had for years.. why? because I am longer interested in it as I was years ago. I am allways happy to see cross sharders come to our events. It adds to the excitement they bring and lets me know that others are interested in whats happening in the pacific shard . It is all ones personal reasons to do what they want with their things..........

Sorry for your loss.

But this, so much. I'm not that interested in rares from events. If I get them, I get them. If not, that's good too.

What matters more to me is some crafted stuff I've had since 2005-ish. I believe it was a friend's tailor, named ReV Owns U (ReV was was one of the PvP guilds on Lake Superior at the time.) I was never a member of that particular guild, and while it no longer exists (nor do any of the PvP guilds from that era, outside of someone holding onto them), I still wear the robe & cloak proudly, because of my memories & how much fun LS was during that time.

 

[popps]

Popps, WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING!

You can EASILY be eligible for the "list". Its NOT HARD. I have seen someone on a BRAND NEW character who just throws explosion pots GET AN ITEM.

ITS RANDOM PEOPLE! YOU ALL HAVE AN EQUAL CHANCE! YOU DON'T NEED GOOD SUITS!

I think my point is being missed, I am not complaining about not getting Event items, I do not care about them for their worth in the current UO. I am just expressing my sadness about seeing the hard work and dedication of many Event Moderators who create wonderfull storylines and put their efforts into making them come true but then I see all of this be reduced in its meaningfullness since a whole lot of players just attend for the drops and their worth and, as others have said, Events would be emptied out of participants if it were not for the hundreds of millions worth items drops no matter how good would be Event Moderators in creating interesting Events.........

Am I the only one who finds a deep sadness in this ?

As someone else pointed out, this "quantity" of participation not necessarily contributes to the "quality" of the Event....

The only thing I have against the events and the drops is only in the behavior of those attending. I find it extremely rude of folk to stand ON the EM... ON other people..... to park their dragons ON the EM or right in the center of the event blocking the view of most of the folk. I find it rude when folk spam and shout nasty things at the EM and attempt to disrupt the plot/story for everyone else by saying things like "Is there a drop tonight" 100 times over and over... or "Come on stop the stupid talking and just get on with the monsters so I can get my drop!" etc... If folk coming to the event showed respect for the EM and the hard work the EM's put into the event and followed the instructions and acted in a civil manner I'd probably volunteer to BE and EM. But since that doesn't happen and folk feel the need to be disruptive and rude and such I would NEVER volunteer because I know myself well enough and it's difficult for me to stay at such events sometimes because of the behavior... but I stay because I want to support the EM's as I feel they deserve all the support they can get for what they have to put up with and how much effort they put into the events.

The following line expresses my feeling and point I am trying to make, I would like Events to be participated NOT for their drops (hence the suggestion to make them account bound AND not shard transferable), but for the Events themselves thus appraising the work and dedication of the Event Moderators who put a lot of dedication into making them come true and great, and NOT just for hundreds of milllions worth of gold items' drops....

I can't understand why folk can't just enjoy the event for the event and why we have to have this discussion every few weeks. But honestly ..... and in my opinion NONE of the crap should be so rare. If I had my way anyone who wanted the item ought to be allowed to have it especially those who attend regularly. It's too bad they can't reward decent behavior .... and it's too bad it has to be all about "rares" and about making money..... and honestly if I sold all the crap I've gotten over the years I wouldn't even have anything to spend all that gold on anyway.... and lets face it selling gold really isn't that lucrative anymore. Years ago when 1 million gold would fetch you 25 bucks sure... that would be worthwhile but .20 to .25 cents per mill isn't even that worthwhile and honestly if you want to get down to it... I don't see UO being viable anymore in the next 5 years if something doesn't happen soon... Knowing that we'll probably never have another expansion pack..... or new client or ever go true 3d like most other games on the market one just has to wonder how much more juice they can squeeze from this rock.

Don't get me wrong I love UO dearly and have for years but anymore there isn't much other than the EM events to keep me even interested in logging in.

 

[popps]

A thing that I think they should do with the EM events. Is once a month each shard should have their own vending machine event item drop..
This lets everyone that attends a drop and a cool item.. Its only once a month, so just 12 different drops a year per shard..
Maybe even run the event on all shards at the same time and date... Makes you pick a home shard for the event arc...
Maybe have the event item dropped follow a type of guideline per say. Have the item represent that specific shard and its history..


