/r/ultimaonline
The #1 Ultima Online community!
r/UltimaOnline is a group of players that enjoy playing and discussing one of the original MMORPG—UO—in its official and player supported form.
UO is known for its truly open world that offers more than just fighting and exploring, but for your avatar to live and exist in. UO is also known for its perfected risk vs reward system in MMO’s, the non-instance housing landscape and for the extensive player versus player combat system.
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RULES:
These rules are here to help both the subscribers and the moderators. All users are expected to be respectful to other users at all times. Breaking any of the rules below may result in a post/comment removal, warning or a ban.
1. Content must be related to Ultima Online
Any of the content that is posted must be about Ultima Online. Any posts or comments advertising spiritual successors to Ultima Online will be removed. See the detailed rules for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/wiki/rules
2. Be civil and respectful
Do not attack or harass other users, engage in hate-speech, or attempt to gate-keep discussion. Discussion about concerns are okay as long as it's not vulgar, hateful, or personally attacking someone.
3. No witch hunts or brigading individuals
Don’t encourage others to harass individuals within this community. Names must be blurred if people are portrayed in a negative light. This does not apply to free-shard criticism, please see Rule 7. See the detailed rules for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/wiki/rules
4. No real world religion or politics
Any discussion about real world religion or politics will be removed. Keep it about Ultima Online.
5. Advertising personal shards
Advertising a personal shard must be done in a way that gives to this community. Please post any information you have include your website, discord channel, screen-shots from your shard and why you think this is a great shard for other people to play on. Engage with the community. If you don't care enough about your post, then it appears that you don't care about your shard. Any shard advertisement that consists of a single paragraph and a way to connect will be removed.
6. Flair your posts accurately
Posts without flair will be removed by AutoMod. Posts flaired incorrectly will be re-flaired by moderators, and the user will be notified. Help keep this subreddit organized.
7.Free-Shard Criticism
If a free-shard is publicly advertising or making posts in r/UltimaOnline, then they are subject to open criticism. Comments that criticize a free-shard will not be removed unless they are vulgar or obscene in language/nature, or attacks someone on a personal level. It's impossible for the mods to know if what is said is true or completely fabricated about a player-ran shard or any other shard happenings.
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Hello friends,
Long story short the PC I'm now using has a good graphics card but not a lot of processing power and so I'm trying to run primarily older/low intensity games. Some that I've been quite enjoying are kenshi, wow classic, and project zomboid.
Ultima Online has appealed to me in the past, but now more than ever seems like a great time for me to get into it (see above, + I have 2 paid weeks off for the holiday).
I looked into it and, since I'm currently paying 2 MMO subs and don't want to add a third, decided my only option for UO is going to be F2P. From what I've seen, Outlands is the best option for that, so late last night I created a character on the server but didnt do much more than walk around before I felt pretty lost with the UI and objectives. This morning before work I was able to watch a couple intro videos to it and I'm excited to get back on later and set up the UI better/start in the newbie dungeon. But I'm still a little unclear and I'd like to get some tips from y'all. In the past I understood that this game supported a lot of different playstyles - that you could have a fulfilling career being a simple farmer or crafter even. Is that still the case, or will I only have fun doing PVP? How flexible is the game if I change my mind later? What else would you tell a player whos just starting out for the first time?
I play on the Eclipse UO server, but I'm interested in other servers. I prefer high stat caps and no skill caps. Any suggestions? Also want mercenaries.
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I don't know if they exist anymore, or if anyone knows who made them. They were a series of videos back in the 90s/early 2000s of a Ghost running around a black background PK'ing people.
Oh the old days. Does anyone remember these?
I played UO in 1997-2001 era. There was always pks and was always an understandable aspect of the game.
For Ultima Online to be a success, my opinion was there has to be a proper balance. PKs always had a healthy pool of players, some people just like to be the bad guy. The issue is not the number of PKs. It's the number of regular players, they want to enjoy the aspects of the game and hang out with friends. After encountering unbalanced PK to AntiPK, the regular players make a choice. Join the PKs, Join antiPK, continue knowing most end game areas will be controlled by PKs, or quit the game.
Here lies the issue. They typically quit. Not because they don't want to die by pks, but why bother playing on a server with no end game content.
I remember being AntiPK in '97 because I loved UO and understood that if too many regular players left, the game would end. My antiPK guild would stand guard while regular players enjoyed the game, peacefully.
Fast forward to now. I play on UO:SA where the balance is so askew that it's low pop to no pop because the PKs control all end game areas. You show up, they know you are there, they swoop in and kill you. Don't care about the items you have on you because they already own everything on the server. The point is to just wipe the player.
I think the silly aspect of this is, all the glory, all the treasures, their castles and towers, rares and even statues are all for nothing when there is no regular players to behold it.
