Do you remember when....*nostalgia alert*

[Guest]

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How about when people placed houses in dungeons, or if you were rich enough you could by a tower, and then place a house on top of that?

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If I recall the placing a house on top of towers was a bug and resolved rather quickly aka it didnt last very long

 

[Elowan of Wind]

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I still pick regs up off the ground. [image]/php-bin/shared/images/icons/wink.gif[/image]

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Me too.

 

[Elowan of Wind]

Does anyone remember the day a gate opened near some PKers and a squad of Barney's came streaming out to lay the smack on all of them?

The thrill of having (finally) the requisite skill and completing a writing desk?

Standing around near the Brit Mage shop making and selling magic scrolls and books?

When houses weren't auto-renewed and frequesnt server downs/resets caused some of use to lose our house and all our possessions 'cause we were out of town and hadn't enlisted a friend to keep tabs on the house.

 

[Elowan of Wind]

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I remember being able to loot peoples houses. You would cast on yourself until you had very little energy and then apply a bandage before dealing the final deadly spell, you then walked through the house door (all doors used to be locked because items couldn't be locked down in houses), and once through the door hopefully the bandage would kick in and ress you inside the house. You could loot everything that you could carry, or the items with the greatest value.

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Yeah but a hemicircle of locked down crates stopped that shortly.

 

[imported_Eslake]

When owning a ship was a sign of great wealth.

When Lichs were lower on the food chain than ettins (but still carried a lot of coin)

When T2A opened up and we would go in forces of 30+ to try to get into Terethan keep.. and fail!!!

When statlocks were implimented! WOHOOO!!!

The seas swarming with small ships and fishermen macroing for serpent-free SOSs.

Creatures kept in your house never decayed. (or items for that matter, lockdowns didn't exist)

Tents in dungeons.

Leaving nodraw tiles and furs to rot because they were "worthless" hehe.

50,000,000,000,000 crystal balls laying around the liche ruins East of Yew.

Killing your first troll. (without dying twice)

GMng the same skill.. every few days.

When having 25k in the bank meant you could buy danged near ANYTHING.

 

[RevBrown999]

When overland spawn could keep you and a buddy busy for a bit.

Farming moonstones.

There weren't any healers near Wrong.

You had a suit of plate armour made of all the same material was something pretty cool. Then you got mugged for it.

Stealing power weapons from npc's.

Walking into Buc's Den was a death sentance.

Dragging your buddy out of a guard zone and dropping an EV on them. Only to have that EV make everyone scatter.

Getting lost in the woods while searching for your friends.

Dropping a paralyze on a guild member then sitting there laughing at them.

Beating the snot out of your guild for casting that paralyze on you.

 

[Guest]

I saw this in an employment counselor's office. "Due to buget constraints the light at the end of the tunnel has ben temporarily shut off.

 

[NunuSpider]

Herding was the best way to gain strength... ever. And having 100 strength meant something.

The exploding mushroom patch in Deceit, and luring people into it after you looted their friends so you could loot them too.

Having 100k made you "rich."

If a GM mage recalled into town, he attracted a crowd like a counselor would.

Remember when PvP was good?

Remember when UO was fun?

 

[Guest]

[quote&lt;br&gt;2. Venturing Britain Sewers armed with a torch and a newbie katana

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The brit sewers are one of my fonder memories. On Arjuna I used to put on junk bone armor and a junk weapon but had a dp katana and gm shield in my pack ready to pull out. I'd keep low fame/karma and would not show any guild name.

Like clockwork usuall one or two starting pk's (still blue) would walk up to me and attack me, at which point i'd switch to my katana and arm shield and kill them.

That was so fun setting traps like that on pk's. I did it so many times.

That's why for at least half a decade after UOR I never used to show my guild name on Arjuna. Looking like a newbie was a big part of his character.

But AoS of course made it impossible to look like a newbie and still live.

 

[RevBrown999]

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The exploding mushroom patch in Deceit, and luring people into it after you looted their friends so you could loot them too.


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Looting and looters in general. I really miss these.

Are Belan's cartoons still available somewhere?