Maybe for the monthly event have a giant invasion on one of the towns... Have a continued storyline of protecting the lands and towns for that shard..
Set up different leaders of the invading army for each shard. This would give every shard its own type of storyline for the event arc. Would also produce a storyline for the shards drops to be based on.
Not sure if other shards are doing this. On Catskills the EM shows up at random and sets an attack on a city. He sets out a call to arms and we go protect the town from deamons or such..
Its fun running to the call and defending a town..
This type of event sets up well for rp players to.. Can set up different factions to protect the towns....
Have some events here and there were you must protect a caravan as it goes from one town to the other.... A town needs provisions to help rebuild after a invasion or something like that.. The supplies needs to make it at all costs type of scenario.

It would give every type of player a cool deco item once a month to deco there lovely houses..
Its fun hitting cool deco item or cool types of armor. This would spread that feeling to the entire community regardless of play style..

Lots of players take PRIDE in their playing their "Home" Shard and this, I think, is a VERY good thing because, it CAN, with a better PvP engine and system, open room to a whole world of EPIC Battles of a Shard vs. Shard (sort of players' invasions of other Shards and Shards' rivalries and stuff like that....).

So, the Shards' Event items could become part of this Shards' pride IF they stayed Shards' stationed and not be moved all over the Shards reducing their Shard's meaningfullness.....

I read posts of players mentioning how they feel particularly attached to their Shard be it Napa, Great Lakes, Origin, Atlantic, Pacific, Catskills and so forth, and how those shards will always mean something special to them even if they now and then transfer to some other Shard.

Well, let's make this become an assett for the game, let's fortify this feeling of pride to be part of a Shard, belong to a given Shard and move it forward with Epic PvP battles Shard vs. Shard. Perhaps, organized and layed out by the Event Moderators of the Shards involved, leading their respective Shards' armies as their Captains ?

But to get to that point, we first need the Shard's PRIDE feeling to solify, to root into the hearts of the players of those Shards and I think that Shards' Events could have a role into this if they were not just for the drops and their hundreds of millions gold worth......
What I am trying to say, is that I think that perhaps, if the various Shards would not be seen by players as being all the same, but would be able to be differentiated by distinct uniquenesses, different history, unique player base distinct for each Shard, this could maybe hopefully build up as being a great assett for the development and the future of Ultima Online ? Perhaps Shards' Events can help the building up of this Shard's uniqueness and history ?

I like this game a whole lot and would love to see great things for it.....

 

[Herman]

Em events are for people who like to earn alot of gold fast or collectors of Em items nothing wrong with that I just have to accept that they never be what i like them to be

I do not go to events anymore but when i was active i did got my share of em items I still have all of them and whatever gold i could get for them i do not need so they stay in that box

 

[Capt. Lucky]

Sorry I didn't read this thread... but this topic is dead. I know people that take tons of gold to other shards (100's of millions), buy stuff up, and bring them back. Naturally the event items are the most rare and valuable. Not everyone has tokens, so they spend like 20 bucks to get there, and 20 bucks to get back. OSI/EA/Broadsword ain't giving up that cash flow. It's probably their biggest regular seller at the Origin Store. Once in a blue moon I can get someone to bring something back for me. This kinda thing happens rather regularly. I see stuff from my main shard on other shards and it doesn't bother me. In general they're cheaper there than on my home shard lol. I have good characters on 3 shards other than my home shard. Some day when I can get transfer shields I plan to have some fun with that. Right now the cool stuff I get on other shards is just sitting in my lockers.

 

[Aibal]

Not at all because chances are, IMHO, that the action would end only with the kiling of the target especially if the attackers far outnumber the defender.

So no, I do not fear that people would step on a side and watch action, people usually like being part of the action....

Then you are sadly mistaken. Go do Navrey some time, especially on Atlantic. There is a guild that has several members do it sometimes when I am there. They will cast a few flamestrikes with a spider slayer, then invis and wait for others to finish it off knowing they are getting looting rights. Don't kid yourself.

 

[Aibal]

popps, please quit the whining. You keep claiming that it's not about the drops, it's about people xsharding them and "stealing" your shards history, then you do a 180 and start talking about the drops and how you need billion gold suits to get them. It obviously IS about the drops to you. I stated in an early post that I'd only sold one EM event item ever. Since then the thread has turned into a popps whinefest.

