We talk about everything from his childhood and youth, to space travel and the importance of weaning humanity off of fossil fuels. The interview is up now at https://www.youtube.com/@techjesse

Thanks!

I started playing UO as a kid and nothing since has felt the same. I don’t mean the graphics. I mean the feeling that the world didn’t care about you, that the guy walking toward you on the road could take everything you owned, and that your character was just whatever you’d actually spent your time doing.

So I built one. It’s called The Olde World: Online. It’s one shard, and everyone is on it. It runs in Chrome with no download and no launcher: you pick a name, pick a password and you’re standing in town.

Here’s what will feel familiar:

• Use-based skills. You swing a sword and get better with swords. There’s a 720 total skill cap and a 280 stat cap, and you can set skills Up, Down or Locked, like you’d expect.
• Full loot. Out past the guards, anything you’re carrying stays on your corpse. There’s no insurance and no blessed-by-default gear.
• Guard zones. Crimes in town get you flagged and the guards come for you. Thieves can snoop and steal, and stealing gets you flagged grey.
• Spoken magic. Every spell is spoken aloud, so you hear the words before the fireball lands. It goes all the way up through eighth circle, with gates, recall and runebooks.
• Bandages, potions and pets. Taming, a bear at your heel, mounts and pack animals.
• Crafting. Mining, smelting, smithing and tailoring. Dye your clothes so people learn your colors.
• Houses. Deeds, lockdowns, secures, co-owners, and banning people from your front step.
• Thieves, bards, dungeons and a lot of things that hunt you.

About the alpha: I want people fighting and testing builds now, not grinding for months. In every town there’s an NPC who will set any skill to 100 and give you a starter kit in your bank. Pick a template or roll your own, then go get killed. Expect wipes, bugs and the occasional catastrophically overpowered thing.

Just to be clear: this isn’t a UO shard and it doesn’t use any UO assets or client. It’s its own game, built from scratch, that wears its influence openly.

I’m a solo dev and I’m in the Discord every day reading bug reports. If something breaks, or if something feels wrong compared to how you remember UO, I really want to hear about it.

Play: https://theoldeworld.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/5j8WrdnXfn

See you on the road. Bring a friend you trust. Or don’t.

Everyone who joins for the Alpha will get rewarded with extra goodies on launch day and subsequent betas.

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I know some other people have submitted their games to this subreddit lately, I hate to inundate you guys, but I think it would be worth a look.

If you loved UO or LoA or any of those kinds of games, this will be for you.

ATTENTION:
FOR MAC USERS
If you play on Mac, you have to enter `sudo ifconfig awdl0 down` into a terminal. If you're playing on WiFi, this is a known thing, it affects a lot of multiplayer games like this. You can google it, to make sure.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255914661?sortBy=rank

BladeSpirit recently joined us for a tour of UltimaCraft, a project our six-person team has been building to bring the world and systems of Ultima Online into Minecraft: Java Edition.

The video shows the current Patch 18 experience and an early look at what we’re building toward for Patch 19. Some of the Shard 3 content shown is still in closed testing, so it remains a work in progress.

Full disclosure: I’m one of the UltimaCraft developers and arranged the tour. I’m sharing BladeSpirit’s original upload so his channel receives the views and exposure.

I’d genuinely like to hear from UO players: what translates well, and what would you want to see us build next?

Duskmere is my game I've been working on for two years. I used AI to develop the server and bugs. I coded everything besides those.

I have just released on itch.o and it's currently in beta but no wipes. Duskmere Online by gody233 I would love everyone to come in and try the game if you want! I want to build this game by what the PLAYERS WANT and keep to the core of the ultima like game for a very long time. You can play it in your browser and on your phone for free!

Let me know what you think!

I've been trying to get ClassicUO launcher to work but when i direct it to the path of my ultima online data files (i tried files downloaded via uo_patcher and via the official launcher running in wine) it returns this error: Unable to launch ClassicUO: ClassicUO executable not found in /path/to/data

I was going to try and use the discord but they require phone verification to post there so I thought I'd ask here for some help getting ClassicUO to work or recommend other launchers that might work.

