I cleaned up atleast 2000 lockdowns and I'm thankful for that.
What really struck me as weird is when they finally stopped Melissa, I checked my chars and only went thru 2.5 of my 4 accounts to get my 50k points(on my shard). Its weird to me because I am super dedicated to get 1 of everything and this of course would have put me closer to my goal(that i will most likely not reach, damn you hind sight). I ran all 4 accounts quickly with newb chars for a friend on another shard for 25k but was so obsessed with maybe getting a Crimmy that I didnt leave Melissa on Cats basically ever. It got to a point where strangers were asking me if i'd gotten it yet because i was there so much. None for me... of course.
As a 'gold poor' person in uo, I don't wear or have anything I havn't looted or crafted myself... Melissa was a much welcomed cash cow. I have more gold than i've had in awhile and its nice. Insurance is always a problem for me. I sometimes have to take donations from friends, I don't mind it much since they have access and are free to help themselves to all I have (this is pretty much all items in game x10 minus doom arties/peerless because I never had any luck and gave up).
I don't know why I'm going on about this but I think the point is that I'm happy we have 2 more weeks of turn-ins and also... not everyone who has giant housing full of stuff is uber rish. It makes me sick everyday when I read about people with 100's of millions pancakes about blah and blah. I have some great real estate... that i didnt pay for, I placed after YEARS of scouting. If someone/thing kills me its not because that thing is overpowered its because SOMETIMES YOU LOSE. I thought people were crazy bishes when I started uo complaining like they did, more years ago than I'd like to admit. This forum has gone to ummm the wolves? (censored version) Hardly anything constructive, putting down the company that runs our favorite past time, etc. UO has been the forerunner of the industry its whole life. Who knows how to run/market/anything an 11yr old title... NO ONE. I know everyone has their ideas but really, if they don't implement your idea 30 mins after you propose it on their message boards does not mean that they suck.
I know I've totally moved on from the op subject but I'm on a roll and I don't care. Everyone can have a vent post once in awhile right? Right. I'll last relate this.. I met a friend of a friend at work that plays WOW. He hung out with us at the job for several hours... he said he had several accounts and boasted that his guild was the first one in the realm to kill/ level all the new things that come out all servers. (I've never played so if I translate anything he said into uo terms I'm sorry, thats just how I processed it) He told me he was bored, 30 hours after every new release he had finished the content and just had to repeat it with all of his accounts. He bragged on and even showed me his youtube videos of killing people etc. I watched unimpressed. I told him about UO. He laughed at first but had heard of it. I told him about pvp rules and what you were free to do otherwise and his eyes were gleaming. He said he'd check it out... when his girlfriend let him lol but still. If I can steal a WOW person that played like 24 hours a day... wth is everyone bishin about? I try to get everyone I know to play uo. I'm a girl.. and unfortunately as such most of my girl friends have enough trouble searching things on google that they make me do it. (Along with building/fixing their pc's ugh) I'm not saying this is a female thing so shut it now, I'm saying MY FRIENDS... damn it I try though.
Jeez, ok the rant has completely derailed so I'll stop. Hehe Drank enough to be semi-literate but not enough to tell myself I've had too much to post.
-shoot edit.... I have an account of [young] that ride polar bears because they can.. just because other people actually use the accounts they pay for, does NOT mean I should get less rewards for the ones I do not use yet pay the same amount each month. Sorry.