Stop with the billion gold suit thing. I almost always do GL events (because our EM's are kickass). I also am in vent with some great folks who are fun to talk to during the event, and have a treasure trove of knowledge about the game....I learn something every time with them. I do the event for the storyline and the fun. I play a garg wraith thrower that I created to compete back when damage mattered. I continue to use that character ONLY because that is the character I'm "known" for within my circle at these events. I used to do them on a bard until, sadly, none of the mobs could be discoed or provo'ed so I switched. I have a solid suit that I made for him, along with a full set of slayer weapons. That suit includes a Tangle and Folded Steel glasses as the two most expensive items, however I obtained both myself. I probably don't have an additional 20 million, tops, in that suit. I get drops. Not every time, and sometimes I go quite a while between them, but it's not like a years long droughts either. Even if it was, I would still do them because of the people I play the events with. I have fun. I couldn't care less if the people who get the drops keep them, sell them, xshard them....whatever. It's their drop. I can tell you that in vent there are many different templates, none have billion gold suits, and most of those folks have gotten drops at some point.

Give it a rest. Let people play the game the way they want instead of forcing your opinion down there throat. The only thing that needs changing in my opinion, as Malagaste put it earlier, is the rudeness of the people. I'd love, just one time, to have GM powers in the game at one of our events. There would be a LOT of grey robes and a few 24 hour bans.....

 

[Darius Bloodbain]

Its Theirs, They earned it. Let them do what they want with it like any other item attained in game.
If they wanna throw it in a trash barrel and collect the points, its none of my business.
If they wanna sell it, its none of my business.
It does not hurt me nor my game play one bit to see that someone transferred an event trinket
from another shard and have it displayed in their home.
If they are having fun, why bother them?

 

[Ox AO]

I keep my drops but no one can see them.

 

[Martell]

I think my point is being missed, I am not complaining about not getting Event items, I do not care about them for their worth in the current UO. I am just expressing my sadness about seeing the hard work and dedication of many Event Moderators who create wonderfull storylines and put their efforts into making them come true but then I see all of this be reduced in its meaningfullness since a whole lot of players just attend for the drops and their worth and, as others have said, Events would be emptied out of participants if it were not for the hundreds of millions worth items drops no matter how good would be Event Moderators in creating interesting Events.........

Am I the only one who finds a deep sadness in this ?

As someone else pointed out, this "quantity" of participation not necessarily contributes to the "quality" of the Event....


The following line expresses my feeling and point I am trying to make, I would like Events to be participated NOT for their drops (hence the suggestion to make them account bound AND not shard transferable), but for the Events themselves thus appraising the work and dedication of the Event Moderators who put a lot of dedication into making them come true and great, and NOT just for hundreds of milllions worth of gold items' drops....

Again, the game is in decline, you're nostalgic for what the game used to be, you can complain all you want about what the game is today and the way people play it but it won't do you any good.

Shard vs shards fights already happened when pvp was larger and more active, tons of pvp guilds did shard tours to compete with other guilds. Now most people have characters on every shard. There's no point in shard vs. shard activities as it's the same people playing on every shard.

Your idea of shard pride is stupid just shows you're over invested in this game. If you want to limit yourself to one shard go ahead but I still like to play this game as an mmo and thus xfer to where the largest number of people are. I don't care about the shard or its history I care about where the people and the economy are at the moment. That's why people xfer chars and items.

 

[Smoot]

I have Pride in all the shards i play. oh except atlantic, its kinda trashy and greedy, oh and chessy for right now (sorry chessy but this months event lineup was just horrible bad terrible clusterf#@* wrong)

 

[Flutter]

Why is this thread still going, we are all just repeating ourselves.

 

[Wetherlocke]

I've only had time to participate in a few events, but the one time I got an item I was wearing a crappy suit with just an elder mage using a well-trained mare. I had a lot of fun at the event, so I was happy to get something that makes an interesting display piece. It looks like one of those toy guards from xmas with EM names on them, but green, and is labeled "an intricate statue covered with odd runes". I collect statues so I think it's great, and have no intention of selling it.