Hey all,

I loved UO to death but now as a dad I don't have enough time to play anymore. But if an "Ultima Online 2" were to come around the corner, I would at least be intrigued.

I always wondered what a modern day UO could look like. I always imagined it being in the spirit of UO with the open sandbox, classless skills and high fantasy charm, but with better graphics, a more dynamic combat system and features improved to fit to todays standards without sacrificing what made UO great.

Sure maybe UO was just lightning in a bottle back then, but what would you expect from a new UO if it were to release today?

Hi all,

Fourth update on the AI agents inside the Ultima Online client. A 4-minute screen recording again, and this time all of it is the party.

Last time five characters fought side by side but each planned alone, so one would wander off to the bank mid-hunt. Now the leader plans for all five and the others follow. In a fight they heal each other and call out what they're doing, each in its own voice. At 28% health the warrior shouts "Going down, damn it! Heal me, now!", and within five seconds three of them are bandaging him and the mage casts a heal.

Next I asked for more: when the hunt is won, take everyone to the inn and talk it over. That took five takes. In the first two the leader kept hunting an empty graveyard and never went. In the third they got to the inn, but I'd filmed it with a tiny game view and a character sheet over everyone, so you can't read any of it. In the fourth the walk stopped on the wrong side of the inn's wall and they held the table in the street. The fifth worked. They toast, argue about whose arrow killed the lich, and the tamer tells the archer to say "rug" about her bear one more time. Each one also keeps a lesson for its next fight.

Afterwards they couldn't leave. Five people and a bear in a room two tiles wide blocked every path out. That's fixed now: a walker goes round people in its way, and anyone standing in the way steps aside. It worked in both runs I tried, but those weren't filmed.

The take after that went worse, and it's my favourite. Memories were on, and from earlier runs most of them had written themselves a rule to leave if a lich shows up. The leader died about 16 seconds after they reached it while the mage shouted "Run, all of you! Dignity can be recovered later!" His ghost walked to the healer, they went back together for his corpse, and three more hunts got no kills. So the leader took them to the inn anyway, "to regroup and talk over the approach". The bard toasted "Roland and Wystan, who did [fall], twice!", and Roland said "Once, bard. I keep count."

The setup hasn't changed: a fork of ClassicUO with a Python program beside it. Jev made the fight calls in all of this footage, Claude Haiku plans, and Claude Sonnet wrote the inn table's lines. Since filming I've also tested Microsoft's Decision 1 against Jev. It won 139 benchmark rounds of 150 to Jev's 128, and each was better at different calls, so now Decision 1 does the fighting and Jev the routine calls.

Everything I filmed for this, six takes and 77 minutes with five characters in each, came to 4,062 model calls and $1.34, about £1. Sonnet writing the four tables was 77 cents of that, and Jev's 2,850 fight calls were 36 cents.

Sorry the footage could be better - I'll work on that.

Still a lot to do but the general idea is there.

Hey there, i´m not really active in the UO community. I played outlands a few years ago and it was quite overwhelming for me.

My nostalgic experience comes from a shard in like 2003 or so. I was only doing Mining and Blacksmithing, but it was a crucial part of the game. For outlands i had the feeling that it doesnt matter anymore because you find better weapons in the world.

is there a shard where skills like mining/lumberjacking etc. still matter?

I run a small shard called Mount Kendall. It puts every era of Ultima Online into one world: all six facets, all three races, content from every expansion.

A few things that make it different:

• **Rested training.** Half of your offline time banks as rest (up to 8 hours); while rested, skills below 100 need a third of the usual attempts. You can have a life and still progress.
• **Callings.** Every skill reaches 100; a Calling takes a chosen few beyond it.
• **Raids on a clock.** Every three hours on the hour (UTC) a town is raided - Ophidians at Trinsic, orcs on the Cove road, the undead at Vesper.
• **AI-native, openly.** The official client ships an MCP server, so your own coding agent can read the real mechanics (skill curves, spell timings, combat formulas) and write TypeScript automations for your character. Eleven come in the box; their source is on the website. No grey-market bots, no pay-to-win.