Their glory is the ashes of an awesome server that nobody plays. They can't look at the larger picture that their iron fist did exactly what I had feared even back in 97.
hi there.
im looking for old counselor, seer or GM photos in OSI, specially in atlantic shard. Anyone?
Hi all,
In the very early to mid 2000s I used to play this game a lot with my family. My parents used to run a private shard that was pretty popular. How would somebody get back into UO now? Is there a subscription? Anything I need to buy?
Update: I started playing Outlands! Thank you to everybody that commented ! I'm not used to any of my posts getting any attention. The UO community really is great!
I'm looking to purchase a few accounts to play on. I've lost my accounts and really don't feel like starting over.
I'm looking for up to 6 accounts. Prefer at least 14yrs of age with rewards left, but will look at others. Must have fully built characters, and not stripped.
I'm willing to pay a premium for the right accounts. I'll make an offer on just about anything that isn't stripped and I can jump right in and play again.
DM me here, or email me: igottaguykc@gmail.com
Return of the Harrower... Doom Dungeon...
Weekly Tasks.... Masteries Overhaul...
Ethereal hue collection... And much more!
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If youre looking for a Classic server with an overwhelming amount of content to do.. Unchained is for you!
UOGamers has finally returned. Launched in 1999, before RunUO existed, UOGamers has been the standard barer for Ultima Online servers. WIth a peak usercount of more than 15,000 online users, they are foundational to the Ultima Online community. With Custom Events, Factions, Custom Launcher, and the return of Sallos,
Join us now: https://uogamers.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/c8nX2Cnq
Come back to the best Free server there is.
As the title states. I was born in 94 so I missed out on the whole freeshard era of UO, only getting to jump in on the action in 2003, and my feeble little underdeveloped brain couldn't work out how to even find freeshards so I just played on Europa.
UOGamers has finally returned. Launched in 1999, before RunUO existed, UOGamers has been the standard barer for Ultima Online servers. WIth a peak usercount of more than 15,000 online users, they are foundational to the Ultima Online community. With Custom Events, Factions, Custom Launcher, and the return of Sallos,
Join us now: https://uogamers.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/c8nX2Cnq
Come back to the best Free server there is.
For starters, should I? Meaning is the community thriving and would and old school Ultima player enjoy his times while not going in with any expectations other than that classic feel of killing hard bosses and finding rare loot.
And what advice would you give someone who hasn't played in at least 20 years. Im not really into following metas, I just wanna build a character that is fine fun and do my own thing (and due a bunch in the process)
And if theirs any guides I anyone would suggest, that'd also be super helpful :)
God this all brings so much back. I played so much UO back in the day. Made some food friends, had some good times.
Anyone here been around since the beginning?
I know the Classic UO Desktop client is not allowed on retail, but I’ve been having trouble using the Classic Client provided by retail—it feels outdated and doesn’t meet my needs. I’ve also struggled to adapt to the Enhanced Client due to the lack of tutorials to help me transition effectively.
The ClassicUO Web client, on the other hand, doesn’t save my character profiles. Once this issue is fixed, I’ll gladly play exclusively there.
Recently, I started experiencing frequent disconnects while using the Classic UO Desktop client. These issues began today and are disrupting my gameplay.
Is anyone else facing similar problems with disconnects? Are there any workarounds or suggestions to make either the Classic or Enhanced Client more usable?
Are there any good age of shadow EU servers online?
Amount of players on average? Since when it was launched.
Thanks!
I wanna get back into tibia (been like 20 years since ive played) but people are telling me i should buy a character off a bazaar?
Do i have to do that or is there any reason why i should?
Hi Team New Legacy!
I've been playing on the New Legacy shard with some good folks over the last few weeks and we suspect there might be some kind of serious bug. This bug is unconfirmed, but we've tried to collect feedback from players on the NL about this issue. Here is what I recently posted about the possible bug to the NL bug forum:
Possible Critical Bug on New Legacy: Partial / Total Item Loss from Player Corpses
Has anyone here had similar issues or experiences when playing on the New Legacy shard?
First, does anyone have information on the server birth rares? Not which ones they were, but WHY they existed. Were they mistakes, bugs, deliberate, or a mixture? Did they despawn if uncollected?
Second, when you enter Lord British's castle proper, not the walls around it, there's a couple rooms to the north and south of the entrance. And they have blocked off rooms directly above them, filled with ruined furniture. You could see the rooms from the correct spots on the second floor. What is the story behind the blocked off rooms?
Hey! So I got brought in by someone recently who played, only problem is that they refuse to play on anything other then Siege Perilous, and I just am not liking how long the grind/how much of a pain it is. Now, I don’t know anybody else, and I was wondering if anybody knew of any active guilds/groups that are still active and allow new players to join.