Oh yeah, all jokes were at the expense of someone else. Oh well. I remember the days of me farming beholders using my small army of dragons. Good times. Really hard to get past 90 taming!
For anyone who don't know, dragons are incredibly powerful. They could easily slaughter you, and your friends. Usually took like 4 mages to take it down... OR you could tame it. And then you use your dragon to kill other dragons. Though you may end up having to feed it the body parts of your fallen player victims.
And on that note, PVP was the most fun part about it. No other game was quite like it. All players run at a constant speed. And hitting a player wasn't exactly easy. To really kill someone you had to get a group of people, lower the enemy's stamina by at least 1 point so he could not "shove" you out of the way, and surround him on all 8 sides (4 + 4 diagonal) and then finally kill him. Battles were either a mage/warriors combo with tactics, or a jousting match.
Oh and the ol' saying of "don't bring to a battle anything you can't afford to lose" was VERY true in UO. You die, you lose everything. So don't bring expensive armor! Often you go into a battle. Fight, lose some armor and weapons, quickly teleport home, get your 2nd (or 8th set), go fight, find a dead guy (or a teammate's kill) steal his weapons, and then continue the fight wearing someone else's armor / guild colors. It was was a ton of fun.
For anyone who don't know, dragons are incredibly powerful. They could easily slaughter you, and your friends. Usually took like 4 mages to take it down... OR you could tame it. And then you use your dragon to kill other dragons. Though you may end up having to feed it the body parts of your fallen player victims.
And on that note, PVP was the most fun part about it. No other game was quite like it. All players run at a constant speed. And hitting a player wasn't exactly easy. To really kill someone you had to get a group of people, lower the enemy's stamina by at least 1 point so he could not "shove" you out of the way, and surround him on all 8 sides (4 + 4 diagonal) and then finally kill him. Battles were either a mage/warriors combo with tactics, or a jousting match.
Oh and the ol' saying of "don't bring to a battle anything you can't afford to lose" was VERY true in UO. You die, you lose everything. So don't bring expensive armor! Often you go into a battle. Fight, lose some armor and weapons, quickly teleport home, get your 2nd (or 8th set), go fight, find a dead guy (or a teammate's kill) steal his weapons, and then continue the fight wearing someone else's armor / guild colors. It was was a ton of fun.