 

[MalagAste]

I got a drop once on Willa. Willa wears a sorcerers suit and has crap jewelery. She's an RP character and doesn't even "fight". She does shoot at stuff that shoots at her but she carries a crap bow that has SC because she mostly spends her time healing.... the event she got one at was no different. She amazingly got a drop which to me is just bizarre since she honestly wasn't doing much if any damage and she was spending more time rezing folk than anything else. Oh and Yes I kept it.

So it's not about the uber suit anymore since they randomized the drops.

Like I said my only problem with the system is that it promotes greedy, whiny, inappropriate and often disruptive and rude behavior from folk attending which in my opinion spoils the events for folk who attend for the event not for the drop.

And yes that's about shard pride and RP.

 

[Victim of Siege]

I am really confused.... is this what Event items were meant to be for ?

Just browsing the rares Forum after each shard's event is a blossoming of posts about selling the Event items....

Is this what Event items where meant to be for ? Items to be sold for hundreds of millions and leaving the shard they were originated on ?

I do not know others, but personally, I have always seen Shard's Events as part of the history of that shard, and that shard ONLY. They are participated by the comunity of THAT shard, run by the Event GM of THAT shard and should remain as history of THAT shard and a memento of participation of players to the Comunity of THAT shard.

I hope, I SINCERELY hope, that with the upcoming new counselors' program the story will be ALL different; that Event items for Events run by Counselors will NOT be tradeable nor sellable, but will need to remain in the hands of the player who received them as a memento of their participation to that given Event (i.e. account bound), AND, definately will not be transferable to other shards but will remain as a testimony of the history of the Shard they were originated on.

i kept everyone i ever got, except when i got multiples, then i kept one , and shared the others with friends. i have been offered exorbitant amounts in the past for some, but i want them to stay on the shard they were created for and have always refused to sell them. guess it may be considered silly, but thats just how i am.

 

[Tjalle]

Also keep in mind that to be competive at events now under the new system many run up to 10 characters.

Greed at its finest...

 

[Smoot]

Greed at its finest...

yeah, and its really frustrating because thats what the majority preferred rather than creating one effective character and playing it well. i know i cant even compete now because i just have 2 accounts, but it is what it is.

 

[popps]

yeah, and its really frustrating because thats what the majority preferred rather than creating one effective character and playing it well. i know i cant even compete now because i just have 2 accounts, but it is what it is.

Well, at least this means 10 accounts' monthly subscriptions coming in as added revenue for Ultima Online and this, IMHO, is always good.......... the more accounts' subscriptions get paid for, the better it will be for UO's long lasting life....

 

[Ox AO]

many run up to 10 characters

TEN!? one person?
When i kill corgal I use 5 characters. One actually fighting the others are bard, disco healing and protection.
On three screens this is difficult for me. My last screen i have three clients open like a playing cards in my hand.

Spawns i typically run three guys throwing colossus around/pet and direct spells. With my fourth guy doing protection and resurrections not actually fighting.

In PvP there is a lot of running. I typically run two guys one bard and thrower tamer.
Then a support stealth character for tracking, resurrections and detect hidden.

BUT TEN characters by one person? I like to see that!
I go to most events on all shards I haven't seen a caravan that large.

 

[Captn Norrington]

Does anyone else think it's kinda...wrong that the games npc's are apparently so easy to fight that people can run 5-10 accounts at the same time and not be dying every few seconds....I have no idea how people do that, as i can barely use 2 accounts at the same time at a spawn and only 1 at events.

 

[Kylie Kinslayer]

I do not have a clue how they do it man. At events I do good to keep 1 char alive as well.

 

[Ox AO]

Does anyone else think it's kinda...wrong that the games npc's are apparently so easy to fight that people can run 5-10 accounts at the same time and not be dying every few seconds....I have no idea how people do that, as i can barely use 2 accounts at the same time at a spawn and only 1 at events.

It isn't really all that hard. If you can res someone with one account and keep your other character a live you're already doing it.
When you cast something it always takes time to come up while I am waiting I cast something on a different character. I try to use larger spells so there really is no delay for me. I am always moving my mouse and hitting macro's.
I would suggest a Nostromo or something like it and a very fast computer.

