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Has Atlantic lost it's charm?

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SUPRsalad

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Has Atlantic gotten boring/annoying? Wanna x-shard? Come to Pacific (if yr ping is good)
Bring your whole guild and come fight my guild the Super Best Friends.
We currently run pac, hands down, and need some enemies.
Make a new character, get suited, get some.
we are factions (min)
 
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Tazar

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2 months shy of 12 years on Atlantic and the charm is still there. I have a character on Pacific - just no reason to play there when all of my friends and family are here.
 

Lady_Rachel

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*bats eyes*

No no..we are all still quite charming!

Now where are those boats coming from pac docking at?
I know a few friendly *coughs* pirates that may want to look at them.
 
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Cat Crimson

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Atlantic had/has charm ? News to me. Even when I played it regularly, it was a singularly charmless shard. Some of the rudest, most obnoxious or downright ToS breaking behaviour I have ever come across in UO has been here on Atl. Granted I met some terrific people, some of whom frequent these very boards from time to time, and have a whole lot of memories and history on the shard that for some reason I cannot let go. It seems I am not able break myself of being a curator of other people's memories, lives, hearts and houses. So, nostalgia yes, charm, no.
 

Lady Aalia

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I allways find it funny how people seem to want to be around not so nice folks...


All i can say is that the guys and girls i choose to hang around with feel like family to me and i could not have a better bunch of friends :)
 
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SUPRsalad

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Atlantic had/has charm ? News to me. Even when I played it regularly, it was a singularly charmless shard. Some of the rudest, most obnoxious or downright ToS breaking behaviour I have ever come across in UO has been here on Atl. Granted I met some terrific people, some of whom frequent these very boards from time to time, and have a whole lot of memories and history on the shard that for some reason I cannot let go. It seems I am not able break myself of being a curator of other people's memories, lives, hearts and houses. So, nostalgia yes, charm, no.
harsh generalizations lady! i see your point, but i was born there! :thumbsup:
 
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Cat Crimson

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I allways find it funny how people seem to want to be around not so nice folks...QUOTE]

Did you read the parts where I said " came across " awful behaviour and " met some terrific people " ? What makes you think that I " seemed to want to be around not so nice folks " ? You make it sound like I seek out idiots, scammers, scripters, foul mouthed monkeys and general overall irritations. Those kind of people always have been on a densely populated shard like Atl and always will be, hence the lack of charm I speak of. I was " born " here too, in several incarnations before I got my own accounts 9 years ago. I do have an attachment to the place because of personal history but absolutely no rose coloured spectacles as to its qualities.

The nice folks I knew on Atl have mostly gone. Yes, there are still a few left, and newer nice folk also, but I don't have the heart or the energy any more. As anyone that really does know me knows, I will willingly help anyone that needs it be they new or old but its painful logging into Atl these days and most of the time I prefer not to.
 
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Mirage

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Atlantic had/has charm ? News to me. Even when I played it regularly, it was a singularly charmless shard. Some of the rudest, most obnoxious or downright ToS breaking behaviour I have ever come across in UO has been here on Atl. Granted I met some terrific people, some of whom frequent these very boards from time to time, and have a whole lot of memories and history on the shard that for some reason I cannot let go. It seems I am not able break myself of being a curator of other people's memories, lives, hearts and houses. So, nostalgia yes, charm, no.

Same every shard...
 
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HillBilly

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Same every shard...
QFT.

Atlantic is the most populated shard in UO. Youre gonna find more of everything here...the good and the bad.

Law of Large Numbers = one of several theorems expressing the idea that as the number of trials of a random process increases, the percentage difference between the expected and actual values goes to zero.

:)
 

Taylor

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Ima come create a rival faction: Super Fun Friends. We gonna kick your butts.
 

Lady Aalia

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Atlantic had/has charm ? News to me. Even when I played it regularly, it was a singularly charmless shard. Some of the rudest, most obnoxious or downright ToS breaking behaviour I have ever come across in UO has been here on Atl.
No i dont know you but this doesnt sound like you met too many nice people or hung around to many nice people...

