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That frustrating moment when...

Caitlyn Snow

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Let’s make a thread of almosts so I don’t feel too bad about myself.

Got all the way to 119.8 Blacksmithy after grinding for DAYS, just to run out of metal.

Or the time when soloing the roof with a single character to get all the way to Virtuebane at the end with him having 1% health just to be ganked at the last second by a few demons and die and have to start over.


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Acid Rain

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Keeping tailoring on my warrior logged in Doom(wearing leather armor) so he only had to leave once a month for weps repairs.

Changed up his skill to make him more effective & wiped off tailoring.

Soulstones came out 2 weeks later. o_O :wall: :cursing: :sad3:

*** EDIT - soulstones came out 1/2006. Stratics membership says 6/2006.
I was banned from Stratics when they came out so never bothered logging on to read abt anything new coming out. I've been a member since 2001-2 but was banned a few times for posting bugs I sent into UOBugs.com that they never fixed until I posted them here. ;p
 
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MalagAste

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Took my GM cooking off my usual character to make things on a character named Happy Birthday or Merry Christmas or some such non-sense... then forgot to put it back on the stone and deleted the character... *le sigh*

Got all set up to take my tamer on a new shard to go get her a CuSidhe... Only to realize she's human... I forgot to make her an elf...

Spent time working on Discord on my pet did the whisper and the entire time the whisper was in effect my pet never used his Discord skill.... soon as the Whisper wore off he started using it again...

Did the towns at christmas putting all the bods on every toon I had trying to get the skull statue... could not get one for the life of me... 4th town down and I'm on one of my last accounts... I finally get the skull statue..... and just as I go to recall home I get the server down message. Sure enough server comes back up and she doesn't have it in her pack... I go back hit the elf again ..... only to get my 100th heart pillow...
 

Blackie

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Met a girl from my guild in '99, dated for a while not too long after. Moved in together after a year and almost got married a couple of years later!

Eventually decided we were better friends than anything else, who has time for that real life stuff.
 

Coco_Zamis_DF

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Wondering that when using my soulstone there was a "are you sure" Dialog. Which oft course i press "yes". Shortly after that i detect that a soulstone has also an option to delete a skill.
 

Fridgster

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After building a suit for your sampire, spending god only knows how much time and resources. Only to equip it to do battle, dieing while testing it. Then deciding to rez later. Only to find you forgot to insure it.

:facepalm:
 

DrVenkman

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Playing for ten years, accumulating 3 castles in excellent locations full of stuff probably worth over 5000 dollars real life money lol only to let them all fall thinking i was quitting for good and now be back and theres no castle spots open anymore, all of my banks were empty didnt save a thing other than what was on my toons. I know im not the only one though and also i think even if i still had all that stuff what does it really even matter anymore, most of the rares and event items nobody ever seen anyway except myself and the castles were just a luxury. Ive learned to just play with minimal amount of stuff as long as i have a good suit thats all that matters, games still dying and almost dead so no need to stress on it too much. (Although i do miss have castles full of stuff sometimes, and all the resources man i miss those, had hundreds of thousands of ore and imbuing resources,and damn the amount of scrolls and scrollbooks i had was ridiculous).
This may not be an almost moment but i wanted to tell my story lol
 

Caitlyn Snow

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Oh! I have a few more!


When you go through and are filling a BOD for a runic sewing kit and and run out of horned leather for the LAST PIECE OF THE LAST BOD.


Or, when you and your Guildies do a Harrower and you get lucky when rolling and get 3 +25s, then a server revert happens.

Then you have the tamed a really nice pet and dies while you’re trying to get it out of the spawn area by a dimetrosaur.


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MalagAste

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Oh! I have a few more!


When you go through and are filling a BOD for a runic sewing kit and and run out of horned leather for the LAST PIECE OF THE LAST BOD.


Or, when you and your Guildies do a Harrower and you get lucky when rolling and get 3 +25s, then a server revert happens.

Then you have the tamed a really nice pet and dies while you’re trying to get it out of the spawn area by a dimetrosaur.


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How about the Lesser Hiryu you spent days trying to get the Midnight Blue one... it FINALLY bonds and you take it down to train it up first round goes great you are anticipating getting it fully trained you go down for round two and for some strange reason it randomly goes wild and you can't get the mage off it long enough to retame it and you just watch that pet die.
 

Olahorand

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Cu Sidhe Taming on Siege. Finally that blaze Cu appears (the only one I ever met in wilderness), you try to tame it and get killed during the attempt by a changeling. You come back from resurrecting (on the way you passed an incoming player) and suddenly someone else rides out on that Cu Sidhe you just tried to tame.
 

Captn Norrington

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The time I trained imbuing from 0-120, and then the next day the Great Atlantic Revert of 2012 happened, reverting the entire shard by a month and putting my imbuing back at 0. I'm never going to forget the frustration of doing that all over again.
 

temu

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The time I trained imbuing from 0-120, and then the next day the Great Atlantic Revert of 2012 happened, reverting the entire shard by a month and putting my imbuing back at 0. I'm never going to forget the frustration of doing that all over again.
Reverted a whole MONTH back? Jesus, what on earth forced them to do that I wonder.
 

Captn Norrington

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Reverted a whole MONTH back? Jesus, what on earth forced them to do that I wonder.
Here's the news post from it: Atlantic Rollback – Ultima Online

Originally it was a two week revert, but the shard kept having more small 5ish hour reverts for the rest of the month so it effectively extended it to the whole month.