 

[popps]

It isn't really all that hard. If you can res someone with one account and keep your other character a live you're already doing it.
When you cast something it always takes time to come up while I am waiting I cast something on a different character. I try to use larger spells so there really is no delay for me. I am always moving my mouse and hitting macro's.
I would suggest a Nostromo or something like it and a very fast computer.

One thing that I do not understand, is whether all characters can be manually
controlled regardless their number, or whether at some point (if the characters to be controlled are too many), it becomes necessary some sort of botting or scripting to be able to manage reasonably a large number of them....

 

[old gypsy]

One thing that I do not understand, is whether all characters can be manually
controlled regardless their number, or whether at some point (if the characters to be controlled are too many), it becomes necessary some sort of botting or scripting to be able to manage reasonably a large number of them....

I've occasionally wondered how people manage to effectively control more than one or two characters at a time at these events. And ten sounds incredible. At the very least, I suspect most of these players are just a lot better than I am at multi-tasking!

 

[drcossack]

Does anyone else think it's kinda...wrong that the games npc's are apparently so easy to fight that people can run 5-10 accounts at the same time and not be dying every few seconds....I have no idea how people do that, as i can barely use 2 accounts at the same time at a spawn and only 1 at events.

Sampires or tamers, most likely. During the current event arc on LS, I can go afk as soon as I issue the kill command to my greater. While I do heal as much as possible, if there's a greater drag tanking, sampires can just sit there & whack away.

 

[MalagAste]

I often Treasure hunt with 2 characters.... or go down in shame with 2 characters.... often a tamer and a mage/mystic.

 

[Smoot]

One thing that I do not understand, is whether all characters can be manually
controlled regardless their number, or whether at some point (if the characters to be controlled are too many), it becomes necessary some sort of botting or scripting to be able to manage reasonably a large number of them....

yes there are a few blatant scriptors, but 3 to 4 can be controled tho without much trouble once you get the hang of it.

 

[Goldberg-Chessy]

It is my understanding that the number 1 argument in support of IDOCs has always been to "save a Shard's items history"... so now it is not about saving up the history of items in UO ?

Ok...... so why do people use that argument so much, instead ?

It is your understanding? That is the basis for your argument? You cant even attempt to make your own supporting points these days?
There is no noble reason for doing idocs.
Idocs are done for no other purpose then to gain gold, items and valuable housing spots. Idoccers are looters and scroungers picking a corpse clean. Not judging, but any idoccer saying they are doing it for history is just plain lying to defend their greedy ways.

 

[popps]

It is your understanding? That is the basis for your argument? You cant even attempt to make your own supporting points these days?
There is no noble reason for doing idocs.
Idocs are done for no other purpose then to gain gold, items and valuable housing spots. Idoccers are looters and scroungers picking a corpse clean. Not judging, but any idoccer saying they are doing it for history is just plain lying to defend their greedy ways.

Well, that's the argument I usually hear when there is talks of IDOCs, I do not do them but that is what I heard from players who do them....

 

[Ludes]

I can run two without much problem... If I do three I get in trouble.(sometimes I time out on the third). but I can easily see where a younger person who is better at flipping clients could run more..
Just to see once I loaded all my accounts and my kids and had 7 accounts going on just my one comp.. so it is possible if you can keep track of that many.

At the most recent event on Cats my son asked me if I knew any of those people and I did know most of them.. I'm sure some of the unknowns where from other shards but I personally think that's cool.. anything that gets em to come visit my shard is cool. Besides I have characters on other shards and sometimes I get bored and you'll see me attending an event on GL or ATL or some other shard...

And just like MalagAste ... I've gotten drops on these shards even though I didn't have the uber gear or multiple accounts running.

 

[Ox AO]

One thing that I do not understand, is whether all characters can be manually
controlled regardless their number, or whether at some point (if the characters to be controlled are too many), it becomes necessary some sort of botting or scripting to be able to manage reasonably a large number of them....

As i said I have an very hard time at 5 characters. two is extremely easy. three is easy. four and more gets ruff.
when there is a clicky thingy someplace i will have 6 clients opened and 5 following one guy to get the clicky but I am not playing them.

I have also had issues with friends not wanting me to take more then one character. What I usually do when they do that is I will go with one character doing whatever they are doing then run two other characters doing a mini champ spawn on the other screens.

 

[popps]

As i said I have an very hard time at 5 characters. two is extremely easy. three is easy. four and more gets ruff.
when there is a clicky thingy someplace i will have 6 clients opened and 5 following one guy to get the clicky but I am not playing them.

