Talking to the NPCs at the store was also very interesting, you actually had to talk, using the chat like a normal human being, not click the options, and they only answered one player at a time
But my cousin, learned to scam other people and got some spare cash doing that. Not that I condone that behaviour. He would befriend OTS owners and somehow get admin rights on multiple OTS servers (unofficial servers) and then sell items or levels via prepaid cards, without the knowledge of an owner. Sometimes he stole ownership of whole OTS servers and ruined them just for fun.
Yep I remember people would form orderly queues in the shops, waiting for their turn to talk with the NPC. Not sure what happened with line cutters, but I assumed they got hunted down afterwards.
As a seasoned PVP clan owner on the UO shards in 1997 - I approve of this message.
God those were the days -- but we had a Massive God Mode Advantage in 1997... we ran Intel's Game Lab with a T3 dedicated to our groups' needs, and 6 local accounts in the Intel DRG Lab (Only two of us worked there, we ran three login-accounts a piece - but we had a Guild Member (there were only three actual humans in the guild - but 8 accounts)
PvP in UO was sublime. Golden age of gaming for this old gamer.
We asked him "How are you able to play at the same time/no-lag such as we are?"
He replied with a pic of him sitting on a THRONE of weed...
He was one of the largest cannabis growers in BC Canada: He stated that he payed $1,500 / month for a T1 to his house and he made his living by fedex-ing his weed all over the world...
Maybe one of the first Silk Roads..