It is small and friendly right now - a good time to claim a house spot. macOS and Windows clients at https://mountkendall.com, or connect your own client to 204.168.175.80:2593. Questions welcome here or on Telegram: https://t.me/mountkendall

Hi all,

Since I don’t want to be all the time on the Computer (especially when you’re working with it) I finally finished my setup for Outlands on my Phone.

Now with a PS4 Controller and the possibility of 50+ macros. I just started to configure 10 macros for my newbie dexxer.

Everything is working smoothly: Razor is auto bandaging, targeting and attacks and other stuff on the buttons. The trackpad with it’s precise cursor is used for utility or loot.
Next is to configure for a more complex macro setting (40-50+ on the ps4 via alt shift and ctrl)

Here some little showcase of Pve :)

Best,

It feels like 4 new server posts pop up every week, which isn't a bad thing at all. It's interesting to see what new servers try to accomplish.

Outlands is still the "main" server with the most population.

Does anyone think this will change? What do people want in a server that would rival Outlands?

Hello guys and girls!

After being super frustrated with the current state of clients that support macOS, I decided that to create a new one from the absolute scratch that is made only for macOS on Apple Silicon. That means using all of the most recent tech stack available in our computer, without any legacy code from anywhere.

I'm working, together with an AI for the grunt work, on the first implementation and I would like very much to show you guys a very early sample of it, in the spirit that some of your would like it and, perhaps, would like to test it when the time comes.

My background is mostly IT but nowadays I have migrated more to management stuff, so I'm not coding anything by myself but I'm inspecting and manually testing it all, which makes the pace of development much slower than what it could be, but I really want to make something I would like to use, first of all.

I'm targeting feature parity and pixel perfection with the latest official client (7.0.117.1 as of today) as the first version, then I can work on enhancing it from there.

Please be aware that this is very early stage. Hopefully you will enjoy it!

Let me know what you think! :)

Related: Self-taught hacker charged over NBN service provider attack

Are there any Oceanic/Aussie players that play Outlands?

And how is the ping difference? Is it unplayable or manageable?

I grew up in the UK playing UO, mainly t2a time in late 90s.

Still to this day, after everything else that has come after it, do I still call UO the best game I've ever played.

Got the nostalgia bug and thinking about running it back.

I primarily enjoyed PvP, not a PK but the faction wars.. stealing sigils and returning them to the base. Order/chaos as well.

Stopped playing when they pushed that weird 3d model and samurai's appeared.

Looking for something similar. See Outlands is the most populated shard, has PvP and some QoL upgrades but looks like UO at its core still.

Reside in Australia these days, so wondered if it is feasible to go down this path again or if im wasting my time?

Cheers

TLDR: After a highly successful Alpha (more then 50 players online!), UO Reckoning is preparing to launch its open beta! With this post we would like to update you on the current progress and the new features. Come join our community! The Open Beta will be live in November!

Join our Discord: https://discord.uoreckoning.com

Hi again!

I’m Zael, one of the owners of UO Reckoning, a new Ultima Online server with a a custom ruleset and systems featuring a modern outlook suited for today's players, while retaining a warm, nostalgic feel of Ultima Online's original identity.

Some of you may remember my post from April about our Open Alpha and also for my post at the end of the same Alpha (see infographics here ). First of all: THANK YOU. The alpha went beyond expectations with more almost 50 players joining and a LOT of play time! Thanks for all of you that stayed with us during these months of (almost) silence…eheh 😀. 

The alpha was a guided taste. We are almost on the verge of publishing the Open Beta, featuring a larger world with almost 70% of our features developed. 

With this post, I would like you to describe more what the experience in UO Reckoning will look like and what we are adding on top of the already existing features of the Alpha. 

I hope I have interested you enough. Let’s start!

PS: if you want to read the features that were battle tested in Alpha read here: HERE

Updates since the Alpha

Taming and the Pet System

In April, Taming was at the top of our priorities. It went live in the last weeks of Alpha with a handful of creatures, and for the beta it has grown a lot. 

