Maybe give Siege a try... there are quite some European players and some other people who work night shifts...
I already play on Siege ...... no ...... no one is really around..... at least not until I want to go to bed. Often it's just 100% everyone hidden there anyway. I belong to a large alliance there and I can say that most times nothing is happening. That's often I think why every time someone mentions anything everyone on Siege says to go there. Because even though we can have a house there and everything no one is there. I refuse to play on Atl... but I'm bored playing solo all the time.
Seems to me I miss a lot of the RPPvP and RP community stuff we used to do back when there were more than a handful of RPers around. Problem is now that many folk left RP because there were some folk in RP who thought that anyone else's RP sucked and only they could RP "right" and it drove a bunch of folk away.... there was tons of Drama over the years regarding what you could and could not RP. I often find it to be silly and strange but... honestly if you follow the Metafiction of the game you are doing just fine. I mean you can't declare yourself King of Britain and expect anyone to give you that sort of thing without treating your character like either a Traitor to the crown or a Nut case. You just can't.... if you want to RP yourself as the "Queen of the Cows" then expect people to think you completely mad...... it's RP but don't expect folk to take you seriously.... However if you want to call yourself a merchant or miner of Minoc then by all means..... but act the part.
But gone are the epic battles between good and evil.... certainly there are a few who play Evil these days but seems to me either it's few and far between or on some shards not very well balanced.... over the years I've found it just loses a lot of "fun factor" when one side or another does nothing but take a beating..... balance does wonders for the psyche.
A bunch of folk don't seem to treat the EM events as "RP" and avoid them ...... they don't much care for the dying all the time... they don't like the BS that goes on at the EM events... they don't like that it can be EXTREMELY hard to follow what's going on with all the insanity about and folk disrupting things... but more than anything they don't like that sometimes you can't RP back with the EM's. Seems to me that in the early days of the EM program EM's "embraced" the RP community and included much of it into their events even going so far as to join some of the RP events and such and were supportive of things... however that seems to have died and anymore going to many of the events does nothing much more than further the metafiction of the game at a snails crawl... many of the events that supposedly are leading up to something seem to take a very long time and often folk lose interest in the story... As well since there is little to no interaction anymore from the EM's with the RP community going to the Governors meetings is like watching paint dry... Or like watching an eternal game of golf with only ONE golfer... Boring..... they say the same script over and over... they don't hardly interact.... I mean I can say that I'm plotting to kill everyone in Jhelom and they would be like "Well that's nice you are expanding.".... but don't act appropriately to what the King should say which would be that doing that would be unacceptable and against the crown. ... Instead it's like Oh....that's nice. But do nothing.
UO has forgotten how to be a community in it's hunt for stuff and gold and greed. Now it's all about stuff and not about community. You can't really take a guild on a hunt anymore since 99% of things are soloable taking a guild is boring... especially for those that don't want anything to do with Fel... Sure we could go do a champ spawn... and get all killed by people who hack and cheat and PvP 99% of their time... But that wouldn't be any challenge for them and it certainly wouldn't be fun for anyone getting killed and rezkilled and killed some more... Not fun. If we wanted that sort of PvP without meaning we'd be doing it. There is NO reason to go hunting reds. There is no need to band together and do anything at all. And don't give me that Siege crap because honestly NO ONE There does anything much either. And again if I wanted mindless PvP I'd be doing it.
I miss having a reason to log in basically... I mean I give a darn about doing most things it's such a grind. I've now done with fishing... since the quests obviously are lame and the bait is a joke. I'm done with doing the trade quests... much of the rewards are not that great. I got a few signs and books but I can only do so many quests and then I'm bored. Most the dungeons are a grind and for many players I have suits .... I have finished many skills and such... without something going on to keep my interest like ToT or some invasion or something well... I'm bored. I don't play to get stuff to sell on a vendor on Atl.... I don't play to generate more crap to cram into my already over crowded houses... I need something to do.
