When you were new to UO:Renaissance

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I started late January 2015, the Staff was very welcoming and most Players were very friendly and helpful.
Pegbyter stopped by my newbie activities, on at least my first 2 accounts to say hi and welcome me. The second time he sat and talked to me, another Young Player, and a Red(cant remember the names) for about 10 Minutes in Ocllo Dungeon.

Irc was a nice surprise, once I finally joined it, other then the occasional Chaos that blows up , it has been helpful and interesting/fun most days.

I think I was most surprised by the "Young Program", which I opted to start in. I didn't need it, but it helped me get back in after a long break from UO and get my legs again.

Content that surprised me would be Fishing and Craftable Boats. Fishing and the New T-Hunter content is what keeps me here now.

My biggest surprise disappointment would be the Taming content, I wasted my time Gming a Tamer here that I never play, he has zero bonded Animals and I will probably re-roll him at some point. I would get in depth , but there is no point and It's just something I deal with.

My biggest regret is one I had with EA/OSI as well, a lack of a real crafting system, I hate Runics and Crafters really are not needed here.( If the craftable Boat concept was expanded across the board, or at least to armor and weapons, I'd fall in love with this place! It would be a 2-fer bump for Crafting and Warriors. Bods are a good concept, but poorly implemented, rewards should be deco and skill boost, runics are a cheap crap-out for crafting. If Richard Garriott had stayed, I think we would have a much richer Game)

Overall, the last 8 months have been fun, I have faith in the Staff and most Players, and that's why I donated and subscribe now.

I will probably never see changes in content to Crafting/Warriors/Taming that I would like, but I have been given enough other things to keep me interested so far.

I am surprised that I'm still attached to a Game as old as UO, with all its flaws it still has so much I like to keep me burning hours of my free time.

@Qaddafi is a guy I remember from early on here when I first started. (Come back dude!) At first I thought he was going to be a problem as he tried to pk me in the Ice dungeon a few times, and earthquaking me in my small tower Then I heard of and attended his resist event which was super cool of him to throw. Such a gesture was unheard of, at least in my UO experience. It was the first time I'd ever GM'd resist on any shard, free or osi. I thought it was pretty awesome that someone would do that for people (like myself) who would probably not have GM'd resist otherwise, and give us at least a bigger survival chance against pk's. Resist parties may have their detractors, but I think overall they are helpful and a neat aspect of the community we have here on UOR that cannot be found anywhere else. A lot of new players like myself at the time are blown away by this nice gesture, and it speaks volumes about how great the people are here.

Oh, that reminds me! I think my first week here Peace was throwing a resist event so I got to have a couple GM resist characters right off the bat. I thought that ruled.

Since many of you have mentioned the "resist parties", for those of you who don't know. The resist parties are kind-of like a shard event. Many, many different players donate time, gold, resources to the hosts of these parties.

Guess we all not only profit from them, but are proud of our players for doing these.




Marjo Governess of Wispfelt

Westra on IRC

I was also in Quadafi's new player shopping spree ( I was the first one to be allowed in the room!) So that was a huge deal to me that players would just give away stuff to help out the new play population. Something that is near and dear to my heart, as you might know

The staff, of course, actually responding to Help and IRC chats.

Meeting Jupiter and getting involved with VoP was the RP/chill experience I had been wanting for years and years of playing UO.

The Young player program really helped me out with getting a handle/reminder of how the hunting system was on a Fel shard.

And ultimately finding a server that I could finally call home *tear*.

Love live UO:R.

~Krake