 

[Guest]

I wish the devs would bother to read this thread and take it to heart.

 

[RevBrown999]

Found em'

http://www.askcorran.com/belan/episodes.html

 

[Tangee]

I love threads like this ... thank you Hawke for starting it. At the moment I am off to work so no time to read them all but I surely will.

I remember my home being in Moonglow on Baja and someone asking me if I wanted a rideable llama. They could get me one but if I got off of it I couldn't get back on if I was in Trammel. You had to take it back to T2A to feed it. Back then we were so proud riding those llama's but I do want to thank all the GM's for not banning us all. I didn't realize how wrong it was since I was a new player ... was just proud to ride my llama.

I have loved this game for going on seven years. It's been like real life to me and I am extremely nostalgic when it comes to the game. I was not here when it was just Felucca so I love hearing all the stories.

Once someone posted a picture of Santa Clause or was it a picture of a ton of reindeer that had spawned around Christmas time. I wish I still had that picture.

Well everyone have fun for another decade and more. I hope too ... God willing.

 

[imported_Nestorius]

Remember back around three years ago, there was that awesome thread on UHall called "Do you remember when....*nostalgia alert*"?

That was a really neat thread.

 

[Sir Graham]

Holy bajebus this is an old thread!

Why dig it up??

 

[imported_Nestorius]

I didn't necromancer it. Someone else did. I've noticed a few threads lately risen from the dead.

 

[Gidge]

Oh you guys forgot the best one! Gaining Magic Resist from fire fields!!!

I started on great lakes due to sharing an account with hubby. I was tailoring and someone ran in and asked if anyone needed a house. I didn't have one so one of my tailor friends had a spot in front of his house to place one. The deed was the tailor shop deed that came with spinning wheel and loom, and he could use the items from his house! Sadly I lost my rune to my house and could never find it again! Doh! Cause they needed to be refreshed. I walked the lands for days trying to find it.

I actually have lost 4 houses total to forgetting to refresh them. To this day I keep all my good stuff in the bank out of habit.

At one point they had a house claiming time where everyone had to claim houses. First was placer. Second was key holder. Third was if you were standing in it when they came around.

spools of thread were 3 gp.
npcs would bow to you (and still do if you watch carefully) if you were very high noto.
stealing from guards. They carried a gem gold and weapon or armor.

Thanks for the memories!

 

[Tangee]

Well personally I love it and I think it's great for those who were not here one two or even three years ago to hear about how life used to be in UO.

 

[kennykilleduo]

I miss they days off going into Kahldun , risking the chance of losing all my loot to a gang of reds (during this time not to many smack talked you , and offered a rez outside) , from puzzles and kill ancient liches with my vanq weapons.

 

[Guest]

in the early days there was no such thing as tenths.. just full points... so you never got a message.. you had to actually check the skill gump to see if you gained or lost any points...


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Or when you would finally gain a few tenths in a desired skill, only to have it drop back down because some jerk would light a fire at bank "you have gained .1 in camping" Damn learn by watching....
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[Katherine5745]

Things I remember from the old days, some fondly and some not so fondly...

-guild titles that could be more than 16 characters long. I remember mine at one point read "Guildmaster's Girlfriend &amp; Adept of the Forge" or something like that, and it all showed up above my head, along with the full name of the guild.

-spending hours outside the Brit forge repairing and smithing for tips. The greatest times I've had playing UO were doing that. I met so many nice people that way, some that I still have contact with.

-GMing smithing the long, hard way in 1997 and 1998, where not only did you have to go through layers of menus, but also have to wait up to 8 hammer strikes to make your item. With no smelting possible, and with skill gain rates that make today's look like the express train.

-almost GMing cooking because I gained tremendous amounts of Int from doing it. And you always cooked fish steaks one at a time because that is all you could do.

-buying iron ingots for 5 each, and doing the miner 2-step for screens at a time (drag the ore pile, walk 2 steps, repeat) and praying to God that I did not get PKed along the way.

-finally having enough money to buy my small house on Ocllo.