I have also had issues with friends not wanting me to take more then one character. What I usually do when they do that is I will go with one character doing whatever they are doing then run two other characters doing a mini champ spawn on the other screens.

Out of curiosity, may I ask what CPU, Video Card and System/Video memory are you using not to have lag issues with so many clients up at once ? Also, does it matter whether UO is on a SSD hard drive and your connection is on fiber optics ? I mean, each client open should take some connection band width, right ? The more clients the more band witdh is needed to run all of them with no lag....

Also, are there video cards out there which support 5 different monitors ??

 

[Ox AO]

Out of curiosity, may I ask what CPU, Video Card and System/Video memory are you using not to have lag issues with so many clients up at once ? Also, does it matter whether UO is on a SSD hard drive and your connection is on fiber optics ? I mean, each client open should take some connection band width, right ? The more clients the more band witdh is needed to run all of them with no lag....

Also, are there video cards out there which support 5 different monitors ??

Ii7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (6 x 256K L2 cache)
two AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series each has 1024MB
It has a big Alien head on the box ( wouldn't recommend alien ware anymore)
Running three monitors the third monitor I will sometimes run three clients on it laid out like a hand of cards.

I would suggest getting a computer that can handle running two video cards if you want to run more then two monitors.
Setting up macro's correctly is important.

If you are running a top end video card you can could run 3 monitors using a video adapter.

 

[Pawain]

A simple one, make the list AS LARGE AS the number of participants.

Is there 100 participants to the kill ? All 100 participants will have their chance at a drop, NONE left out.

End of any advantage for the billion gold suits.....

Maybe you shouldn't spend so much time building up Detect Hidden, and spend more time on a skill that would be useful in an EM event if that is what is important to you.

 

[popps]

Ii7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (6 x 256K L2 cache)
two AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series each has 1024MB
It has a big Alien head on the box ( wouldn't recommend alien ware anymore)
Running three monitors the third monitor I will sometimes run three clients on it laid out like a hand of cards.

I would suggest getting a computer that can handle running two video cards if you want to run more then two monitors.
Setting up macro's correctly is important.

If you are running a top end video card you can could run 3 monitors using a video adapter.

Eh, that's not a system for everyone though.... just that CPU runs around 600 dollars alone not to then mention the need for dual video cards....

We are probably looking at a configuration, with the 3 monitors, around 3,000 dollars ?

For multi-client UO playing what matters most, the processing CPU power or the actual Video card(s) ?

 

[PlayerSkillFTW]

Actually, years back on Napa, the EMs did release some Sashes during an event that were bound to an account (or was it character), and could not be shard transferred. A bunch of people bitched like hell that they were worthless since you couldn't shard transfer them off to Atlantic and sell them.

 

[Ox AO]

Eh, that's not a system for everyone though.... just that CPU runs around 600 dollars alone not to then mention the need for dual video cards....

We are probably looking at a configuration, with the 3 monitors, around 3,000 dollars ?

For multi-client UO playing what matters most, the processing CPU power or the actual Video card(s) ?

i paid over 3,000 a while back yeah.

Video card is what will usually bottle neck first. But you need both.
I don't know how many clients i can actually run smoothly.

 

[Picus at the office]

Out of curiosity, may I ask what CPU, Video Card and System/Video memory are you using not to have lag issues with so many clients up at once ? Also, does it matter whether UO is on a SSD hard drive and your connection is on fiber optics ? I mean, each client open should take some connection band width, right ? The more clients the more band witdh is needed to run all of them with no lag....

Also, are there video cards out there which support 5 different monitors ??

I don't recall what my system is(I'm not a tech guy) but I run 3 accounts every day when I play and have never had an issue. I have two screens, what ever the top line intel chip was 2 years back(some quad core I7 thing), 16 gig ram, a huge (at the time) vid card that was over kill back then for BF3, 5 fans and a water cooler for the I7, SSD drive for windows and some stupid fast normal 2 TB HD for the games. It wasn't really pricey and would be cheap today I'd expect. I'm sure that it would run 10 accounts if I wanted it to do so but what would the point be?

If I recall my vid card would run 6 screens in eyefinity mode, what ever that was....lol.