And i never said you where not nice eather... maybe have a bit of a temper though heh :p;)

I have played Atlantic since 2001 and cannot say that anyone was so rude that it would want to make me move server.Quite the opposite :)
 

SouthernRageLNR

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I know I moved a char to pac and its been alot of fun compared to the Atl pvp, every coward has joined HOT instead of fighting them so now you have a guild with 100 active players on at all times, but after a while people will get bored with having no one to fight then things on atl will get better but right now atl is not worth playing if you enjoy pvp. Im sure atl is still for those that enjoy pvm as im sure that 90% of the people replying to this are pure pvmers and have lil clue what im talking about when I of the sad state of pvp on atl. Either ways pac is much better till things balance out on atl.
 

Ahuaeyjnkxs

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You cannot have pvp without consequences... its not pvp you are talking about, it's like pseudo-post-pvp.

Insurance and trammel got reason of PVP long time ago. I went there and checked it out... HOT or not, it's all lame repetition without any direction.
 

SouthernRageLNR

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You cannot have pvp without consequences... its not pvp you are talking about, it's like pseudo-post-pvp.

Insurance and trammel got reason of PVP long time ago. I went there and checked it out... HOT or not, it's all lame repetition without any direction.
What are you talking about, you ramble on alot about how great the old days was in some post and how you effected so much of uo yet no one understand what you are saying
 

Ahuaeyjnkxs

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And you generalise alot... it's not because mostly shady characters who don't give a **** about me and been exploiting you fools for a decade use the exploit I invented that noone understand it, its pretty simple AND straightforward.

Some people do even personalise it to try to denounce it, but they get killed and or never talk about it in fear of getting killed. And for the rest of those who understand the first levels of the exploit and just accept it because its overwhelming in number all around, well I don't mind about that it dosen't get me critisizing. It's another thing to understand why I do not get killed for talking about it which creates a new category of mental illness for me. I feel so powerful I'm immune against paranoia, to me the universe is a big hologram and every little law of physics confirm this to me.

It's not about me anymore anyways, in a way maybe I still hold a solution however, it's not very clear if this is a community either or just an arena where people deal each other ego blows... because it surely gets to me ; I'm not so powerful that I wish to change others, I am feeling hurt way before it ever gets close to this.

Don't come crying to me when if all the children start dropping like flies and you have been too stubborn to open your mind that evil might POSSIBLY truely reside into this internet matrix. Or perhaps because you beleive me you will create it also and it becomes truth, either way don't trust me, but stop grazing like a sheep. If noone understood me my thread would have stumped over like a conundrum, it would not have attracted so many silent readers (and thats not even counting the folks who fall upon it as guests from google)

Or close your eyes and take a deep breath, when it happens this way you're going to feel it less ? This isn't orange mechanics in quantum physics, this is something original and unexplored...
 

Diomedes Artega

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In my opinion...coming from playing many other games and playing multiple servers in those games, it is all in WHO you meet and WHO you choose to associate with. There are pain in the butt players in every game on every server/shard, etc.

There are however, as someone stated "terrific" people as well. Same goes for guilds. You pretty much get what you receive when in a larger guild, compared to a smaller one.

The only one who can lose charm is yourself if you get tired of playing a game. Either quit or take a break.
 

SouthernRageLNR

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And you generalise alot... it's not because mostly shady characters who don't give a **** about me and been exploiting you fools for a decade use the exploit I invented that noone understand it, its pretty simple AND straightforward.

Some people do even personalise it to try to denounce it, but they get killed and or never talk about it in fear of getting killed. And for the rest of those who understand the first levels of the exploit and just accept it because its overwhelming in number all around, well I don't mind about that it dosen't get me critisizing. It's another thing to understand why I do not get killed for talking about it which creates a new category of mental illness for me. I feel so powerful I'm immune against paranoia, to me the universe is a big hologram and every little law of physics confirm this to me.

It's not about me anymore anyways, in a way maybe I still hold a solution however, it's not very clear if this is a community either or just an arena where people deal each other ego blows... because it surely gets to me ; I'm not so powerful that I wish to change others, I am feeling hurt way before it ever gets close to this.

