What is Ultima Online like at the moment?

There are 2 x 800Mb files on that page. If I download them amongst
other things I will have to upgrade my hard disk capacity. It probably
isn't worth it (for a trogladite like me)


How much it it to join UO a month a the moment anyway?

Bill
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"Michael Cecil" <macecil.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:00:46 -0000, "'Triad'" <wanderer.RemoveThis@beeb.web> wrote:
>
>>It used to be an extremely good game... then howevever, the
>>administrators
>>began to slip into this horrible current phase of bringing in more and
>>more
>>inane, completely Ultima-unrelated content without a thought for the
>>implications. Really, the ninjas--no, really, I'm serious--were UO's
>>death
>>knell in terms of plot.
>
> I don't think it's ninjas or elves but rather the change of focus from
> character skills to diabloesque items that has diminished UO greatly.

*nods; winces* That's what I meant about the game mechanics. Or, to put it
another way: the change in game mechanics physically diminished UO, and the
change in plot intellectually diminished UO. Both diminished it, but in
different ways, and with different results (though both very bad).

> But I haven't given up yet.

Well... good luck.

*can dream of a better future...*

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'Triad'
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"Bill Jillians" <neil_horlock.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> There are 2 x 800Mb files on that page. If I download them amongst
> other things I will have to upgrade my hard disk capacity. It probably
> isn't worth it (for a trogladite like me)
>
>
> How much it it to join UO a month a the moment anyway?
>

Somehow I feel like adding a (very tiny) harddrive won't cost you much at
all.
I'm guessing that after a few months you'll have paid more in UO costs than
you'll put on that harddrive.

LVD
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Quietly we read <Kgoaf.5741$J14.409399@news20.bellglobal.com>, unable to
contain our credulity we realized that Lord Vashnu Dragon
<lordv.RemoveThis@sympatico.ca> said this:
>"Bill Jillians" <neil_horlock.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1131011211.376866.322410@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> There are 2 x 800Mb files on that page. If I download them amongst
>> other things I will have to upgrade my hard disk capacity. It probably
>> isn't worth it (for a trogladite like me)
>>
>>
>> How much it it to join UO a month a the moment anyway?
>>
>
>Somehow I feel like adding a (very tiny) harddrive won't cost you much at
>all.
>I'm guessing that after a few months you'll have paid more in UO costs than
>you'll put on that harddrive.
>
>LVD
>
I have 5 glorious GB of space on my system (a 4Gb and a 1Gb) and I've
pushed my system to its limits to occasion but I've never found I needed
anymore than 5 (even when I was burning Jazz cd albums on a regular
basis for a friend). I have a spare 6Gb HD I could easily add to the
system, that I bought for a fiver (5 pounds sterling). I think I was
being more lazy than miserly in the above. I have other machines with
up to 40Gb but the one I have everything on is just the 5Gb one. The
40Gb machine is 39Gb empty (I just use it for seti@home until I finally
sell it)

So UO is about 8 pounds sterling a month? I might just try it out
anyway once I get an always on connection. But it will involve an
upgrade of several things so I will have to plan that in advance.

Probably start with that old HD and a move from Win98 to XP ...

>

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Bill Jillians
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You can play for free of course, there are hundreds of freeshards
about, just do a search for runuo or uogateway.
 >> Stay informed about: What is Ultima Online like at the moment? 

Quietly we read <P$IdOIGr78aDFxF2@virgin.net>, unable to contain our
credulity we realized that Bill Jillians <"\"Bill
Jillians\""@virgin.SPAM_NO_THANKS.net.SPAM_OFF> said this:
>Quietly we read <Kgoaf.5741$J14.409399@news20.bellglobal.com>, unable
>to contain our credulity we realized that Lord Vashnu Dragon
><lordv.RemoveThis@sympatico.ca> said this:
>>"Bill Jillians" <neil_horlock.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:1131011211.376866.322410@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> There are 2 x 800Mb files on that page. If I download them amongst
>>> other things I will have to upgrade my hard disk capacity. It probably
>>> isn't worth it (for a trogladite like me)
>>>
>>>
>>> How much it it to join UO a month a the moment anyway?
>>>
>>
>>Somehow I feel like adding a (very tiny) harddrive won't cost you much at
>>all.
>>I'm guessing that after a few months you'll have paid more in UO costs than
>>you'll put on that harddrive.
>>
>>LVD
>>
>I have 5 glorious GB of space on my system (a 4Gb and a 1Gb) and I've
>pushed my system to its limits to occasion but I've never found I
>needed anymore than 5 (even when I was burning Jazz cd albums on a
>regular basis for a friend). I have a spare 6Gb HD I could easily add
>to the system, that I bought for a fiver (5 pounds sterling). I think
>I was being more lazy than miserly in the above. I have other machines
>with up to 40Gb but the one I have everything on is just the 5Gb one.
>The 40Gb machine is 39Gb empty (I just use it for seti@home until I
>finally sell it)
>
>So UO is about 8 pounds sterling a month? I might just try it out
>anyway once I get an always on connection. But it will involve an
>upgrade of several things so I will have to plan that in advance.
>
>Probably start with that old HD and a move from Win98 to XP ...
>
>>
>
I've done that work now ... and I wish I'd been lazy. 10Gb and XP but
it took 14 hours to get sorted.

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Bill Jillians
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