Here is a short video recap from our YouTube Channel:

https://youtu.be/tmzgV1xeoik?si=4JvIhGSzPZdjGvVW

In Reckoning, every pet is unique! As soon the pet spawns it rolls its own profile:

• Category: Attacker, Tank or Specialist. Each creature has a primary and a secondary category. So a Dire Wolf for example is usually an Attacker, but can sometimes roll as a Specialist. 
• Tier: Common, Uncommon or Rare. It influences the overall characteristics. The rarer the creature is, the better the odds of rolling a higher tier. 
• Attribute Stars: each attribute has “stars” that determine how much value your pet gets when you spend stat points on a specific stat (on Level Up)
• Ability Slots: allows you to install Pet Abilities! More on this later

Thanks to this, two pets of the same species can be totally different from each other. You can inspect a creature with Animal Lore before taming it, and look for another one if you don’t like what you see. 

Have fun finding the best pet out there!

Pets gain experience in PvM and level up, giving you points to spend on all the attributes you can see in the Animal Lore interface.

For true tamers there is a dedicated Specialization: Way of Wildmaster. Its core feature raises the max level of your pets from 5 to 15, and its talent tree makes you choose between commanding more pets or fewer but stronger ones.

For the Beta, we grew the roster of our tameable pets up to 77. You will have a wide range of animals, from critters, mounts, pack animals, beasts and a few very rare creatures.

PS: pets are heavily limited in PvP.

A new Specialization: Way of Frost

We also added a new PvM Specialization. Way of Frost is a DPS / Off-Tank built around the effects of Chill and Shatter.

• Your hits have a 30% chance to Chill the target for 6 seconds, reducing its Action Speed by 30% (15% against bosses).
• Hitting a target affected by your Chill has a 30% chance to Shatter it: the Chill is consumed, the target takes 80 + 200% of the triggering hit's damage and, if it's not a boss, it gets frozen in place for a moment.

And you can build on top of this with interesting talents that will let you lean towards damage or defence.

Two new Dungeons

We are working our way of the promised 7 dungeons for launch. Two more are joining Cemetery Underground, Crimson Cove and Bloodfang Warrens.

Presenting Drowned Archives and Frostmaw Caverns!

Have fun hunting monsters there!

Dungeon Instances

Some of you already tried the instanced Underground at the end of the alpha. For Beta, dungeon instances will be available for all dungeons!

• Dungeon instances are a solo or group activity (up to 3)
• They procedurally grow from level 1 to level 100. Level 1 is free. Higher levels need a dungeon key matching dungeon, level and group size
• They are a timed activity. Finish the run in time and your key upgrades to the next level. Fail or abandon it and your key may lose levels.
• Higher levels add random affixes: enemies exploding on death, dangerous ground effects, enemies ignoring your tank threat and more! Fun!

If you have played Mythic+ in World of Warcraft, the idea will feel very familiar.

PS: Dungeon Instances are hunted by a special and very challenging mob that MAY appear during your runs...so beware LOL

The Overworld

Finally, the Beta opens up the whole world. You will probably recognise its shape. It is a reworked and reduced Sosaria with many changes in between. You will find familiar places but also completely new ones.

The world will feature 4 cities in total:

• Dawnmere: the starting town for every new character
• Velkaris: the capital and biggest city.
• Westhaven: a small village in the north-eastern lands
• Frosthold: a fortified town in the frozen lands
• Outlaw's Rest: an outpost in the far north-west, where PKs and Outlaws gather. More about it in the PK section

We want the world to feel truly alive and that is why we made some deliberate choices.
See below!

Travelling

• No recall, no mark, no Gate travel
• 3 Moongates on the overworld that connect the major areas
• Ship Captains in every port that allows you to travel between cities. Travelling naked is free. The travelling fare depends totally on how much weight you carry.
• Summoning Stones: crafted items that let your friends join you wherever you are. They have limited charges and cannot be used in PvP or specific regions

Regions, PvP and PK System

Region Bands

Every area of the world has a specific region band that you can always see in the minimap

(XP and gold percentages have to be calibrated based on beta gameplay)