Don't come crying to me when if all the children start dropping like flies and you have been too stubborn to open your mind that evil might POSSIBLY truely reside into this internet matrix. Or perhaps because you beleive me you will create it also and it becomes truth, either way don't trust me, but stop grazing like a sheep. If noone understood me my thread would have stumped over like a conundrum, it would not have attracted so many silent readers (and thats not even counting the folks who fall upon it as guests from google)

Or close your eyes and take a deep breath, when it happens this way you're going to feel it less ? This isn't orange mechanics in quantum physics, this is something original and unexplored...
I stop reading half way into the first paragraph, iv concluded that you're insane and need a reality check.
 

Ahuaeyjnkxs

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So many times this happened to me... so little consequence it's laughable.

But somehow, it's still interesting to me, and there is still something that was supposed to be total fantasy that vanished like it was seeped in like a giant enlarged frog ; please forgive my exhuberance, but this is not easily forgotten !

http://home.hiwaay.net/~carrot/history/chapter2.html

And what does this look like, honestly tell what you think !

http://traveller.rper.org/lore/virtues.shtml

The eithfold path to enlightenment ? Mantras is that right ?

In hommage to those who have not been forgotten :

Lyrics of Stones:
"Long ago ran the sun on a folk who had a dream
And the heart and the will and the power:
They moved earth; they carved stone; moulded hill and channeled stream
That we might stand on the wide plains of Wiltshire.

Now men asked who they were, how they built and wonder why
That they wrought standing stones of such size.
What was done 'neath our shade? What was pray'ed 'neath our skies
As we stood on the wyrd plains of Wiltshire.

Oh what secrets we could tell if you'd listen and be still.
Rid the stink and the noise from our skirts.
But you haven't got the clue and perhaps you never will.
Mute we stand on the cold plains of Wiltshire.

Still we loom in the mists as the ages roll away
And we say of our folk, "they are here!"
That they built us and they died and you'll not be knowing why
Save we stand on the bare plains of Wiltshire.

-by Iolo FitzOwen
 

Ahuaeyjnkxs

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Lets have that reality check shall we ?

The Begining of the known time, Year ? of Britannian Calender
A man called Zog was given the spell of Armageddon by the wisps. Zog casts the spell and destroyes the known world with the powers of the spell, by doing so he creates Sosaria.
Mondain's rain of terror begins, Year -10 - 0 of Britannian Calender
Mondain murders his father, mighty wizard Wolfgang, and begans to conquer Sosaria.

Fall of Mondain, Year 0 of Britannian Calender
Mondain is slain by unknown stranger and Gem of Immortality is shattered. The Catalyst shapes the planet as it is currently. Britannia will be born from ruins of Sosaria.

The Ballad of the Shattered Stone
Happenings betwean Year 0 - 300 of Britannian Calender

Lord British unites Sosaria, Year 0 - 100 of Britannian Calender
Shortly after Mondain's fall, one of the Ancient Sosarian Kings, Lord British, unites Sosaria under one kindom: Britannia. Lord British is declared as a king of all Britannia.

Lord British establishes Virtues, Year 0 - 100 of Britannian Calender
The philosopher king Lord British establishes Virtues as a idealistic guideline for people to life by.
Year 300 of Britannian Calender, the present year hundred.
Happenings from Year 300 of Britannian Calender

Relvinian the master of Daemons
Magician whose experiements with daemons lead to chaos. He is also known as the builder of the Hedge Maze.

The Founding of the Guards of Virtue

Zog Cabal
A group of cultists that try to destroy all Britannia by casting the spell of Armageddon.

Discovery of the "Lost Lands"
Failed attempt to cast the spell of Armageddon leads to discovery of lost underground lands. Lord CrawWorth dies on a journey to the new lands.
More about the Lost Lands

Return of Minax
The student and lover of Mondain returns to Britannia, starting warfare all around Britannia, which will lead to corruption of the shrines.