We got 30 days of gametime and a pirate flag as compensation. The pirate flag was 3 years late too (no joke). Lots of people got scammed too because of it, people who had bought gold were left with their real cash gone and the gold returned to the seller due to the revert. It really showed who did and didn't have integrity when they had the chance to take the free money and run.

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Adrahil

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First time I ever logged in was super late at night, stumbled around to Brit Bank and people were throwing checks for millions on the ground. I was running around like a hoover grabbing every check that hit the ground. I had no clue that the game stopped saving late at night before the restarts. I was crushed the next morning to say the least.
 

Drakelord

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Attending an M&G which was by far one of the shortest I have ever been to only to not have saved a journal because you forgot to check the box in options to save it. All I can show is the four questions I asked in my notes :p
 

MalagAste

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Well, I can say I have NEVER, NEVER, NEVER done this. Since the last time I did it, of course. ROFL Probably last week!
I think we have all done that one at least once... I try not to do that... but sometimes concentration isn't my strong suit... especially if I've had a busy weekend of work and I'm dead tired.

I have also been the victim of moving stuff around the house and forgetting to lock it down... I can't tell you how many times I've done that .... gone to bed and suddenly sat bolt upright going OMG did I lock that down?????? And then having to boot the computer back up to check one last time just to be sure...
 

Caitlyn Snow

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Speaking to the not locking stuff down, I’ve had an instance where I got a Lt. sash from Rikktor after narrowly escaping a raid shortly after, to place it in my Artie’s chest.

Only to find i dropped it in the container next to it, which wasn’t locked down because I was moving stuff earlier that day.

Lost the sash, a dread horn mushroom ( the rare one) and a magi pendant. I was not happy the next morning when I went to alter it for my gargoyle.


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Acid Rain

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The time I trained imbuing from 0-120, and then the next day the Great Atlantic Revert of 2012 happened, reverting the entire shard by a month and putting my imbuing back at 0. I'm never going to forget the frustration of doing that all over again.
I spent 3 weeks crafting to get a REALLY oddball piece needed to finish my suit (very specific resists, something like 3/15/3/14/4).
This was before the 100% enhancement tool. You had to craft the piece, imbue, then try to enhance w/o breaking.
Prob broke 15 pieces trying to enhance & burn through almost 60k leather. Finally got the piece enhanced/finished ! WHOOT !
Revert 2 days later.....

Thanks for making me remember that @Captn Norrington :mad:
 

Caitlyn Snow

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Or that moment when only MINUTES after reading everyone’s imbue and forgot to POF because of being dead tired I do it myself because I am dead tired.



*le sigh*



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Mil

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That time when I moved from Moonglow to Trinsic:
*moving stuff from one house to the other, moving stuff, moving ...*

Then the server goes down! And reverts!!!

*started moving all the stuff once again*
 

Prince Erik

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This goes back a ways and shows how badly a newb can mess up... ;) One of my first days in game I was making money in the Skara tailor's shop since back then you could buy cloth, make stuff, sell it back and repeat. I was full of gold and went to the bank to store it but to my chagrin found it surrounded by elementals of all types. I was too afraid to approach the bank so I figured I'd just hop over to our little guild house by the ferry and just put the gold in our house until later, completely ignoring the stern lecture the guild gave me about never going to the house alone carrying a house key. I said the magic word "Cross" ran up to the house and got PK'ed within sight of our sanctuary. I learned new phrases like "newb! OMG! U SUK! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!".

Man was the guild pissed. I'm not sure how they did it but they managed to eventually get the empty house back, but it was a long time before I was allowed anywhere near it without an escort. Bonus face flaming moment to also find out those elementals I was so afraid of were summoned from mages practicing magery at the bank. :(

I still cringe every time I sail my boat across that little bit of water from Skara to the mainland doing a trade run!
 

callum_fitzhugh

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When you put your 120 healing onto a soulstone back in 2010 or so and your 120 something else [I forget] and realise that for some reason I hadnt checked how soulstones worked and overloaded it [?] so my 120 healing turned into somethign like 56.6 healing. That was the moment I more or less semi permanently left UO out of frustration
 

Faeryl

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The time I forgot I had a few skills stored on a character and deleted her... Bye bye GM carpentry, alchemy, and fletching. heh

Or that other more recent time when I somehow deleted my GM Begging and didn't realize it until the Halloween content came out and I went to find it and it wasn't there.
 

Yadd of Legends

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Wondering that when using my soulstone there was a "are you sure" Dialog. Which oft course i press "yes". Shortly after that i detect that a soulstone has also an option to delete a skill.
Done that
only to let them all fall thinking i was quitting for good
Done that, twice (but they weren't castles)
so my 120 healing turned into somethign like 56.6 healing
Done that
Add :
--- Hitting the portal stone to teleport to fel despise and forgetting I was on my crafter - just as a red was walking out of the dungeon
--- Locking down all the chests after moving them - except for that one that wasn't there the next day
 

Dorset

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When a guild mate told me he found a new vendor selling two tangles for 1.2m each.

I almost had a moment....... I didn't tell him it was my vendor :)
 
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Blackie

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I do that a bunch Dorset. In my head it's 400k but typing in 400 does not make it 400k. :/
 
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