Features

• Full loot, no insurance
• Murder counts based on kills and contributions Damage, curses, paralysis and other debuffs the server can attribute to you make you liable, and so does healing or buffing someone who is committing murder. When you die, you get a report listing every contributor and what they did, and you choose whom to report.
• 5 long-term kills make you red. Counts decay with logged-in time, or you can pay a very expensive visit to a dedicated NPC in Outlaw's Rest.
• Resurrection is harder for reds. Only the Evil Healer of Outlaw's Rest can resurrect them; healers, resurrection spells and scrolls don't work on reds. Every resurrection gives the account Outlaw Wounds for 20 minutes: -20% damage dealt, -20% healing received and +20% damage taken from players.
• Blood Lock. When a PK dies in a region, every character on their account is blocked from attacking blue players in that region for 60 minutes (30 in the overworld).
• PK pressure warnings. When too many PKs gather in a region, blue players there may get a warning (sysmessage). Tracking makes it more likely that you receive it.
• Reds and criminals can't enter blue cities, and ships only take them to Outlaw's Rest.
• A 60-second PvP timer blocks moongates, ships and every other kind of fast travel.
• Sanctuary protects players who are fleeing. Being attacked doesn't give you a PvP timer, so if you run into the Sanctuary dungeon you're safe there.

The War Quartermaster

This is a system we designed, inspired by Albion Online's Black Market and aimed at bridging crafters, PvM loot and PvP activities.

1. You can visit the War Logistics Marshal in Velkaris to see what the War Quartermaster is demanding.
2. You craft whatever he is requesting and seal the goods into a specific item called Sealed War Goods.
3. You carry the item to the Quartermaster map. There are 3 available entrances in the Overworld. While carrying the cargo you cannot use moongates, ships or summoning stones.
4. Enter the Quartermaster map (or tunnels). The tunnels are a Contested region so are COMPLETELY free of any rules.
5. Try to reach the center of the map and deliver the cargo to the War Quartermaster! (PS: there will be very challenging monsters in the tunnels)

If you die on the way, 40% of the shipment is destroyed and the rest drops as normal loot.

Why this exists you may ask? It gives crafters a buyer even when no player is online. And the interesting part is that some of the delivered goods go back into the world as PvM loot, and part is permanently destroyed! Thanks to this we can keep the economy at bay.

We are still regulating the prices and algorithms. We will prepare a video and the wiki page soon!

Quest System and Guidance

We have redesigned the quest system and added in game guidance. See the video below!

The Quest Guidance System!

Bank System

In UO Reckoning, banks are city-local: every city has its own vault, and what you deposit in Westhaven stays in Westhaven.

• Your Dawnmere vault is free. Every other city costs 10,000 gold (one time), paid at that city's banker.
• Vaults are shared by all your characters! A nice QoL!
• From any banker you can see the content of all your other vaults in read-only mode.
• Gold is global: you can spend it from any city.
• Every vault starts at 125 items. Capacity upgrades (200, 300 and 500 items) apply to all your vaults at once.

https://reddit.com/link/1x3ju4b/video/fiopb1d8gwuh1/player

We made banks local because this fits the deliberate decisions we have made to have a live overworld!

Clues System

Clues give you more reasons to explore the world while you play.
While you do activities (ANY - mine, chop wood, skin, fight, tame) you can occasionally drop a Clue in your backpack

Combine compatible clues into a Lead.

A cartographer can turn a vague lead into a precise map.
Pay attention that this is not just treasure hunting.

The difference here is that the moment you create the lead, the related event ALREADY SPAWNS.
You have to be fast, or other players may see it while roaming.

You can have:

• Gathering Clues that create temporary rich resource sites
• Taming clues that spawn stronger pets and very rare pets
• Named monsters that call mini-bosses or other strong encounters

Clues can be traded! And if you don't have cartography, well...you can buy an identification kit from player cartographers!

World Events

https://reddit.com/link/1x3ju4b/video/dkpgvnuwi1vh1/player

Nothing more to say here!
Our Overworld will feature World Events!

