Legacy

[SherkBORG]

Some people wonder why I host this server, why I pay out of my pocket without any expectations of return and yet take time to program a shard. You ask why? I will tell you.

Back in my old UO Days, when I started (UO:R Release) I met some players called Liver and Rider. These people became my friends and helped me get along in the game. I remember selling them boards for 4gp each at britain bank. Then one day they dissapeared. I could not find out why but I camped there house frequently. I soon saw him and asked him how it was going. In short, he was selling everything he had because his wife and him played Ultima when they found out she had cancer (I think). She died and he was too heart broken to play without her. Since these two were my parents in game it really got me. Then publish 16 came along and I hung up my coat for OSI Ultima. The new items, the addons and expansions took away the perfect heart weakening feeling of pre uo:r and why people played Ultima Online. I never wanted to leave the old days and remembering all the time I now had I decided to create a shard dedicated to any memories or feelings anyone had about Ultima "back in the day". The real reason I do this shard is just to remember Ultima and my time I spent with some players. To get that feeling... ask yourself if you played pre uo:r can you just think of all of pre uo:r for a second and then try and describe that feeling? I cant describe it to someone but I can make a shard that will give you that feeling. I dont care if no one plays the shard, or if its ranked as the least played shard ever, because that is not my purpose. I would rather have 1 person playing enjoying the server and remembering pre uo:r and gaining that feeling, then someone joining demanding I lower prices or give them 7xGM skill, or telling me my server sucks cause they dont like it and AoS rules and we need neons. I also take time to do this because all other servers may have numbers, may have the bomb server connection, may have all the votes, but they cant beat my coding. I will let this shard stand in its brightest with a proud light that we are the best coded pre uo:r and I promise you one thing... other servers may be fun but there is no way you can feel that feeling of pre uo:r on any other server. Once again try this... think of pre uo:r. Think of before trammel, house looting, going to the bank with thiefs around, finding your first magical weapon participating in a real quest with hundreds of people, seeing no neons, no alternate realms or modifications, that sound of a halberd going 'wack' with a spell being released afterwards and then feeling something. You remember the time of pre uo:r you once played... feel that feeling and then I can say one thing... we have that feeling here.

I never played previously to UO:R. I came from the single player series of Ultima, (black gate and serpent isle) and I thought the first time I played this game was incredable. I thought I could meet Iolo, Shamino, play with real players, take down dragons, amass gold and literally play like a knight, or like a avatar in my own world. I never tasted Ultima what it use to be like, but I tasted what it is now, and what its become into and thats the very thing I want to take away and not have anymore. So everyday I strive to give a pre uo:r feeling so even me, someone who never played can feel that true feeling. Because afterall, we are all here because we dont like beatles, neon colors, new lands (trammel, malas, ilishner, tokoyo islands etc..) and all the trash that was brought into the game. If the game was doomed as being pre uo:r, then let it be doomed, we want that game and will play it till the end. So lets make sure everyone here is playing for the right reasons. Come here and play to experience ultima in its glory. You wont regret it.


Feel free to post your comments about pre uo:r or anything related to this. Anything slightly off topic will be removed.

[Al the Killer]

I <3 pre-uo:r

I remember when I started back in the days of pre-t2a. My first character, Foxx, was an archer/mage. My earliest memories of playing UO were exploring the maze south of britain. On Great Lakes it was inhabited by some guild of elves of some sort. I remember sneaking in to the house in the center where the guild kept items they had acquired. I remember dressing up in their guild outfit and fooling one of their members in to thinking I was part of the clan. As soon as he left, I proceeded to steal whatever I could hold that was in their treasure chests. And then I killed their farm animals and left It was such a unique concept to me for a game. The fact that I could interact with thousands of other players online, and there was so much to explore. Ahh, the memories.

When I began to learn the ins and outs of the game and progress my character ever so gradually, I discovered a love for Player Vs. Player combat. Particularly PK'ing. I was probably a 3 or 4x GM, not all that great, but boy did I love PKing. Once I turned red I decided to try to make the infamous 'Bounty Board', where the names of all the most feared players on the shard shone, offering sometimes very hefty rewards for anyone who could dispose of these villains. I forget the number of kills I had at my time of death, and needless to say, I was disappointed when it happened, but I sure did have fun, and decided to start another character in the same vein. Unfortunately, my parents cancelled my account soon and I stopped playing for a while. I played on and off on friends' accounts but could never really get back in to it seeing as I didn't have my own account. And then one of my friends told me about the free servers, and I said, 'Whaaaaa????!!! They have those?!!!' My search for my new UO home was on, and I settled on Legacy. Because Legacy had the best combination of things I liked and things I didn't like. A couple newer features like runebooks, which were nice, but still with the pre-uo:r touch. I don't play any other free servers. Partly because I don't have a lot of time to waste nowadays on making new characters and acquiring possesions. But also partly because every other server has something I dislike enough to make me not want to play there. Like the 'pre-uo:r' servers with a zillion people running around with neon clothing and riding their beetles around. Anyway, if more people played here I would surely get on more often, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon.

[Celandil]

I messaged this to a friend of mine the other day...

[Danny]

It was the summer of 2000 when my best friend Garret was struck by a vehicle on his motorcicle with his father traveling at speeds over 95mph... Garret was killed instantly... OSI Was never the same without him. I threw inthe towel for OSI and later began playing Legacy...
I play my character Garret in memory of my friend.
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