I'm a long-time UO player (since '99), and while I somehow missed the real T2A era, I enjoyed it thru some freeshards which were luckily still not updated to UO:R.
Anyway, I have two questions:
1) I remember pretty much clearly that the Britain guarded region ended at the middle of the Britain east bridge (the one near the main Bank). I fondly remember how me, a nooblet, was always killed on the spot by the loads of PKs 'round there. I've fired up Sphere 0.55i (oh, the times!) with the 1.26.4i client (I'd have used the 1.25, but I haven't found any nocrypt client for that version, also it tends to bug up horribly on Win7-x64) and the same thing happens.
Here on UOSA the region extends way over to that point, stopping just a bit earlier than the moongate. Which is how AoS+ servers behave. That made me think if it was not an issue of UOSA using RunUO, which as it's a native AoS+ emulator, has the Regions probably setted for that era.
As specified earlier, I wasn't present on the official servers so I don't know if this was an inaccuracy of the various freeshards emulators (if I remember correctly POL did the same thing, so it was most certainly not limited to Sphereserver). I tried searching online, but I don't have the faintest idea on how to search for a so small detail. Can't log with 5.x.x.x on Sphere, so I couldn't verify it's a client issue or not, but probably not. That takes us to...
2) Are there any adverse effects in using the 1.26.4i client? ('tis a bit off-topic, I know) I like my UO being as true to the original T2A era as I can, and while 1.25 is definitely not possible because of the issues I've spoken of in point 1, it's as near as it gets. I've noticed various graphical issues, but other than that, it seems to work.
Along with those... I have a loathing for Razor because of how many people abuse its macros for PvP (I'm not talking of this shard obviously, I haven't started playing seriously yet). Back in T2A there was no Razor, and thus no horribly long macros which over-simplified PvP. Razor is everything that UO was not at the time. So I was a little sad to see it supported on here. But that's my personal preference, I guess.
Thanks for your time
I guess that all my current gripes with the client are now resolved. No reason for me to use the 2.x.x.x client except for the character creation screen! 
