UO Second Age

Hi there,

I first heard about this shard when I made a very brief return to UO a couple of years ago. It's a shame to see such a fabulous game in such a mess. I used to play on the Chesapeake shard, 1998-2000 and later sold up and moved to Europa, mainly due to ping issues and played there for another year before selling up again and moving with my Europa guild to DaoC for open beta.

I've been gaming alot of years, but truly my best memories are of what I refer to as 'old school' UO. This is pretty much everything pre-trammel, 'power hour' and all the other nonsense which for me ruined the game. In my first day I was tricked into flagging myself before being killed in Moonglow, and getting player killed was a regular feature of my gaming experience for the first few weeks. I had all kinds of stunts pulled on me in those first weeks and can look back and laugh about it now. I made some fabulous friends on Chesapeake and visited the states to meet some of them, (I'm from London UK). I have to say that the friendships I forged in UO where so much deeper than other games I've played due to the choices you make, taking counts to avenge friends, helping hunt down scammers and cheats etc. For me there was a real morality about how you played the game that does not exisit in other MMO's

I guess what I'm getting at is how different the community is now? Also being a UK player I would have concerns about the population of the server during my play times and server ping. Its a daunting thought playing UO from the ground up again but if I thought I could re-capture those times I could be tempted!

Any former Chesapeake players from that era I was in the guild TKF. My main characters were Tomas, Alvie and Morgana.

Give it a go, you'll see

You don't loose anything by giving it a whirl. You'll be hooked again in no time!!

With that said, welcome!!

I'll be honest up front. You'll probably be surprised about the amount of people you can expect to see playing this game, especially from Europe.

If you need a small house to macro in, let me know.

Good luck.

old UO player on the fence: the only thing you'll regret, if you start up here, is the amount of time IRL you will lose to this game.

good times, great oldies. this is as close as it gets. all the memories will come flooding back no matter what you were into back then.

Matty wrote:old UO player on the fence: the only thing you'll regret, if you start up here, is the amount of time IRL you will lose to this game.

good times, great oldies. this is as close as it gets. all the memories will come flooding back no matter what you were into back then.

Didn't Derrick post in a thread somewhere an image of a map of all the UOSA player's relative location?

Scienter wrote:

Matty wrote:old UO player on the fence: the only thing you'll regret, if you start up here, is the amount of time IRL you will lose to this game.

good times, great oldies. this is as close as it gets. all the memories will come flooding back no matter what you were into back then.

Didn't Derrick post in a thread somewhere an image of a map of all the UOSA player's relative location?

never saw this but i'd like to

Matty wrote:old UO player on the fence: the only thing you'll regret, if you start up here, is the amount of time IRL you will lose to this game...

Hahahaha, this is me, exactly me!

Scienter wrote:

Matty wrote:old UO player on the fence: the only thing you'll regret, if you start up here, is the amount of time IRL you will lose to this game.

good times, great oldies. this is as close as it gets. all the memories will come flooding back no matter what you were into back then.

Didn't Derrick post in a thread somewhere an image of a map of all the UOSA player's relative location?

It was quite awhile ago. We've actually asked him for an updated one for giggles. Certainly not a priority by any means, but it is neat to see.

Be Warned. UOSA Is Better Then Crack Cocaine.

Scienter wrote:

Matty wrote:old UO player on the fence: the only thing you'll regret, if you start up here, is the amount of time IRL you will lose to this game.

good times, great oldies. this is as close as it gets. all the memories will come flooding back no matter what you were into back then.

Didn't Derrick post in a thread somewhere an image of a map of all the UOSA player's relative location?

Yes he did its outdated thou.

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Liffy, give it a try and I am sure you will not be disappointed. If you have a significant other that likes to spend time with you, THEY might be disappointed. I too was an old school original UO player who decided to give UOSA a try and I LOVE it. The only bad thing is I want to try and do everything! I just started up last week an I can't get enough.

-BA

i just returned after several years. this shard is the place to relive those old experiences. You wont regret it. bring friends.