Role Playing Community.

[Tyler Dalton]

Hi,

I played UO around 5 years ago for a couple of years and began role playing and was joined to Vesper. Although my stay was short i enjoyed role playing alot and recently wanted to come back to UO. Before i went ahead and bought the latest version i thought id first find some of the old role playing guilds and find out how everything was coming along and to my disappointed it seems almost dead. This is one of the only forums i could find that wasnt completely inactive.

I want to know what exists of role playing within the Europa community and do people really think its worth my while joining UO or is there a better game out there for role playing?

Thank you for you're time.

[Herenui]

well, i will just speak in my own name.
I play uo since many years (7 i think).
I've often stopped for some time, trying new mmorpgs as they were coming.
First point : because of the nature itself of uo mechanisms compared to other mmo"rpg"s, i can tell you that it's almost impossible to roleplay in another game. Why ? simply because the other games have been created only to fight monsters in group, and nothing (absolutely nothing) else. I don't speak only about wow, they are all the same (and i've tried a lot).
In the other games, you are in 3d, not isometric, which means that you don't have a global view of the situation like in UO.
Then the chat appears in a window, and you have to press a key before to speak (like enter). In UO, you just have to type, it's very instinctive, and the speach appears above each character, in the choosen color. Very simple and convenient.
In the other games, you can't put things on the floor. That limits the possibilities of roleplaying. And even if you could, there would be nothing to put on the floor because the only items are weapons, armors, potions, food in the best case. Nothing else.
Then, the possibilities to custom your appearance are very limited, as people have to choose between at the best ten classes, and the equipment in each class look the same. no way to choose the color...
Bref, these games have an extremly poor content compared to UO, even if they can make illusion because of the billions of polygones explosion effects bloom effect blablabla etc...
For all these reasons (plus a lot more) Ultima is not only the best game to roleplay in, but it's sadly the only one. The roleplayers aren't interesting the producers of mmo (rpg has even officially disappeard) anymore.

So, what about UO now ? Well, for my part, i'm online every evenings (europe time) on the serevr europe, and with the community of roleplayers (Core being an important part, but not the only part, a lot of interesting things happen and are possible out of Core) i'm never alone. And i don't even spend my time to visit the other towns. So Yes UO is active, roleplayers are active, at least on europe server.
Now, depend of what you seek. And for that, exploring the forums is a way indeed to choose where to start, but the best would be to explore in game. Visit taverns, visit events (like this week the 9th anniversary of the Yew militia for example). Speak to people in rp areas.

About buying UO, you can download it for free (Kingdom reborn for the 3d version, or even 8th anniversary i believe, for the 2d version, not sure though). For a try it's perfect. Then later you'll be able to buy the next version with the gargoyle thingy if you like it (dunno when it'll come but shouldn't be too long).

I hope my answer helped a bit, and welcome in the rp community of Europa

[qasim]

I took a 3-4 year from uo with a guild from europa server. We had great fun in WoW until we quickly got tired of it and disbanded. I desperately searched for RP communities regardless of game, as long as it kept the medieval genre. After those years I heard of KR and came back. Been playing since 97, but my total time amounts up to 4 years of payed playing time.

This must be the largest RP community in the games for now. UO is doing fine in my regard.
I have seen some guilds leaving and getting ready for AoC and War, but if we follow the trend, the majority will return. This has been happening the last 10 years now :P

[Tyler Dalton]

Thank you for you're responses, it has helped although i think i had already made my mind up that i will return. I just needed that helping hand. I have also tryed playing other MMOG such as WoW, Horizons and Guild Wars and i favoured WoW by far but its still lacking something that you can only find in UO.

Il go out and buy the game soon, so keep you're eyes open. You'l see me around shortly.

[Irvyn]

Thanks for your PMs, will look forward to seeing you around