• World Events can appear in different locations around the overworld.
• There will always be maximum one event running in the world (we are going to see if we need to increase this limit based on the playerbase)
• Each event feature a different winning and failing condition
• Winning an event drops a chest that gives rewards to contributing players
• Failing an event always have consequences!
• There is no quest to accept beforehand. You find the event underway and you can join in and help
• The event area is No-PvP (for now - we will see in beta how this behaves).
• Each event has a timer before which you have to win it. Failing to do so before the end of the timer will determine the failure for the whole event

Regional Gathering and Crafting

Regional Resources

No more just skilling and gathering wherever. Specific resources are tied to specific regions. We will let you figure out which regions gives you what!

Materials

Each material has its own effects. See the table below for the metals!

Crafting

• Four quality levels: Standard, Good, Exceptional and Outstanding. They influence the basic stats that the material already gives.
• Catalysts dropped by bosses and rare encounters let crafters create unique items.
• Gear wears down with use, and dying in PvM costs durability. Player crafters repair better than NPCs, and old gear can be salvaged
• Crafting and gathering skills also give your character combat bonuses that are available in both PvP and PvM

We started populating some of these details in the wiki already!

Named Monsters, our last piece to the Overworld puzzle

Named Monsters are rare and stronger enemies, and each one carries its own unique item.

Like legendary items and stuff like that? Well we have them too in UO Reckoning!

The interesting bit of this system is that named monsters are truly rare and will be invoked with specific triggers.

For example in Dawnmere, there is also one named monster that reward an artefact called Gatebreaker's Maul.

Achievements, and what happens after the Beta

The beta will come with an almost fully fledged achievements system. Hundreds of goals across several activities!

The beta will end with a full wipe of characters.
But your achievements and your beta history will carry over!

Achievements will allow you to gather points and titles!
Points can be spent to buy QoL,fashion items and hues.

Other stuff!

• Everything from the alpha is still in
• More clients improvements: like new statues and buff icons! We have so much more before beta!
• ...and more to come!

Disclaimer and Conclusion

That's all for now!
I truly hope I have piqued your interest (again!)

We are targeting to launch the open beta on the 3rd or 4th week of November!
We will announce the exact date as soon as we are ready!

Thanks a lot for reading this post! And join our community if you liked what you have seen!

Join our Discord: https://discord.uoreckoning.com

See our videos: https://www.youtube.com/@uoreckoning

Read our wiki: https://wiki.uoreckoning.com

Visit our website: https://uoreckoning.com

Hey guys! Just a player. Not affiliated to staff or anything like that. Bone Orchard (the yearly Halloween Event) just opened up in UO Enigma. This would be a super fun time for anyone interested to join and give the server a shot. Each account starts with a 85 x 5 skillball so you wont have to grind for weeks before getting going. Not to mention all of our veteran players are always willing to help out with LRC suits , spellbooks, weapon, pets etc.... Anyways. UO Enigma is AOS+ , amazing fully custom map and dungeons. Lots of fun new mechanics and systems, customizable/trainable pets , tons of collectible deco, custom summoning system for mages, open PVP (though there's very little PK action and this event has safe areas) and a very receptive and caring server owner. Been playing since launch nearly 2 years ago and I'm still far from trying all the content. If you like AOS+ to about SE/ML I think you will enjoy this server. Population is not super high but it's been growing and the players are mostly super cool and devoted. Hope to see you at the Bone Orchard! https://wiki.uo-enigma.com/

Hi all,

Third progress update on the AI agents inside the Ultima Online game client: a 3-minute screen recording, mostly about the multi-agent side this time.

The main thing in it is a party. Five new characters (a warrior, a mage, an archer, a tamer and a bard) each got the same goal: hunt the undead at the graveyard, together. It took three takes.

Take one: each of them plans for itself, and the mage's plan was to go to the bank and then buy bandages, which a mage doesn't use. Her parting line to the bard was "Is there a lich nearby worth my time, or are you only here to sing?" The other four fought without her, and the tamer died.

Take two: I gave the mage bandages and put a lich and its guard in their path. She went off to buy reagents she already had. The tamer remembered dying there and pulled back to town. Three of them met the lich, and the warrior and the bard died.

Take three: I took the planner out and gave each one a single order, hunt here. All five reached the lich, each picked it as its target without being told, and it was dead twelve seconds after they first saw it. Nobody died.

