We three need to talk.
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We four need to talk. This was my teenage life. I remember staying up until 4am on a school night waiting for a house to disappear so I could put mine down š
Absolutely! I remember when I was new to the game and got my first boat and didn't realize you could double click to get on the plank and this mothafaka basically stamina whacked me walking into me then planked onto my boat and literally just sailed away with all of my belongings. My mom didn't understand why I was so upset, lol.
Lol! Yes, I got massacred and looted by a guild of thieves who called themselves "The Black Hand". Then I joined them.
The murderer path was such a fun way to play the game. High stakes.
I had multiple houses, a tower, and some boats on the Atlantic shard. Made so much gold playing Lord of War selling scrolls on NPC vendors I had posted near moongates. Also spent about a week or so with the invulnerable flag on while most of the staff was on holiday break.
I played on Atlantic a bit but mostly Chesapeake in the early days. I managed to have house in the real shards but did quite well for myself in the early 2000-10s playing on UO Second Age player run server emulator
I played Siege Perilous. Now that shit was fun. Even after the Trammeling of UO SP kept all of the old UO spirit. I was killed so many times.
So
Many
Times
I almost got Richard Garriot on the show. I still have his phone number I believe. Might have to crank that up again as I want to talk about UO economics system and bitcoin.
They actually attempted a finite supply of resources. It failed early due to what they'd label hoarding but in effect was saving of resources to combat the unknowns as players learned the world, and also to gather enough gold for a highly coveted castle (and boat, and horse, and armor). Right out of the gate we saw every animal slain and hides harvested leading to vendors out of stock and a sieze up in the economy. The quick fix was to cut the loop and just spawn to a limit in an area and allow for infinite resources and gold. Then the gold dupe bug further killed natural economics. Rare unstackable items like empty jars became status symbols decorating houses.