by Picxie » Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:54 am
Since the post is closed, and I want a player to win, I'll be posting mine now:
It all started a long time ago, I can't remember exactly when (at least 12 years, for sure). I went to a friend's house and he was mining inside Minoc mine, and I asked "what's with that game?" He explained me a bit of the mechanics, and I was like "this, this here is my kind of game!".
Back in the days, there were 15 people mining in Minoc. Ahh, good old days. I also had no idea what macros or easyuo were, so I spent a few weeks (well, maybe a month) mining MANUALLY, yes, manually. Like, double clicking the pickaxe, targeting the floor, repeat. I still don't know how I had the patient to do that. I wouldn't do that today, but I was a mere kid, I was enjoying it somehow.
Time passed by, I started doing some dungeons, learning a bit more of the mechanics, and finally learned that we could bound keys to Last Object and Last Target, yay.
Eventually I came across Wind, but I never understood why I couldn't enter (it said something about not having enough skill). I didn't even know there was Magic Resist back then! So, someone explained that I needed a certain % of resists to enter there and to train resists I had to use EasyUO or else I would die from boredness. So I asked his macro, and since that day forward I started doing my all macros with EasyUO.
I knew how to code a bit, so it took me only a few weeks to master EasyUO. But during those weeks, the more I learn about EasyUO the more I knew that I have found myself what I wanted to do for living: Code. While most of you probably learned english with UO (btw I learned english playing Pokemon Red, hah!), I did my code first steps here. I can honestly say I took a degree in Software because of UO.
I have probably gave up UO about 4 times now. All of them because my house eventually decayed. After a few months, I started over again. Couldn't stay away from this "poison" like you called.
One thing that I never forgot, was ERE. That bitch was always killing me while I was doing dungeons. Bitch. You stole all my sillinamite PMs. Most of them I mined MANUALLY. I still curse you for this!
I even asked Nickmaster once to get in contact with you to arrange a 1 VS 1 PvP with you in farms (think he was in your guild back then). GUESS WHAT, I lost, Hunpf. I was never that good with PvP, I'm more of a PvM type of player.
SAD STORIES ASIDE, I have met a lot of good people here, a lot of them I consider really close friends of mine. People like Nickmaster, Hardox, Darkbringer, Aerith, Vicent, and least but not last, the drunktard Hobbs. He became one of my best friends IRL.