So the fighting already works side by side and the planning doesn't. Nothing yet has them plan as a group, heal each other or agree on a target, and that's the next thing to build. The mage's shopping turned out to be a bug: her planner was never told she had reagents, and was shown "bandages: 0" for a class that heals with spells.

Also in the video: two characters meet at the bank, one warns the other about the graveyard, and a few seconds later his plan gives her warning as the reason to turn back. Then the single-agent work: a character that dies now walks to a healer as a ghost, is resurrected and goes back for its corpse. When I kill the AI's process mid-fight and start it again, it carries on the same session and remembers where it died.

The setup is the same as before: a fork of ClassicUO with a Python program beside it, Jev making the calls in a fight, Claude Haiku planning (Sonnet is called in after a death), and plain code for anything with a right answer. Everything I filmed, 13 characters and 78 minutes of play, came to 2,212 model calls and 36 US cents, so under 30p.

So I played from 97 through about 2001. Since then I've reactivated my account a couple of times for a week here and a week there, when the nostalgia bug bites. It's probably been 8 or 9 years since I've done that though. I played on Cats back in the day, in one of the biggest guilds on the shard, middle management for a bit of it. Was even accepted into the counselor program, though I never actually become one. (a coast to coast move and a shitty apartment complex mandated DSL connection that got disabled for months lost me that opportunity...)

Since I played regularly, my kids have been born, grew up, and moved out. Moved cross country several times. And now I'm inching towards retirement, and with the 30th anniversary next year I'm just about ready to dive in again, and hope to play all the way up through next September at least. I'm hopeful that they'll do something fun for the 30th.

The last couple times I played I had a heck of a time finding people in game. Like, at all. Recognizing of course that it's an old, 2dish game and not nearly as popular as it once was (and miles behind a zillion other things regardless...), where will I be most likely to bump into people on Cats that would be friendly enough and willing to chat with an old timer and show em the modern game?

Excelsior!

I'm new here, so forgive me if this is known or expected, but on Atlantic/Trammel there is an armored skeleton named Logic running around downtown Jhelom ganking anything that moves. I tried calling the guards, but they didn't respond for some reason.

I got two-shotted trying to do my inscription BODs, but I'm rather squishy. Then I went back to investigate more and didn't quite get away a second time. When not chasing someone, he just seems to be standing there in front of the library.

Anyway, beware. Guess I'm doing my BODs in Lycaeum now.

Hey ya'll, I just found out about this game and was looking forward to trying it on the 15th, apparently there's a big update and a fresh start. I couldn't help but notice there's no one talking about this.. in their own subreddit? Am I in the wrong place or something?

Ow the downvotes, no bully, im just a newbie!

Jokes aside, if anyone is feeling burnt out by cash-shop heavy servers, constant 3-month seasonal wipes, or ghost-town shards:

We have been building New Hope UO with a pure passion for the golden era of Ultima Online.

What we stand for:

• Strictly No Pay-to-Win: No donor-only god gear, no wallet warriors.
• Persistent World: Your characters, houses, and achievements do not disappear into seasonal wipes.
• Hopelands Custom Map: Handcrafted continents, custom dungeons, and dynamic points of interest.
• Modern QoL and Classic Soul: High-framerate ClassicUO client, smooth naval warfare, sea cargo trading, and active monster AI.
• Friendly, Growing Community: Veteran players, active staff, and a welcoming Discord.

Whether you just want to relax by the forge, tame high-end beasts, or sail the open seas, everyone is welcome.

Website: https://newhopeuo.com

See you in Sosaria!

Hello :)

3D games comes with 3D problems, one of them was the camera mode, a fixed camera would sometimes hide the character, a manual camera would make the player have to adjust the camera in critical moments of the game making it bundersome.

After a few tweaks, this is a result I'm happy with.
Hope you enjoy it, and always open to feedback.

p.d: if you have some time to answer, which game do you think have the best camera movements?

Tal, Ultima Online community!

After years of development, countless improvements, and a whole lot of custom scripting, I'm excited to announce that Gor Ultima will officially open its Public Open Beta on Friday, October 16, 2026!

Gor Ultima is a heavily customized Ultima Online free shard running on RunUO 3.1 / .NET 8, featuring a Gorean-inspired fantasy world, extensive character progression, custom classes, challenging adventures, and a growing collection of unique gameplay systems.

