Things you thought would be more important than they are

[Callise]

There were a few things when I first started that I thought were going to be important than they are.

Eating - I really thought this was going to play a factor. I kept making sure my characters were always full.
The Weather - I kept waiting for that approaching "fierce storm" to limit my visibility or to deal damage
Herding - I thought for sure this would be needed to give my pets the "follow" command
Death - I thought that dead was dead. A silver serpent got me right out of the Magencia moongate about 2 minutes after my Young Status was gone. I had no idea that I could be resurrected, so I turned off the game, called my husband, and told him that "I lost". I really thought it was game over for that character and I would have to start a new one.

 

[ShriNayne]

Yes I remember eating till I was stuffed every time I went to Despise! I was convinced I got better gains when I wasn't hungry, maybe I imagined it.
Every time I died in those first few days it was like real trauma, I felt so pathetic, like I had failed! Worse still was my horse dying too.
I spent the first hour of playing constantly searching for the elusive save button...I just couldn't get my head around logging out without saving the game...

 

[Callise]

I spent the first hour of playing constantly searching for the elusive save button...I just couldn't get my head around logging out without saving the game...[bcolor=rgb(16, 16, 16)][/bcolor]

This took me longer than I care to admit.

 

[Kylie Kinslayer]

Herding - I thought for sure this would be needed to give my pets the "follow" command

Love herding though. Especially in Fel Destard. Takes a patient person to set a trap, but it is pretty rewarding once ya do

Death - I thought that dead was dead. A silver serpent got me right out of the Magencia moongate about 2 minutes after my Young Status was gone. I had no idea that I could be resurrected, so I turned off the game, called my husband, and told him that "I lost". I really thought it was game over for that character and I would have to start a new one.

LOL .. same here. Only I stayed in Death form for almost 2 weeks before I finally ran across a wandering healer who threw out the rez gump.

 

[Slayvite]

The Wife.

 

[Whitewolf of *VK*]

just curious how a silver serpent got outside of magencia moongate, even before magencia got destroyed there wasnt any silver serpents there.

 

[Callise]

just curious how a silver serpent got outside of magencia moongate, even before magencia got destroyed there wasnt any silver serpents there.

Gosh... it was like 17 ears ago. I honestly might be remembering the location/monster wrong.

 

[It Lives]

Thankfully food is not necessary, what a tedious pointless grind that wold be.

I do remember carrying a stack of fish steaks every where I went just in case "the rumor" was true.

Having weather hinder game play in a sandbox game would just be silly. Ya its rainning I am gonna pass on the group activity today.

 

[Slayvite]

I don't care what anyone says about Food in UO. (it's like Luck, they have no idea how it's been wrote into game mechanics)
On my mage if i'm "fizzing" you can guarantee it's because i'm "extremely hungry", munch a few bits till i'm feeling "quite full" and no more "fizzing"

 

[superfrog]

Bug Repair

 

[Tyrath]

Clean uderwear......... after 20 years everyone has to have some pretty crusty panties.

 

[Merlin]

I don't care what anyone says about Food in UO. (it's like Luck, they have no idea how it's been wrote into game mechanics)
On my mage if i'm "fizzing" you can guarantee it's because i'm "extremely hungry", munch a few bits till i'm feeling "quite full" and no more "fizzing"

^^^^

This.

 

[Yadd of Legends]

There were a few things when I first started that I thought were going to be important than they are.

Eating - I really thought this was going to play a factor. I kept making sure my characters were always full.
The Weather - I kept waiting for that approaching "fierce storm" to limit my visibility or to deal damage
Herding - I thought for sure this would be needed to give my pets the "follow" command
Death - I thought that dead was dead. A silver serpent got me right out of the Magencia moongate about 2 minutes after my Young Status was gone. I had no idea that I could be resurrected, so I turned off the game, called my husband, and told him that "I lost". I really thought it was game over for that character and I would have to start a new one.

Wow, what kind of hard core games had you been playing where death was final? That's funny

 

[Yadd of Legends]

Getting killed by a red - the first time it happened, I had no idea whether insurance would really get me back my stuff that I had just bought with $40 real life money for gold, and I literally almost had a panic attack - now it's "Fine, go ahead and kill me and get it over with"

 

[Tyrath]

Wow, what kind of hard core games had you been playing where death was final? That's funny

LOL back in the day coming to UO from something like Baldur's Gate, you saved and saved often

 

[Lore]

Using keys on stuff like chests. I thought that would be more important.

 

[Yadd of Legends]

Also, this is not exactly what you asked, but for quite a while I wouldn't use any scroll that said "cursed," because I thought it would curse me

 

[Pawain]

Being a vendor. I intended to set up a shop in some city to sell things to other players. For some reason I chose Tinkering and it was Minoc. But my dreams were crashed when NPCs were selling the tinkered item I was supposed to make.

 

[SugarMMM]

The TOS.

 

[Lore]

The TOS.

 

[Anonymous UOPlayer]

accuracy vs assertion & loudness

 

[Mervyn]

There were a few things when I first started that I thought were going to be important than they are.


Death - I thought that dead was dead. A silver serpent got me right out of the Magencia moongate about 2 minutes after my Young Status was gone. I had no idea that I could be resurrected, so I turned off the game, called my husband, and told him that "I lost". I really thought it was game over for that character and I would have to start a new one.

Yeah its' a real shame that death is nothing now, insta dress, no loss of town buff, can still talk in general chat, don't even get your pet killed as you log it out. Even when you go in a whole 5 min stat loss, you can just drink a potion to get out of that, no loss of anything really. It's a great shame.