Hello! I've decided to check this out after many, many years. I love the idea of getting reacquainted with the game on a new shard. So far my only concern is that I feel fairly overwhelmed. I'm just now beginning to remember how important macros are since things can be fairly clunky. I'm also a little at a loss on where to begin since there are so few people around. So, I have a few questions.<div style="font-weight: normal;">
<div style="font-weight: normal;">- Does anyone have some advice as to how I should start accumulating gold? I used to love mining, smithing, and selling, but as there isn't an economy yet, I'm not sure if that's the way to go. Thoughts?<div style="font-weight: normal;">
<div style="font-weight: normal;">- Does anyone know of some good, simple Razor macros (or links to guides) I can use to start making things feel less clunky? Along with that, are there any obvious settings that aren't on by default that I should really have turned on?<div style="font-weight: normal;">
<div style="font-weight: normal;">- Finally, where do people typically hang out? I've been tooling around Minoc getting my feet under me, but I don't want to stay in the middle of nowhere if I'll never see anyone.<div style="font-weight: normal;">
<div style="font-weight: normal;">I'll be googling around to try and find some answers myself, but I figured you all would be more familiar with the shard.<div style="font-weight: normal;">
*edit* So I've already found a handy
razor guide here, but I'd still love to hear any ideas!
Hey man hows it going? So glad you have decided to play on the server!!
As far as making some cash with complete newbie characters your best bet is going to be sheering some sheep and selling it to the tailor or making a miner and mining ingots selling them to the npc's etc. Like you said there is no economy really atm so if your going to make a gathering/profession type character your gonna have to take the plunge and sell to npcs for some fast cash.
Or you can sheer sheep and turn that into bandaids and start a melee character. Id probably start a character with 50 musicianship/50 provo macro that to gm using razor if you need some help with some macros, I personally sort of suck at making macros in razor but its not that hard to figure out. After you gm that while you've wondered around sheer sheep at yew stables(three stables) and random sheep in the woods. Get some gold and go to the vendor and train your weapon skill and tactics anat healing all that then constantly sheer sheep and macro healing etc
Once your done with all of that you can go dex/provo stuff and make some decent cash off liches or drakes and dragons with little to no magic resist hince the provocation.
Brit bank is were most people hang out, im there a good bit and so is gabriel and storm and saul,
Ohh and if you need help with anything my skype is Lajurn, feel free to send me a msg.
The beauty of UO is you can choose just about any career to start raking in some cash. The simplest method is to make a dexxer, starting with 50 resist and 50 healing. Use your starting gold to buy a weapon of your choice, I prefer mace fighting on my dexxers so I went with Q-Staff. Proceed to Britain's western stables and find the cow pasture, kill them and skin them while cutting the hides. Start making runs to the butcher and the tanner to sell your meat and hides. Do this for 550 gold, go buy a horse. Get another 1600 gold and use it to train your other 5 skills to 30 by saying [NPC Name] train xxx (anat, tactics, maces, hiding, archery was my choice). If the cows are killing you theres some sheep on the road to the south and many more at Yew. After that you can hit up whatever you can handle without dying, Earth Elementals in Shame are good once you start feeling confident. The first spellcasting monsters worth the effort are liches. You'll need cure potions and refresh to tackle them.
You'll be relying on moongates until you can afford to get your magery up, which if you took my above advice will be a second character. To make moongates more managable you'll need to note they cycle their location about once per minute. The cycle is a set loop which I have documented to be:
Britain, Moonglow, Magencia, Skara Brae, Trinsic, Vesper/Minoc, Yew, Jhelom
It is a good Idea to plan out your trips with purpose and try to limit your travel because when the moongates are not in your favor you could have to wait 8 minutes to get to the town you want. To help cut losses try to find an escort so you get payed for traveling.
You can get entry level magic items off of orcish lords, which even if you don't want to use can sell for 100-200 gold.
If the dangers of adventuring are not your style you could choose any of the tradeskills to start making your nest egg. I started with inscription, which is not good gold right now because scrolls do not sell for a profit to vendors at the moment (to be fixed soon) but it isn't entirely true that there is no economy. I've sold close to 10,000 gold worth of goods to players in the form of scrolls and runebooks, but of course factor in my costs which are high because low inscription means many lost ingredients.
Things that would pay good returns would be lumberjacking to make bows/staves/furniture an vendoring the goods and maybe holding onto exceptional items to sell later to players. You could try cartography, it might be capable of making a profit, I havn't tested. You could start a tailor, I think you'd be the first one and certainly would be able to sell exceptional leather to the mages, shouldn't be that hard to get the cloth you need. I think cloth may take you to 90? You'll have to try and see!
As far as activity goes, being the shards just starting if you want to see people you'll have to go to the common areas. This mostly meaning Britain Bank or some common monster spawns like the liches. The UO landmass, not including T2A, was designed for 3000 players. The methods each of us has chosen to advance has been pretty diverse so we mostly run into eachother at the bank.
As far as clunkyness of the client goes and getting around its quirks... that's just UO. You just kind of pick it up. It's like driving an old classic car, you just get a feel for it.
edit: Almost forgot, you'll want to probably set up a macro to train something like herding over night to get your strength to 100, snooping is good for dex.
Thanks for the tips!
Baron, I think I just saw you gate in an NPC to Minoc.
<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;">I'll think I'll give that dexxer a try.</span>