-getting a large forge house later, and watching a small house right next to it fall and being able to place a new one there, so I owned two houses right next to each other for a while.

-selling my first GM valorite archer suit for 30K. I felt like the richest woman on Chesapeake.

-buying "Clean Up Britannia" points from other players because I was 20K points short of getting the furniture dye tub, which I desparately wanted for my tavern.

-having dozens of potted plants and clothing bless deeds from shard trading Christmas presents from Christmas '99.

And many more memories that are priceless to me, including many friends that I would dearly love to meet again, in-game or out-of-game.

 

[Morrolan]

I remember the very first time I won a 2v1. 1999, I was 11 years old, and two punks tried to jump me while I was fighting liches in level 3 Covetous. All 3 of us were on foot. We battled for probably a full 15 minutes running up and down the stairs trying to stay alive and get the other person killed by the spawn. I still have the screenshot, 1 corpse of the first guy and 2 corpses of the second guy from when the first guy ressed him in the middle of the fight

Damn that was an incredible feeling. Especially for being a little kid haha.

 

[Aboo]

I remember in the first few days of UO that no one had any idea what was going on or how to make gold so if someone died anyone around them looted them.

. . . when you lost GM on a skill because someone around you was practicing a different skill and you learned it through "osmosis"

. . . when you gained strength by lighting campfires

. . . when an NPC in town greeted you by your name

. . . when you gave an NPC something they wanted (like leather to a cobbler, cloth to a tailor) and they said if you look such-and-such you might find a magic weapon. If you went there you actually did find magic weapons laying on the ground!

. . . I remember the opening sequence of UO had a beautiful chest opening. I miss that chest!

Boy is this a sad post. Remembering the old days but also seeing the posts of posters that haven't posted in ages.

 

[litefin]

When you first started playing the game and you would get killed by a SHEEP and how quickly you had to run when out chopping woood to get away from pkers and the very first monster you killed (a mongbat) you felt like a ReaL warrior ahhh those were the days fun fun fun heheheheheheheheh

 

[Guest]

...when people walked to where they were going and they enjoyed it.

...when not everyone could afford the luxury of a horse.

...when selling dragons was a lively profession, since there was no bonding; everyone always needed more.

 

[Danbrooks2k]

Sooo many good times... I remember getting pked by one particular guy all the time and logging in at 6 am to train taming, archery, and magery on my first character...

then I would keep a gaggle of tamed grizzlys and wolves hidden behind a house near the glow graveyard while I plinked arrows at the skelletons... when my old PK nemisis showed up I ran like hell and he followed me right into my 6 animal bodyguard team, then I poisoned him with a spell, fired arrows at him and dropped a fire field on him... I never once ever saw him in the game again after that day... HEE HEE...

Then I discovered the profits you could make by escorting nobles just outside of moonglow and killing them and looting them... I would have new players bring nobles to me where I would have my summoned deamon kill them and split the loot 50/50... they were just in awe that I could summon a deamon...

I remember walking and picking up regs and casting spells while you walked to gain skill, I remember the day I finally could cast earthquake, and the summon spells...

I remember after ren going to felluca and escorting nobles, pickpoceting them dry and still getting the 700gp reward for finishing thier escort mission... 1400 gp per noble was great money back then...

I remember killing rangers for arrows and selling them...

I remember going red from killing NPC fishermen...

I remember when publish 16 first hit when the entire shard hung out at champ spawns and all reds were always killed on sight...

I remember becoming a GM fisherman and making zillions from selling stuff from SOS's...

I remember building my first pk killer assasin after ren... hiding, fencing and gm poison rocked ...

I remember posing as a miner waiting for pks to try to kill me and looting them dry and taking thier vang weapons...

I remember my first trip to doom and getting a blade of insanity on my first try...

I wish I had a reason to log in now, but I just stand around and log back out... I will be back with the new client and hope for good things...

