So was I, my friend.....I kept Aethelred in an Inn in Zento, essentially cowering in fearFreja is striking while the iron is hot. There seems to be some interest in Siege again.
This usually happens when some vocal Siege new folk try to dispel the persistent myth
that we are all hedonistic mass murderers. I used to be that new guy, some few years ago.
Exactly what I have experienced!So was I, my friend.....I kept Aethelred in an Inn in Zento, essentially cowering in fear
Not sure how long he's been on Siege....when he finally checked out of the Inn I noticed a Compassion Dye in his backpack. So not long but not recently.
But, in fairness, Siege is, far and away, the most savage, kill without mercy shard.....for resource scripters The other day someone announced over GC that they'd found one and there was an immediate shard-wide effort, Reds and Blues together, to hunt this foul creature down and terminate him with extreme prejudice. Ebullient cheers all around too when they got the loathsome creep. Let's see where is that dancing banana....oh here.... No paging a GM to rat on the cheater and plead for action. No standing in the scripters bank spot to break the script only to have the ******* walk up to you barking "I no cheat...I report you!" Nope, just swift, frontier justice
And, yes, as many have wisely and profoundly noted, you can't go back to the UO past in terms of items and features and rule-sets. But you can experience some of the better elements, many superior in some ways to the original game with its legions of conscious-free griefers and scammers. Siege is an intimate community much like some of the pre-UO online games I used to love. Try being a scammer on Siege and you'll likely face the fate of the scripter. And a GC where players communicate with each other....nobody trolling, nobody being a richard, nobody blathering about sports or American politics
Sounds funny and quite versatile!Thinking about starting a Gargoyle on Siege.
Taming/Lore/Vet/Magery/Imbuing/Music/Disco
This template is a little tight, but probably doable.
No third party gold buying on Siege?you cant buy your way onto the shard.
There are gold brokers from prodo to siege. Always have been. So you CAN buy your way on siege. Most people just don't want to, because it defeats the purpose for a lot of people which is to start fresh.No. But you can buy tokens from Origin Store and trade/sell them ingame. Which is good for the company, too
*agrees*Yes, forgot that you can trade gold for gold. Sorry. But that's no fun if you ask me
No debate from me there. I never did it. Then again when I came to siege, no one really had anything worth brokering over, and nothing to trade it for.Yes, forgot that you can trade gold for gold. Sorry. But that's no fun if you ask me
thats not how i meant it. what i mean is.......you cant just go buy skill up to 40 and marco it to 120. you cant just go to luna and buy an endless supply of mats and wears to just crank out armor. you cant just jump right in to killing earth eles. sounds funny but you got to start with mongbats, cows, bears blah blah blah. you got to go and pick cotton, get someone to make you a loom, make bolts, sell them, buy gear.......you know the drill. this is all if you want to truly start from scrath. if you would like help, just ask and you will be surprised. that being said, vet siege players wont just give you the farm but we will be more than happy to get you on your way. we have all done it so we all remember what its like to star fresh here on siege. wokiing your way up is an "unsaid" right of passage.No third party gold buying on Siege?
i don't think Siege is for me. I'm gonna throw all my junk on the bank floor and quit.I don't know if I will call it harder, it's different. Back in 1997, it was hard, took a year to GM a char.
You can always give it a try, only thing you really will lose is time if you decide Siege is not for you.
Well, in that case, I might create a character to pick it upi don't think Siege is for me. I'm gonna throw all my junk on the bank floor and quit.
Is one of them to get pked by me? If so... it's coming.I figure there are a couple of things I have yet to do on my UO "bucket list". I will focus on those in game things.
What's your name on siege, sir? Just... so if I run into you I can say...hello.It's funny. I have a leroucians mempo from seven years ago when i last played siege. Was talking in chat and asked how much its worth. Was told around 8-12 million as there are not many available on the shard. Was going to put it in the auction but than thought to myself what the hell do i need 10 million gold for on this shard. Everything I own i looted or won after finishing a spawn.
I wear what I dig. it gets looted so be it. I can get more where that came from.
i love the community and the people in my guild. It's been a pleasure to return.
Oh and having the ability to place a house here was a big decider for me to return. it's no fun to play out of a bank box and I cannot imagine a crafter being able to do it.
Well I figure if I have to look at it, you all should have to too.Yeah, as soon as I had the cash, I picked up some clothing bless deeds to bless some plain unmodded "outer wear" because the eye sore that is my thrown together suit is hard to look at. You can always buy monks robes at empath abby too.
I would never use a token for a spellcaster. It's so easy to get the skills up. Waste of money, if you ask me!Well, I am a Trammy - I am too casual a player ( or possibly too lazy) to be much of anything PvP wise. So logically I made a character on Siege. I started several months ago, but sort of lost track of it until this recent round of Siege threads (special thanks to OreoGL for bumping them as often as he does).