City of Trinsic falls
City of Trinsic is taken over by Minax's minions, lead by undead paladin Jou'nar. Few weeks later Trinsic is saved by the valient Sir Dupre and his army. However Minax's army is far from beaten.
Lord Britishes' speech

Quest of Sir Dupre

Freeing Trinsic

Nystul casts great spell
In order to bring peace to the land, Nystul creates a copy of Britannia to another facet of the gem that is identical to Britannia we know. As result of the spell, the nature of Felucca is drain.

Great exodus
Many people flee the war and rebuilds Britannia to the new "world" that is named Trammel. Some people however chooses to stay in the old "world" named Felucca and fight Minax.

Full warfare on Felucca
Minax contiues to advance of Felucca, but is persistantly fought against by the loyal Britannians.
However the full warfare is broken out when feud between Nystul and the Council of Mages breaks out as full conflict, dividing people to "True Britannians" and "The Council of Mages" supporters. In addition to threat of Minax's forces a mysterious faction called the Shadowlords try to gain control over Britannia as well. Now Felucca is divided into four-way battle.


Restoration of the Shrines
The Shrines on Felucca facet are restored as an end of long quest by Nystul, Sir Dupre, Shamino and Geoffrey.
The Principle Pieces - Part I

The Principle Pieces - Part II

The Principle Pieces - Part III
The Principle Pieces - Part IV
The Cleansing of the Felucca Shrines

Lord British leaves Britannia
For reason unknown, the king and ruler of Britannia leaves to other dimensions. Citizens are kept in dark about the matter.
 

Ahuaeyjnkxs

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This is just extreemly gratifying at last I quote Lord Brittish himself :

"Hail citizens, friends?. Fellow Britannians. 'Tis with an angry heart that I speak with thee tonight. For We Have Been Betrayed!!! The entire realm.. every living creature, great and small? Betrayed! We face dangers each day. We are not cowards to cry out at the first sign of hardship. But the Zog Cabal hath gone too far! By attempting to cast the Armageddon spell, they have shown their true face. They mean ill to the entire realm. To each and every one of us. Though their motives remain a mystery, there can be no doubt as to their willingness to try again. And with any future attempt, the Zog Cabal will at best learn better how to correct their mistakes? at worst, render Britannia a total wasteland. With this dread knowledge comes responsibility. Responsibility that none dare ignore. The Zog Cabal and every being who claims membership with this fell company are enemies to us all! Thus I ask all Britannians to aid in the search for the Zog Cabal. Seek ye any sign. Any clue. Aught at all which may assist us in finding the lair or leaders of the Zog Cabal. Any member of the Cabal who is captured should be brought to the Court of Truth in Yew where they will be thoroughly questioned. With the Virtues to guide us, I will have every Zog Cabalist brought to justice! Their fates will be tempered by Honor and Compassion, but they will threaten our lands NO LONGER!! Suffer not the indignity of such vile fellows and ye will be stronger for it. Allow them to persist and prosper, and we all weaken
We even have a friendly zog cabal reporter to add to the irony...
 
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SUPRsalad

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thats pretty lame that hot let themselves get that big.
SUPR isn't accepting any more players currently, unless they are friends, or x-sharded to play with us.
other than that, the competition seems to get bigger and badder ever day and
we're getting some great fights. Thank you, atlantic, and HOT, for abusing players like Southern Rage... Pacific will accept all comers.
 
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SUPRsalad

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Ima come create a rival faction: Super Fun Friends. We gonna kick your butts.
Sounds great. I wish you weren't joking.
No, im affraid if you are to rival us on our homeshard, your only hope is to join [m]. Some smaller guilds still offer some great fights when our vent is empty, but M is where the real deal is.
 

KalVasTENKI

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Has Atlantic gotten boring/annoying? Wanna x-shard? Come to Pacific (if yr ping is good)
Bring your whole guild and come fight my guild the Super Best Friends.
We currently run pac, hands down, and need some enemies.
Make a new character, get suited, get some.
we are factions (min)
Hey bud , your cool and all man. But false egos... false egos.
Your guild is far from running anything... If they have tons and tons of numbers that means nothing but people hiding behind meatshields. I'm glad you're promoting the Pacific shard but if you say it needs variety.. SUPR has enough resources to split into about 10 crews which would provide a vast amount of variety and fun. :pancakes:
 
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