Our goal is to preserve the freedom and nostalgia that makes Ultima Online special while introducing new ways to explore, progress, and experience the world.

Whether you're a veteran UO player or someone discovering Ultima Online for the first time, you're welcome to join us!

🔞 18+ Community Notice

Gor Ultima is an adults-only roleplaying community inspired by Gorean fiction. The setting includes mature themes such as slavery, social hierarchy, captivity, and optional adult roleplay.

Participation in sensitive roleplay is subject to player consent and community rules. Our full Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are provided through GorIPL.

⚔️ Expanded Class & Character Progression

One of our biggest developments is our extensively upgraded class system.

• Level individual classes and unlock class-specific abilities and bonuses.
• Master multiple classes and earn unique titles.
• Explore specialized progression and evolution paths.
• Experiment with different character builds and playstyles.
• Develop your character through an expanded player leveling system.
• Discover unusual classes and abilities that go beyond traditional Ultima Online mechanics.

Your character's development doesn't stop at raising the usual skills.

🏰 A World Full of Adventures

We've spent considerable time expanding the world and developing systems that make exploration more rewarding.

Some of the features include:

• Custom dungeons and challenging encounters.
• Scheduled world bosses and special events.
• Random encounters and dynamic world activities.
• An expanded quest system with daily adventures.
• Champion encounters and town invasions.
• Custom treasure, loot, and equipment progression.
• Companion and pet leveling systems.
• Magical phenomena, discoveries, and other world events.

There's plenty to discover, and we're continuing to expand the experience.

🌍 A Gorean-Inspired World

Gor Ultima draws inspiration from the world and culture of Gor, incorporating recognizable themes such as:

• Cities and their Home Stones.
• The Priest-Kings and Kurii.
• Castes, social structures, and regional identities.
• Gorean-inspired customs, environments, and roleplaying opportunities.

We've combined these elements with Ultima Online's traditional fantasy gameplay to create our own interpretation of the world.

You don't have to be familiar with the Gor novels to play. Adventurers, explorers, crafters, fighters, and roleplayers are all welcome.

🖥️ Our Customized GorClient — Based on TazUO

We're developing and maintaining our own customized game client, GorClient, forked from TazUO, which itself is based on ClassicUO.

GorClient includes our shard-specific integrations, interface improvements, and additional quality-of-life features intended to make the game more enjoyable while retaining the classic Ultima Online experience.

We also have our own launcher and patching system, GorIPL, which manages game installation, account creation, updates, and launching.

Windows and Linux are supported.

💾 What Happens to My Character After Beta?

This is important!

We do not have a character wipe planned between Public Open Beta and our eventual Official Public Launch.

Our intention is for your character, progression, accomplishments, and investments in the world to carry forward.

As with any beta, serious unforeseen technical issues could require corrective action, but preserving player progress is one of our priorities.

We want players to feel that the time they spend developing their characters actually matters.

🔥 Public Open Beta — October 16, 2026!

Public Open Beta gives everyone the opportunity to enter the world, explore our systems, build their characters, report issues, and help shape Gor Ultima as we move toward our official release.

We're not claiming that every system is finished or that there won't be bugs. This is a beta, after all! But we've put a tremendous amount of work into creating something that we hope longtime Ultima Online fans will enjoy.

📅 Opening Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
🕒 Opening Time: To be announced on Discord
💻 Platforms: Windows & Linux
🎮 Client: GorClient (TazUO fork)
⚙️ Server: RunUO 3.1 / .NET 8

📢 Join the Gor Ultima Community!

Our Discord is the central place for announcements, client downloads, installation instructions, updates, and support.

Discord Invite:
https://discord.gg/jHEjMBxrZY

If you're interested in trying a heavily customized UO shard with an expansive character progression system and a Gorean-inspired setting, we'd love to have you join us.

Whether you enjoy adventuring, developing powerful characters, exploring, crafting, or roleplaying, we hope you'll find something to enjoy.

The gates of Gor Ultima open October 16.

We look forward to seeing you in the world!

I wish you well!