 

[Lucid1]

I remember taming my first dog, Yeah the chickens and the rabbits were great but when I saw the " Dog has accepted you as master" I was thrilled. I remember I called her Cleo in fact I tamed 2 dogs and named them both Cleo. I walked proudly around the town of haven with them both following along behind me and one dog must have gotten stuck on a wall. I looked all over for that dog a friend of mine"Arcus" helped me find her. I renamed Her Boh ( yes I know it was a girl and than a guy) and to this day that dog is still In Moon's stable on chessy!!!

Thank for the thread!

 

[Arcus]

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I remember taming my first dog, Yeah the chickens and the rabbits were great but when I saw the " Dog has accepted you as master" I was thrilled. I remember I called her Cleo in fact I tamed 2 dogs and named them both Cleo. I walked proudly around the town of haven with them both following along behind me and one dog must have gotten stuck on a wall. I looked all over for that dog a friend of mine"Arcus" helped me find her. I renamed Her Boh ( yes I know it was a girl and than a guy) and to this day that dog is still In Moon's stable on chessy!!!

Thank for the thread!

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I remembet that!! Poor doggie was stuck. I had to help her!!!

 

[kennykilleduo]

May have already been said but:

Deceit Bone Knight wall training or the long nites of Resist training with demons..

 

[Guest]

like anyone that was around on day one of UO going live will remember and anyone that started prior to the gold being bumped from 100 to what ever it is now will remember.......and Im sure anyone starting now will conclude they are very poor once they see the prices of decent gear on vendors....

wandered around town picking up death robes and dyeing them to what ever color folks wanted and sold them for 10 gold a pop.... was a big business until folks figured out that the tailor sold the tub and dyes so cheaply..

 

[imported_Hanna]

Wow talk about digging up an old thread

 

[Guest]

Remember Barding Through Walls!

 

[Guest]

Do you remember...

Hating dex gains...

Looting that first orcish lord and putting the helm and tunic on and thinking you looked pretty cool.

Your first trip down to Wrong level 2 and learning the difference between an ogre and an ogre lord...

Your second trip down to Wrong level 2, thinking you were pretty clever trapping the ogre lord behind the tables and casting bladespirits... and then learning about NOTO killers...

Running from heavy crossbow bolts that would chase you all over Britannia.

Tab-tab-hide!

A scroll!

GM mages afraid of campfires. (passive learning)

Your guildmate logging in to work tailoring all night next to you, and you wake up in the morning having lost GM tactics and learned 15 tailoring... (passive learning).

Lumberjacking with a trained fighter in full suit of armor hidden under a robe, much to the suprise of the pk looking for an 'easy kill'

 

[imported_American]

"Do you remember when": UO was over run with bugs and EA didn't care about anyone?

 

[Lord Vader]

I remember well when T2A opened and my arround 80ish warrior girl cut through ophidian warriors like butter. Then i saw an "ophidian avenger".

Thought "Well, cant be that much harder".... first hit took me almost down and poisoned me, second hit thoght me some humility.... ack!

"ooo OOoo ooOO"

 

[Guest]

Ohh do i remember. To bad i do remember and that makes me sad.

id like to se old EV,s now in pvp. Spaming harm and poisen.

 

[Guest]

I remember when no one whines over the one client we had. I also remembered when no one whined about reverting the game back to pre-whatever.

 

[Cear Dallben Zog]

i remember way back when. when you lost young player status naturally whatever was near you would attack. i lost it north of brit and a groliia and a goat ganked me. loved it

 

[imported_Kallie Pigeon]

remember when:
you could gain skill passively by watching another player gaining skill
people went around lighting campfires and your camping skill would go up forcing another skill that you worked hard to gain to go down.

You could make money from smithing, tailoring, or tinkering and selling items you made to gain skill to the npc. Tinkering was good because you would not loose ingots if you failed. I made lots of butchers knives because they gave 7 or so gold per ingot as opposed to selling them for 3 to 5 gold each.

The ancient wyrm would permanently decrease your stats if it killed you and it was impossible to kill.

archers who shot and hid shot and hid and you could target them if you last targeted them even when they were hidden.

stealth swordsmen with a poisoned halbred whacking you for a near death shot and then disappearing


Corpsers and reapers would move around if you cast paralyze on them

being able to take on really tough monsters with archery or magery using terrain blocking areas or sometimes they would get stuck on a tree and as long as you did not move you could continue plugging away at them.