I started from scratch with a warrior; like most people I have more than one account, and if I do a Mage I think I will use a token for that. But for now it's running around killing Ettins, etc. until I had enough gold to make a house. Managed to collect enough for a 7 X 10 ( no puny 7 X 7 for me!), though not enough apparently for things like walls and doors. It's on the to do list. I did get an ethy ride because when everything can kill you, you go through a lot of mounts. And siege was starting to run out of horses. So some PvM'er observations:
Having to run everywhere isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Dark wisps are mean.
Woodpeckers on siege must be pretty buff, because unless I'm fully rested, I bounce right off the little suckers.
It's funny to kill a lizardman and loot absolutely everything on it. Brings me back to when I first started.
You would think a shard that is all PvP, the chat would be unbearable. But the gen chat name calling/ whining just doesn't seem to be there.
I haven't actually been pk'd yet. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's coming, but one of my initial hesitations was that I would spend all my time getting killed by reds an looking for healers. So it's nice that you can actually play ( and get killed by dark wisps and look for healers).
The suit I made from random loot is pretty stylin!
Anyway, more words than I think I've ever typed before, but pleasantly surprised so far with Siege.
Leather shorts, platemail tunic and a deer mask.......sounds like a fun parent-teacher conference.I love running around in loot! I would do the same in RL if I could. ;-)
Honestly the shard is very little about pvp at present. 90% of it is vvv.You would think a shard that is all PvP, the chat would be unbearable. But the gen chat name calling/ whining just doesn't seem to be there.
Fixed that for you.Tactics can be ... !
Can't promise thatI will join if everyone promises not to kill me.
I promise! I could only try with a tinker tool... no chance, bud!I will join if everyone promises not to kill me.
Fine, mostly little impact. Some masteries are good, many aren't, Shadowguard seems fun, but you'll need a guild to do it.Has Time of Legends been a good introduction into the game?
Yes. Pretty much everyone has them.One of the times I took a break awhile back, soulstones were quite a thing at the time - have these really impacted the environment, or uniqueness on Siege? At some point would I need to look into them myself?
Large factor, no. Just something people sometimes do for fun.I'm seeing a lot of references all over the place to "VvV" and how a lot of people mostly just do whatever that is these days lol. It will be something I'll read up on more, but is that a large factor on Siege as well?
Na people still do all the old stuff. The artifacts are crap, but the drop the best regular loot. Champs have the scrolls and masteries of course.s it still worth visiting numerous areas of older content in the game? (Doom, Champ Spawns, the fishing content from High Seas, Stygian Abyss bosses) or has any of that been replaced completely by the newer content?
Hi thereI was originally an Atlantic guy since the early UO days, and took numerous breaks between Mondain's Legacy to Stygian Abyss(Mostly due to IRL). Been thinking about returning for a few months now. Honestly, I've seen a lot of threads/posts by Freja on this site and on others lol - which has actually got me a bit interested in trying out Siege if I return. I've always been a well-rounded player, and did a lot of PVM/PVP casually and hardcore. Guess I'm looking for a new experience to go with that!
It's not a must to have it, and Devs are still adding more to it. I like it so far and did spent a lot time there to get the new recipes. The masteries are nice but you can PvP and PvM fine without them. I had not tried shadowguard encounter yet-Has Time of Legends been a good introduction into the game?
You can play Siege without them but as we only have one char on an account, most do have several soulstones.-One of the times I took a break awhile back, soulstones were quite a thing at the time - have these really impacted the environment, or uniqueness on Siege? At some point would I need to look into them myself?
I like VvV, vs Faction, you can have VvV and non VvV in same guild, that's nice. VvV works on all facets on Siege. Most who like PvP do join it, the stat loss are only 5 min so that's ok. The town battles are nice too, a good place to find a fight.-I'm seeing a lot of references all over the place to "VvV" and how a lot of people mostly just do whatever that is these days lol. It will be something I'll read up on more, but is that a large factor on Siege as well?
That's still the same I believe, but I'm not a hardcore PvM player so others can answar that better than me.references all over the place to "VvV" and how a lot of people mostly just do whatever that is these days lol. It will be something I'll read up on more, but is that a large factor on Siege as well?
-Is it still worth visiting numerous areas of older content in the game? (Doom, Champ Spawns, the fishing content from High Seas, Stygian Abyss bosses) or has any of that been replaced completely by the newer content?
Thanks, so far we had seen several new Siege players and we had seen some old return, so my threads do works(It's also worth noting that a friend of mine has also commented to me on seeing your posts Freja. If advertising, and trying to bring new/old blood to Siege is your goal, you definitely are getting some folk's attention. And I wish you luck on that!)