This Weekend 6/21 - 6/23: Party at West Brit Bank like it's 1999!

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  1. PaddyOBrien

    PaddyOBrien Well-Known Member

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    Remember the good old days of UO, when West Britain Bank was the hub of activity? Where you'd have to push through the throngs of players spamming their wares for sale, recruiting for guilds, selling houses, random animals, all the bard spam? Back when your parents' computer would grind to a halt as you elbowed your way to the bank, and 15 minutes later you could finally open your bankbox?

    Ahhhhhhhhhhh, don't you remember the days of numerous guardwhacks, thieves were everywhere like mosquitoes, those same couple of instrument songs playing over and over, pet spam, spirit speak, the dork over on the corner trying to sell horses, the leet players on top of the bank dressed in their finest Trammelware, and all the peasants dressed in ratty 4th generation hand me down bone armor and plate mail on the ground fighting over scraps? Deals were made, scams were perpetrated, you met up with your friends and foes alike, the factioners running through killing each other.

    Well, Pepperidge Farm Paddy remembers! Sadly, some players never got to experience this awesomeness. So, this friday let's attempt to re-create this wonderful chaotic experience for those who haven't witnessed it, and for those of us who remember it fondly!

    The specifics:

    This will be an all weekend thing. Just show up, do all your banking there at West Britain Bank. If you just afk and collect plat, do it at the Brit Bank for the weekend! Come dressed in your finest Trammelware and look down upon the peasants from the safety of the roof, or come as poorly dressed as you did back when you first started playing the game and didn't know that mixing Bone armor with plate mail was a terrible fashion faux pas! Macro your skills there, sit around on your factioner, bring your thief or detective! Bring your dragons and name them A - F and sell them, or bring some ostards! Spam your wares and houses for sale! Scatter runes to your vendors and recruit for your guild! Get yourself guardwhacked for no apparent reason, just to watch the swarm of noobs devour your corpse and pick through it like vultures! Drop random shit on the ground! Come with your best and wittiest "Vendor Buy the Bank Some Gards Beacuse I'm So Cool!" macro!! (Then spam it repeatedly when someone steals from you and act like you have no freaking clue why the "Gards" aren't coming to save the day!)

    Possible contests if someone wants to take the reigns on them:
    - best dressed
    - worst dressed
    - best noobiest bank macro?

    For added realism:

    - Turn off Razor light filter
    - Turn off all "animal sounds, spirit speak, and bard sounds spam" filters
    - Turn on that awesome UO music and crank it up to 11!
    - Find an old AOL cd to use as a coaster for your coffee/beer/whiskey
    - Channel your inner late 90's early 2000's noob!

    For EXTRA realism!:
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    Have your wife/husband/parents/kids randomly pull the plug out of your connection anytime they need to make a phone call, or just because you gotta kill one more ogre before you take out the trash!



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  2. Timelord

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    I'm ready man! It'll be a fun welcome home to UOR for me ;)

    Chris should let magic be cast in town to REALLY go back in time to the days when people made elementals on the bank roof to raise magery lmao
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  3. Kiryana

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    These were golden times, a great idea.

    Detectives, go to hell for the time of this event :D

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    I am already there in that picture :)
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    PvG will be there.... especially this FRIDAY
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    Wow is that real?? I remember people being everywhere, but damn!
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    Kiryana Well-Known Member

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    Or maybe @Chris will remove all bankers for a while and leave only in Brit! hahaha I adore this place, it is truly sacred ...

    :)
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    <<<<This is 99 years old, I found a picture on the network, I hope really. My old screenshots drowned in the Sea of Okhotsk along with a hard drive and a bunch of things, a long story. :D
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    A banker's strike in all the kingdom except for Britain and Bucs Den (for the reds) and Ocllo for the youngs.
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    Arr count me in! I will put up a 200k Gold towards the best dressed! 100k Gold toward the worst dressed! Shall we post pictures in this thread & base the wins off of most votes (likes)??
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    Yeah I forgot about that kind of thing. I used to be a seer on an old free shard and we could see the names of players logged out where we were at the time. Was interesting checking it in the ruins of a player town that only had one or two houses left
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    I said last night in Discord, Ocllo NPC's should only work for Young players. Once they're no longer Young let them filter to Britain where they can go to the graveyard and have fear strike them as PK's roll up. Ocllo should be a young only town.
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    At the very least, prevent non young players from using the npcs in Ocllo maybe, especially the bank.
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    jihad joe Active Member
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    That's what I was trying to convey. Make Britain Great Again!
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    Tomorrow guys, lets take it back to 1999! Britain bank! Be there!
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    Today and this weekend!!
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    PaddyOBrien Well-Known Member

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    It's on! Right now!! Lets do this!!

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    Now ransoming off one Skara Rune, Lost Lands rune and slightly used Taborine :)

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