Keeping a bear in your house for training and it would gain skills and stats and eventually be pretty tough (before they said this was illegal)

Dungeon runs where large groups would run through a dungeon and clean it out of all monsters.
eta; Oh yeah and running around trying to outrun an arrow or an ebolt? You could run several screens or more but usually you would end up getting hit anyway.

 

[Snow Flake]

You didn't worry about other games compared to UO. You knew you were playing the best game in the world.

Snow

 

[Guest]

Greetings,

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Do you remember when....

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...You could make female Plate with Tailoring and sell it for 123 gp.

or You could acctually wear Female Armor under Your Male Armor. Mmm, that felt good.

or the first days or week when items in Your BackPack did NOT higlight in yellow and it was a pain trying to pick something up.

or the Chest Opening greated You as You logged into UO.

 

[Guest]

Do you remember when you could sit on Magicina beach and use the enticement skill to lure artists over and kill them to loot their paint brush sets?

Or how about the Cove docks?

 

[Guest]

Amarug.. Yes! a snake in Moonglow was my first death too. Darn little guys couldn't even be seen. I was running up to everyone asking what was happening to me, later realizing they couldn't read OOooos.

And yes, I still pick up reagents on the ground, and smelt crap metal loot, and get my bottles from Ettins in Despise. It's kind of refreshing to stay a newbie in some ways.

 

[imported_Beldon]

Do you remember when.... you would bank all your stuff and run naked to the next town so you would not have to worry about loosing it to PKs. Especially if you were running on the carpet of dead bodies between Brit crossroad and Brit moongate.

 

[Guest]

I remember the first time I played on my own account, my rl mate had told me about the evil reds, how they should be killed. I ran straight out of guards, to fight for justice and kill the evil red. I then realised that he had 4 friends invissed/hidden I was rather shocked and annoyed when i died and didnt play again for about 2 weeks.

 

[Guest]

I remember when my very first character lost her "young" tag in the middle of the woods. I was terrified and ran back to Brit as fast as I could before I got killed.

Then it took me forever to actually leave the safety of the town because there was a roaming Ettin outside the gates that was SO big I was sure he was waiting to kill me.

Remember when the only ones allowed in Haven were the new characters and companions? My first few days as a companion helping actual new characters out were possibly my fondest memories.

 

[imported_silent]

I remember mining through walls.

I remember it all.

 

[Guest]

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Or when you would finally gain a few tenths in a desired skill, only to have it drop back down because some jerk would light a fire at bank "you have gained .1 in camping" Damn learn by watching....
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you never saw the tenths in the early days, only the full 1. was listed and you never knew you gained a .1 nor where you were in the tenths field...

 

[Samaira]

I may be a newer convert, but I still have some of these...

My first death was to a trapped barrel in Luna. I was a complete trash collector, seeing as the first thing my hubby got back into when he came back to the game was IDOCing... I picked up EVERYTHING. Had a collection of about thirty power crystals until a couple of months back... cos they were purdy :O Anyway, this barrel insta-killed me... the grey screen horrified me. I spent about five minutes standing in the middle of the bank as a ghost, staring in horror at my screen and cursing all the banksitters (aloud) for not doing anything, and generally getting quite upset. I had no idea that I was invisible, and it wasnt till actually typed something that someone ressed me lol.

Throwing a hissy fit when I lost my beloved (unbonded) dark grey frenzy to an evil polar bear on Ice Island when the server crashed one morning. Never took an unbonded pet out of the stable ever again.

I've mentioned this on another thread of this nature... but being scared of skittering hoppers.

Getting thoroughly disappointed when my hubby upgraded to SE and his funky purple llama turned into an ugly blue beetle.

I love these threads. I hear plenty of stories from the boy about "the way we were", but its awesome to hear people's favourite memories of a game that has been a part of their recreation for so long. Keep them coming, folks

 

[Absydian]

Waiting in line for the training dummy in Moonglow.